Words & Wordplay - February 2007

2007-02-19 08:24:35 · 6 answers · asked by teddybears 3

I looked in the dictionary to look up the word, "am" I found that it refered to the word, "be." If a sentence requires a subject and a verb, then can one simply state, "I be"?

2007-02-19 08:20:35 · 4 answers · asked by sugarbush_inthenorth 2

2007-02-19 08:07:06 · 7 answers · asked by teddybears 3

2007-02-19 07:52:20 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

Ironically it means a fear of long words - I have been trying to say it for about 5 minutes and can't get it...

2007-02-19 07:22:09 · 28 answers · asked by Funky Little Spacegirl 6

When my guy called me on the phone last night when he was with his friends. He snuck off to a corner so that no one could hear his conversation & he said that they said he was "caking". I guess that's some kind of slang term.

Does anyone have any idea what it really means when someone saids that someone else is caking?

2007-02-19 07:06:47 · 16 answers · asked by geminig 1

2007-02-19 06:58:25 · 6 answers · asked by Deepak S 1

I know that effect is a noun, and I know that affect is a verb...easy enough, but what happens when both are verbs? Use the words affected, effected, effecting, and affecting in sentences if you could please. thank you very much.

2007-02-19 06:58:03 · 3 answers · asked by Bistro 7

Curse words are just other words for similar words...they have no negative meaning in themselves. It is just what definitions people hear and superstition.

2007-02-19 06:41:23 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I think its quite simple to use, however, most of Yahoo's users prefer misspellings. We will not even mention the gramatical errors.

2007-02-19 06:14:14 · 8 answers · asked by LA Law 4

This is a quiz question, with the possibility of RED and NOSE having something to do with the answer, one or both may appear in the answer,or the meaning of them may do.

2007-02-19 06:04:45 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

And why is it "twelve" and not "twoteen"? Also, once you do get into the teens, it's "thirteen" instead of "threeteen", and "fifteen" instead of "fiveteen"?

2007-02-19 06:01:06 · 6 answers · asked by CommandoAndy 2

2007-02-19 05:56:30 · 3 answers · asked by Joe 2

Margaret Atwood's Poem "You fit into me"
You fit into me
like a hook into an eye
a fish hook
an open eye

Can anybody explain to me more on this poem other than what I already have…

Magaret Antwood’s poem is short and simple. This amplifies the title “You fit into me”. The poem is fit for its title when it is short and sweet like it is.
She repeats “hook” and “eye” in the poem because that is what she means when she says “you fit into me. She explains how, and then you realise that is al she needs te say. She needs not explain it further because that is how it ‘fits’.

The reader of the poem can also give notice to the word “...fit...” in the first line and then to the shortness (smallness?) of the poem. ‘Fit’ is also asociated with the word ‘size’. Because big or small it has to fit.
The poem might of been written this short to make more of an impact and a stronger statement. One can memorize it just by reading it once. This is the impact it has on

2007-02-19 05:52:16 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

This claim was made on 'Have I Got News For You' by Boris Johnson MP, and seemingly agreed with by Ian Hislop, both old Cambridge boys, but is this true and what does it mean?

2007-02-19 05:43:16 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

Like when you explain something, and say "To ... means to ask someone if THEY want to...".
Or, can I say "I have to ask a person if THEY want..."?
I'm asking this because it sounds funny to say "they" when you're talking about just one person.
I always said him/her instead of they, but my English isn't so good.
Could you please explain to me, and give examples? Thank you very much!!

2007-02-19 05:37:56 · 10 answers · asked by Chris 5

The sound of my heart thumping is like_________ i can't deny.

2007-02-19 04:58:19 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

what does "dressed to the nines" mean?

2007-02-19 04:55:55 · 11 answers · asked by Karoline H 1

It seems like layed but I know that that is wrong. Is is she lie down or she lay down or something else?

2007-02-19 04:49:40 · 14 answers · asked by Milo T 2

example:
Simple
Colors
Organized
Readable
Educational

the letters going down says SCORE

and the letters going across say informational things on a certain subject.

i need something like that but on the words going down i need to have a word thats on how men and women are different.

on the words going across i need to have informational things on how men and women are different

2007-02-19 04:23:15 · 3 answers · asked by cynthia_odeen 2

2007-02-19 04:15:09 · 9 answers · asked by penstate 1

I'm using it to describe a person. So far I have victorious, violent, and vivacious.

2007-02-19 04:09:27 · 13 answers · asked by Steffen 1

Like for example Deuces up a-town down

2007-02-19 04:02:03 · 3 answers · asked by dramaking of 2010 1

2007-02-19 03:53:29 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

I know 4 is quadruple and 5 in quintuple, but after that, I'm not sure.

2007-02-19 03:42:28 · 10 answers · asked by legolas85130 2

tell me how is this poem as i have to submit it to the annual poetry comp now and tell me can i really write poems .

Aim For The Stars

Surrender your soul in the midst of positivity ,
See your tomorrow in the sky of possibilities
Aim for the stars lying next to the moon .

Make your qualities act as an armour against weakness ,
Feel the pain to escalate your strength ,
Aim for the stars lying next to the moon .

Make your way leading to your shinning destiny ,
Take each day as a ray of optimism ,
Aim for the stars lying next to the moon .

Follow a path away from the avalanch of negativity
Be thankful to god for this crazy life ,
Aim for the stars lying next to the moon .

Create an identity of your own in a world filled with entourage ,
Make your dreams form the pinnacle of your tomorrow ,
Aim for the stars lying next to the moon .

Make your life as pure as the azure ,
Exult your failure as a sign of victory ahead ,
Aim for the stars lying next to the moon .

Prevent the past from acting as an obstacle for your today ,
Fix your eye on the shimmer of your goal ,
Aim for the stars lying next to the moon .
8.
Don’t make life complicated by counting your looses ,
Look up in the sky to see your reflection in the stars ,
Aim for the stars lying next to the moon .

Emanicipate yourself from the pecemistic darkness ,
Celebrate your victory with the one’s who celebrate you ,
Aim for the stars lying next to the moon .

Visualize your reflection in the mirror of victory ,
Let your life be an epitome of perfection for others ,
Aim for the stars lying next to the moon .

2007-02-19 03:27:56 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-19 03:26:20 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

People say "irregardless" all the time. It's so caustic, I want to throttle them.

Anyone else think the same?

2007-02-19 03:17:34 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-02-19 02:33:26 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is it possible to ever end war, starvation, poverty, homelessness, and such?

2007-02-19 02:32:13 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous