I keep seeing people say "How is X", where X is the name of a game or a band. I think the implied question is about the entertainment quality of the thing in question, e.g. "Do you find this game fun?", "Are X a good band in your opinion?", "What do you dislike about X?".
Most of the time senten...
@tchrist, I've never heard "How’s his hamburger, Hubert?". It doesn't even make sense to me. "How’s your hamburger, Hubert?", does. (As does "How are you (doing)?", @Scott). I understand "How is Herbert's hamburger?" - do those things mean the same to you? — Podyesterday
> Created by UK horticulture company Thompson and Morgan, the TomTato is not the result of genetic engineering. It's "simply" the top of a cherry tomato plant and the bottom of a white potato plant, that have been grafted together at the stem.
Leave it to the English to come through when graft is required.
Joe Biden has emailed you.
Michelle has emailed you.
And now I’ve emailed you.
We wouldn't all be asking if it wasn't so important.
Right now, Republicans in Congress are trying to sue me for simply doing my job. Yes, it’s outrageous. But it also makes this the most important fundraising deadline we’ve faced together. We’re down to our last 72 hours and still coming up 100,000 donations short of our goal. Can I count on you?
Imagine, President Obama took time out of his day to email me personally.
Are «said I» and «I said» interchangeable? «Said I» is pretty uncommon, or so I thought.
The sentence in question looks like so: «"It's not going to be your way," — said I.» Or it could be «"It's not going to be your way," — I said.»
Which one sounds better?
(same question for "exclaimed I" vs...
@tchrist Well, I liked FotR a LOT, TTT a lot, and RotK. But I felt they got progressively worse. And tH:AUJ I felt was just boring. The action was too over-the-top and the film was too long. Does tH:tDoS do better, or worse, IYHO, than its predecessor(s)?
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I felt the same way: that they got progressively worse.
The Hobbit part 2 was over the top in many, many ways. Some of that was caused by decisions to make it into three films and to introduce a false climax.
I would at this stage recommend waiting for the Extended Edition of Hobbit Two, which restores ~26 minutes that got butchered. Unfortunately, I’m sure it won’t remove the silly stuff.
The silly stuff takes way too much time and emotional energy.
But the original trailer for Hobbit 1 made me much more stoked than I feel the film delivered. Perhaps the frissons from this last one’s trailer cited above will prove equally misleading, and the film will leave me cold again. I really don’t know.
If fear is the mind-killer, what does that make hope?
The song you hear playing in the background, which Pippin sang in the earlier movie, was actually Bilbo’s song all along and which Pippin remembered.
So this is not quite so anachronistic as some might imagine it.
the problem is, since there are no sidewalks or public transports here, people who don't know how to/don't want to/are too old to drive end up having to drive everywhere
that's exactly what I thought before I came here for school. right now I live in Rochester, NY
the answer is, they literally don't.
many areas like this where the whole population is reliant on cars. there's a very weak and small bus system... it's not very widely used, so the buses come very rarely and have strange routes.
most families around here have multiple cars, and buy each of their children a car.
@Cerberus I will tell you though, that if my car broke down tomorrow morning, there's no possible way for me to get to work unless someone gives me a ride.
@Cerberus I guess it depends on what purpose the books have. Are they meant to tell a good story, or merely motive Tolkien's conlang and world-building? I think they should do both; the FotR film is great in that it doesn't wreck any of the world-building, and thus allows the book to act as a supplement. But it has all the great world-building in the background, and tells the story well.
Meanwhile if you want to dig deeper, there is the book or various other works you can look into.
but to answer you, it's tough to go on foot. I'm so far in a swampy suburb and there aren't sidewalks so it's hard to gauge, I guess 20 minutes or so. there may be a campus shuttle to somewhere I could take a bus from though.
I'd have to walk on the side of a road. which is strange.
the campus itself has good shuttles everywhere, so that's nice. but I am working for the summer in a different suburb.
hey, my thing I said is in those little quips over there ----->
sure, but I bet once they get to the bus it's reasonable and will show up frequently and they have an entire network of useful transport methods that the bus can take them to.
@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 It need not be at the expense of story-telling. But I'll grant you that the bits about Hobbiton and some of the travelling are too boring and don't matter enough as "background".
@GeorgeCapote Well, kind of. It goes every 10 to 20 minutes, and it takes you to the train station in 7 minutes. But it's still annoying how far away it is.
Are «said I» and «I said» interchangeable? «Said I» is pretty uncommon, or so I thought.
The sentence in question looks like so: «"It's not going to be your way," — said I.» Or it could be «"It's not going to be your way," — I said.»
Which one sounds better?
(same question for "exclaimed I" vs...
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