A friend recently asked for an interpretation of the following sentence:“For every one year, the debt per capita rises $1139.”She posed the question: Does the sentence unequivocally means the same as:“For each additional year, the debt per capita increases by $1139″?Santa Monica sustainable gardenMy Response: Yes, I believe it does mean this. Other ways of expressing the same thing: “For each additional year…” Or, “Every one year, every one yea... Read Full Story
(See preceding posting to better understand)A friend recently asked for an interpretation of the following sentence: “For every one year, the debt per capita rises $1139.” She posed the question: Does the sentence unequivocally means the same as: “For each additional year, the debt per capita increases by $1139″? Santa Monica sustainable garden My Response: Yes, I believe it does mean this. Other ways of expressing the same thing: “For each additional year&he... Read Full Story
Doug & PegAnother friend has the following to add: He says: “How about: ‘Every year, the average person’s debt rises by $1139′”? Then, “It’s the obfuscating Latin that bothers me more.” Further question: Does the word “for” come from a Latin locution? Read Full Story
A friend recently asked for an interpretation of the following sentence: “For every one year, the debt per capita rises $1139.” She posed the question: Does the sentence unequivocally means the same as: “For each additional year, the debt per capita increases by $1139″? Santa Monica sustainable garden My Response: Yes, I believe it does mean this. Other ways of expressing the same thing: “For each additional year…” Or, “Every one year, e... Read Full Story
Evie's garden, Santa MonicaSeraphim means “Angel of the highest order” (Concise Oxford Dictionary). Kim Serafin, a reporter and commentator of the Entertainment subculture (In Touch Weekly) who possesses a seraphim like smile, recently lost touch when proved guilty of the commission of a most unangelic grammatical error–the double superlative. Comparitive and Superlative forms of adjectives “are used to emphasize or intensify meaning as well as merely to indi... Read Full Story
Recently, a friend asked for advice on preparing her daughter for the SAT 1 test. My response: Kirsten with Sunflowers 1) Get a prep book. I like Princeton Review or Barrons. 2) Have your daughter sit for the whole diagnostic test(s) from the book to assess weakness. 3) Begin working on vocabulary immediately (2-3 words, roots, a day). 4) Learn the 8-10 important “math facts, formulas…” (problems that appear most often. 5) Hire a tutor or tutors for math/verbal from Craig&... Read Full Story
Euclid arch and front gardenOn a recent outing for brunch my wife asked my mother whose name is Loraine if she had enjoyed her quiche, which happened to be Quiche Lorraine. Amusingly, the cadence of the words in the query might have made it unclear whether my wife actually addressed my mother by her name. The written question would have posed no problem (see further below). To my ear, the question sounded thus: “Did you enjoy your quiche Loraine?” Clearly, the pronunciation ... Read Full Story
Disney Hall, Los AngelesOne year ago Actress Denise Richards, the former wife of actor Charlie Sheen, recently stepped into self-parody. Allowing herself to be filmed in her “real life” in her new “reality” television show, Ms. Richards professed to get out “the real story” in matters related to her turbulent life surrounding the breakup of her marriage with Sheen. Is the show merely a publicity stunt? Is it sincere? Probably a bit of both. No matt... Read Full Story
Bob Pisani of CNBC, who reports from the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange, said of the plunging market 14 July 2008: “It all began well, but in the end was disappointing because they (equity traders and futures traders) sold into the rally.”A little translation: The news prior to market opening had been that the government (that is you and I and our tax dollars) would infuse capital into the vaults of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (The giant U.S. Government-chartered corp... Read Full Story
