Entries by bronwynr

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"Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they will not be here tomorrow. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again." - Og Mandino

Linguists talk up figures of speech

THE official number of languages spoken around the world has been boosted by the work of two Melbourne researchers, who have added 30 ‘‘new’’ languages — the most for any single country — to a list of living languages. ... more

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"Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to." -- Alan Keightley …………………………………………………………………“How To Run Your Business On Auto-Pilot Toolkit” Do you want to turn your business into a cash cow that works without you? Then this powerful business pack […]

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"The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside we all believe that we are above-average drivers." -- Dave Barry

Words and concepts – a personal thing?

From Stephen Downs' OLDaily: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Lakoff When I was a child I learned that there were six colours in the spectrum. I even learned a little rhyme to help me remember. Red and orange, green and blue, shining yellow, purple too, all the colours that we know, live up in the rainbow. Somewhere along the line, […]

Further versus farther

The quick and dirty tip here is that you use farther to talk about physical distance and further to talk about metaphorical, or figurative, distance. It's easy to remember because farther has the word far in it, and farobviously relates to physical distance. For example  >>>