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tonieja, I'm intrigued by your question. What is it about "my daughter and I..." that sounds wrong to you? Is it that the two people in...

My opinion of the Siobhan in #41 depends on whether she was insisting that her name is pronounced So-bahn or if she was insisting that the...

I had also done a safari in Tanzania, and was looking for a wildlife experience in South Africa that would be a little different. I found...

Vinny, the Borges comment was funny. I have wondered what a Mark Twain essay on Iñupiaq would look like....

Following up on what I posted in #13, it looks like the verbs are similar to what is written in #12, although I don't see a marker for...

I took a quick look at the thesis that Nutrax linked to. He says that okra was an African influence on gumbo and file was a Native...

Thanks for the movie recommendation. They use merci in Lebanon, too.

I will check my reference material when I get home, but I don't remember complexity in the verbs in Eskimo languages (note that Eskimo is...

There's an interesting question here which I've wondered about from time to time. If someone named Diarmuid is brought up to pronounce...

I think headlines are a special case, though. They're written with specific constraints and can use words that aren't typical in normal...

My sense of these terms in the US is a little different from what nutrax said. I hear adults normally talking about a car accident, or just...

I know less than rudimentary Swahili, but I do have a textbook to refer to. I feel like this should be correct, based on what I found:...

I didn't want to go into too many specifics in my first post before people had a chance to listen. It's clear to me that he's a French...

Hi NA, this was an interesting activity. I did as you asked and I did understand the phrase correctly. But I don't think his English was...

I remember this old thread (http://www.lonelyplanet.com/thorntree/thread.jspa?threadID=1007964) that was about a similar topic.