This arrived in my mail today: A linguistics professor was lecturing to his class one day. "In English," he said, "A double negative forms a positive. In some languages, though, such as Russian, a double negative is still a negative. However, there is no language wherein a double posi...

Removed it! How can you say such a thing. I am highly
incensed! I can use words that say sooooo much more.

Am enjoying this site so far.
I don't see any "sickie" on the emoticon bunch, tho'
and I don't know what I will do.

Reminds me of the difficult time back on WOTD.
Things appeared twice, now not at all. Requiescat in pace!

I am not sure which Latin sites y'all are referring to,
but I found two of them very much alive.

What does the "ecce potestas casei" mean, please????

I am going to welcome you too, and others who join. I was a poster on another site that went 'bottoms up' due to spam (they say,cover up, actually). I was also looking for a new site, and joined a few months back but just started posting yesterday. People have been fine and welcoming. Stargazer ment...

Some of these threads are ancient: but I like this one.
As a child my mother had a similar phrase, which took
a few years to register. I never confronted her with it,
never learned where it came from, but still brings back
fond memories:
Shut up and eat every bean and pea on your plate.

Just "trolling" the threads, as you mentioned elsewhere.
But going back to the original in this thread: I was taught
to spell dilemma as dilemna, and I still spell it that way.

And for some reason, the post appeared twice.

I loved the image: land whales. What an image. But if one is ever up close to such, the image can be awesome (or cowsome). Living in the land of cattle here in the Great Plains, I think it is a very valid thread. And being new to the site as of yesterday, at least as a person posting and reading thr...

Thanks for the URL thing. I don't get how to do any of this, and after my frustration with the other download business, I appreciate the help: I sure miss Luke-a-lele. As for being lost in the Kudzu, I thought, actually, that maybe you out cutting holly again, and jumping in the pile like kids in le...

Thanks for the URL thing. I don't get how to do any of this, and after my frustration with the other download business, I appreciate the help: I sure miss Luke-a-lele. As for being lost in the Kudzu, I thought, actually, that maybe you out cutting holly again, and jumping in the pile like kids in le...

as mentioned above, gift certificates and gift plastic cards
are still not used, much to the delight of retailers. We
recently had a TV story wherein the reporter asked
a number of persons, and 55% replied, that they had
not yet redeemed a gift card from this past holiday.

Like Octomom: 4 paraphernalias are an Octophernalia???
I don't like the sound of a pernicious hernia, Ouch.
Being a great gardener and lover of butterflies, which
I propagate in warm weather, I much prefer the
seller of pherns.

I really appreciate your analogy of language to past migrations of humans. I follow the genome project in National Geographic Mag (which was founded on this date in 1888), so I appreciate the similarity to which you refer. You are correct in the remark about DNA. Though it has been known, it has not...