The question you ask, “Can the antecedent ever be used in a prepositional phrase?” is of course, certainly it can. Proof:
After the meteorite fell on Jack, he was never again the same.
Jack likes running with Jill. She is a good person.
Jack likes running with Jill. He is a good pe...
Surely mulierast is both practical and difficult. Or did you want a gloss that were less quotidian and more hemerine? — tchrist20 mins ago
The subjacent sentiment seems somewhat surly, as ’twere from some catachrestic churl ejaculated. — tchrist18 mins ago
If you don’t like Latinate terms, here are more native English words for landforms and such: adit air ait bache beck bink born bourne brim brink burn cairn cam
carr close coomb coppice copse croft dale dell dene dess dimble
dingle down dub eyot fell fen firth fold force ford foss frith garth
ghill ghyll gill ginnel glade glen graff groop haugh holm hope how
hurst kame knoll kyle law lea lough low mere midden moor ness pant
pike porth rigg scaur scree shaw side sike skerry snicket sound
stank strath tarn thorpe thwaite toft tor vennel voe vord wheal
wold. — tchrist1 min ago
network-wide leader with IG-88 hat recently got these badges on MSO: Guru, Necromancer, Nice Question, Nice Answer, amongst a bunch of other activity: meta.stackoverflow.com/users/178438/…
The question you ask, “Can the antecedent ever be used in a prepositional phrase?” is of course, certainly it can. Proof:
After the meteorite fell on Jack, he was never again the same.
Jack likes running with Jill. She is a good person.
Jack likes running with Jill. He is a good pe...
I think part of the issue is the way you have parsed well off. Consider, for instance, that the Free Dictionary defines well-off as a hyphenated adjective, and speculates that it derives from "to come well off" where off in this case indicates "circumstanced" with the overall meaning then being t...
It means she didn’t understand much. The OED gives:
II Inferior in rank or quality.
2a. Of persons, their rank or station: Undistinguished in position; of low degree; often opposed to noble or gentle.
Non est enim consilium in volgo, non ratio, non discrimen, non diligentia, semperque sapientes ea quae populus fecisset ferenda, non semper laudanda dixerunt.
It is an example of chiasmus, which is
Repetition of ideas in inverted order
Repetition of grammatical structures in inverted order (not to be mistaken with antimetabole, in which identical words are repeated and inverted).
See here or any other reputable source.
> [the] founder of LessWrong considers the basilisk to not work, but will not explain why because he does not consider open discussion of the notion of acausal trade with possible superintelligences to be provably safe.
@tchrist Well, the Church uses redundancies all the time: Holy Orders, Holy Matrimony—one wonders if there are Profane Orders and Profane Matrimony as well.
The unicorn hat is still stumping those of us who discuss these things in chat. Has anyone had it awarded yet? And is anyone ready to break the oath of silence that comes with it?
Alternatively, is anyone interested in discussing it and/or making jokes or other jovial observations?
It means of “of common understanding”: she didn’t understand much. The OED gives:
II Inferior in rank or quality.
2a. Of persons, their rank or station: Undistinguished in position; of low degree; often opposed to noble or gentle. (Cf. common adj. 12).) Obs.
But the citations date u...
One phenomenon of Fast Speech Rules in English
(besides centralization of unstressed vowels to shwa),
is reduction of consonant clusters. This is especially clear
when the ordinal number "-th" /-θ/ suffix is added to a cardinal number
that already ends in a consonant or,
especially, a cluster of ...
@JSBձոգչ It's such an interesting trap for the LW crowd though. Because of their particular beliefs, this scenario is actually logical. For just about anyone else, it's nonsense or irrelevant, and so it wouldn't happen, or matter if it did.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 precisely. and it's ironic that, by the internal logic of the argument, i'm immune precisely because i don't believe in the Singularity or future god-like AIs
I too looked at this answer and was puzzled by the odd text flow. Unusual line breaks are, to my mind, the exclusive domain of poetry. It's pretty—I'm going to say eccentric —to use line breaks in the middle of prose as a form of punctuation, regardless of the prose's topic. I'm not going to change it, but I will go on record as giving a thumbs down to the idea of testing out this kind of textual innovation on the site. — nohat17 hours ago
@badass Yes, but on Meta. You give someone a silver that way though.
@badass Fork the guru query and change to meta to check. There were only a few candidates.
The question you ask, “Can the antecedent ever be used in a prepositional phrase?” is of course, certainly it can. Proof:
After the meteorite fell on Jack, he was never again the same.
Jack likes running with Jill. She is a good person.
Jack likes running with Jill. He is a good pe...
You could use dumbfounded in your scenario.
affected with sudden and great wonder or surprise
It is an example of chiasmus, which is
Repetition of ideas in inverted order
Repetition of grammatical structures in inverted order (not to be mistaken with antimetabole, in which identical words are repeated and inverted).
See here or any other reputable source.
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…