Vegetables and their English names

Some possible responses for “What’s up?”

Some possible responses for “What’s up?” are:

Hi
Hi, how are you?
Good
Fine
Chillin
Cool
Nothing
Not Much
Nothing much
What’s up?
Nothing new really
Not a whole lot

Some facetious responses are:
The sky
The ceiling
The roof

The answer depends slightly on the situation, the person who asks and the tone. But generally it is not a question that needs an answer. This is just a greeting. Just say “Hi”

But the situation determines the response. For instance if someone comes in crying and you ask "So, what's up with YOU?", then the question clearly is literal.

For a detailed discussion on the issue, read this article.

For a funny set of responses to "How are you?", go here.
But seriously, you can use one of the following.

How are you?

Good. Thanks.

Fine. Thanks.

Good.  And you?

Fine.  And you?

Fine.  Thanks for asking.

I am good.

I am doing fine.  Thank you.  And how are you?

Fine.  And how are you?

I am alright. (slightly negative)

I am alright I guess.

Michael Swan about grammar teaching

Numerical Prefixes

Frequently used numerical prefixes that come from Latin and Greek are given below. Learning them will help us to understand the meanings of a large number of related new words when we come across them.

Number	Latin Number	Prefix in English	From Greek
1	unus	uni	mono
2	duo	du, bi	dis, dy, di
3	tres	tri	tri
4	quattuor	quadr	tetra
5	quinque	quint	penta
6	sex	sext	hexa
7	septem	sept	hepta
8	octo	octo	octo
9	novem	nov, non	ennea
10	decem	decim	deca

Variations of Murphy's Law : More fun than Pessimism

Murphy's Law
If anything can go wrong, it will

Edward Aloysius Murphy, Jr. (1918 –1990) was an American aerospace engineer who worked on an air travel safety system project.  The law is attributed to him as spoken in an adverse circumstance.  But various versions of this adage that speaks about the preverse nature of universe were present in the language already.  Interestingly much research is carried out on this topic. 
One day, after finding fault with a technician he supposedly said, "If there is any way to do it wrong, he'll find it."
Many variants of the law were subsequently formed.  Some of them are listed below.  The numbering of the laws is arbitrary.

Murphy's First Law
If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.

Murphy's Second Law
Everything takes longer than you think.

Murphy's Third Law
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time.

Murphy's Fourth Law
If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.

Murphy's Fifth Law
If anything just can't go wrong, it will anyway.

Murphy's Sixth Law
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

Murphy's Seventh Law
Nothing is as easy as it looks

Murphy's law of thermodynamics
Things get worse under pressure.

Murphy's Philosophy
Smile . . . tomorrow will be worse.

Murphy's Constant
Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value

Murphy's Laws of Research
a)Enough research will tend to support whatever theory.
b)Research supports a specific theory depending on the amount of funds dedicated to it.

Some Murphyisms coined by others

If many things can go wrong, they will all go wrong at the same time.

If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which something can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop

Save the dying words ... Adopt them

Words are living organisms that grow old and sometimes die. Many words have disappeared from the language for various reasons. To know about these words and perhaps breath a new life into them you have a chance. Visit the site savethewords.org to see a list of all such words and make a commitment to adopt one of them (or many of them). This site is put up by Oxford Dictionaries. Who knows about the health conditions of words better?

Listen to these Wonderful talks at TED.com

Listen to this inspiring talk by Ric Elias who had a front-row seat on Flight 1549, the plane that crash-landed in the Hudson River in New York He talks about the three things that he learned from that incident.

Listen to the talk with the subtitles off and answer the questions geiven below aloud.

If you find it difficult to answer them listen again. (You may turn on subtitles)
But before all that... get inspired by the talk.



Questions:

1. What was special about Ric's seat on the plane that day?
2. What did the pilot say unemotionally? 
3. What does he mean by the saying 'I collect bad wines'?
4. What were the three things that he learned from the incident?
5. Will you apply this wisdom to your life also or will you wait for a tragedy?