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A tweet of a mayor in Japan generated argument on gender segregation. He tweeted that "Is this a gender segregation opinion that I don't want male nursery staff to help my daughter change clothes?". I think her daughter is a little child who is around 3～6 years old. He said they  sometimes switched to female nursery staff to help female babies change clothes because of complaints like this.

There are various comments about this. For example, "It is reasonable for a female to be uneasy about male

Yes, you say 'as was expected', 'as follows' or 'as is well known'  - not 'as it was expected' or 'as it follows' or 'as it is well known'.

You shouldn't add the pronoun 'it' after the 'as', because 'as' acts as the subject - you don't need another subject 'it'. For example, you can say 'Expector will add another comment on the blog today, as happened yesterday."

The word 'as' can also act as an objective or complement, for example, "MyEC members keep writing blogs, as they did last year."

In addit

learning a language is a fun, skill, interest or maybe an educational demand. There have been many seemed or observed being keen or critical of having a high command over a language spoken internationally. People having started from initial stages; learning a language are often seemed nervous and normally less confident, because most of the learners think that one should have countless words and an outstanding way to convey his messages to others rightly and vehemently which we all know is impos

"Steve Jobs," the founder of the company (Apple died) software, after a long battle with cancer and left behind when he left the company reached a market value of US $700 billion, the most expensive company in history.
Read what he wrote, "Steve Jobs", a bedside before he died days later.
“I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world. In others’ eyes, my life is an epitome of success. However, aside from work, I have little joy. In the end, wealth is only a fact of life that I am accu

Timing is everything ! Ever wondered why we always say we have no time ! When actually everything is possible ! you just got to manage time. Time management is one of the greatest thing to do, everything in life needs to be managed, therefore time is the most important. Every great person knows the value of time so, they use it efficiently. In this world every people would have many goals ! Time could even help you achieve your goals. Some people say they are busy, I would say busy is just an ex

I am going to say a story about a person named Ramu. Everybody in that village used to call him a fool. 

One day Ramu saw an elephant passing through the village center. This elephant is a domestic one and moving along with the owner of the elephant. Those days, the symbol of richness or wealth is ownng an elephant.Other wards only the rich can maintain the elephant. 

Ramu asked the owner of the elephant " Will you give this elephant to me?". There is another person known to be wisest person in th

Most of us got Mosquito bite once in our life time. Have you anytime thought from Mosquitoes angle? Let us think from their side

Mosquito is a small creature in this world. Female mosquito needs blood of animal or human for surviving. We, humans started killing mosquito since it bite us first time. See one thing, It is biting us today irrespective of we killed them many times.

What is Mosquitoes Attitude? See the courage of a small mosquito. It knows that risk of dying in every bite, but it want t

Sorry I don't upload any photos coz it is my private collections with my best friend.

You see it's so hard to arrange appointment especially with a house wife like her.

My stomach is full but my male friend who works here offers us free salad.

My husband advised me not to take advantage of him. But it's impolite if I say no, right?

After all it's my 39th bday why can't I eat and have fun with free WIFI?

He even brought us a bowl of ice creams! Lucky us!

The moral of the story is never underestimate yo

Yes, it may have something to do with pronunciation if you find it hard to memorize a word or understand what they're saying or said on the radio or TV. 

Some words are so hard to pronounce, though. It helps if you have learned how to pronounce a word by the International Phonetic Alphabet or Smart Phonics, but it doesn't work when you're trying to pronounce a word which is derived from Latin or Greek or other non-English languages. How about some of the names of people, places, microbes, plants,

Just a boffola?
A very funny deipnosophist
was working as a columnist.
His name was Aron-Asimoto,
he called himself "The couch potato".

A dry run or a rehearsal,
was used by him as dispersal.
To screw up that was not his way
not even not for just to play.

As mister of the universe,
he loved a very pretty nurse.
He loved her on a wobbly gurney,
and felt like on a crazy journey.

Someone had stolen his beretta,
and he was calling for vendetta.
His weapon was a rolling pin,
so he was not about to win.

Why was he no

If you believe in balance then your life is okay.

There was a man and his name was John. He was 30 years old at that time of my story.                       
I am sure, if COUCH POTETO or  MOUSE POTETO were professions, John would have had been one of the people with one of that kind of professions. John has lived in a big house. He has left the house very seldom. He wasn't that communicative, what means he wasn't a DEIPNOSOPHIST.

John has loved his big house with air condition inside and a TRANSOM outside.
Sometimes friends has visited him, a

Hello EC lovelies and cuties, as I promised to our lady blue thinker, here is my humble entry to this challenge... I know, these are not funny but I really had fun doing this.

“The saddest scene in life, there’s no comfie” Brand Name: Comfie Manufacturer: HankyPanky “Help the cleaner, throw it here”Brand Name: Cosmobin Manufacturer: Cosmomade“If it’s out of hand, get a bag and just Grab it!”Brand Name: GrabIt Manufacturer: SyntheBreeze“I’ve got a hundred ways to cut it, with no inhibition”Brand N

    This morning, while going through the news on BBC, I came across an interesting article written by David Robson dealing with "foreign" words used to describe emotional feelings in a research project carried out by Tim Lomas.

    The below posted entry is a resume of a long article in a form of passages randomly selected to my whim and fancy.

Lomas’s Positive Lexicography Project aims to capture the many flavours of good feelings (some of which are distinctly bittersweet) found across the world

Well, January is coming to the end and this month we have guessed many interesting and funny words playing Jeopardy. Looking through them makes me laugh as I already "see" a few funny stories and verses I can write. So, I propose you to do the same. Please, write a funny story or a funny poem using some of these words. I will correct the stories, so they must be within 200-250 word limit.

Here is our vocabulary:

A GURNEY (American) is a weeled stretcher to put a person into an anbulance, for examp

Hi, my friends! As the rainy weather spoiled all our plans for today, I will go on teaching you a little.

Well, looking through your answers on the previous grammar tests, I noticed that some of you are not sure whether to use IT IS or THERE IS in this or that sentence. It is really surprising as it is not even the intermediate level, it is basic. Anyway, we use both constructions very often and you should know how to do it correctly.

SO, IT IS is mostly followed by an adjective:

It is windy.

It is

Hi! Here I am again with the next “portion” of the intermediate grammar as I am not satisfied with the results of my previous test. You all know what to do: you should find and correct all the mistakes in each sentence.

There you go!

1. Letter brought before I left (3 mistakes).
2. When I packed my stuff, somebody knocked at the door (2).
3. He asked will I take part at the conference (3).
4. She put aside the letter she wrote and started to think (3).
5. There was the nice day for walk (3).
6. I am interesting of histo

            SOME GIFTED PERSON ARE BORN EVERYWHERE , THEY ARE LUCKLY PEOPLE , BECAUSE THEY WILL HAVE ALL OF THEM WHAT THEY THINK , BUT ENTIRELY DIFFER ANOTHER PEOPLE WHO THEY HAVE NOT MONEY IN THEIR HAND ,

              WHEN YOU GO THROUGH A VILLAGE , ALL PEOPLE ARE SO SUFFER IN THE SOCIETY

Aloha EC people!

It’s been a while since I don’t write any blog but some people here are suggesting so very cool challenges that... how could I skip it?! I love Onee’s challenge (Thanks Onee!) so this is my dialogue with a stranger.

Thanks in advance to all of you who are suggesting challenges and taking part; but also big thanks to all of these members  who are just reading and commenting. You’re helping to keep this site alive! ^_^

OKay, this is my story...

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My “Meeting a Stranger” dialogue i

For how many years I had lived a solitary life, but not anymore, I didn’t choose this, still, it happened, I didn’t ask yet it came, and I won’t deny the overjoyed emotions captivated my being. It feels like home.

“Father, my teacher told me you need to visit my school. She wants to talk to you.” Light said that early evening.

“Why so? What did you do this time?” I said calmly to my 5-year-old “son”.

“You’re always thinking the worst about me, Father. She wants to tell you about the upcoming event.