I hear humming Metallica helps.
I'm taking a few eps to get me through the trip.
Jayne: Well... I don't like the idea of someone hearin' what I'm thinkin'. Inara: No one likes the idea of hearing what you're thinking.
'Objects In Space'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Theresa - Sep 21, 2010 10:53:25 am PDT #25267 of 30001
"What would it take to get your daughter to stop tweeting about this?"
tommyrot - Sep 21, 2010 11:00:59 am PDT #25268 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
A cute picture of a baby with a funny caption: [link]
Spidra Webster - Sep 21, 2010 11:02:52 am PDT #25269 of 30001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
I'm hoping there are some linguistically-bent Buffistas online now. I'm generally pretty good at dissecting language but I've never actually studied linguistics. So I'm not sure if I have the name of this right.
Yesterday I tweeted "...I'm have" but meant "I'm going to have". I then said that I'd left out half of a compound verb. But is it really a compound verb? Honestly, I'm not even sure what tense the whole phrase is because I don't think it's a simple future tense.
Hil R. - Sep 21, 2010 11:04:58 am PDT #25270 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
TLC has a show about little people who own a chocolate shop?
Ginger - Sep 21, 2010 11:08:25 am PDT #25271 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Spidra, it is the English equivalent of the simple future.
Spidra Webster - Sep 21, 2010 11:09:53 am PDT #25272 of 30001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Ginger, wouldn't that be "I will have"? "I'm going to have" sorta puts the emphasis on action towards the future, it seems to me.
Spidra Webster - Sep 21, 2010 11:18:32 am PDT #25273 of 30001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Wikipedia calls it the "going-to" future.
There's a way in which getting too deeply into language abstraction makes my eyes glaze (like the long discussion on an Irish list I'm on) but there's another way in which I want to delve into it. I would really like to know some of these more obscure (to me) names for things.
ETA link [link]
Steph L. - Sep 21, 2010 11:22:08 am PDT #25274 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
And I was honestly worried I would get turned away at the gate for being too fat for one seat, or that whoever was next to me would complain about the audacity of my thighs or arm to bump theirs.
pshaw! You are nowhere near large enough for that to be a problem.
I fit between the lowered armrests. BARELY. With no amount of comfort whatsoever. I can easily see an overzealous gate agent hassling me. (And, as I think of it, wasn't Kevin Smith tossed off a flight even though he fit between the armrests? So it concerns me.)
Jesse - Sep 21, 2010 11:33:44 am PDT #25275 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
A cute picture of a baby with a funny caption:
I had to post that to Facebook immediately. I know more than one little girl who resembles that picture.
Ginger - Sep 21, 2010 11:39:39 am PDT #25276 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Spidra, that structure can either be thought of as a form of the simple future, with "is going to" acting as the auxiliary verb, or as the present continuous, aka present progressive, e.g., "I am writing a paper," which becomes a future form when a time in the future is added, e.g., "I am writing a paper on Monday."