--- Philip Hart <philiph at slac.stanford.edu> wrote: > > > On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Mark A Mandel wrote: > > > On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, skzb wrote: > > > > #It's actually more often the other way around: Naturally: in an n-hand game it's n-1 times more likely that someone else will be dealt "the nuts" than that you will. > trying to represent that you > > #have the best possible hand (technically called "the nuts") by > betting > > #strongly into the guy who actually has it. I have learned that, in > the > > #long-run, this is not a money-making venture. > > > > "Betting into" = "betting against"? You simply have no idea how hard it is for me to remember whether, if Reega is into Fyres, he owes her money or she owes him money. I can't find it on any Web dictionaries (including UrbanDictionary.com), but I think it's in the New Shorter Oxford, which I have at home. I also can't remember who owes who money in _Orca_, but as Vlad points out, it doesn't matter much. > We say "spitting into the wind", not "against", don't we? I think I could say "spitting against the wind". And "running into the wind." > While I'm failing to live up to my Grammar God rating (see > http://quizilla.com/users/BaalObsidian/quizzes/How%20grammatically%20sound%20are%20you%3F/ > ) Ridiculous. I too got a result of "Grammar God", but by giving the answers I thought they wanted, not the ones I think are correct in formal writing. And of course there's a typo. (I figured out why they bother me so much. "It's in the blood." I'm type O-.) You can make an excellent case that the American answers to questions 1 and 2 are different from the British ones. > - last night I had to break it to some otherwise very fluent friends > that "a colleague of us" isn't English. Why is "ours" necessary here? Already answered. Jerry Friedman __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business $15K Web Design Giveaway http://promotions.yahoo.com/design_giveaway/