I diagrammed sentences in 1987-88. My teacher was a former marine who had an Abraham Lincoln beard. And there was this weird set of grammar lessons with an alien named Gram Mar.

Honestly, though, the only lessons that really stuck were the ones for french and german. So I'm more likely to be able to identify the parts of speech in a foreign language.

Witnessed human stupidity this morning. Two left turners in a battle of wills, blocking the intersection for at least 2 cycles of the light. Finally went around them, for all I know they are still there. Or someone pulled a gun.

Heh. I make a post about grammar, leave for work and then there's bunches of Natter posts when I get here.

When I was in grade school, I hated grammar. Now I find it interesting. What's up with that?

Born in 1962, never diagrammed sentences. Though kids just ahead of me in school (like, one or two years) did.

Two left turners in a battle of wills, blocking the intersection for at least 2 cycles of the light.

I'm trying to picture this but failing. Can you make a little ASCII diagram? (OK, it'd probably be easier to describe....)

I don't remember diagramming sentences. I have no clue what the difference is between transitive and intransitive verbs. My kick-ass high school English teacher ran us through the grammar bits for a semester--probably around '77 or '78--and we all failed. Then we got back to studying Shakespeare as God intended. I can write a good sentence, and I'm good at things like tenses and pronoun agreement and such. But don't ask me what the parts are. I know what sounds right, but I don't know why.

We diagrammed, in 9th grade english and previously. I distinctly remember tuning all that out.

Also, yay new tv! And yay Tivo already hooked up and running.

They showed up like five minutes after I posted. Fortunately, while I did not get far on the cleaning, I did use that window of time to put on a bra. And they were in and out so fast the tip thing never came up.

Two cars, on the same road, opposite direction. Both making left turns without an arrow across traffic. One pulled far enough forward so as to ostensibly block the other's path. As to why one did not go AROUND the other, or make a tight turn, well, that's the stupid part. There was gesticulating.

Also, yay new tv!

Cool!

For the utmost in TV reliability, you should perform the 'New TV' ritual. You'll need sparklers.

As to why one did not go AROUND the other, or make a tight turn, well, that's the stupid part. There was gesticulating.

Maybe they will be kept so busy by this they won't have time to breed.