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SueH
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dmb
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Usually top 10s include a Murphy or a Soars. Are they no longer academic enough  |
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SueH
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Have _you_ ever opened a Murphy willingly and with joy in your soul?
Rather a Haynes Manual...
DC does actually communicate his enthusiasm and the worth of the books very well. Even he couldn't do that for Murphy, surely?  |
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dmb
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Have _you_ ever opened a Murphy willingly and with joy in your soul? |
2 minutes before class, unprepared and with knowledge that the photocopier is working  |
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rusmeister
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Agree - where are the Soars?
Plus, Longman publications largely bite.
Exception - Round-Up, which is at least OK as far as grammars go, but Longman acquired it, anyway. Plus, when they got their mitts on it, they PC'd all the pictures and some of the text so that in almost all places men are doing the housework and carrying the babies and the businessmen are mostly women (the Feminist dream). If you have an older edition you can compare. It's amusing and pathetic how the ideology is injected into the text.. |
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SueH
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Touche, DMB!
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| they PC'd all the pictures and some of the text so that in almost all places men are doing the housework and carrying the babies |
Heh, it might help the Italian birth rate if the guys did help with the housework! Anyway, you'd be making your own meal in my household tonight as it's football training! |
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KaiFeng
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I know what you mean about the PCization of texts. I always found though that these progessive fantasies made for amusing discussions with my Asian students!
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Agree - where are the Soars?
Plus, Longman publications largely bite.
Exception - Round-Up, which is at least OK as far as grammars go, but Longman acquired it, anyway. Plus, when they got their mitts on it, they PC'd all the pictures and some of the text so that in almost all places men are doing the housework and carrying the babies and the businessmen are mostly women (the Feminist dream). If you have an older edition you can compare. It's amusing and pathetic how the ideology is injected into the text.. |
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