Are you interested in politics?

[Yankee]

That NPR typo was a classic.

Englishmajor, why don't you tell us more about yourself? It's pretty apparent just from your typing that you spend a considerable amount of time in chatrooms. I'm going to venture a guess that you're an avid texter, too. Thankfully you haven't filled your posts with u instead of you, r instead of are, and the like.

Are you a college student majoring in English?
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[Englishmajor]

I feel like I am surrounded. Is this a male only forum? As for why I call myself, "enlishmajor", it is because that was my major in college. This qualifies one to be either a writer, a critic, or a teacher. I am a combination of all three, but mostly a poet. My political views are too hot to put online, but appear to be in line with most progressive democrats. My background is military (father and husband) and that makes me very protective of the waste of lives which has occurred under Bush, et al. I would go on, but that might provoke further inquiries, and if you want to see me in "action", you would have to be on AOL. Here are some clues. I am "prttyfine", on occasion.

[Englishmajor]

Excellent! My typing error was egregious (national pubic radio) and hilarious to say the least. Very good eye there by someone.

One should always be willing to eat one's own words. (Oh, my, this is getting raunchier by the minute.)

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[Torsten]

Hi Michael,

You can either talk or speak about something for hours without anyone listening so that's not the difference between 'speak' and 'talk'. You can speak a language but not you cannot talk a language so you can say "I speak English" but it would be wrong or at least very odd to say "I talk English".
By the way, you can be reminded about or of something but not to something so your sentence should read "This reminds me of a certain place..."

Also, something can dawn on you but not 'to you'. Another thing you might want to pay attention to is the difference between advice (noun) and advise (verb).
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[Molly]