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userr2684291
17:22
@snailplane Might this question be up your alley? Also, not sure whether it truly belongs on ELL.
Anonymous
17:45
@userr2684291 Oh, fun! Hopefully I can find time to write an answer.
Anonymous
I don't know about you, but I can't sleep caviar.
M.A.R. ಠ_ಠ
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@snailplane there's a special lullaby
 
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userr2684291
userr2684291
19:10
@snailplane Totally! I... too... sometimes can't sleep salted fish eggs.
In other news (I looked up some of the words in snailplane's reply but still wasn't able to deduce the meaning), sleep is also apparently "a gummy secretion found in the corners of the eyes after sleep". I never would have guessed! It usually occurs in sentences like this one: "she sat up, rubbing the sleep from her eyes" – which I'd been interpreting as metaphorical.
 
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Anonymous
21:05
@userr2684291 Oh, well, the joke was that sleep caviar was nonsense, so I hope you didn't try too hard to find meaning in it.
Anonymous
Sleep is only transitive when it takes a cognate object, and the status of cognate objects as true objects is somewhat questionable, so it may not really ever be transitive.
Anonymous
But that's controversial.
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@snailplane haha he totally did!
He totally did! chuckle snort
userr2684291
userr2684291
21:39
@M.A.R.ಠ_ಠ Shut up! Hahah.
I didn't try hard, but I did google "sleep caviar". Then caviar. Then sleep. Geesh, I must say, Google was rather unhelpful!
At the same time I also wasn't sure whether snailplane was sleep-deprived, and that was some kind of typo.
Anonymous
@userr2684291 *Jack eats more caviar than he sleeps caviar.
userr2684291
userr2684291
@snailplane Ah.
I had even read all those sentences and sort of tested myself on which sounded wrong, but couldn't remember the caviar bit when it actually mattered.
Anonymous
22:16
@JimReynolds You should read Second Language Learning Theories by Mitchell et al (2012). I think you'd enjoy chapter six.
userr2684291
userr2684291
22:37
@snailplane Is this kind of inconsistency in coordination normal? "for example, by virtue of their having gone already or of it having been arranged that they will go at some other time."
(I'm really just trying desperately to feed the fledgling tag coordination-of-unlikes, but I don't know what qualifies anymore.)

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