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  1. Whats an indefinite article, a missing definite article.. ohh nevermind, it's just 'a', 'an', no definite (specific) reference.
  2. Gorgon

    TV: Heroes

    I wish they would start killing characters off for real, start with Peter, Nathan, Claire and Cyler.
  3. So whats your take on 'the boy threw up', can you appreciate where I'm coming from by viewing 'threw up' as the verb and not bothering one bit about the preposition.
  4. I refuse to play the game at anything less than the core rules setting. Best I could do was to kill everyone but the Herald, and by then my party was so battered there was nothing left to do. Tried 4 times, gave up, uninstalled. It's ok, the bad guys have to win sometime too. I mean if they didn't it would take away all their ambition.
  5. My definition is lacking how.. I mean, there are more functions and word types, these are just examples. The point I was trying to make is that 'up' is certainly a preposition, but thinking in groups of meaning, as when you assign syntax within a clause, 'threw up' constitutes one, and further analysis does nothing to improve ones understanding, in fact the opposite is the case. In the grammar I learned long ago one could call it a prepositional clause or a verb clause post modified by a preposition, but a descriptive language like grammatical analysis often forces conclusions that are irrelevant.
  6. Morphology Base word type classification, preposition, noun, verb. Syntax Function within a clause, predicate, object, subject.
  7. I dunno, they could be actual buns, but what would propel them.
  8. 'threw up' is one syntactic unit, not two. The preposition only reveals itself at the morphological level. I'd say it was an exception, which is all good. Exceptions are what makes us remember the rules as much as the rules themselves.
  9. Some gamepads have a handy repeat toggle which lets you machinegun any key.
  10. LOL, actually that does sound a little bit like Swedish, if he would only cut down a little on the diphtongs (does not apply to certain dialects of Swedish). The sk
  11. Also you can insert a non grammatical comma anywhere, stick it right after the subject in a main clause if you like.
  12. Japanese seems to arbitrarily use past or non past as if they were interchangeable. It takes a bit of getting used to.
  13. Institutional discrimination is institutional discrimination, it don't make no never mind what religion does it. It just rubs me the wrong way.
  14. Whats not all, you have to make sure none of the party have shields in their inventories or the AI will switch to shield and.. fist.
  15. How do you beat the battle with the herald of Zehir. I mean the thing is invulnerable, even if you could stay alive long enough to focus on it, it regenerates. Best effort so far has been to clear them out with the exception of one Yuan ti priest, and the herald. I cast 3 gate spells from scrolls, and all that did was slow them down a bit. Is this the end battle.. doesn't feel like it from the journal.
  16. Well one could reasonably argue that 'Islam' constitutes the sum total of practices and dogma. The Alevi would disagree. That was interesting, I knew very little about the Alevi. I should qualify that the Muslim women only wear the headscarf and such when they go to the mosque. Really, I thought that was only the case with very few reformed Islamic countries such as Turkey. In any case you cannot be an Islamic woman and escape ostracisation if you do not wear it. I can't say anything about what it's like having to face that kind of pressure, the experience is beyond me. Most women seem to focus on the discrimination they experience from the outside, which is an expected dynamic. That doesn't mean that there isn't something inherently discriminatory at the core.
  17. I use 'programme' for a government/educational initiative as a forinstance. A computer 'program' is something else.
  18. Some of the design work suffers from having been repeatedly and brutally beaten with the ugly stick. You get used to it. If you are lucky there is a model for each race you can actually stand looking at, you can usually find one.
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