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Wow. I can't believe the enthusiasm over the Cheesecake Factory. I'm from Los Angeles, so I'm no stranger to the restaurant. I always order the same thing from the menu: fire-roasted fresh artichokes. It's listed as an appetizer, but I consider it my meal. As much as I am in love with the...

I love the mythical allusion. Selene is one lucky goddess! Although I scratch my head at how they managed to produce fifty daughters and zero sons.

I'd love to visit both universities. My yeng-yeng graduated from Peking University. He studied Chinese literature.

I actually grew up a stone's throw away from UCLA and took courses there when I was in high school. It's a gorgeous university overall. Why do I detect regret in your tone about picking UCLA over Berkeley? How do you like UCLA? Both schools, in my opinion, are comparable in academic quality...

If you're against abortion, don't get one.

I wonder if the time change affects work productivity and increases the likelihood of automobile accidents due to the disruption of sleep schedules.

Agreed. One glance at the title of your thread and I was initially convinced that you were arguing that prayer does not work, period, regardless of its purpose in individual cases and general.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Finally, another person is catching onto my dry sense of humor! (Although I realize that it doesn't manifest very well on-line as it does in real-life...)

I have a sneaking suspicion that he was expecting grandeur. The rolling red carpet is the minimum. But it's only ten to the third. I'll wait until... he hits the ten to the fourth mark and then we can form a committee to discuss if we should plan a ceremony.

To compensate for my lack of enthusiasm, I bring you...

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He just did. He was able to retain some of his speech over the years. You will have to ask my friend when you meet him someday. Pardon my ignorance, but is there a reason why one cannot verbally enunciate using SEE? I'm not a SEE speaker and never was one.

Quite frankly, the mind of a hearing person baffles me to no end. ;) But there are always exceptions! I have a good friend who became stone deaf at the age of four and has remained that way since then. He grew up speaking Signed Exact English. His English is impeccable and flawless. I...

English Rules of Thub (sic) 1. Don't use no double negatives. 2. Make each pronoun agree with their antecedents. 3. Join clauses good, like a conjunction should. 4. About them sentence fragments. 5. When dangling, watch your participles. 6. Verbs has got to agree with...

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Speaking of the concept of dying, "die" and "dye" both exactly sound the same in English speech. So does "waist" and "waste." And "to", "too", and "two." How about words that are spelt exactly the same but contain different meanings? "Mean" and "mean" comes to mind. :) As a native English...

Yes, that's about correct. The number of vowels depends on the dialect of English. Linguists may interpret the findings differently, too. General North American English is relatively limited in the employment of vowels compared to Received Pronounciation.

Welcome to AD, moonteacher! How do you like Beijing Normal University? I have always been perplexed by its name, because there is another university, Beijing (Peking) University in the same city. Why the word "Normal?" I know BNU is a teacher-training institution, whereas Beida is a public...

We all were waiting for you to do it, Eyeth. ;) Thank you for sharing the information with us. I may prescribe to certain superstitions, but the Coffin Door isn't one of them. It's all in our minds, isn't it?

APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain... ("The Wasteland", by T.S. Eliot, 1922)