Strictly speaking, the U.S.A. is a republic, not just a democracy.

Particularly tedious is taking care of the RSS segment of information consumption.

GNU/Linux screams out to be the primary computing platform.

Our microwave oven shrieks many times every single day.

I hope the particular kitchen appliance is really safe.

I think that every young person should watch some good movies.

Because there are no harbingers of what living a life is in textbooks.

Web applications are never like native client software programs.

I used to prefer the former to the latter, but now the contrary is true since Google Inc. consecutively pulled the plug on its multiple web applications, including Google Reader.

The web's dominant pioneer, Google, has changed significantly. That means the web has changed, for now.

Michael Jackson's singing voice tends to be a little squeaky.

I'm sorry. But I personally think that it will take China till doomsday to eclipse the U.S.A.

Anger can make people, both men and women, roar with words.

Almost all the computing gadgets and associated accessories, whose colour is sheer white, scream out to remind people that the products are Apple wannabes.

Personally I prefer ale to lager, most of the time.

However, it's alleged that lager, instead of ale, its precursor, dominates the world in terms of beer consumption.

To my surprise, Boréale is a microbrewery little known outside Quebec. I used to think it's a well known big brewery.

Its red beer is called Rousse.

Personally I find some violin music quite soothing.

The sector of female workers may have different motives than that of male workers, by and large.

Classic literature in Chinese and English unfolds themselves in front of me soothingly, from time to time.

During the Hong Kong movie Initial D (头文字D), there's a lot of car engine roaring and car tire shrilling.

It's a good film. I appreaciate the performance of the supporting actor Anthony Wong Chau-Sang (黄秋生).

I'm still flabbergasted by Google's decision to shut down Google Reader. Oh, my heart.

Transportation is different than commute. The latter implies travelling back and forth on a regular basis.

Some Japanese modern music shrills. I can't stand that.

Prosody is obviously important in the English language.

I suspect that "moon and sea" is used much more often than "sea and moon". In the former, the sound /u:/ precedes /i:/. Why does the former seem more natural to English speakers than the latter?

By contrast, in the idiom "monkey see, monkey do", the vowel /i:/ comes before /u:/.