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Quickly, off the top of my head, I would suggest looking at your vocabulary words. Try to find something in the search engines regarding the typical vocabulary for certain age groups. Then try to draft different versions for different reading levels, using different vocabularies. I...

Here is the link to my blog entry, which is lengthy, since I include many examples from the King James version of the Bible, and from Shakespeare. http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=71049306&blogID=122877714&Mytoken=7DEC9C54-3D0C-4D49-83813A5C514AD09B1322783578...

Someone in Yahoo books & literature chat just asked me about this work. Here is what I found at wikipedia: The Country Wife is a Restoration comedy written in 1675 by William Wycherley. A product of the tolerant early Restoration period, the play reflects an aristocratic and anti-Puritan...

Several years ago, I searched in google regarding some issue of writing style (I now forget the details). What I came upon was a website dedicated to reform in legislation to legalize the use of marijuana. The interesting thing was that the webmaster had posted a long tutorial on editorial...

Australian aboriginal cave paintings depicting "Dream Time" mythology have been estimated at 50,000 years old, which makes the aboriginal religion the oldest religion still in practice. Therefore, in some sense, the fantasy stories of "Dream Time" may be the oldest that we know of. Although...

Annie Proulx says that she drives around Wyoming, visiting taverns and coffee shops, and makes notes on what she overhears, unusual expressions, accents, etc. So, perhaps as an exercise, you might gather material by overhearing conversations and taking notes. Or even use a tape recorder to...

I am enjoying this DVD of La Dolce Vita very much. There are many scenes of Paparazzi swarming like mosquitoes with their cameras. I did not realize that the word paparazzi comes from a slang word for mosquito. There is one scene where two children are peacefully asleep behind mosquito...

paparazzi: Director Frederico Fellini named a hyperactive photographer in his film La Dolce Vita Signore Paparazzo, after Italian slang for "mosquito". The popularity of Fellini's film led to the widespread use of the term paparazzi for relentless swarms of celebrity-chasing photographers...

I am surprised that Chabon chose the title "The Final Solution". When I first saw this title, I thought of Hitler: http://www.mtsu.edu/~baustin/finlsol.html

Apologies. My error. SFG75 has two different threads regarding Sinclair Lewis. I became confused, thinking I had posted in one of his threads, when in fact, I had posted in the other. Then, I saw this thread regarding technical problems, and assumed such problems were also affecting my post.

I would imagine that "Who" is nominative case, used as subject, where as "whom" is accusative case, used as object. There was an old television game show, "Who do you trust?" People often joked that in should more properly be "Whom do you trust." There was an old cigarette ad, "Winston...

I am curious to see if making an additional post to this thread will force it to show my missing post of this morning, which is at: http://www.thebookforum.com/forums/showthread.php?p=192875#post192875

My post of this morning in SFG75's thread on Sinclair Lewis does not appear either. Yet, I CAN access it if I click on my profile, and request to see all my posts. http://www.thebookforum.com/forums/showthread.php?p=192875#post192875

I purchased Kingsblood Royal, and read portions of it, because of the civil rights angle, i.e., a prominent "white" man discovers he has one distant black ancestor, and begins to explore African-American culture. Sinclair Lewis was the first American to win a Nobel Prize, if I remember...

Google rules: I found the following by using this search argument: "years service" correct use apostrophe Apostrophe * Mary and Bill's home. Mary's and Bill's homes. 30 years' service (or 30 years of service) 30 days' credit. Mind your p's and q's...

So then, you were not really all that lost at "hello." Most words have multiple meanings, resulting in ambiguity in certain contexts. You had asked me originally if the poster went on to say much of interest. The photo link simply displays the poster itself, plain for all to see, and it...

Aha! But did I get you back at Justice? That question (aye, there's the rub.)

I sense this is all about to become confusing, but: the "poster" in the photo is different from that poster who posted the poster photo. The poster's (member's) actual post simply said something like "Thanks for the add." But they threw in the photo to be funny. It was not some profound...

When we were children, our teachers stressed the important difference between saying "can" and "may". Sometimes we were told, "You can, but you may not." Rather than say "I can write", one should say "I may write." The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.

World, as you crush my life Upon your naked breast, I love and hate you. With this double-sided coin Of Janus emotion, I pay your harlot’s wage. And we are Ram and Ravanna Merging into one in our rage. Good and evil both: Good transforming evil, And life transforming death. I...