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Deloria

Quote from: Delling on July 20, 2009, 05:42:23 PM
My dad on why tethering through his pager doesn't always work: "It has some bad memories from having previously connected."

On another note, in defining transitive vs. intransitive, you should have dived into a discussion of transitivity, ergativity, ditransitivity, and morphosyntactical alignment in general. (See, I've heard of wikipedia. :P)
I would have, but she didn't even know what the indicative was. ;P I highly doubt she would have been able to follow. :P
 
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Delling

But! That's very much the point! If she knows that you will always respond with far more information than she thinks she will ever need and/or could even follow, then she may very well stop asking. :P
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I was cuddling with my favourite kitty on my bed when she suddenly decided to lunge at my face and tear the inside of my nose open. :P Since I was bleeding profusely and it hadn't clotted after several minutes, I called my mother upstairs, telling her that I was losing a lot of blood. :P She then asked from where and I answered her, whereupon, not knowing the backstory, she asked how endometrial cells got into my nose. ::)
 
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My cat once randomly attacked my nose similarly and it didn't really hurt too much but it bled more than I ever have! A little discomforting.
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Deloria

Indeed. :P It looks like someone's been murdered on my sheets. :P
 
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Delling

pauvre Nez de Reine... she was the queen's favorite at court... until the queen's favorite cat got jealous and murdered her in her sleep. :P

The endometrial cells comment was HILARIOUS and well-delivered too. XD
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...resistance was obviously useless against a family that could invent italics.

"Let the locative live."

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Haids1987

Quote from: Deloria on January 19, 2010, 08:50:48 AMI called my mother upstairs, telling her that I was losing a lot of blood. :P She then asked from where and I answered her, whereupon, not knowing the backstory, she asked how endometrial cells got into my nose. ::)
LOL!  Haha, that's the best!  I'm actually laughing out loud!  ;D
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Delling

#367
two things from conversations with my dad:

Dad: "Whatever happened to Catastrophe Theory?"
Me: "It's obvious, isn't it? It got turned down."

Me: *proposes that Spanish missed an opportunity to improve on Latin by having an inclusive vs. exclusive "we" forms (nostodos vs. nosotros was the idea)*
Dad: ...but Brandon, you know how languages are: they don't improve--they decline.  XB

Awesome points to be awarded to anyone who gets the first one. :)
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...resistance was obviously useless against a family that could invent italics.

"Let the locative live."

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Deloria

Quote from: Delling on February 22, 2010, 08:34:10 PM
Me: *proposes that Spanish missed an opportunity to improve on Latin by having an inclusive vs. exclusive "we" forms (nostodos vs. nosotros was the idea)*
Dad: ...but Brandon, you know how languages are: they don't improve--they decline.  XB
*groans*

Lithuanian is an improvement over PIE...*grumbles something about no one being able to appreciate 11 cases and 5 numbers*
 
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Delling

ok, ok...but do you get the other one? :P (think Greek)
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Duke of Saxony in Her Majesty's Court
Knight of the Swan for Her Imperial Highness

...resistance was obviously useless against a family that could invent italics.

"Let the locative live."

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Deloria

Too busy extolling the virtues of LITHUANIAN. :P


Um, kata is "down", among other things?

Or the fact that, sometimes, a catastrophe is the part of the play where the audience experiences catharsis, which is traditionally when the plot goes downhill? :P
 
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Delling

If kata is "down", what's "strophe"?

(hint: it is a noun related to trepo/tropos (in fact, in ?Doric? IIRC, many words beginning with an m or a t in Attic have an s in front... and the o-grade of a stem was commonly employed for the formation of nouns))...
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Knight of the Swan for Her Imperial Highness

...resistance was obviously useless against a family that could invent italics.

"Let the locative live."

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Deloria

Quote from: Delling on February 26, 2010, 07:33:05 AM
If kata is "down", what's "strophe"?

(hint: it is a noun related to trepo/tropos (in fact, in ?Doric? IIRC, many words beginning with an m or a t in Attic have an s in front... and the o-grade of a stem was commonly employed for the formation of nouns))...
Oddly enough, I learned both strophe and trepo, but my professor explained that there was a distinct difference between the two. :) Obviously both mean to turn.
 
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Quote from: Deloria on February 26, 2010, 12:05:10 AM
Or the fact that, sometimes, a catastrophe is the part of the play where the audience experiences catharsis, which is traditionally when the plot goes downhill? :P
Actually, in theater terms anyways, the catastrophe is the final event that "raises the stakes" in the plot, and that comes before the climax -- which is when catharsis occurs.

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Delling

Quote from: Deloria on February 26, 2010, 01:40:24 PM
Quote from: Delling on February 26, 2010, 07:33:05 AM
If kata is "down", what's "strophe"?

(hint: it is a noun related to trepo/tropos (in fact, in ?Doric? IIRC, many words beginning with an m or a t in Attic have an s in front... and the o-grade of a stem was commonly employed for the formation of nouns))...
Oddly enough, I learned both strophe and trepo, but my professor explained that there was a distinct difference between the two. :) Obviously both mean to turn.
And thus a catastrophe is a down-turn... so: "Catastrophe Theory got turned down." :P
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Knight of the Swan for Her Imperial Highness

...resistance was obviously useless against a family that could invent italics.

"Let the locative live."

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Deloria

I was waiting for my train when I was approached by someone from a charity that gives poor children in Africa crutches.

Him: Could I have a moment of your time?
Me: I'm sorry, but you would be wasting your time. I'm misanthropic.
Him: what's 'misanthropic'?
Me: I see how they got you. ::)
 
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Delling

Poor guy probably thought he'd get some money from you to...

Still... really good reply XB
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...resistance was obviously useless against a family that could invent italics.

"Let the locative live."

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I was in class once in high school and the teacher asked if anyone knew which two countries the US has the friendliest relations with.  A kid in my class raised his hand and proudly says, "London and Britain."
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