Words & Wordplay - March 2007

i keep hearing the word trinket. great word. but what does it mean?
someone told me that when you smoke trinkets, you're smoking marijuana.

2007-03-21 08:07:41 · 2 answers · asked by Bret 2

i keep hearing the word trinket. great word. but what does it mean?
someone told me that when you smoke trinkets, you're smoking marijuana.

2007-03-21 08:07:11 · 3 answers · asked by Bret 2

just asking?

2007-03-21 08:05:41 · 6 answers · asked by FReak! 1

2007-03-21 08:02:38 · 2 answers · asked by Dimitri D 1

2007-03-21 08:00:16 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

I was wondering, what word means, "a statement that cannot be proven or disproven". Any word other than opinion please!

2007-03-21 07:59:35 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-21 07:54:17 · 6 answers · asked by Graham B 1

2007-03-21 07:38:24 · 9 answers · asked by ilian 1

Won't = will not? it doesn't make any sense! Does anyone have an answer for this besides "I guess it's because......."

2007-03-21 07:22:54 · 2 answers · asked by sunscour 4

Barbeques are a time for people to get together and have fun. Traditionally, in China everyone from my parent’s town in Taiwan and Shanghai would come together and enjoy a barbeque together.

(would it be parents or parent's?)

2007-03-21 06:50:56 · 11 answers · asked by je m'appelle Serenity 6

2007-03-21 06:42:53 · 7 answers · asked by MARGARET M 1

Why does the term apply when referring to bureaucracy?

2007-03-21 06:42:53 · 9 answers · asked by Hello 3

... is it the man that marries the woman or the woman marries the man?

2007-03-21 06:24:43 · 21 answers · asked by Cleopatra 4

2007-03-21 06:22:40 · 7 answers · asked by April M 1

Its called The old pond
Origional Text
Furuike ya
kawazu tobikomu
mizu no oto

-- Basho

Literal Translation

Fu-ru (old) i-ke (pond) ya,
ka-wa-zu (frog) to-bi-ko-mu (jumping into)
mi-zu (water) no o-to (sound)

The old pond--
a frog jumps in,
sound of water.


Translated by Robert Hass

Old pond...
a frog jumps in
water's sound.


Translated by William J. Higginson



An old silent pond...
A frog jumps into the pond,
splash! Silence again.


Translated by Harry Behn



There is the old pond!
Lo, into it jumps a frog:
hark, water's music!


Translated by John Bryan



The silent old pond
a mirror of ancient calm,
a frog-leaps-in splash.


Translated by Dion O'Donnol



old pond
frog leaping
splash


Translated by Cid Corman



Antic pond--
frantic frog jumps in--
gigantic sound.


Translated by Bernard Lionel Einbond

2007-03-21 06:17:27 · 1 answers · asked by Young Lass 2

Does something peek your interest, or pique it?

2007-03-21 06:05:04 · 6 answers · asked by runmovr@sbcglobal.net 1

I wrote an email to my boss the other day and added a P.S. in, after the main point of the email, but before my signature. My boss wrote me back and told me that a P.S. belongs after the signature. I always thought P.S. to mean "post script" which, in my case, would mean it was fine to put it where I did. My boss said it is is "post signature" which would then make her assessment accurate. Which is it, for all the great scholars out there!!

2007-03-21 06:04:11 · 8 answers · asked by runmovr@sbcglobal.net 1

2007-03-21 05:49:29 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-21 05:43:54 · 20 answers · asked by lushpoppy 4

2007-03-21 05:34:44 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-21 05:17:28 · 6 answers · asked by Loneshewolf 1

I recently heard a political journalist talking about "...the gov't both within and without the house of commons...", meaning internally and externally. is ok to use 'without' in this context? I am a language student and interested in the different ways in which people use language

2007-03-21 05:04:15 · 15 answers · asked by lushpoppy 4

Do you think the messenger or the message dictates whether or not the readers can distinguish between prejudicial and or non-prejudicial devices ?

2007-03-21 05:03:53 · 2 answers · asked by michelle b 1

2007-03-21 05:03:26 · 3 answers · asked by Fero 2

I think there's a name for this, and I can't think of it:

Basically, you respond to a challenge, or a question, or some task, and instead of seeing the matter resolved, it's immediately followed by another challenge or situation. There's no expected resolution, but instead the individual is presented with a subsequent challenge.

I know there's a name for this, and I can't think of it. Any ideas?

thanks.

2007-03-21 05:02:08 · 10 answers · asked by Rob 5

We made our wishes for the new year before that....or
We wished for the new year before that......

2007-03-21 05:00:43 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

1.Oh, no, I just can't watch another episode of Leave it to Beaver.

2.Actually, she named her poem "A Simple Set of instructions."

3.The still life painting is entitled Two peppers and Bowl.

2007-03-21 04:57:36 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-21 04:57:14 · 4 answers · asked by Asmi 1

1.Come with me; I'd like to introduce you to professor Gates.

2.Tell me, lieutenant, how long will you be staying?

3.What does the doctor think about your exercise plan?

2007-03-21 04:54:32 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

Weren't the aztec buildings once brilliantly painted?

B.
The strains of the British national anthem played softly.

C.
Is that a peruvian guinea pig?

D.
Neon lights lined the busy japanese street.

2007-03-21 04:50:55 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous