Sat 17 Jan, 2004 07:54 pm - It's obnoxious when I hear that I'm "vertically challenged", or that my neighbor is "on the large side"-- I'm short and he's obese, so what's the... (view)
Sat 11 Oct, 2003 06:58 pm - OK, lots of feedback, but what I was trying to get at was newer loanwords, i.e. within the last 20-30 years. That was precisely the point in my original post--in earlier times English borrowed,... (view)
Fri 10 Oct, 2003 09:37 am - Schadenfreude, Gemuetlichkeit, Angst, are all "older words" borrowed from German
As far as Spanish, aside from food-related ones (e.g. tacos, burritos), and older ones (hacienda) I find... (view)
Fri 10 Oct, 2003 09:16 am - My students posed this question, and I was stumped--embarrassingly so! (I could come up w/lots of "older" words, but nothing recent.) :?
[i]We hear so much about all the English... (view)
Tue 16 Sep, 2003 06:13 am - What is the origin of using a family name in the plural to mean all the members, e.g. "The Smiths live on Broad Street"? I've been told that in some languages you make the article... (view)
Fri 4 Jul, 2003 08:35 am - Typos are one thing, grammar errors are another. True, language changes and granted Latin was/is the model for too many conservative grammarians such that many finer points of grammar are obsolete... (view)
Thu 3 Jul, 2003 04:00 pm - Even editors aren't above missing a few--in the current issue of a reputable "serious" magazine (don't know if I can mention it here), was the following: :twisted:... (view)
