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RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
12:03 AM
Toldya.
Just a matter of time now till it swaps over here.
 
 
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RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
1:20 AM
Well damn, it's here already. That was quick.
My street looks just like that now.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
1:34 AM
@RegDwigнt Muwaha. Ha.
 
 
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Robusto
Robusto
3:39 AM
@Cerberus, @RegDwigнt, you and your pathetic little snows.
There's a snowstorm. And that is a mailbox that's about chest high during the summer months.
Fortunately, however, Robusto doesn't live there anymore.
Where I am now we occasionally get a dusting. Once we got about a centimeter.
So now that I have demonstrated my snow dominance, I shall retire from the field of battle and go to bed. Which is my way of saying this is much adieu about nothing.
 
 
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Cerberus
Cerberus
5:13 AM
@Robusto At least you could get your letters!
 
 
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RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
12:37 PM
@Robusto see, our snow is in for the long haul. It takes its time. It will take lives. It plays its hand. Yours just goes all in, shock and awe, and then doesn't know what to do once it's there. So it just lies around cuddling itself like the loser that it is.
Our snow rid us of Napoleon and Hitler. Yours can't even rid you of an orange.
@Cerberus also, my snow comes with an Australian Shepherd. I win.
 
 
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Robusto
Robusto
1:53 PM
@RegDwigнt Hitler and Napoleon took one look at our snow and decided, like Falstaff, that discretion was the better part of valor. Also, that was just one storm in a line of storms that hit twice a week for the entire winter. So I win.
@RegDwigнt BTW, pix or it didn't happen.
@Cerberus Nice entrance!
 
 
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RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
4:15 PM
@Robusto I did take pix of my street last night. But then wisely reconsidered posting them in a public forum. I did post the above image of my backyard though, but apparently you don't watch my shit.
@Robusto you still have the orange. You may call that a victory all you want. Indeed, that is how you got him in the first place.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
@RegDwigнt Ours is already gone!
It's 2 degrees now.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Well of course. The tide came and washed it away. No news there.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
And 8 praedicted for to-morrow.
@Robusto Merci!
@RegDwigнt That street I posted was my friend's...
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
I don't have friends so the only street I can post is mine.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Then who is that in your picture?
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
4:22 PM
That is a dog. Sounds more like a friend to you.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Dogs are good friends.
A man's best, they suggest.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
Yeah if you feed them.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Even if they hunt for food for you.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
This dog never brought me a martini.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Maybe tie a note to it when you send it out next time.
 
RegDwigнt
RegDwigнt
4:24 PM
It's not mine. I only waste money on feeding it.
 
Cerberus
Cerberus
Aww.
Food good.
 
 
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tchrist
tchrist
5:47 PM
> La mayoría de nosotros tenemos la costumbre de desgranar la haba y desechar la vaina, salvo las mas tiernas y pequeñas que se suelen hacer con vaina, y en honor a la verdad es que cuando se desgranan las habas el "desperdicio" de vainas es enorme en comparación con los granos, pero como todo el mundo lo hace así y esa es la costumbre, esa es la ley. Con lo que cada vez que lo hacía tenía un sentimiento de culpabilidad y remordimiento por no poder aprovechar todo aquello...

Hace ya algún tiempo hablando con un señor de murcia me comentaba que en su casa solían consumir también la vaina…
Ellipses are some sort of ...
infestation
And hardly limited to English, alas.
Then again, she forgot to capitalize Murcia, so it’s probably just written textspeak again.
Don't blame me. Blame jovegren, who's gone shelling his fabes.
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A: Reported / indirect speech - why no backshift

jlovegrenThis goes to the distinction between tense and aspect: when you use an inflected form of have + [past participle], the primary marking is perfective aspect: you are saying that as of some time, a particular action being referred to had been completed, and its completion is relevant at the referen...

Wait, she wrote la haba. That's wrong. It’s feminine yes but it's compulsory to swap definite articles for euphonic reasons, so el haba cruda etc. So yes, that's just random uncurated interdrivel with all the ellipses.
 

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