Oh, the Natl Geo photos are always terrific.
Sadly, that first one is just a photo, so we still don't know what it says.
Don't belong. Dangerous, like you. Can't be controlled. Can't be trusted. Everyone could just go on without me and not have to worry. People could be what they wanted to be. Could be with the people they wanted. Live simple. No secrets.
River ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
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.
billytea - Nov 20, 2013 3:50:02 pm PST #12560 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
sarameg - Nov 20, 2013 4:13:56 pm PST #12561 of 30000
I just bagged 3 40gal bags of leaves. Brian did 2. Took us an hour. This is the third time the alley's been cleared this fall. Uhg.
P.M. Marc - Nov 20, 2013 4:17:45 pm PST #12562 of 30000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Grammaticians, do you agree that 'because' has a new part of speech role? Some commenters argue it's still the same old, others argue it's been a preposition long time. I am mostly dizzy.
Yes. Because reasons.
Steph L. - Nov 20, 2013 4:24:55 pm PST #12563 of 30000
It's actually been a really hard year, when you stop and do the math. Eliot would cry, too, if it didn't take him seventy minutes of therapy, two cocktails, and a Sondheim medley before he can experience a human emotion through the haze of his PTSD.
Grammaticians, do you agree that 'because' has a new part of speech role? Some commenters argue it's still the same old, others argue it's been a preposition long time. I am mostly dizzy.
Yes. Because reasons.
ILU.
-t - Nov 20, 2013 4:26:22 pm PST #12564 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I think I don't know what prepositions are. Is there a Schoolhouse Rock about those?
Steph L. - Nov 20, 2013 4:27:23 pm PST #12565 of 30000
It's actually been a really hard year, when you stop and do the math. Eliot would cry, too, if it didn't take him seventy minutes of therapy, two cocktails, and a Sondheim medley before he can experience a human emotion through the haze of his PTSD.
But to answer the question, I think it's still a conjunction with an implied clause. The noun (well, usually a noun) after "because" is just shorthand for a longer clause.
Because grammar.
Jesse - Nov 20, 2013 4:34:52 pm PST #12566 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I actually learned a preposition song in 5th (?) grade, which I would sing for you now if you were here. But it's just a list, not a definition. In over under on across against around, beneath beside between before above for by beyond... etc.
Sophia Brooks - Nov 20, 2013 4:35:54 pm PST #12567 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Busy prepositions: [link]
§ ita § - Nov 20, 2013 4:37:46 pm PST #12568 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The noun (well, usually a noun) after "because" is just shorthand for a longer clause.
Why isn't "because" the shorthand? At what point away from that will that be the same as being a preposition? I mean, if the aliens read it right now (or the French), can they tell the difference?
-t - Nov 20, 2013 4:38:32 pm PST #12569 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I think I have heard that, although I didn't go so far as to learn it.
Tep's answer makes sense, so goes my nation.