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.
Funny thing about black and white. You mix it together and you get gray. And it doesn't matter how much white you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but gray.
Lilah ,'Destiny'
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.
tommyrot - Oct 23, 2006 5:37:55 am PDT #4916 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Daisy Jane - Oct 23, 2006 5:38:35 am PDT #4917 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Skipped way ahead to squee for Jessica!
SQUEEEEEEEE! Yay y'all!
sarameg - Oct 23, 2006 5:39:35 am PDT #4918 of 10001
Maybe they will be kept so busy by this they won't have time to breed.
Too late. There were childrenboth in the sedan and the minivan. Learning by example, don't you know!
Jessica - Oct 23, 2006 5:48:44 am PDT #4919 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
My 6th grade English teacher was...intense. We diagrammed sentences. We memorized all the articles and all of the pronouns and were quizzed on how fast we could recite them all in front of the class.
(a all an another any both each every few many...)
It was hellish while it lasted, but I learned more in that one year than in any other English class for the rest of my school career. I aced grammar quizzes in high school without a second thought that made the rest of the class wince in pain. So it was a good experience in the end.
Zenkitty - Oct 23, 2006 5:49:26 am PDT #4920 of 10001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
My SAT math score went down too. Dammit.
I am sad that I cannot find a photo of my lion on the web.
Jesse - Oct 23, 2006 5:53:37 am PDT #4921 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I could still sing for you the Helping Verb Song and the Preposition Song we learned in 5th grade. Good times.
bon bon - Oct 23, 2006 5:57:59 am PDT #4922 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I learned grammar and diagrammed sentences, but don't remember any of it. I kind of wish we had memorization exercises like Jess describes, because damn do I remember the scientific latin prefixes and suffixes that I memorized. That's a parlor trick.
vw bug - Oct 23, 2006 6:01:34 am PDT #4923 of 10001
Mostly lurking...
Not totally off the track, we got any linguistic experts hanging around today that want to talk semantics, pragmatics, Grice's maxims and Speech Act Theory?
Tom Scola - Oct 23, 2006 6:04:26 am PDT #4924 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Nutty - Oct 23, 2006 6:09:28 am PDT #4925 of 10001
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I know a bit about semantics and pragmatics, but the other two I don't know.
When I was in the 3rd grade I was required to memorize all of the prepositions in alphabetical order, which seems to me like a fairly useless enterprise. Prepositions are not in danger of changing; and anyway, I've never heard a native English speaker completely frell up a prepositional phrase except in the presence of a much larger problem (e.g. a dangling modifier).
I analyzed sentences in linguistics class in college, but never in grade school. So, I can sort of tell you what you are doing, but not in a this-is-what-the-teacher-wants way.
I am sick today but at work, and that sucks. (The same cough I have had has not gone away, and is in some ways worse, and yes, I have a doctor's appointment for tomorrow afternoon.) I just realized, editing the above, that being sick robs you of all spelling instincts.