Nothing in the world is immortal.

Last night our family was depress.My grandfather has been suffering from weakness and half body is not working.My parents decided to go for pilgrim places but they can't go due to my grandfather illness.now he is 89 years old.Our uncle and other fami

Started by Ravindra suthar in General Discussion

What would life be like if you had wings?

Think it

Started by Ravindra suthar in General Discussion

001-Set of words to build ridiculous sentences with, yet coherent ones!

Words are grouped into four categories: Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs.

The following list is from a graduate level psychology course written back in the 1950s era. Hence many of these words are not in a generic spoken English vocabulary per say or

Started by Zsolt Zsofka

Stephen Hawking's recent comment

Stephen Hawking said ''I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.”

(http://life.nationalpost.com/2

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Incorrect pavement signs

I think many of us ,walking roads every day without noticing incorrect signs that are on pavements.Some of them have grammar mistakes and other can not be understood,so the questions are:

how many times do you see signs of incorrect sentences withou

Started by SaLeM

Idiom of the day ref http://www.englishclub.com/ref/idiom-of-the-day.php

get off on the wrong foot

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Meaning: If you get off on the wrong foot, you start something poorly, or begin with a mistake.

For example:

I got off on the wrong foot in my new job when I forgot to pass on an important message to the boss.
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Started by Nadira

different way of thinking

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism. To steal from many is research.

A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station.

When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the Fire

Started by nimmi

Can you find a sensible reason for it ?!

A wise man once sat in the audience & cracked a joke.All laughed like crazy. After a moment he cracked the same joke again and a little less people laughed this time.

He cracked the same joke again & again, When there was no laughter in the crowd

Started by Hani in General Discussion

Where would this Question be posted best?

If I want to learn & teach Math and other science, Khan Academy is my first choice!

Is anyone know a web site like Khan Academy that teaches English like they do math?

Started by Zsolt Zsofka in General Discussion

What makes you human?

The answer should come fairly easy for most of us to answer: our mind. It is the reason that we are on the top of the food chain on Earth. The 21^st Century is our new opportunity to develop new, radically different educational me

Started by Zsolt Zsofka

please tell me some gestures in different countires with different meaning as you know. (i am so curious)

hi~

Today, I just learnt some gestures in different countries have different meaning, some even have the total opposite meanings.

so, are there some people know the gestures which have different meaning in different countries? or could you tell me som

Started by idealist in General Discussion

Do we need to learn grammar to improve our speaking ability

I visited several websites and read several articles. Then I found the same ideas on MyEC too. Some people said that we don't need to learn English grammar if we want to improve our speaking ability.

I read an English teacher said that we should forg

Started by Ario in General Discussion

problems with the site

Hifor the past few days i've been having problems with this site.Trying to reply a message in my inbox, when I click on SEND, it doesn't work.The buttons for font, adding links, etc, do not appear when I writew something.I click on sign out, but I dn

Started by Lord Maurice in Tech HELP

The Categorical Change of Words

How does a word changes from a noun to verb to adjective?

What rules govern these changes?

How did these rules come about?

How do these rules change over time?

Who sets these rules?

What flexibility do people have to change

Started by Zsolt Zsofka in English HELP

Life Is Very Beautiful because...

Hi my dear friends.

We had a discussion about life before that its name was "Life Was More Beautiful if…"

Now, I want to ask you about the other one.

Please complete this sentence too:

Life is very beautiful because...

Started by Sahar

Where did the word spam come from?

When email and forums became popular, people began to use the word "spam" to refer to unwanted online communication. The word was inspired by a Monty Python sketch about Spam.
The sketch is available on YouTube, but will likely be removed if it has b

Started by Tara Benwell