Groups - So is this Praxis Poop-out or what?

que significa la expresión "poop out?"

does seem a tad quiet on the shanghai front. im sure they are all beavering away making more lessons and not recovering from hangovers :-)

The American Heritage Dictionary defines "poop out" as:  to quit because of exhaustion.

Psychiatry (in)famously talks of "Prozac poop-out" to describe the phenomenon of therapeutic failure after a period of success.  That is, the patient has a good response to treatment, does well for several months -- or even years -- and then, inexplicably, the drug, in this case Prozac, stops working.

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Gulam.

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:24 PM, cobre<><> wrote:
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> Question: http://spanishpod.com/lessons/noisy-neighbor/expansion in
> Expansion bad translation Ninguno de los dos vecinos me molesta. (None of
> the neighbors annoys me.) Neither of the neighbors annoy me. or literally
> None of the two neighbors annoy me. but in either case annoy drops the s.
> and why don't you enable crossout characters in this form window.

Okay, it's Gulam and Carmen

and now we reply through a web form that concatonates all sentences so it does no good to use spacing and line breaks to separate topics and attempt to provide clarity.

Expansion bad translation

Ninguno de los dos vecinos me molesta.
(None of the neighbors annoys me.)

Neither of the neighbors annoy me.
or literally
None of the two neighbors annoy me.

but in either case annoy drops the s.

and why don't you enable crossout characters in this form window.

What have they done with Leo?

Yes Cobre, it is indeed the Gulam and Carmen show.

(It's funny that you mention the 'ninguno' expansion sentences.  They bothered me too, both in Spanish and English.  I have the feeling that they are technically correct in both cases but weirdly non-colloquial.  That's how the expansion sentences have felt (at least to me) in the last few lessons.)

I don't know what they've done with Leo, but they are all keeping a low profile, aren't they?

a mí, en vez de una lección más o un "show" más durante la semana yo preferiría ver más interacción entre los hablantes nativos/maestros y los usuarios. Creo que sería mejor para este sitio web.

Creo que el equipo está en Mexico y estan muy ocupado. No preocupan, me segura van a regresar pronto.

Anna

You don't annoy ...
I annoy
They annoy
Neither annoy

She annoys
he annoys
one annoys

two annoy
three annoy
none annoy

hey none annoy annoy fol dol ridledol raydo

"The traditional rule ... holds that neither is grammatically singular: Neither candidate is having an easy time with the press.  However, it is often used with a plural verb, especially when followed by of and a plural: Neither of the candidates are really expressing their own views."  Usage Note in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed.

...she insisted annoyingly.

Cobre

re the annoying editor. its possible that your formatting survives being sent to spod but that in the the reply the formatting is lost, certainly thats how the me/posts editor reacts to posts created in word. i.e. gets it right first time but  reopening the file in the editor stuffs the formatting.

That is certainly possible, DP; and you know, the only thing annoying about anna8 is that she is right so much of the time, ah sweet sorrow . . .