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Sep 20, 2010 06:19AM
I think he's rereading Macbeth.
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He was doing the word associations earlier, maybe he is on another thread, David?
Hello, I'm new to the group. I love language learning, vocabulary building, and promotion of literacy.
Hi, Romulo! You've come to the right place. The brightest, most interesting people are here. I hang up the coats and hats.
I offer the refreshments. What would you like to drink?
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I think Romulo left. Kitty didn't bring any shrimp.
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What month is it down there, Debbie? December?
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Yes....break has begun....I get 10 days of a life.....
Hello, All. I'm fairly new to GoodReads, but have been a language fan for as long as I can recall. I am fascinated by the evolutionary process that words, expressions and even spelling can follow. I'm looking forward to collecting more information and sharing what little I can accurately recall with this group.
Feel free to add me to your Friends if you are so inclined (or reclined, as the case may be). ~ Trish
Feel free to add me to your Friends if you are so inclined (or reclined, as the case may be). ~ Trish
Welcome Trish. I'm also extremely interested in words and the development of language and also how the English language is related to other Indoeuropean languages.Gabi, I'm also with you on the proliferation of unnecessary apostrophes. I have even been known to send friends an 'unnecessary apostrophe alert' message! My daughter, who is a teenager with accurate spelling, often corrects her friends' spelling on facebook...maybe that's why she's always there!
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Haven't you ever noticed that it never occurs to women who don't have a big rear to ask if their rear looks big in something? That's why it's a run-for-your-life question. A woman who would ask such a question is a woman you're careful not to tell the truth to in other matters as well.
Hello I am new to the group. Looking forward to learn from everybody !!
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Be glad you can't hear me sing.
Welcome, Marie!
Hello! Like Marie, I am new to the group. I've been a Goodreads member for almost months now; yet, this is the first group where I joined . I hope I'll learn from you guys. Thanks.
Hello, Eishrine! Welcome to L&G. Oh, I'm sure you'll learn things here--though just what those things may be is another matter.
Hello Marie and Eishrine, I don't know how I missed your introductions. So sorry. Welcome to the best L&G group around.
Hi, i am Sonali from India. i have been peeping into your group for several months now without having the courage to join in.i admire your ability to play with words-thats what intrigued me. i am a school teacher. i teach english language and literature to 11year olds to 18 year olds.i am not too proficient in the use of computers,i also lack confidence. i hope you wont mind if i am not too prolific with comments.
The more you comment the better your skills will become. We do not make fun of others lack of language skills or grammar They only make fun of me because I am terrible at spelling, punctuation and grammar. English is my mother tongue. So much for my mother. hahaWelcome Sonali .
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Hello to the new people. I hope you will come and join in on the conversations.Sonali...please come and play some of the games...you will notice that we play 'word associations' hundreds of times more than the other games...it's because all you have to do is put the next thing that comes to mind...you don't have to solve a puzzle...which sometimes our brains are too tired to do!
'Word scramble' is a game you could try in your classroom. If the words we have are too difficult, you could adapt it to your class. They'll love it!
I want to join the word games! I hope I can answer them correctly though. Hello M, Kitty, Debbie, Jan and Newengland! Thank you for welcoming us Marie.
Hi, Sonali! I hope we will have a great time as members here. I'll start searching for more discussions. Thank you!
Okay, I guess it's time to come out of the closet and introduce myself. I've been lurking here too for about a month. I'm Brenda and I live in Andover, MA (just North of Boston). I've enjoyed the frivolity and playful banter of this group and, although I don't login to Goodreads very often (the posts are emailed to me), I will try and join in now and again.
Another Yankee for NE. Welcome to the fold Brenda.
Thanks, Kitty. Yes, I did notice I had a neighbor in the group. From just down the road, literally.
You also have a neighbor figuratively , I am in another group you are in. LOL
Banter? We're all gravely serious, decorous, observing of solemnity, though at this moment my black robes and Puritan hat are at the cleaners.Hi, Brenda! Are the leaves turning where you are? We're having cool nights here--perfect for sleeping with the windows open!
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Check in not only now, but again (y'hear?).
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Frivolous?!! Hush yo mouf!
@new England - 8th graders? You do have your work cut out for you. I do highly recommend the MFA at Lesley, if your thinking about it. This is how I've dealt with my midlife crisis. :) The best part is that it's low residency meaning its almost all online and only 10 days per semester on campus.
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The world has changed. My wife's a student at UC Berkeley and has a full-time job in East Texas.
@ new england: i jest about the crisis thing. it's something i've wanted to do my whole (adult) life and, thanks to technology, I now have the opportunity. The midlife hump may have provided a bit more urgency.@M - good for her. Like I said, "thanks to technology"! FYI - I grew up in Clear Lake, south of Houston. Love the tall pines of E. Texas.
I was in a master's-level creative writing program for two years before I switched back to English. It was a lot of fun! In the mid-1980s, all the classes at the University of Southwestern Louisiana still met two or three times a week, and everyone was using typewriters.
hi, just saw this group and had to join it.(oh no, now everyone will know about my anally-retentive, compulsive-obsessive, fear-mongering fetish with grammar, rhyming, rhythm, punctuation and spelling).
i'm assiduous at assonance, an adept at alliteration, and wretched at word games.
looking forward to peeling the potatoes at the kitchen sink....:)
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Gabi wrote: "If you are female we will call you Ginny. Are you perhaps distinguished in dissonance, as well? Welcome to our parlour...." said the spider to the fly...
A dangerous dilettante, to boot.
Debbie wrote: "Welcome GN (is that pronounced gin?). Hope you have some fun here....we do!"
The story you have heard is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
Gabi wrote: "uum....just how old are you GN?"
That's a leading question, Gabi. As old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.
OK. I'm going to hazard a guess that the mystery person, GN, is a very intelligent young man aged between 20 and 29.
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Ok, isn't my age, gender, identity getting a bit off-topic, now? :D
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Newengland wrote: "Agreed. As a 23-year-old French girl, I find it annoying to be doubted. Au revoir!"Newengland wrote: "Hello, G. Welcome, N. Nice to meet you, F."
Salut Newengland, enchante. Merci beaucoup a votre message. Au revoir, aussi.
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