Weronika wrote:
What is texting?
Texting is done by some adults, but mainly between teenagers and early
twenties to and from friends they've only seen five minutes ago, and seems
to me to be an attempt to give themselves RSI (repetitive strain injury).
It's done on a mobile phone
It's been reported that there's a problem with fuel supplies because of
refineries being destroyed by Katrina. 20 oil tanker ships have arrived in
the UK to take oil supplies to the USA, when normally this would be the
number in a month. I stress that this was reported - haven't checked it.
Over the past few days we have been contacted via email several times saying
that we have won £300,000 (Oh - if only!!!). We thought it was a bit fishy,
but have gone along with it so far, until they said we had to pay to receive a
package from a firm of couriers containing documents we would
Tamara wrote:
But grammar is something else. The only firm change I can think of
within the past 50 yrs is the usage of shall and will not only as
being a difference in degree of intention but also something to do with
person (singular, plural, first second, etc). Can't remember any of
that
I keep reading how the oil reserves are to be tapped, and I've read about
international contributions. I also keep wondering about the sense of this
-- I've heard several times that the difficulty is not supplies of crude,
but the capacity to refine the crude. Apparently 25% of the refining
