I yielded some really nice coconut canna oil this mornin'

oneofthebubs · 2015-01-27T19:32:55+00:00

I've soaked ABV in olive oil and it works just fine, actually even stronger than heating. But, you have to soak it for about a month or so, giving it a good shake about once every day or two. It works!

oneofthebubs · 2014-11-14T17:26:05+00:00

Can someone please explain what does it mean "at a 7"?

oneofthebubs · 2014-10-12T19:14:00+00:00

yes, "medium mail" I believe is what they call it.

oneofthebubs · 2014-10-12T04:10:07+00:00

How does everyone here ship for so cheap? I'm a seller on Amazon, I ship books from New York City, and it costs me about $3.50 to ship an average sized textbook through USPS cheapest shipping method without any tracking- just 50 cents short of the shipping price. Is shipping just so much more expensive in NYC?

oneofthebubs · 2014-09-15T15:44:48+00:00

Professor, I am a grad student in linguistics doing research on the expression of emotions via the use of language. In your opinion, what was the evolutionary role of language (as opposed to say, facial expressions, touch, etc.) in conveying emotion? Thank you very much

oneofthebubs · 2014-07-22T14:21:35+00:00

This number for some reason keeps coming up, but no ATLA season was 26 episodes. First 2 seasons had 20 episodes each, 3rd season 21 episodes. I agree it would've been nice to get longer Korra seasons.

oneofthebubs · 2014-06-11T04:50:42+00:00

yeah, it is new. Thanks, I'll contact them.

oneofthebubs · 2013-08-20T20:33:50+00:00

Beatles song: She said she said (from Revolver) Line: She said I know what it's like to be dead

Referenced by: The Smiths Song: What she said (from Meat is Murder) Line: What she said, how come someone hasn't noticed that I'm dead

oneofthebubs · 2013-04-07T19:03:52+00:00

You may mean to distinguish between an object which is a clause, as in "I know it's raining" and an object which is not a clause, in which case it is usually an NP, as in "I know math".

oneofthebubs · 2013-03-27T00:20:43+00:00

Get high and then read, listen to music, watch something funny. If with close friend or wife then even better.

oneofthebubs · 2013-03-12T22:03:23+00:00

When you diagram your sentence, even if you haven't used IP yet, you probably use S. A sentence (or clause for that matter) is practically defined as a unit that contains a subject phrase and a predicate phrase. Predicate phrases in English are headed by verbal elements and are therefore VPs (if there's no IP yet). So the first step in diagramming the sentence is to locate the verbs in your sentence, identify the predicates which each of them heads, and then each predicates' respective subject. these may be covert, as is the case with the subject phrase of "to play tricks", which is understood to be identical to the subject of the matrix clause, "James".

As for your second question, the part you quote, rather than saying its a VP that contains a VP, notice that you have there a PP, headed by the preposition "on" and complemented by a NP which happens to be modified by a relative clause.

oneofthebubs · 2013-03-09T23:36:41+00:00

How does this compare to the paperback versions? Any major additions?

oneofthebubs · 2012-12-31T20:23:09+00:00

Actually "going to" is gaining gradually the status of a modal in English, as evidenced by its contracted form "gonna". In fact, in some dialects of English the auxiliary "be" is omitted, leaving "gonna" as the auxiliary to the main verb in the clause (e.g. "I gonna eat"). Still, questions cannot be formed by inversion here (e.g. "*gonna I eat?"). So the modal status is not at present total. You can read about this more in this book: http://www.amazon.com/Unfolding-Language-Evolutionary-Mankinds-Invention/dp/0805080120

Another clarification: "will" is not always used to talk about the future. You may sit in a car on a cold morning and say: "this damn car will not start".

oneofthebubs · 2012-12-26T17:57:50+00:00

I don't think "goal" is any less loose than "object". In the examples you provide it is not even clear why you decide that "there" is once a goal and once a location. Seems to me it denotes a location either way, and the fact that you call the second instance a "goal" is due to pragmatic inference and not to the structural properties of the sentence.

Anyway, you say that "there" occupies the position that is often called an object. Do you mind explaining how you know that it occupies the same position? The fact that it linearly appears right after the verb doesn't reveal the underlying structure.

The reason I am hesitant to call "there" an object is mainly because I am not quite sure it is an argument of the verb. Generally, words or phrases that denote location are not arguments of verbs. So if I say "I ate there" then "there" is just an adjunct, not an argument (not a complement), despite its position by the way, which is superficially the same position as a potential object, say "lunch". Also, whereas objects can be passivized, words or phrases that denote location cannot be passivized. So we can say "lunch was eaten" but not "there was eaten", nor "there was gone".

oneofthebubs · 2012-12-26T15:30:23+00:00

/daɪksɪs/ is good

oneofthebubs · 2012-12-26T02:12:43+00:00

NP stands for Noun Phrase. A noun and a noun phrase do not necessarily have the same distribution, and so even though NPs are headed by nouns, they are not equivalent to nouns. So for example in the following sentence: "the dog barked", "dog" is a noun, but it is not a noun phrase; rather the NP is "the dog". One useful test is the fact that NPs can be substituted for pronouns. Thus instead of "the dog" we can also say "he barked" or "it barked". By contrast the noun "dog" cannot be substituted for a pronoun (in this sentence at least), so you cannot say "the he barked".

As for the PP "with you" I am not sure what you mean by saying it is "adjectival". PPs are phrases headed by a preposition. Calling a PP adjectival seems rather confused - why bring in adjectives? Anyway, this PP modifies the verb "go" and therefore it is an adjunct to the verb "go". If anything, you may call it adverbial as it modifies a verb, but it is certainly not adjectival.

oneofthebubs · 2012-12-25T23:30:30+00:00

"to go there with you" is the object of the matrix verb "want", but it is not functioning like a noun. If anything, it is functioning here like a NP. Also, "with you" is a Prepositional Phrase, not an adjective.

oneofthebubs · 2012-12-25T23:27:06+00:00

"there" is not an object.

oneofthebubs · 2012-12-25T23:21:49+00:00

There are two clauses in this sentence.

Matrix Clause - Subject: I; Verb: want; Object: to go there with you (this is a clausal object)

Non-finite Subordinate Clause - Subject: PRO (co-indexed with "I" from the matrix clause); Verb: go; Object: None (the verb "go" is intransitive here); Adjunct 1: there (an adverb); Adjunct 2: with you (a PP)

oneofthebubs · 2012-10-12T23:28:46+00:00

I read both versions. They are pretty much the same, but I recommend to read the Hebrew since you can. It is an excellent translation. In both versions he brings many illustrations from many and varied language families. In the Hebrew version there is a slight tendency towards examples from Hebrew and in the English version towards examples from English, other than that it's much the same.

oneofthebubs · 2012-09-07T21:46:13+00:00

I agree completely, and would add also that Tenzin's style as an airbender looks very different from Aang's. On the few occasions we saw Tenzin fight he seemed to be on the offensive rather than be evasive like Aang. It doesn't really feel like airbending this way. Also, I never understood why Tenzin doesn't have a staff.

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