hope someone to ...
be used to doing .... (habitual?)
--> (R.C.: I do not agree that this is the most common meaning of "be used to doing"), (M.B.: not quite)
am used to (something) ...
--> (Donna R.)
http://www.englishforums.com/English/WouldUsedTo/wjxc/post.htm#42803
The narrow bridge: beyond the Holocaust (By Issac Neuman, ....)
Page 58
"i before e" rule?; Phonemic Chart
BBC News
Schools to rethink 'i before e'
AUE thread
很巧，剛剛在local news上也聽到關於這的報導:
"... Too many exceptions to this rule ....... Not worth teaching...."
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Phonemic chart | Teaching English | British Council | BBC
音標/發音表
Schools to rethink 'i before e'
AUE thread
很巧，剛剛在local news上也聽到關於這的報導:
"... Too many exceptions to this rule ....... Not worth teaching...."
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Phonemic chart | Teaching English | British Council | BBC
音標/發音表
How Reliable Are Dictionaries?
我在AUE網站上逛到這篇，雖然我已經知道最早的OED是源自一群自願者之手，但是讀到這篇還是有些驚訝：
http://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxhowrel.html
基本上是大家互相抄，然後最開始的又是抄自OED，難怪那些紀錄很多字義的字典會有那麼多奇奇怪怪的字義。
關於OED，在 Wikipedia上有這記載:
http://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxhowrel.html
基本上是大家互相抄，然後最開始的又是抄自OED，難怪那些紀錄很多字義的字典會有那麼多奇奇怪怪的字義。
關於OED，在 Wikipedia上有這記載:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OED#Origins這也解釋了為何Dr. Eye的內容那樣差。英文原文版的字典內容如果有問題最低限度有英文為母語的編輯群能夠更正，但是Dr. Eye...我想除了copy過來還是只能copy，內容有問題恐怕他們的工作人員沒人有能力更正，然後再加上錯誤翻譯（我想這也是從別處抄來的）.....
.....one that would be based on contributions from a large number of volunteer readers, who would read books, copy out passages illustrating various actual uses of words onto quotation slips, and mail them to the editor. In 1858 the Society agreed in principle to the project: A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (NED).....
美國人和他們的味精
美國人對味精好像很敏感，這從這裡的某些中國餐館外頭招牌上的"No MSG"可以看得出來。
有的時候在某家中國餐館吃飯，還會聽到顧客特別交代，"No MSG please."，好像廚房裡頭的廚師真的會為他一個人另外調個沒有味精的醬似的。
可是我看超市裡賣的調味香 料，很多都是內含味精，比如我現在正在用的Soup Mix，或是櫥櫃裡的麵包粉，以及各式各樣的調理包。這時候，味精又成了調味聖品。
（老美室友又舀了一些soup mix到他的湯裡）
如果，超市把所有含味精的調味品放在一區，然後放上標示，不知道會不會有人去買。
有的時候在某家中國餐館吃飯，還會聽到顧客特別交代，"No MSG please."，好像廚房裡頭的廚師真的會為他一個人另外調個沒有味精的醬似的。
可是我看超市裡賣的調味香 料，很多都是內含味精，比如我現在正在用的Soup Mix，或是櫥櫃裡的麵包粉，以及各式各樣的調理包。這時候，味精又成了調味聖品。
（老美室友又舀了一些soup mix到他的湯裡）
如果，超市把所有含味精的調味品放在一區，然後放上標示，不知道會不會有人去買。
she or him; The door and window were broken
An interesting compromise
我特別喜歡這篇
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(國中基測考題)
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.usage.english/browse_thread/thread/9838b5225aa1bd66/43b4a63786195ac2
Susan: Oh, no! The door and the window_______!
Victor: Who could have done this?
Susan: Go in quickly and see if we’ve lost anything.
(A) are breaking (B) have broken (C) were broken (D) will break
Given answer: (C) were broken
我特別喜歡這篇
====================
(國中基測考題)
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.usage.english/browse_thread/thread/9838b5225aa1bd66/43b4a63786195ac2
Susan: Oh, no! The door and the window_______!
Victor: Who could have done this?
Susan: Go in quickly and see if we’ve lost anything.
(A) are breaking (B) have broken (C) were broken (D) will break
Given answer: (C) were broken
He doesn't know me from Adam's off ox
(Something I heard from NPR online radio)
"He doesn't know me from Adam's off ox."
(Oh my, I just noticed, there's a "Listen Now" link right below the title)
I'm more intrigued by this fact:(even though it's expected)
1. Even well-educated native speakers (those journalists) don't always know everything.
2. So, it's really OKAY and absolutely normal if you(learners) don't know everything.
3. (thinking... thinking.. still thinking....)
"He doesn't know me from Adam's off ox."
(Oh my, I just noticed, there's a "Listen Now" link right below the title)
I'm more intrigued by this fact:(even though it's expected)
"Most of the journalists at that news conference had no idea what Clinton was talking about."Why? Because ....
"It turns out the president was using a regional expression ..."The merits:
1. Even well-educated native speakers (those journalists) don't always know everything.
2. So, it's really OKAY and absolutely normal if you(learners) don't know everything.
3. (thinking... thinking.. still thinking....)
Essays, short articles, books, writers
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.usage.english/browse_thread/thread/4e97715c734851c9#
(Note to self)
"Try the Collected Essays of George Orwell, a great master of lucid, stylish but still colloquial prose." - PG
"Any or all of the numerous essays by Herbert Read are worth consideration, as is his book "English Prose Style" - EW
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Subject: Sighting of former AUE regularJames Follett
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.usage.english/browse_thread/thread/3116b5210c76c5e7
(His book was made into a TV miniseries)
(Note to self)
"Try the Collected Essays of George Orwell, a great master of lucid, stylish but still colloquial prose." - PG
"Any or all of the numerous essays by Herbert Read are worth consideration, as is his book "English Prose Style" - EW
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Subject: Sighting of former AUE regularJames Follett
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.usage.english/browse_thread/thread/3116b5210c76c5e7
(His book was made into a TV miniseries)
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