videos for revising with:

hope and wish 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq5g88qpwb8&feature=related

The next two are prepositions:
http://naproe.blogspot.com/2010/05/revising-prepositions.html 
http://nbproe.blogspot.com/2010/05/prepositions-few-links.html

perfect or perfect continuous?Examples from fantastic four comics

Compare
has arrived
has been working
has been helping

n

some internet English - and internet-spread english

"Accessing " internet English, especially internet- spread English  

Shakepeare had no problems with using anything

from anywhere 

as a verb , 

practically anything as an adjective in apposition ...

and so on.

After him many people tried to stop such things......

But it goes on:

Who hasn’t met  to  hoover ( From the American brand name of a vacuum cleaner)? in NB?
British people having been saying this for over 60 years!
But how about adolescents hoovering burgers in a burger bar?
You can still say they wolfed their food!
Ok girls, it's more typical of teenage boys, describe it  as wolfing OR hoovering as you wish. Apology accepted?


Have you ever googled (=performed a web search, {{ using a search engine, such as Google}}?


How about   FTPing  a digital file, using  Internet? (FTP stands for file transfer protocol.)

Watch Shrek II ( in English!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLm4t-d1qmU
At about minute 3,30
The herald announces an invite (Once we would have insisted on invitation for the noun, but verb to noun is shakespearean too!) from

The King and Queen

AKA Mum and  Dad

From. Also Known As

MSM :What're they ?
Main-Stream Media: the conventional, in every sense , mass media: Newspapers, magazines, radio and TV networks..


Deadtreepress.  Physical press as opposed to the press online.


Anglosphere: The English-speaking world considered as a global community. A very useful word.

Fisking : To criticize or comment on another's text line by line, usually in the text. For honesty it is customary to use a different type, font size, colour, etc, to make clear whose work is what.  I use a fisking style to indicate comments even on my own work , as above with "hoover"


Others:
OD’d (OverDosed ) on a drug. This is more of a semieuphemism. 
access , author, impact, dialogue, used as verbs.
Oddly, the noun incentive seems to be breeding two  rival  verbs: To incent and to incentivize. Let me fisk myself : Personally, I hate the sound of this latter word!


Firewall (internet cortafuegos) -  an obvious metaphor  for internet from buildings, which still have them.

-> Paywall : it stops you accessing  internet contents you have to pay for !



Gadget and its American variant form widget (Cf  UK"guarantee" and USA"warranty" etc)  , for some sort of new fashionable knacky tool or appliance, are now being applied to things online ! Visitor counters, onscreen tamagochis and the like. Once they become ordinary and everyday , people stop calling them gadgets -  postWWII, microwaves and electric mixers were gadgets!

Do you remember the  French  "Inspector Gadget"TV cartoons?
He was a Cyborg, from CYBERnetic ORGanism (mostly human, but with bits of his body replaced by machinery -including Gadgets!  A Robocop who maintained his personal identity.) click here for an interesting discussion:
http://podictionary.com/?p=451

An exercise for you:

Distinguish between
Robots
Androids,
Golems, 
Zombies,
Doppelgangers 
Changelings
Frankensteins ( originally: a Frankenstein's monster)
Cyborgs
Avatars
Waldos
Don't be too pernickety*: many native speakers use these somewhat loosely and interchangebly, to the despair of Purists! For example, the use of 'droids(=Androids) for robots in Star Wars!*in usa, persnickety =nitpicking, picky, neverpleased, perfectionist...



And there're plenty more!


Added later. Why is internet spam called "spam"?
Well spam was British tinned - meat?
It was pinkish, made of meat - what sorts of meat, god and the makers alone knew - ground to a very fine powder, and cooked to a sort of jelly It was textureless, nearly tasteless, sort of like adult babyfood....
Any Brit  born after about 1920 up to my generation and until very recently had it  in institutions, cheap cafes, at home....
It was anonymous, ubiquitious, unavoidable, and endless, let alone endlessly sliceable in endless identical slices.
You can see how calling internet spam "spam" became universal almost overnight!
-->spam , uncountable mass noun, to spam, spamming, a spammer, etc etc
Americans  - especially nerdish computerminded americans - were great fans of the British "Monty Python" 
So they say this sketch was the inspiration for using the word this way! 

revise bored or boring! go to http://nbproe.blogspot.com/2010/04/ing-or-ed.html or click link below

http://nbproe.blogspot.com/2010/04/ing-or-ed.html

In Praise of the Archangel breakfastmaker and for everyone who enjoyed his superb English breakfast ! (grabbed from the telegraph)

Friday, 26 March 2010

Fried breakfast is healthiest start to day, say scientists

A breakfast of bacon, sausages, eggs, mushrooms, and beans could be the healthiest start to the day, according to new research.

Photo: PA

Scientists believe that 
breakfast programmes the metabolism for the rest of the day, and a fatty meal will help the body break down fat later on.

Carbohydrate rich foods in contrast appear mainly to prepare the body to break down only carbohydrates, the International Journal of Obesity reports.

Dr Martin Young, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, said: 
“The first meal you have appears to programme your metabolism for the rest of the day.

“This study suggests that if you ate a carbohydrate-rich breakfast it would promote carbohydrate utilisation throughout the rest of the day, 
whereas if you have a fat-rich breakfast, you (can) transfer your energy utilisation between carbohydrate and fat.”

The team of researchers found there may be some truth in the old saying 
“'eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper' 
– it may be the key to a healthy body and mind.”

Their study looked at the effects of eating different types of food – and of eating them at different times in the day, according to the Daily Mail.

Mice fed a high fat meal after waking remained healthy
, but those given a carb-rich breakfast, followed by a fatty dinner, did not fare as well.

Co-researcher Professor Molly Bray added: 
“Our study seems to show that if you really want to be able to efficiently respond to mixed meals across a day, a meal in higher fat content in the morning is a good thing.”

A high-fat breakfast of bacon and eggs may be the healthiest start to the day, report shows

.

Published: 7:55PM BST 31 Mar 2010

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinkvideo/7545038/The-full-English-breakfast-by-Canteen-owner-Cass-Titcombe.html

For the first meal eaten after a night's sleep appears to programme the metabolism for the rest of the day, the researchers found.

And the age-old maxim
"Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper" 
may in fact be the best advice to follow to prevent metabolic syndrome, according to a new University of Alabama at Birmingham study.

Metabolic syndrome 
is characterized by abdominal obesity, high triglycerides, insulin resistance and other cardiovascular disease-risk factors.

The study, published online March 30 in the International Journal of Obesity, examined the influence exerted by the type of foods and specific timing of intake on the development of metabolic syndrome characteristics in mice. 

The UAB research revealed that mice fed a meal higher in fat after waking had normal metabolic profiles. 

In contrast, mice that ate a more carbohydrate-rich diet in the morning and consumed a high-fat meal at the end of the day saw increased weight gain, adiposity, glucose intolerance and other markers of the metabolic syndrome.

"Studies have looked at the type and quantity of food intake, but nobody has undertaken the question of whether the timing of what you eat and when you eat it influences body weight, even though we know sleep and altered circadian rhythms influence body weight," 
said the study's lead author Molly Bray, Ph.D., professor of epidemiology in the UAB School of Public Health.

Bray said the research team found that fat intake at the time of waking seems to turn on fat metabolism very efficiently and also turns on the animal's ability to respond to different types of food later in the day.

When the animals were fed carbohydrates upon waking, carbohydrate metabolism was turned on and seemed to stay on even when the animal was eating different kinds of food later in the day.

"The first meal you have appears to program your metabolism for the rest of the day," 
said study senior author Martin Young, Ph.D., associate professor of medicine in the UAB Division of Cardiovascular Disease. 
"This study suggests that if you ate a carbohydrate-rich breakfast it would promote carbohydrate utilization throughout the rest of the day, 
whereas, if you have a fat-rich breakfast, you have metabolic plasticity to transfer your energy utilization between carbohydrate and fat."

Bray and Young said the implications of this research are important for human dietary recommendations. Humans rarely eat a uniform diet throughout the day and need the ability to respond to alterations in diet quality. Adjusting dietary composition of a given meal is an important component in energy balance, and they said their findings suggest that recommendations for weight reduction and/or maintenance should include information about the timing of dietary intake plus the quality and quantity of intake.

"Humans eat a mixed diet, and our study, which we have repeated four times in animals, seems to show that if you really want to be able to efficiently respond to mixed meals across a day 
then a meal in higher fat content in the morning is a good thing," Bray said. 

"Another important component of our study is that, at the end of the day, the mice ate a low-caloric density meal, and we think that combination is key to the health benefits we've seen."

Bray and Young said further research needs to test whether similar observations are made with different types of dietary fats and carbohydrates, and it needs to be tested in humans to see if the findings are similar between rodents and humans.

"We're also working on a study right now to determine if these feeding regimens adversely affect heart function," Young said

today's" men and women": matters arising

click :You might like to go here  to www. natopictalk.blogspot.com to see more material for this topic

Points arising 
It's easy for Spaniards to get confused using "go".
The brain ( most of us have a brain) regularizes and associates too much.
go goes going went  gone is often followed by TO
SO ...go to..., goes to....., went to......., etc
LOOK right and SOUND right to the brain 
AT A REFLEX LEVEL.
Because
There is prepositional TO for PLACES:
We went to church. He's gone to the dentist's, etc
AND   TO belonging to the infinitive , with the continuous:
I'm going to learn English
So
There is more than one meaning involved, and our brains note this too!

But
often is not ALWAYS ! More than one meaning is not ALL MEANINGS !
What gave you trouble in this exercise:
Kevin goes bowling.

This structure is SUBJECTIVE
It Depends ON MEANING


GO in ANY TENSE OR FORM + Verb- ing 
is for verbs  which are SUBJECTIVELY juerga, ocio, o relax
Lots of verbs are seldom used for anything else.
But consider "dive"

If you are a professional diver You do NOT talk about
" going diving"
The police frogmen dived deep to find the dead body.
Compare
We went diving round the coral reefs near Cancun.You don't have to, but it's typical to call the sport scuba-diving or skindiving.

The brain prefers not to think and to use external features.......

You have an extra problem with bowling as a loan word in Spanish
The PLACE " a bowling ALLEY has lost the second word in in Spanish!
But your mistake: He goes to a bowling
sounds as confusing to English-users
as the loan-word to vamoose (=vamosear) can sound for you!
The kids vamoosed after breaking the window  
¡¡¡Ellos vamosearon!!!! 

Don't go skiing without being insured !












Going courting from 7 brides for seven brothers with Italian subtitles


You may have gone......xing  (not go+computer programming)during the summer, and the result is:

myspace layout

By the way 
Why don't owls go courting in the rain?
Too wet to woo.

I'm tired: 
You can look up ways of illustrating  some of these on internet yourselves 
For example:
The results of going drinking.
What has happened to men who have gone jogging in NY winters.

Politically Incorrect: today is ST.PATRICK'S 17th March

Click for ( very unsatisfactory) catholic encyclopedia link   :St Patrick was evangelizer of Ireland, so he is Ireland's Patron Saint
Click here for Irish jokes
Most of what you see on modern films is untrue.

Nor can you rely on most encyclopedias.
 
St Parick was a Romanized Celt, a Briton
He was born abt ad 390.
This was  near the end of  Roman rule in Britannia, the Roman province which covered the modern countries of England and Wales, or about 50%  of the area of the islands.
Some sources give his birth in what nowadays is Scotland, others in what  today is Wales.(Logical, because Wales and the Welsh   are the survivng Romanized Celtic Britons, 1600 years later.)
In his own lifetime, the germanic tribes of the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, began their genoicide and occupation of what is now England .

Although the last Roman soldiers had not left (they left when he was in his teens). the province had already been ravaged by invaders, pirates  from ireland, picts from modern scotland , and saxon pirates. Roman urban life had been smashed. Christianity was now permitted and increasing, after Constantine in 315.A.D. At the same time, there was a great pagan revival, of both Roman and Celtic religion. However, Ireland still had Druids.
Britannia did not.
 His very name, Patricius, indicates that his parents belonged to the Ambrosian  way of thinking,  , those who wished to retain as much Roman culture as possible.(A little later, "king" Arthur was an Ambrosian)
Christians- still a minority - belonged to the Ambrosian  tendency.By default.
But the Ambrosians  did not consist only of Christains.
The Ambrosians accepted the return to Celtic tribal social structure and methods of production. Their opponents wanted to go further.
They wanted to return to before Roman times in every way and be like their  never-Roman Celtic cousins in Ireland, etc.They rejected Latin and  all classical learning and Roman religion.( The indications are that Latin never replaced Celtic as a common language, unlike most of the Roman Empire.)
Naturally, although it was only newly permitted, . this rejection included Christianity. Illegal and persucuted, it had still arrived via Rome.

Except for receiving some sort of classical education and being ( he says  nominally?) Christian , we cannot know what adult part  St Patrick would have played in Britannia.

At 16  Irish Pirates captured him, and took him to Ireland

He was sold as a slave.

He was a slave in Ireland for six years.

Slaves usually suffer terrible treatment.

In his confessio(click)  he says he looked after his master's animals , which gave him the opportunity to pray.

That doesn't sound too bad.

He doesn't mention much  abusive treatment.

But we can suppose that as aslave, he got it.

After six years slavery he escaped.

He returned Good for the Evil done to him.

He became a priest,spent time with St Germanus in France ( an important figure who is vilified in modern Hollywood)

Recieved Rome's Ok to evangelize Ireland  and ordained a bishop.(replacing Palladius, who had had comparitively little sucess)

He was immensly sucessful.

Not without problems ... captured and put in chains a dozen times.

If you want to believe the modern myth that the church in the Roman Empire was imposed by that same empire, I can't stop you.
It Isn''t true of Britannia.
It is least true in the never Roman areas of Ireland and what is now Scotland.
to be continued