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English & Linguistics / Activates in the caferteria are unexcecpable
« on: May 02, 2007, 07:39:22 PM »
Oy.
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English & Linguistics / Annoying Punctuation
« on: April 29, 2007, 09:21:48 PM »
That was awesome!
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English & Linguistics / Annoying Punctuation
« on: April 29, 2007, 08:38:18 PM »
o_O
Though the dancing punctuation is amusing.
Though the dancing punctuation is amusing.
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English & Linguistics / Annoying Punctuation
« on: April 29, 2007, 08:00:27 PM »
Someone I receive emails from a lot uses ellipses way too much and in rather incorrect ways.
This one is the worst:
I don't even understand why the ?!?! was necessary at the end. Everytime I get an email from him with ellipses I want to cry.
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May I pick your brains for a moment? . . .
This one is the worst:
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It's hard to believe that QP is in 3 days and that Slope Day is next week?!?! . . .
I don't even understand why the ?!?! was necessary at the end. Everytime I get an email from him with ellipses I want to cry.
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English & Linguistics / Yet another grammar poll
« on: February 01, 2007, 09:14:41 PM »
It may be a quote, but it's wrong! 
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English & Linguistics / The random etymology of the day
« on: January 27, 2007, 08:03:24 PM »
I use this site for mine.
Consider: 1375, from O.Fr. considerer, from L. considerare "to look at closely, observe," lit. "to observe the stars," from com- "with" + sidus (gen. sideris) "constellation." Perhaps a metaphor from navigation, but more likely reflecting Roman obsession with divination by astrology. Tucker doubts the connection with sidus, however, since it is "quite inapplicable to desiderare," and suggests derivation instead from the root of Eng. side meaning "stretch, extend," and a sense for the full word of "survey on all sides" or "dwell long upon." Considerable "pretty large" is from 1651; considerate "thoughtful of others" is from 1700.
Desire: c.1230, from O.Fr. desirer, from L. desiderare "long for, wish for," original sense perhaps "await what the stars will bring," from the phrase de sidere "from the stars," from sidus (gen. sideris) "heavenly body, star, constellation" (but see consider). Noun sense of "lust" is first recorded c.1340.
Consider: 1375, from O.Fr. considerer, from L. considerare "to look at closely, observe," lit. "to observe the stars," from com- "with" + sidus (gen. sideris) "constellation." Perhaps a metaphor from navigation, but more likely reflecting Roman obsession with divination by astrology. Tucker doubts the connection with sidus, however, since it is "quite inapplicable to desiderare," and suggests derivation instead from the root of Eng. side meaning "stretch, extend," and a sense for the full word of "survey on all sides" or "dwell long upon." Considerable "pretty large" is from 1651; considerate "thoughtful of others" is from 1700.
Desire: c.1230, from O.Fr. desirer, from L. desiderare "long for, wish for," original sense perhaps "await what the stars will bring," from the phrase de sidere "from the stars," from sidus (gen. sideris) "heavenly body, star, constellation" (but see consider). Noun sense of "lust" is first recorded c.1340.
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English & Linguistics / The random etymology of the day
« on: January 27, 2007, 04:11:31 PM »
Oh I didn't know you wanted me to post up their etymologies. I can though, if you want.
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English & Linguistics / The random etymology of the day
« on: January 27, 2007, 04:07:26 PM »
Neither did I. Words are fun!
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English & Linguistics / The random etymology of the day
« on: January 27, 2007, 04:00:38 PM »
All the etymologies relate back to stars, but I don't know where to go from there. What's the etymology of aster?
Edit: aster also means star. hmmm.
Edit: aster also means star. hmmm.
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English & Linguistics / The random etymology of the day
« on: January 27, 2007, 03:50:12 PM »
One of the classes I'm taking this semester is English Words: Histories and Mysteries. Each class he assigns us a word or a few words to look up the etymology of. For Monday, we have the following task:
The astronomer - a man of sterling character - sent flowers to the starlet not considering that his own constellation of desires could lead to disaster.
We have to find the etymologies of the bolded words and use that to figure out what kind of flowers were sent. Should be fun and if anyone else wants to try, we can compare answers.
The astronomer - a man of sterling character - sent flowers to the starlet not considering that his own constellation of desires could lead to disaster.
We have to find the etymologies of the bolded words and use that to figure out what kind of flowers were sent. Should be fun and if anyone else wants to try, we can compare answers.
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English & Linguistics / Query
« on: January 15, 2007, 11:56:52 AM »Quote
Well, you see, it's slashfic. You know how Watson has a huge crush on Holmes? Well, in my version, feelings are reciprocated and, well...
Oh! And I have a game called 221 B Baker Street and in it there's an apothecary.
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English & Linguistics / I hate apostrophes
« on: December 26, 2006, 02:33:48 PM »
Conflicting answers! *head asplode*
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English & Linguistics / I hate apostrophes
« on: December 26, 2006, 08:29:04 AM »
One of my friends calls me Jameses when he talks to me online.
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English & Linguistics / I hate apostrophes
« on: December 25, 2006, 08:00:58 PM »
When you have a name that ends in 's' (such as mine - James), where does the apostrophe go? Would it be James's music or James' music?
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English & Linguistics / Where you live, is "appetizing" a noun?
« on: November 29, 2006, 09:17:38 PM »
Haha, yea. We don't REALLY need PA or CT...
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English & Linguistics / Where you live, is "appetizing" a noun?
« on: November 29, 2006, 08:46:56 PM »
That's the tristate metropolitan area (NY, NJ, CT). PA works too, depending on where you live. Growing up I always thought it was NY, NJ, and PA because I live right near those borders and then someone told me it was really NY, NJ, and CT and my world was shattered. /melodramatic
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English & Linguistics / Where you live, is "appetizing" a noun?
« on: November 29, 2006, 08:28:56 PM »
My grandma said that my aunt wanted her to come by her for Christmas. I thought it was kind of odd.
Rivka, when you say tri-state area, which three states do you mean?
Rivka, when you say tri-state area, which three states do you mean?
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English & Linguistics / Further vs Farther
« on: November 02, 2006, 08:42:09 PM »
Which one is used when?
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English & Linguistics / Linguistics midterm on Monday....I'm scared
« on: October 09, 2006, 06:17:32 PM »
Belle I'm the opposite of you, I loved morphology, but didn't do very well on phonology.
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English & Linguistics / AAVE, aka Ebonics and school teachers
« on: October 09, 2006, 06:16:32 PM »
When we learned about it in Ling 101 for all of a day, it was treated as a dialect.
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English & Linguistics / I'm finally biting the bullet
« on: December 23, 2005, 06:43:05 PM »
Hark! She lives!
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English & Linguistics / Klingon Linguistics
« on: December 15, 2005, 02:19:43 PM »
Wee I got an A on the paper.
