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happiness thread (2014-09-19 17:22:52) :
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owned by thelettermu, last edited 2014-09-19 17:22:52.
Area of fictional landmasses (2014-09-19 17:20:51) :
[quote Nessari, Illúbequía, Seattle, Cascadia]Being humiliated is rarely if ever a good thing.[/quote]
It depends only on your perception of “good”.
owned by thelettermu, last edited 2014-09-19 17:21:04.
Area of fictional landmasses (2014-09-19 15:19:55) :
[quote Nessari, Illúbequía, Seattle, Cascadia]Being humiliated is rarely if ever a good thing.[/quote]
This is true. At least I have not found that being humiliated would inspire in me any noticeable humility.
owned by prettydragoon, last edited 2014-09-19 15:19:55.
Is English in the early stages of losing pronoun case and verb concordance? (2014-09-19 13:50:48) :
[quote dhok, Deacon, Norman, United States]Consider the following two sentences I've found as Reddit post titles.
[i]Me [26 M] caught my girlfriend [21 F] of 3 months with another guy a couple weeks ago.[/i]
[i]Me [19 M] just ended a friendship [18 F] due to feelings of affection.[/i]
Somehow, only the 1s object pronoun seems natural here- "him" or "us" would sound a little odder- and then only when there's something causing a hiatus between the subject and the verb....
owned by thelettermu, last edited 2014-09-19 13:50:48.
Is English in the early stages of losing pronoun case and verb concordance? (2014-09-19 11:50:51) :
[quote dhok, Deacon, Norman, United States]Consider the following two sentences I've found as Reddit post titles.
[i]Me [26 M] caught my girlfriend [21 F] of 3 months with another guy a couple weeks ago.[/i]
[i]Me [19 M] just ended a friendship [18 F] due to feelings of affection.[/i]
Somehow, only the 1s object pronoun seems natural here- "him" or "us" would sound a little odder- and then only when there's something causing a hiatus between the subject and the verb.[/...
owned by Nessari, last edited 2014-09-19 11:57:45.
Is English in the early stages of losing pronoun case and verb concordance? :
Consider the following two sentences I've found as Reddit post titles.
[i]Me [26 M] caught my girlfriend [21 F] of 3 months with another guy a couple weeks ago.[/i]
[i]Me [19 M] just ended a friendship [18 F] due to feelings of affection.[/i]
Somehow, only the 1s object pronoun seems natural here- "him" or "us" would sound a little odder- and then only when there's something causing a hiatus between the subject and the verb.
I've also heard "[subject noun] and...
owned by dhok, last edited 2014-09-19 09:49:10.
happiness thread (2014-09-18 21:09:18) :
I've discovered something I want to save money up for even more than books: a Vespa.
[img]http://www.carsfotodb.com/uploads/moto-vespa/moto-vespa-vespa-pk-125-plurimatic/moto-vespa-vespa-pk-125-plurimatic-10.jpg[/img]
I mean...woah. You can even get sidecars for them!
owned by dhok, last edited 2014-09-18 21:09:18.
happiness thread (2014-09-18 13:20:28) :
Yes. Note also exhibit C: [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQJVM-R3PxY]LOOM[/url]. The fabric metaphor is quite well-developed. Clearly string theory is a modern attempt at renewal. (Physicists! Why do they always take things so literally?)
owned by Rhetorica, last edited 2014-09-18 13:20:28.
happiness thread (2014-09-18 11:50:29) :
[quote Rhetorica, Duchess of Space]Presumably the superstring is woven out of said single thread.[/quote]
“The Wheel of Time weaves the threads of human lives into the Pattern of an Age, often called simply the Pattern, which forms the substance of reality for that Age.”
Relevant?
owned by thelettermu, last edited 2014-09-18 11:50:29.
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