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Username: 2c2bmore
Post Number: 44
Registered: 5-2006
Posted From: 66.170.157.240
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 26, 2006 - 1:46 pm: | 
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Curious but true, our fixation on food, goes beyond the almost daily 'evil' reports coming out of todays medical research labs.
Mind you the Sleeper curve mindset hopes to slow down the bandwagon somewhat.
A teacher/writer by the name of Lisa Goldberg wrote an article called a Slice of Life, in
the Saturday Star the other weekend. I thought you'd find it interesting.I've beefed it up a bit and passing it on to you is designed purely for informational entertainment.
"What does corney mean? asked an ESL student. (She helps intigrate newcomers with
the communication skills for life in Canada.)
"As I struggled to come up with a workable definition, [and that's easier said than done,]
another student asked if it meant the same as cheesy , a word he had heard on TV."
"This lead to the question about the Big Apple- which is not to be confused with being a
BAD apple.
She's gets questions like this all the time, she says.
"The English vocabulary with its abundance of idioms and slang is quite often bewildering to
outsiders of street lingo- and after a recent barrage of questions I began to realize just how
much we rely on food to help us explain things."
"As we found ourselves immersed in this discovery, the blackboard was quickly covered with EDIBLE, verbs, nouns, and adjectives."
"VERBS alone could fill a dozen pages".
EGs; "You can egg someone on, or butter someone up. You can milk a person or a situation.
You can fudge something. You can stew over something. You can take something with a grain
of salt while you cook the books. You can pepper a conversation with idioms. You can use your noodle, or ride the gravy train.You can do doughnuts with your muscle car in the parking lot.
You might have your cake and eat it too but you can easily bite off more than you can chew.
Some people like to chew the fat or find themselves simply eating their words. And then,if you're not fed up at that point you might decide you have to eat crow." |