Our borders and immigration system, including law enforcement, ought to send a message of welcome, tolerance, and justice to members of immigrant communities in the United States and in their countries of origin.

Our country should make it clear they welcome immigrants.


Our country should repair our image globally and welcome refugees here.


We need to make it clear that we don't want any immigrants here.


This statement was issued the day after the financial markets reopened.

The financial markets operate continuously and are never shut down.


The financial markets were closed for at least one day.


The markets were closed because there were widespread liquidity concerns.


Al Qaeda and terrorism was just one more priority added to already-crowded agendas with countries like Pakistan and Saudi Arabia.

Al Qaeda was added to the top of the priority list.


The only item on the agenda with Pakistan and Saudi Arabia was Al Qaeda.


There were many priorities besides Al Qaeda and terrorism.


As all hope in moving the Taliban faded, debate revived about giving covert assistance to the regime's opponents.

Supplying the Taliban's enemies with covert assistance was a consideration.


The Taliban could not be moved from Kabul, so some members of the U.S. military debated assisting their opponents.


They refused to give up hope in moving the Taliban and were in agreement about doing it alone.


The principals also focused on Pakistan and what it could do to turn the Taliban against al Qaeda.

There was no focus on Pakistan or the Taliban.


The source claimed that Bin Ladin asked for and received assistance from the bomb-making expert, who remained there giving training until September 1996, which is when the information was passed to the United States.

A source was giving information about Bin Laden.


The source knew nothing about Bin Laden.


Before 9/11, no agency of the U.S. government systematically analyzed terrorists' travel strategies.

Terrorist travel strategies were a major source of government study prior to 9/11.


These locations each housed a different kind of restaurant.


They concluded that none of the passengers was connected to the 9/11 attacks and have since found no evidence to change that conclusion.

The passengers were all held by the police for questioning, but ultimately released.


They are certain that several of the passengers were involved in the attacks.


They do not believe that any of the passengers were connected to the attacks.


The threat that was coming was not from sleeper cells.

Sleeper cells were not a threat in this case.


Sleeper cells were the only threat of any significance.


The threat was coming from domestic political radicals.


On obtaining clean passports and the two damaged passports, see Intelligence reports, interrogations of KSM, July 3, 2003; Sept. 9, 2003.

KSM always failed to get clean documents.


KSM got clean passports that said he was an American citizen.


Thumairy denies incurring any such disciplinary measures.

Thumairy confirmed that he was harshly punished.


Yousef managed to escape to Pakistan, but his accomplice, Murad-whom KSM claims to have sent to Yousef with $3,000 to help fund the operation-was arrested and disclosed details of the plot while under interrogation.

Both Murad and Yousef escaped to Pakistan and were never seen again.


Murad revealed information about the plan when interrogated.


Murad told investigators where to locate Yousef in Pakistan.


Binalshibh believes the disagreement arose in part from Jarrah's family visits.

Family visits were the major source of unity for Jarrah.


Successful economies rely on vibrant private sectors, which have an interest in curbing indiscriminate government power.

Private sector companies have an interest in limiting government power.


The private sector is mostly concerned with reducing the government's ability to raise taxes.


Totalitarian governments usually rely on the support of competitive private sector companies for support.


We invite you to participate in Futures for Children by sponsoring an American Indian child or by joining a Membership Circle to support our community education projects.

If you choose to sponsor an American Indian child you will not be allowed to participate in Futures for Children.


If you sponsor an American Indian child you would be participating in Future for Children.


You can participate in Futures for Children by choosing to sponsor an American Indian child and send them to school.


We have a long way to go before we reach our goal of $365,000 from friends and subscribers such as yourself.


We are actually hoping to triple our monetary goal.


We don't have any benchmarks in regards to money.


Ticket income doesn't begin to cover the cost of these programs.

It seems that the cost of these programs will not be covered by the ticket income.


The cost of these programs is very high.


The ticket income will definitely cover the cost of these programs.


Being an institution that promotes education and learning through the connection of people and the natural world around them, the Society is actively preparing for continued success in the future.

The Society has put zero resources into impacting their future.


The Society is primarily looking out for their own long-term benefit.


The Society promotes the gaining of knowledge in multiple ways.


If you have pledged or contributed for 1991, you have my thanks and the appreciation of the administration and faculty of the law school.

The law school has a very prestigious label.


I ask you to join me in renewing your pledge of support to the University Libraries at IUPUI, and to consider increasing that contribution.

The IUPUI is not accepting donations anymore.


The IUPUI needs $1million to operate this year.


But there is also intense competition among law schools to attract the best and brightest students.

Law schools don't care about the caliber of students, they just want money.


Law schools want students with GPAs over 3.9.


Whether its a literature topic, a humanities issue, or an important person in history -- every play has a direct tie-in to classroom curriculum.

Every play can related to what students learn at school.


Every play is related to what the art students learn in class.


Plays stand alone and have no application in school.


We rely on you and other generous friends to provide the remaining 38 percent.

62 percent has already been covered, and we hope you will provide the rest.


Your support of the museum's Annual Operating Campaign helps to attract significant works to the collection and present community-wide special exhibitions.

Giving money to the campaign helps the museum a lot.


The museum can do great things with the $10,000 you gave.


The museum can't do anything with the money the receive.


.. spiritual guidance and encouragement.


You already understand the importance of storytelling, poetry, song, and theatre in fostering empathy, compassion, and the imagination.

Art is important in promoting empathy, compassion, and using one's imagination.


Storytelling, poetry, song, and theatre are important in promoting empathy, compassion, and using one's imagination.


Storytelling, poetry, song, and theatre are unimportant and are absolutely useless in promoting empathy, compassion, and the imagination.


In the case of animals that are not recovered by-their owners, your Humane Society uses a wide variety of - services to aid those animals and give them a chance at a happy life.

All of the animals are recovered by their owners.


The Humane Society helps animals live a happy life.


The Humane Society is a non-profit organisation that cares for abandoned pets.


William Lowe Bryan, the IU president whose dream of a broadly based university led to the founding of IU School of Medicine in 1903.

Bryan wanted the top medical school in the country.


Your contributed support directly benefits the IRT's outreach programs and leverages match gift monies.

Your contributions only support the snack fund and aren't matched.


This letter is to let you know that, while we've experienced some success this season, we still need your help to continue our record of strong fiscal management and vibrant theatrical productions.


We need $10,000 more this season to put on the musical.


..one you would be proud to be part of and support?

One you would be a supporting member of?


..the world's most thoughtful and motivating nature writers.

Nature writers can encourage people to recycle more.


Unfortunately, our view of the importance of philanthropy is not shared by all Americans.

Not all Americans think it's important to support churches.


As a Nussbaum member you have helped us save endangered animals--and their homes.

Nussbaum members have no impact on saving endangered animals.


Our teaching hospitals and research programs receive no state support.

The research program can't get funding from the state because they experiment on people.


The research program doesnt get any money from the state.


The research program receives $100000 a year from the state.


This investment has resulted in the renovation and sale of 60 homes to homebuyers of modest means, and in the rehab of more than 100 affordable, high quality apartments.

The apartments were dumps and no one fixed them.


I must therefore tell you why the Center on Philanthropy also deserves your support.

I have to give you insight into why the Center on Philanthropy needs support from you.


I really need to tell you why Center on Philanthropy needs to have financial support from you before it's too late.


I regret to inform you that the Center on Philanthropy does not need any support at this given time.


This letter is to let you know that we still need your help to continue our record of strong fiscal management, vibrant theatrical productions and outstanding educational programs.

We don't need any more funds for our programs.


We need $10,000 more to produce Lion King.


We need your help to keep our theatrical productions running.


Unlike other not-for-profit theatres in the city, our actors make their living from their craft.

Our theater covers all its actors' medical insurance.


Indeed, your history of support of the Lowell Nussbaum Society pays much more than your rent.

Since you have never supported the Lowell Nussbaum Society, we encourage you to do so now.


The Lowell Nussbaum Society has benefited from your support for the past decade.


You have been known to support the Lowell Nussbaum Society.


FOREVER PLAID - a name that connotes the continuation of traditional values, of family, home and harmony.

FOREVER PLAID helps convey a sense of tradition and family.


FOREVER PLAID would be a good name for a dystopian novel, because it evokes a sense of horror.


Our CEO came up with the name FOREVER PLAID.


We can help you get some balance right away.


You don't need balance, you just need to work harder.


You are invited to become a part of this important new venture to strengthen this growing partnership of two great state universities in Indianapolis.

Two state schools in Indianapolis are joining forces.


Two state schools in Indy are going to merge next year.


We can continue to strengthen the education of good lawyers.

There's no way we can educate lawyers so we should just stop trying.


We can educate lawyers if we can give them access to the law library.


As we become independent, please help us strengthen the distinction of your degree.


We hope you will help us as we become independent.


You, along with other caring members, will be helping the effort to preserve and promote our state's proud heritage.

The state needs everyone to donate $20 to support the heritage.


While the numbers are impressive, scholarships often are critical in recruiting the top students with financial need.

The top students with financial need benefit from scholarships.


There are 50 scholarships available to the top 50 students.


We don't give scholarships or financial aid to students.


In this way the YMCA seeks to fulfill its To put Christian principles into practice through programs that encourage personal growth and build health of spirit, mind and body for all.

The YMCA has over 100 programs that promote Christian principles.


The YMCA only promotes principles espoused by the Church of Satan in its programs.


The YMCA strives to promote Christian principles through various programs.


Commencement 1991 renews memories of student days at Indiana University.

Graduating students remember their path as students at Indiana University.


Much has been made of hiring Michael Apted to bring a more human touch to the series.

Michael Apted ruined the series by insisting they take out any warm, human elements.


Michael Apted was hired to add a personal quality to the series.


The series was thought to be cold and boring, so it was important to hire Michael Apted to add a warm, personal touch to improve ratings.


Once home, I learned the United States cuts off supplies in two ways.

I learned the United States cuts off supplies in two ways before coming home.


The world's oldest and largest university press--Oxford--has just announced that it is canceling its poetry list.

The prestige university does not have the funding to keep the poetry list active.


On Aug. 25, after the Democratic convention had opened in Atlantic City, N.J., Johnson, then 56 years old, threatened in three recorded conversations to withdraw from the presidential race.


The complaints covered the baggage problems, surly flight attendants, mysteriously canceled flights, billing atrocities.


There are many options for attacking the logic of this cosmological argument, and contemporary opponents of theism have tried them all.

Some contemporary opponents of theism have a financial stake in discrediting the logic of this cosmological argument.


The logic of this cosmological argument has been attacked many times by opponents.


This cosmological argument has been accepted and approved by everyone who reads it.


The courthouse is not the only political circus in Washington this morning.

The courthouse isn't the only political place in washington.


There is a circus at the courthouse with clowns.


This budget makes some big--if dubious--choices, if only implicitly.

The budget is making some interesting moves.


Jacob Weisberg's excellent essay, Car Talk, on the key to this year's gubernatorial and municipal elections, redefines the word autocracy.


Weisberg wrote about the presidential election.


Not content to disgrace Clinton morally, his adversaries tried to inflate his cover-up of the Lewinsky affair into crimes and impeachable offenses.

Clinton was entirely faithful to his wife during their long marriage.


Clinton's adversaries attempted to disgrace him, and also to impeach him.


Clinton's affair with Lewinsky was a moral disgrace for the Democratic Party and caused the defeat of Gore when he ran for president.


Yet, even in USA Today 's recent in-the-black years, the paper has been a magnet for negative media-critic boilerplate.

Despite USA Today's profits, the paper still is famous for negative media coverage.


Since 2010 when USA Today has posted a profit, they still receive attention for their media criticism.


USA Today has lost money every year recently but is still thought of in a positive light.


When this technique works, you get a powerful story, albeit one whose subject is not revealed until around the third paragraph.

This short story writing technique is succinct and limited to two paragraphs.


This story writing technique pays off when you reach the third paragraph.


With this story writing technique, you risk your readers losing interest or being confused, because the subject isn't revealed until the third paragraph.


Using these eight simple techniques, you can fabricate a news story in the comfort of your own home.

Only news reporters in a newsroom can write a news story, and it takes 20 steps to do it.


Writing news stories in your pajamas is easy and financially rewarding if you follow these eight steps.


You can write a news story from any location if you follow some simple techniques.


The Politicization of Nearly Everything (Literary Division) proceeds apace.

The Politicization of Nearly Everything goes on swiftly.


The Politicization of Nearly Everything has come to a stand still.


The Politicization of Nearly Everything is nearly done.


This is the ultimate Republican fallback.

This is the worst and least effective Republican fallback.


That's a gray area, says John Kirkwood, who is with the ALA of Metropolitan Chicago.

John Kirkwood founded the ALA of Metropolitan Chicago.


John Kirkwood is convinced that it is not a well defined area.


John Kirkwood is not and was never associated with the ALA of Metropolitan Chicago.


The best tactic for a situation tainted by your own imperfection is to define yourself as the happy medium, superior to those on both your left and right.

It is not wise to blame others for your own imperfection.


One's own imperfection can lead to a bad situation.


The best thing to do for a situation tainted by your own imperfection is to run away from it.


Of course, this disaggregation of content may be ruinous for magazines like Slate.

Magazines like Slate can be damaged by disaggregating content.


Slate has suffered in the past for disaggregating content.


The disaggregation of content is a reader-magnet for magazines like Slate.


The conventional wisdom about the musical Ragtime continues to fluctuate.

The conventional wisdom about the musical Ragtime continues to rise.


The conventional wisdom about the musical Ragtime is not constant.


Young adults do not know anything about the musical Ragtime.


Top honors go to the Riven --an upgrade to the best-selling computer game of all time, Myst --about a person marooned on an island.

Sadly, the computer game called Myst was never released into the public.


More The Anti-Defamation League's survey describes a continuing drop in America's hard core anti-Semites--from 29 percent in 1964, to 20 percent in 1992, to 12 percent currently.

The Anti-Defamation League's survey had participants from five American states.


The Anti-Defamation League's survey indicates that there is a gradual increase in hard core anti-Semites in America.


The Anti-Defamation League's survey shows that there is still some hard core anti-Semites in America.


Sullivan invokes the mantra of equal treatment as if it's an argument-ender.

Sullivan does not know anything about equal treatment.


Sullivan is confident that the mantra of equal treatment will end the argument.


Sullivan uses the mantra of equal treatment after he realizes that he is losing the argument.


Taliban rule has not been popular with non-Pashtun communities or the more sophisticated, liberal-minded residents of the major cities, especially Kabul.

The liberal-minded residents of the major cities are in full support of Taliban rule.


Nor does democratization change the underlying reality of international geography.

Everyone can acknowledge that the reality of international geography is rigid.


It's too bad that the noise about Finkelstein has drowned out his co-writer, Birn.

Birn has worked with Finkelstein since the column was started.


Birn is getting all the attention, since the news about Finkelstein.


There has been some noise about Finkelstein and very little about his co-writer.


Slope vs. Much of the debate turns on which issues are associated with abortion.


The state representatives are handling the abortion issue.


This debate has nothing to do with abortion.


The cover story debates whether NATO's goal should be to carve up Kosovo or administer it as a protectorate.

NATO believes they should divide Kosovo into even smaller areas.


The main story argues NATO's end goal when it comes to Kosovo's sovereignty.


The short op-ed confirms NATO's goal to protect Macedonia.


You can't find a cheaper answer from the book.


Looking for the Key to Keeping Safe (Sorry for the bad pun.)

I don't see anything funny about what i just said.


Raves for Mrs. Dalloway keep coming, but a more critical take also emerges.

Along with raves for Mrs. Dalloway, criticism also exists.


Several students rave about Mrs. Dalloway and even more criticize her.


There are no raves or critical takes associated with Mrs. Dalloway.


The pursuit of contributions from the high-tech community is one of the reasons that some candidates have gone to great lengths to develop a high-tech platform.


There has been a lot of effort in the technology side of the platform.


Our more aggressive respondents, excited to nail entire bodies of work in one go, bypassed books and went straight for the authors themselves.


People who responded talked about their favorite authors.


It's not just that Bradley opposed the ethanol subsidy until the other day.


Moreover, as far as we know, life emerged here on earth only once.


The Clinton administration's position is that the Internet should be a federal duty-free zone.

Clinton's administration supports freedom on the web.


The Clinton administration does not support lowering taxes.


The Clinton administration has no opinion on Internet regulation.


The conventional wisdom in Washington this week is that young writers such as Glass who crack up deserve sympathy because the system pressures them into becoming stars before they are journeymen.


Whatever happened to the military's traditional heartless approach of finding a scapegoat?

Changes in military traditions are evident as fewer scapegoats are used to explain problems with discipline and command.


The military has a history of using a scapegoat.


There is no evidence of the military using scapegoats in the past.


Such ebullitions of insanity continued for three decades, becoming more rococo.


The insanity was not noticed at the time.


There was insanity everywhere for three decades.


Or, consider the issue of informing Congress about covert actions.


Congress cannot be informed about covert actions.


Congress might be informed about covert actions.


The trick is to think of me less as the new sheriff in town and more as one of the nannies the von Trapp children killed before Maria.

I take a law and order approach and demand you respect my authority as sheriff.


Keeping the integrationist faith are black liberals like Professors Henry Louis Gates and Cornel West. Joining them is black economist Glenn Loury, a conservative who broke ranks to endorse affirmative action as a necessary policy.


Property is an endless succession of bubbles in space, or cyberspace, with different people claiming an endless variety of interests in them.


Property is just people saying they own something.


Will anyone remember the World Trade Organization in half a century?

The World Trade Organization has made no memorable impact on history.


Sometimes this personal process of maturity or decay (take your pick) is reinforced by what's happening in the culture.

Most people see this personal process, which is mirrored in today's culture, as decay rather than maturity.


Nothing that's happening in the culture today supports this personal process, whatever you choose to call it.


Whether you choose to see this process as personal maturity or personal decay, what's going on in the culture seems to reinforce it.


Stevenson's article shows a fundamental lack of understanding about what our campaign entails.

Although Stevenson has traveled with us on the campaign trail, his article makes it clear he wasn't paying attention to what the campaign involves at even the most basic level.


Stevenson's article details his in-depth understanding of the complicated workings of our campaign.


The basic flow of world history, as I'm not the first to note, is toward interdependence.

As I am the last to note, the flow of world history is towards a more solitary existence.


I'm the first to note that the flow of world history is towards interdependence.


Other people have noted this flow after me.


The body of Dowd's work as a columnist, and in particular the Flytrap pieces that won her the Pulitzer, is one of the most brilliant examples yet of boomer self-castigation.

Dowd has never and will never write anything that could be construed as boomer self-castigation.


For brilliant examples of boomer self-castigation, look no further than Dowd's Pulitzer-winning Flytrap pieces, and, actually, most of her work as a columnist.


In addition to one of the most brilliant examples of boomer self-castigation, Dowd's body of work includes many columns about the prosecution of radical environmentalists.


Media conglomeration runs in cycles, so the fish currently progressing through the bellies of the media kings may not stay there for long.

Media conglomeration involves multiple steps.


Media kings welcome fish into their bellies.


Finally, one must be wary of elongation that carries with it a distinctly different meaning.

Elongation is a great way to ensure that the meaning of a statement is clarified.


No other profession has so rich a tradition of self-deprecation.

Many other professions think highly of themselves.


Many professions have traditions of self-deprecation.


No other job has a robust tradition of criticism about itself.


If lite/light simply describes a characteristic of the beer (e.g.


Lite and light are only used to describe wines and whiskey.


Lite beer does not have a high percentage of alcohol.


The poor overworked noun was even used where neither it nor any alternate was needed.

People struggle to find an alternate noun.


On top of all this, we have the unhappy fact that eloquent writing is indeed sometimes memorable, compounding the problem.

People are much more likely to remember poor writing.


Original animal metaphors are all but obliterated in words that have no reference to animals.

Animal metaphors are gone because of cities.


The association of money names with other weights is ouguiya (Mauritania) means `ounce.

The is an connection between the names of money and the names of weights.


A new morpheme survives the novelty of its first innovation (like telethon for - athon ) because it turns out to be useful, almost as if by accident, and brings something new into the idiom.

Variations of words have to be useful in order to survive.


[ In all fairness, it must be said that Mr. Room wrote as soon as he realized his slip in referring to the Bummel as a river.

Mr. Room refused to consider the idea that the Bummel might not be a river.


The Bummel is actually an Eastern European brand of automobile.


The Bummel is actually not a river at all.


It is a way of saying, I am an outlaw, a mountain man!

It is a way of saying that I am not a saint.


These things are outside of man, while style is man himself.

A person's true self is revealed by concrete facts.


For example, diagnosis was borrowed from a Greek word (which, incidentally, did not mean the same thing); two hundred years afterwards, the verb diagnose --a back formation --was coined.

The Greek word from which diagnosis was borrowed meant a plant's root.


The origins of the word diagnosis can be traced back to the Greek language.


There is evidence to suggest that diagnosis was borrowed from Latin.


I hope to live to the year 2000 to help with the Yiddish Guide . I am sure that Yiddish will still be around, surviving its detractors, as it has for a thousand years.

I am sure the Yiddish will still be alive in the year 2000.


I'm sure the Yiddish culture will unfortunately be lost by the year 2000.


The Yiddish culture has survived for more than a thousand years.


Grammar and glamour are historically the same word.

The words separated in the 1910s when the Kaiser stole all of the L's.


If adjectives soften ethnic terms, nouns can harden them.

Ethnic terms have a different impact when used as or modified by adjectives versus nouns.


Nouns that are ethnic terms linguistically solidify our understanding of ethnicity in a false way.


Verbs are the only means of expressing ethnic terms.


Nothing underscores the subtle complexities of language more strikingly than the miscommunications that occur among pilots, crew members, and air traffic controllers.

Pilots are always perfect communicators.


Pilots are too caught up in flying to communicate well.


Pilots don't always communicate with crew members well.


In a book dealing with a subject of this sort one must be extremely careful to cleave to rigid definitions of the key terms ( euphemism, dysphemism, taboo , etc.) and not deviate from them.

The book just explains what the house looked like.


The book talks about how the words are used in medicine.


The book talks about the meanings of the word.


One of the linguistic phenomena to have emerged during the last hundred years or so is the acceptance of the notion that an important step in solving problems lies in naming them.

It is generally accepted that one of the most important steps to solving a problem is first to name it.


It is generally agreed that there is no point in naming a problem, because it wastes time while new problems arise and change before solutions can be found.


Once a problem is named the solution will follow in an acceptable time frame.


There are nationalities and ethnic groups so confident, so satisfied with themselves that ethnic epithets either bounce off them like pebbles off an elephant or are adopted as amusing or even ornamental.

Ethnic groups are all ashamed of themselves.


Some ethnic groups are really proud because they win all the wars.


Some ethnic groups have a lot of self-esteem.


Goistering was a curious term for loud feminine laughter; a bad worker was called his excuse might well be, Old Laurence has got hold of me today!


They gave a name to the lady's loud laugh.


They named the lady's laugh so they could talk about it without her knowing.


He rhymed it with pandemonium ; judging from the lawsuits which proliferate over condominium parking spaces, balcony barbecues, and pets pooping in the halls, he might have been right to use the neologism.


She insisted that he fly home means `She wanted him to fly home,' though whether he actually did or not would be revealed in a later chapter.

Even tho she told him to fly home it is unsure if he did or not.


In the later chapter we learn that he did in fact fly home.


She told him to stay away from home because it was not safe.


One rares back and uses this phrase when one finds himself in surroundings of unaccustomed elegance, such as sipping an aperitif in an elegant restaurant with a bevy of tuxedoed waiters dancing attendance.

This phrase is used in the roughest and most casual of situations.


schlock `shoddy, cheaply produced merchandise.


To the horror of some Western readers, however, he was at least once quoted out of context as having threatened to bury America.

He actually wanted to buy beer for America, but a speech impediment kept him from expressing this clearly.


Sometimes you have to believe that all English speakers should be committed to an asylum.

Despite this appearance, English speakers are not unusually prone to mental instability.


(Before continuing, the reader may wish to try this feat, too.)

Before going forth, the reader may wish to attempt this challenge.


The reader may want to try this challenge before proceeding.


The reader should proceed without attempting the pointless feat.


grantsmanship a form of panhandling in which the participants are very well dressed.

Nobody ever begs for money while wearing nice clothes.


Well dressed beggars are sometimes called grantsmen.


In this way, the spelling of a word often relates to that of other words belonging to the same paradigm, or to its own history.

The spelling of a word is just tied to the person who invented it.


The spelling of a word is tied to how it was used in ancient times.


The spelling of a word is tied to its history.


Its official name was Flavian Amphitheater , after the family name of its builder, the emperor Vespasian.

The Flavian family left an impressive legacy that impacts history to this day.


When Alice objected, But that's a different kind of fastness, he replied, It was all kinds of fastness with me, I can assure you!


The linguists who write books seem invariably to be scholars who are touting their own points of view, some of which are recondite, to say the least.

Book-writing linguistics are almost ways scholars promoting their own scholarship.


Linguists make a lot of money writing books.


Most linguists write books in order to evangelize others' opinions.


Such a composition would no doubt leave the impression that the string section had suddenly caught fire.

Extensive research of the composition proved that the fire had to begin in the string section.


But if he uses the grammer, vocabularly, and idiom of the standard English found in newspapers, books, magazines, and news bulletins, then all we notice about his speech is his accent--and possibly his intonation.

He has no noticeable accent and a perfectly normal intonation when he speaks standard English.


He is using standard English grammer and vocabulary found in newspapers, books, and magazines in an attempt to disguise himself, but his foreign accent gives him away.


His accent and possibly his intonation are what is noticeable when he uses standard English grammer and vocabulary.


The truth is that cross-talk may at times resemble all three ironies, depending on the intent, audience, and effect.

Cross-talk changes depending on the audience.


Cross-talk isn't acceptable for some audiences.


I was as fast as--as lightning, you know.

It took place in no time at all, you know.


It was the quickest event I had ever experiences, you know.


The event took ages to come to an end, you know.


No one seems to know if these sports are played on a court with a net, against a wall, or both.

The rules and guidelines of these sports are still unclear.


One difference is that other groups need to do so because in order to function they must either attach new meanings to existing words and phrases or coin new words and pharases.


This is not to say that the Western tradition has a monopoly on Niceness.

Niceness is not solely owned by Western tradition.


People in the west are far more nice than others.


Western tradition has a monopoly on ugliness.


A number of them might have been created by prisoners whose vocabularies were too small to accommodate the concepts, events, or situations named.


One must be very cautious in proposing etymologies that attribute the origin of a word to playfulness or they often turn out to be folk etymologies and totally empty of anything more than hollow speculation.

New etymologies are really delicate to introduce.


You can just propose a new etymology whenever youw ant.


You hae to be careful when you think of a new etymology.