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this is so fucked up. every goddamn pic got its own fucking page. people commenting all over the place.
jesus, what a clusterfuck*.

*that’s a movie quote.
marina,
can anyone set their display name to “alex” now that i changed it?
putin gives lessons in russian.
dude, check it out.
from a general, ethical, humane point of view this is just sad.
however, objectively, from a linguistic point of view this should be interesting. she’s five years old. usually, the linguistic development is finished at the age of six, given of course that there was “normal” language input. there was this case, i don’t know when it happened, that a 13 year old girl was found in a basement, she had had no input language-wise, she never really learned to talk. they said the … well, threshold of being able to learn language is at about 12, 13 years of age. that being said — i wonder if she’ll learn to use language as other people are able to use it. hopefully so.
in the news they said that she’s on a mental level of a 2-year-old. i wonder if that is really the case, or if they link intelligence and language in a casual, simplified or even inappropriate way.
any thoughts on that?
dude. i somehow don’t seem to get your twitter thingies. they don’t show up or something. is that how it’s supposed to be?

Sexual Words in the Dictionary

the internet grammar of english says that prepositions typically come before a noun

yeah, i know.
in german, it’s pretty strict. a preposition P followed by a noun phrase NP forms a prepositional phrase PP.
the reason that the resulting phrase (from P + NP) is a PP and not a NP is that P governs the following NP, or P gorverns the (grammatical) case of the following NP respectively.
Ps can follow NPs. but since PREposition suggests that it comes before the NP, those are pretty often called postpositions. (same difference, though, regarding government of the NP.)

so, maybe try to look at them at postpositions that have lost direct contact with the NP that belongs to them, but they still can see them. something like that.
Sexual Words in the Dictionary

not grammatically correct.. a sentence should never end with a preposition

i couldn’t find anything supporting the claim that p-stranding is grammatically incorrect (i wasn’t really looking, though.). the internet grammar of english simply states that there are prepositions and stranded prepositions.

i’m very fond of geoffrey pullum. he put this book out, the great eskimo vocabulary hoax.
he also wrote this article which is a great read: 50 years of stupid grammar advice.
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… uranus?
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montana silver thighs. oO
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Women run the Universe!

oh, is that why the universe is so clean?