Language Liberalism Freethought Birds
Verbing Weirds Language only if you're expecting it to work in a simple way. This is a special case of the more general truth that Language Weirds.
Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is in the wrong. There is no other time.
The church says Earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence in a shadow than the church.
If we can't find Heaven, there are always bluejays.
Every now and then, I hear something I know I've heard before, but this time it strikes me odd.
And then, why a survey says people are waiting to retire. And it's not the economy.Surely, it's not why the survey says that; it's the survey saying why people are waiting...
I used to teach Russian and Ukrainian, and some basic English, to civil servants. Now I teach Russian at a local continued-learning institute. I dabble in Gaelic and Welsh. I'm am amateur photographer and I love birding (in a small way). I'm a Progressive, and a Freethinker, and I know Evolution is a fact - that's FCD, Friend of Charles Darwin (look down the sidebar). I read a lot, and follow women's college basketball. Also I love astronomy, though I'm a rank amateur at it. Most of all, I like living in the reality-based community...
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At 11:24 AM, September 04, 2009
fev had this to say...
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->Ghost sentence adverb! "Next, why police say a man ran naked down the street waving a broadax" is a second-cycle version of "A man is in jail after police say he ran naked down the street waving a broadax."
The attribution is there to qualify the main clause, and news language is really careless about where it goes. J-classes need more diagramming and less hoo-hah about split verbs. /sermon
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