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Gorgon

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  1. I prefer Admiral Adama.
  2. No, I'm saying both were stupid.
  3. I mean, she's still an idiot for doing it, but show a little context. American aircrew lost versus 'collateral damage' caused by an unnecessary war. I don't care what it says on the passports of the people who died, maybe you lot care a little too much.
  4. Jane Fonda belongs on that AA gun about as much as the American intervention belonged in Vietnam. It's interesting to note why an AA gun is symbolic, considering the enormous toll on infrastructure, and the civilian cost of the consecutive bombing campaigns.
  5. This is interesting. Jane Fonda sat on what exactly. A russian MIRV...
  6. 'Ohh, sorry to bother you again, it's just there's one thing about what you say happened I can't quite understand.'
  7. I'm not just talking about his work on M.A.S.H. That show, like every show that goes on to 100001 episodes becomes like that movie groundhog day. Everything is slightly different but ultimately the same.
  8. He's a director and screen writer as well.
  9. Butters from Southpark.
  10. It also breaks the Greek's appreciation of "Who's on First?" Unless Greek lacks relatives the Greek should do fine.
  11. So it's gender, like German, and like in German there is no way to tell without knowing it.
  12. Another nonsensical thing about Danish. There is no good explanation as to why one noun uses -et, and another -en for definite reference.
  13. Well, 'bilen, huset, etc' is definite reference.
  14. In Japanese and Thai, probably more asian languages I'm not aware of, the subject is often elided, this makes context an absolute imperative. If you didn't know what the two sentences above were about, the next few may be no help at all. An adjective can constitute an entire clause. I like the methodical approach in English, where you have to mark the place where the subject would have been with 'it' and of course you can't do without introducing it specifically to begin with. Japanese : cold (is) English : It is cold.
  15. Whats an indefinite article, a missing definite article.. ohh nevermind, it's just 'a', 'an', no definite (specific) reference.
  16. Gorgon

    TV: Heroes

    I wish they would start killing characters off for real, start with Peter, Nathan, Claire and Cyler.
  17. 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.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. Morphology Base word type classification, preposition, noun, verb. Syntax Function within a clause, predicate, object, subject.
  21. I dunno, they could be actual buns, but what would propel them.
  22. '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.
  23. What is that an example of.
  24. I thought it was one long 'meh'
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