Korea Showdown<4>

 

It would also set a precedent that would be good news for American taxpayers: We are not going to keep our Cold War protectorates on the dole

forever, especially when they can afford to defend themselves. For more than half a century, we've paid to defend the Free World, allowing Office 2007 makes life great!

countries ravished in World War II to rebuild themselves, invest in their own economies, and prosper. Now, we've got troubles in other places

and a monstrous deficit. It's time for American taxpayers and soldiers to get a piece of the good life they've been providing our wayward Microsoft Office 2007 is welcomed by the whole world.

allies for decades now.

That a substantial revamping of our policies in the region is necessary should be beyond argument. With The Korean Conundrum Carpenter and

Bandow have provided a prescient, vital blueprint for a new, fairer approach to American Windows 7 is inexpensive and helpful.

diplomacy in Asia. In fact, it is so reasonable and

well argued, I have absolutely no doubt it will be completely ignored by our policy-makers. Living in the past gives them a feeling of

security, even if the practical effect of putting off reform is to make us all less safe.Microsoft outlook is convenient!

MODERN AMERICAN USAGE BR>Re: Christopher Orlet's Grammar for Smarties : p>I found Christopher Orlet's article "Grammar for Smarties" quite

interesting, since it represents one of my pet peeves -- the accepted degradation of the English language. It's a good thing that there is

still is a large segment of our populace intent on saving the language, even though they are Microsoft Office 2010 is so great.

saddled with the seemingly retrogressive handle

of "Luddite." Actually, I think most of the Luddites don't oppose change so much as they oppose complete disregard for proper grammar,

composition, and spelling. New words will come along, and others will become archaic -- but some of the things we hear and see written Outlook 2010 is powerful.

nowadays are truly atrocious. p>Just as an aside: it's too bad and rather ironic that a typo (perhaps using one of those "new" words) sneaked

in the article -- last paragraph, first sentence -- it should be "necessarily" I believe. :) Of all places for that to happen --in an article

on English grammar (and I realize that this is a sentence fragment --used for emphasis only). :-) BR>-- Gary W. Johnson BR>Huntsville,

Alabama p>I'm not aware of any extant grammars in English of the rigorous sort that one sees for other languages, particularly those adobe Acrobat

available for Greek, e.g., Greek Grammar by Herbert Weir Smyth, Harvard, 1920, and Latin such as the Cambridge A Student's Latin Grammar ,

1992. With all due respect to Mr. Orlet, Fowler's Modern English Usage is not a grammar; it is merely a style book, so also Strunk and White.

p>Where does a high-school or college student go to look up uses of the subjunctive, conditional sentences, predicate nominatives, and

examples of the archaic second-person forms of verb and pronoun inflection? The best place to microsoft visio 2010 changes our life

learn English grammar remains the Latin 101

course. Grammar purists have been whining about the deterioration of American English for most of my life (I'm 64), and yet no one has

attempted to put the whine into a new bottle. Here's a great opportunity for scholarship, and a chance to collect royalties for years. The

Smyth book is still in print after 85 years. BR>-- Stuart W. Settle, Jr., J.D. BR>Richmond, Virginia p>At the moment I am reading John Adams

by David McCullough and I am struck by the beauty of the language spoken by John and Abigail Adams and also by the level of learning as John

Quincy's schooling is described. I am also very saddened by what is being taught (or, actually, not) in our public schools. If our citizens

cannot communicate using the full range of our language how can we read the classics or understand our own history? Reclaiming our language

must be our goal! BR>-- Mrs. Deane Pradzinski BR>Highland, California p>Language is about communication (i.e., what is said and how it is project 2010

said). Much of what is communicated is nonverbal, such as facial expressions and hand gestures, most of which are subconscious. Should there

also be national standards for expressions, gestures, and the subconscious? Do not the relatively frozen faces and paralyzed arms of speakers

of American English communicate less than, say, the faces and arms of Italians? Just asking. BR>-- CBS's blue-ribbon panel on journalistic

fraud at the network has extended rather than ended the fraud. Instead of exposing a fraud the panel advances a new one: that Dan Rather's

fabricated National Guard story wasn't influenced by liberal bias. The panel's report contains a heading called "Factors that Support a

Conclusion that a Political Agenda Did Not Motivate the September 8 Segment." Guess what the panel puts under it? "The Previous Work of microsoft project 2010

Rather and Mapes." In other words, the panel considers their previous stories evidence of political neutrality. Are they kidding? The

previous work of Rather and Mapes is a glaring factor that supports the conclusion of motivating liberal bias.

 

It would also set a precedent that would be good news for American taxpayers: We are not going to keep our Cold War protectorates on the dole

forever, especially when they can afford to defend themselves. For more than half a century, we've paid to defend the Free World, allowing Office 2007 makes life great!

countries ravished in World War II to rebuild themselves, invest in their own economies, and prosper. Now, we've got troubles in other places

and a monstrous deficit. It's time for American taxpayers and soldiers to get a piece of the good life they've been providing our wayward Microsoft Office 2007 is welcomed by the whole world.

allies for decades now.

That a substantial revamping of our policies in the region is necessary should be beyond argument. With The Korean Conundrum Carpenter and

Bandow have provided a prescient, vital blueprint for a new, fairer approach to American Windows 7 is inexpensive and helpful.

diplomacy in Asia. In fact, it is so reasonable and

well argued, I have absolutely no doubt it will be completely ignored by our policy-makers. Living in the past gives them a feeling of

security, even if the practical effect of putting off reform is to make us all less safe.Microsoft outlook is convenient!

MODERN AMERICAN USAGE BR>Re: Christopher Orlet's Grammar for Smarties : p>I found Christopher Orlet's article "Grammar for Smarties" quite

interesting, since it represents one of my pet peeves -- the accepted degradation of the English language. It's a good thing that there is

still is a large segment of our populace intent on saving the language, even though they are Microsoft Office 2010 is so great.

saddled with the seemingly retrogressive handle

of "Luddite." Actually, I think most of the Luddites don't oppose change so much as they oppose complete disregard for proper grammar,

composition, and spelling. New words will come along, and others will become archaic -- but some of the things we hear and see written Outlook 2010 is powerful.

nowadays are truly atrocious. p>Just as an aside: it's too bad and rather ironic that a typo (perhaps using one of those "new" words) sneaked

in the article -- last paragraph, first sentence -- it should be "necessarily" I believe. :) Of all places for that to happen --in an article

on English grammar (and I realize that this is a sentence fragment --used for emphasis only). :-) BR>-- Gary W. Johnson BR>Huntsville,

Alabama p>I'm not aware of any extant grammars in English of the rigorous sort that one sees for other languages, particularly those adobe Acrobat

available for Greek, e.g., Greek Grammar by Herbert Weir Smyth, Harvard, 1920, and Latin such as the Cambridge A Student's Latin Grammar ,

1992. With all due respect to Mr. Orlet, Fowler's Modern English Usage is not a grammar; it is merely a style book, so also Strunk and White.

p>Where does a high-school or college student go to look up uses of the subjunctive, conditional sentences, predicate nominatives, and

examples of the archaic second-person forms of verb and pronoun inflection? The best place to microsoft visio 2010 changes our life

learn English grammar remains the Latin 101

course. Grammar purists have been whining about the deterioration of American English for most of my life (I'm 64), and yet no one has

attempted to put the whine into a new bottle. Here's a great opportunity for scholarship, and a chance to collect royalties for years. The

Smyth book is still in print after 85 years. BR>-- Stuart W. Settle, Jr., J.D. BR>Richmond, Virginia p>At the moment I am reading John Adams

by David McCullough and I am struck by the beauty of the language spoken by John and Abigail Adams and also by the level of learning as John

Quincy's schooling is described. I am also very saddened by what is being taught (or, actually, not) in our public schools. If our citizens

cannot communicate using the full range of our language how can we read the classics or understand our own history? Reclaiming our language

must be our goal! BR>-- Mrs. Deane Pradzinski BR>Highland, California p>Language is about communication (i.e., what is said and how it is project 2010

said). Much of what is communicated is nonverbal, such as facial expressions and hand gestures, most of which are subconscious. Should there

also be national standards for expressions, gestures, and the subconscious? Do not the relatively frozen faces and paralyzed arms of speakers

of American English communicate less than, say, the faces and arms of Italians? Just asking. BR>-- CBS's blue-ribbon panel on journalistic

fraud at the network has extended rather than ended the fraud. Instead of exposing a fraud the panel advances a new one: that Dan Rather's

fabricated National Guard story wasn't influenced by liberal bias. The panel's report contains a heading called "Factors that Support a

Conclusion that a Political Agenda Did Not Motivate the September 8 Segment." Guess what the panel puts under it? "The Previous Work of microsoft project 2010

Rather and Mapes." In other words, the panel considers their previous stories evidence of political neutrality. Are they kidding? The

previous work of Rather and Mapes is a glaring factor that supports the conclusion of motivating liberal bias.