@Mitch You'll have to explain to me what those terms mean exactly. We are dealing with a usage that I would not normally use in speech, one that now seems more limited to writing, possibly even certain genres (and of course older texts). The construction is possible under certain circumstances. This seems an indisputable fact. I don't see what the intuitions of a handful of native speakers could do to change this possible under certain circumstances into impossible.
So I was making a chatbot in Ruby for SE chat, and I discovered that I could find out the starrer of a message.
I'm pretty sure stars, like votes, are supposed to be anonymous. Although this knowledge would help for cases of star trolls like this.
Here's the specific slice of code that do...
My thought is that our site would be better looking if we for **bold markup** instead of switching to the corresponding bold font, we switched to the corresponding small-caps version.
I don’t understand how I make “typos” like that. It’s phonological, not fumblefingering.
> “[The story of] ‘The Monday Man’ refers, of course, to those sad and frightening men who steal women's underwear. When I was growing up no one had clothes dryers, and Monday men were a perennial problem for my poor mother.”
Now, that was one he tracked down, but some stuff he looked for he couldn’t find, and he couldn’t find that he couldn’t find, only that he didn’t find, which is a different matter.
Fertility is Easter’s goal Not that “died for your sins” churchly troll “‘Cos Jesus died, honey “Here’s a chocolate bunny” No help for your immortal soul
Needless to say, I have no idea who any of these people are except the 2048 guy who must be the recent Doctor I think.
Don't watch the series (and after playing this I am inclined even less to ever do so). But now that I think of it, the 2048 should have been a Dalek. (These I know because people keep making them out of LEGO all the time.)
Anyway. With my strat, the pictures can be anything, or indeed change midway through the game, and it wouldn't matter because I know exactly where the highest, the second-highest, etc. tile is at any given moment.
@RegDwigнt yeah. looks like they've put them in chronological order (2 being earliest, 2048 being sort of latest, although there is a newer doctor (4096 perhaps))
And they each finished Portal in about half my time.
And let's not even get started on the differences in twitch gaming. These kids grew up never knowing what it was like to be without a computer. But perhaps that's your story as well.
I watched some National Geographic infotainmentary last week, basically with all kinds of thinking tests and optical illusions and whatnot, that kind of stuff, and in one of the episodes they had older people compete against younger ones in a number of games or IQ challenges. In the end it was a tie (spoiler alert), but the point was that when you get older, you acquire a different kind of intelligence, at the cost of losing your old one. I forgot what the technical terms were.
Yeah. I am definitely smarter about some things now. But I'm not instantly brilliant like I used to be. For one thing, Google (or age) has ruined my memory. I still remember lots of shit, but am slower at recalling certain details.
I used to crush everyone I'd see on Jeopardy!. Now I just win most of the time. Part of that is that the pop-culture references are now out of my wheelhouse.
I even tried out for that show once, and won my division (consisting of 200 competitors) going away. But they never called me to appear on the show. :(
But it amazes me that people don't know, for example, that Robert Goddard discovered that the best rocket fuel he could make consisted of gasoline and [name an element in liquid form].
And the DVR nags me like a bitch. "Your DVR is 90% full! Delete the things you don't want to watch before you miss something important!" Yes, ma'am, I'll get right on that.
The last show I felt any urgency about making room for was Breaking Bad.
In AmE that is correct. For BrE I don't know. You may be talking about other circumstances other collocations, other varieties. But "I am going at Chicago" by itself is wrong wrong wrong in AmE.
My conclusion, thus far, is that 'at' combined with a city, nowadays, always refers to some institution or part of an itinerary, and that 'in' refers to everything else.
It would have been better if they had put the camera back in. And upped the dosage of metachlorions.
I can't wait to be disappointed by episode 7.
Rewatching 4, it's really not that impressive. I mean, how can Obi-wan talk to Luke in the X-wing. He's dead. Is Luke having some sort of stress hallucination? Has he eaten some Ewok moss? These things need explanation.
So I was making a chatbot in Ruby for SE chat, and I discovered that I could find out the starrer of a message.
I'm pretty sure stars, like votes, are supposed to be anonymous. Although this knowledge would help for cases of star trolls like this.
Here's the specific slice of code that do...
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…