mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 09 2009 | bachelor party, australia, language, english
How to say bachelor party in "other languages":
Quoted: A bachelor party (United States, South Africa)—also known as a stag party, stag night, or stag do (UK, Ireland, Canada, and New Zealand); bull's party (South Africa); or buck's party or buck's night (Australia)—is a party held for a bachelor shortly before he enters marriage, to make the most of his final opportunity to engage in activities a new partner might not approve of, or merely to spend time with his friends (often in his wedding party afterwards).
mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 05 2008 | data, grammar, language
In belated celebration of grammar day...
"There is data available" and "There are data available" are both correct.
Quoted: Today, data is used in English both as a plural noun meaning “facts or pieces of information” (These data are described more fully elsewhere) and as a singular mass noun meaning “information”: Not much data is available on flood control in Brazil.
mohit | Shared With: Everyone - May 31 2007 | language, english, grammar
Nice.
Quoted: Examples of retronyms are acoustic guitar (coined when electric guitars appeared), or Parallel ATA (necessitated by the introduction of Serial ATA) as a term for the original Advanced Technology Attachment. World War I was called The Great War until World War II. The advent of satellite radio has prompted the term terrestrial radio.
mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 05 2006 | hindi, english, uk, india, language, hinglish
Heard about this on NPR yesterday morning.
Quoted: Baljinder Mahal is the author of the book <em>The Queen's Hinglish</em>, a guide to the blending of Hindi and English by Indian immigrants to the U.K. She meets with Rob Gifford in the town of Derby in central England for some practical lessons in Hinglish.
mohit | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 19 2006 | grammar, language
This is awesome!
Quoted: "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo." is a grammatically valid sentence used as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated constructs. It was featured in Steven Pinker's 1994 book The Language Instinct, but is known to have been around before February 1992 when it was posted to Linguist List by William J. Rapaport, an associate professor at the University at Buffalo.[1]
redotted from matkow83.
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