As much time as I spent diagramming sentences with the nuns I am certain I couldn't do it today. I thought it was fun at the time.
eta: graduated HS in 72, so plenty of diagramming in my youth. My children probably don't know what it means.
Oh, I get it. You just don't like who did the rescuing, that's all. Wishin' I was your boyfriend what's-his-height. Oh wait, he's run off.
Spike ,'Potential'
Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Laura - Oct 23, 2006 4:35:52 am PDT #4881 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
sumi - Oct 23, 2006 4:36:26 am PDT #4882 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Where I went to school some of us diagrammed and some of us did not. I was in classes where we did not.
My ancient stick to itself ace bandage is not sticking to itself very well. I don't think my leg is wrapped as tightly as it ought to be.
Plus, my shoulder and neck still hurt.
Ginger - Oct 23, 2006 4:38:27 am PDT #4883 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
If I were in charge of the world, everyone would have to diagram sentences for at least a semester. Of course, many people have expressed their gratitude that I'm not in charge of the world.
Laura - Oct 23, 2006 4:39:53 am PDT #4884 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
Ouch. Poor sumi. Do you have cold packs around?
Cashmere - Oct 23, 2006 4:41:42 am PDT #4885 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
sumi, do you have some tape or a safety pin to secure the ace bandage? Have you taken any painkillers of the anti-inflammatory variety?
vw bug - Oct 23, 2006 4:41:53 am PDT #4886 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
I would like Ginger's world.
Poor sumi!
brenda m - Oct 23, 2006 4:42:25 am PDT #4887 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Ouch, Sumi.
My new TV comes today! Whoot!
Maybe I should think about cleaning around here. Oh, and crap - do I have to tip? I don't have any cash, I don't think. Well, I won't have them set it up or anything.
Steph L. - Oct 23, 2006 4:42:37 am PDT #4888 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I've never diagrammed a sentence, though I'm vaguely aware of how it's done.
And yet I make a living as an editor. Revel in the irony.
The return of grammar:
I'm earwormed with "SexyBack," only now it's "I'm bringing grammar back...."
§ ita § - Oct 23, 2006 4:42:38 am PDT #4889 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sumi, can you use safety pins on the bandage? I find stick to itself Ace bandages disappointing even when new.
My moose looks like this, except he also has a striped T-shirt on underneath the overalls. He's named Tooth.
Sophia Brooks - Oct 23, 2006 4:43:13 am PDT #4890 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I (born 1972) have never diagrammed a sentence. I know what it is from reading Laura Ingalls Wilder, though.
flea is almost me. I was born in 1973, and was so fascinated by the sentance diagramming in Laura Ingalls Wilder that I actually got a turn of the century textbook and diagrammed on my own time.