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Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
8:04 PM
Done!
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Q: "He wore [a] wig: which wig was made of hair" -- Is this 'which' a resumptive pronoun?

Damkerng T.While reading A Tales of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, I noticed this sentence: (Note: The sentence in the title of this question was shortened due to limited space.) He wore an odd little sleek crisp flaxen wig, setting very close to his head: which wig, it is to be presumed, was made of ha...

resumptive-pronouns
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
@DamkerngT. That OP knows too much. They must be a native speaker.
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Heh!
 
Anonymous
@M.A.R. Typo for safe
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
Hehehe
I see you really like 'NOTHING'. But that has nothing to do with the question. — M.A.R. 15 secs ago
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
@snailplane I was hoping it was a typo for satay!
Hmm... that makes me hungry!
 
Cardinal
Cardinal
8:15 PM
Hi
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
Low
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
o/
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
@DamkerngT. Sounds delicious
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
@M.A.R. It is!
 
Cardinal
Cardinal
A herd of cattle
A flock of birds
A ------- of young snails.
5 secs to answer. :-)
@DamkerngT. && @M.A.R. \o/
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
8:17 PM
@DamkerngT. We don't have it here, or maybe we do but we don't have the word
@Cardinal A block of firds
A nerd of battle
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
@Cardinal 5 seconds is too short, because it would take longer than 5 seconds for me to get back to this tab. :-)
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
An army of young snails
 
Cardinal
Cardinal
@DamkerngT. :)))
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Okay, I'm sure I don't know the answer. :D
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
47 secs ago, by M.A.R.
An army of young snails
Or an armada. Who knows
 
Cardinal
Cardinal
8:18 PM
@M.A.R. Hmm, could be, but I intended something else.
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Sounds very plausible. Vaguely familiar. :-)
 
Cardinal
Cardinal
A brood of young snails.
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
@Cardinal that's cheating
 
Cardinal
Cardinal
:D
@M.A.R. SO, I do not need to express ":D" again.
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
That's okay. I can express as many ":D"s as I want
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
8:20 PM
Hmm... only 1 hit on Google, in a paper from Amsterdam, even.
 
Cardinal
Cardinal
(I mean your post's position has changed)
@DamkerngT. :p
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Post's position?
 
Cardinal
Cardinal
LoL
 
Anonymous
An escargatoire
 
Cardinal
Cardinal
Ok, when you edits a comment, it takes a new position as if you are the last comment.
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
8:22 PM
Ahh
 
Cardinal
Cardinal
I was reading about the twist direction of the snails. dexteral vs sinsteral!
 
Anonymous
Oh, yes! The large majority are dextral.
 
Anonymous
There are some tree snails with very pretty sinistral shells :-)
 
Anonymous
There's a word: chirality
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Cardinal
Cardinal
@snailplane :D
@snailplane Oh. o_O
@snailplane (Y)- that means Like!
Ok, See you later.
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
8:27 PM
Does from sinistral come sinister or vice versa?
I remember that in the old days, "left" was considered evil.
I was thinking to ask Is sinistral the root of sinister?, but that probably doesn't make much sense.
I guess neither is the root of the other.
Which is an adjective, not a pronoun. — Lucian Sava 9 mins ago
Now that makes me wonder (because it's gotten one upvote), which dictionary should I look it up?
Maybe this which is similar to its equivalent in another language.
 
Anonymous
Sinister is the root.
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
Oh!
 
Anonymous
Doesn't relative determinative make more sense?
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
I think so, though it's a bit strange to use which this way in PDE, I think.
 
M.A.R.
M.A.R.
@DamkerngT. Adjective? O.O
 
Anonymous
8:34 PM
Yes
 
Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
This is probably okay in PDE, "I know Jack and Jane went out to lunch together: which restaurant is hard to say." -- (I made this one up.)
Wow, the top five hits of "relative determinative" are about another language!
> La relative déterminative est nécessaire au sens de la phrase.
> Maintenir dans l'écrit la différence entre subordonnée relative explicative et subordonnée relative déterminative (ou restrictive) est essentiel ...
> C'est "que Jeanne vous a donnée" qui est une relative "déterminative" car elle distingue l'information par rapport à une autre. Ce n'est pas ...
Oxford Modern English Grammar (Bas Aarts) has something about "relative determinatives" as well.
> 3.3.5 Relative and free relative determinatives
> The relative determinative which occurs before nouns in relative clauses (sections 3.2.2.3 and 7.3.3). It cannot occur as an independent element.
"It cannot occur as an independent element."
I found this question on the English Stack Exchange, which appears to be about the same structure. I don't think the answers there really explain the structure other than to say it's a way to remove ambiguity. — cbh 8 mins ago
Nice!
 
 
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Damkerng T.
Damkerng T.
11:07 PM
a fricassee of snails!
Sorry, @snailplane and all the snails!
Word of the Day: fricassee
 
Anonymous
@DamkerngT. I still say an escargatoire. :-)
 
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