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No, probably not real soon. But maybe sooner than you might expect under normal circumstances. He may be a go-getter and he may surprise people with his rapid rise, but it's still a long way from carrying bags to moving into the carpeted office.

Quote: Though Asana’s founders said upon leaving Facebook that they wanted to do for people’s work lives what Facebook had done for their social lives, Mr. Rosenstein insists that they are not building Facebook for businesses. ---taken from The New York Times Dear all, Does the quoted sentence sound awkward? After reading it a few times, fianlly it seems that I've got its meaning. Now I reworded it like this: Though...

Quote: Originally Posted by laimita [....] 3. I doubt I've always had: "the academy" in this case, is not an actual academy, but the academic world (namely universities), represented in this case by a group of teachers who participated in the study. Shall I still use "the academy" as we do in spanish "la academia", or do you people have a different term for that. We don't use...

Quote: Originally Posted by cuchuflete Not so fast, young feller! What if rubbish~lousy~awful is an adjective in that example. Still no problem, Cuchu. He had a rubbish serve; can one have a pants serve? Secondary question: can pants be an adjective? I'm still wondering if it can be an adverb. Is it in the supplement to the Greater Oxford Dictionary? It should be if it's such old hat.

Quote: Originally Posted by panjandrum See pants Pants and Pukka: British English There you go showing up my thread-searching 'skills' again, Panjo I did toy with the idea of posting what FoF said in post #5 ~ that its popularity has peaked ~ but then had second thoughts: I do still hear it a lot.

It is not an English word. It's a term in Japanese papermaking, a bamboo screen.

Quote: Originally Posted by Umeboshi http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/ny...l?pagewanted=2 Asked later how it felt to hear about the work that had gone into finding him, Francisco said he was not sure. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...,5704068.story It felt appropriate to do this kind of classic fairy tale in 2-D and try to bring back your memories of what you loved about Disney. Are it and It used in the same way? Yes, I think they are...

Quote: Originally Posted by Mónica Santos Hi everybody!my doubt question is: In the sentence "My boss doesn´t like for me to be late for work" I have to transform this sentence using the word APPROVE -My boss doesn´t approve ME of being late for work. Is it correct? No, but the original sentence was also incorrect. As stated above, it should be "My boss doesn't approve of my being late for work."...

No, I was using the Aidan-style phonetic system, in which I randomly made that up. I'll check Webster next time

It's probably not actually a poem/novel, and those are the 'current, actual ' uses of the words, not at all figurative! It means a lake, since it says lake, and I've seen one so calm/still that it was like a mirror (in Canada). It's pretty rare, though, because there needs to be absolutely no wind. There's really no point in trying to draw a distinction between every single word in every single context! Sometimes...