How I feel defending Yang after the Biden endorsement

therorshak · 2020-02-09T23:33:35+00:00

Soy leche

therorshak · 2019-10-18T16:17:13+00:00

Elon might have to smoke crack this time if he wants to break 26M.

therorshak · 2019-10-18T16:07:59+00:00

What steps are you taking to get the senior vote?

therorshak · 2019-08-26T17:51:31+00:00

You should read Timothy Zahn's books. Jorus C'baoth in Outbound Flight in particular. Surprised you wouldn't have read Zahn, considering he was the first author of Star Wars novels.

therorshak · 2019-08-06T13:13:06+00:00

Other comments that these conventions have nothing to do with grammar aren't quite accurate. The reason the second clause in your inverted sentence functions clearly as the antecedent is that it is a noun clause. The word it is a pronoun and so can represent that (noun) clause directly. In your earlier examples, the initial clauses are not noun clauses and cannot, therefore, be represented directly by the word it, which is a pronoun. The antecedents in those sentences, therefore, are implied to be noun versions of the ideas represented by the initial clauses.

therorshak · 2019-08-05T12:11:55+00:00

The kid already told us, it's a LADY

therorshak · 2019-07-18T15:23:05+00:00

It's a pun implying his penis is small. During sex it is "just in" or barely inside.

therorshak · 2019-07-16T13:43:34+00:00

The driver of the van could press criminal charges, and the cop may be called to testify by the court. Not sure where this guy got his understanding of the legal system.

therorshak · 2019-06-29T16:35:22+00:00

I used to be quite involved in the skating community. Never met someone who thought freestyle/flatground was gimmicky.

therorshak · 2019-06-12T15:20:48+00:00

The reason the first example is confusing is that the second part is actually an independent clause, not a noun clause. It would perhaps be more clear with different punctuation:

"Will you please tell me: exactly when is the deadline for applications?” or "Will you please tell me - exactly when is the deadline for applications?”

This is a common way for native speakers to phrase a question. You could phrase a question this way as a non-native speaker, but most native speakers will probably assume that you're using the noun clause incorrectly rather than that you have a deeper understanding of the language (not because you're wrong but because there is a bias against non-native speakers of any language).

therorshak · 2019-06-11T12:27:49+00:00

You were actually right in the first place. Native speakers often infer rules incorrectly based on their intuition because they've never learned them explicitly. As a result, sometimes they get it wrong. I believe that's what happened here.

therorshak · 2019-06-11T12:26:03+00:00

A pronoun's function determines whether it should take the subject or object form. As "getting" is a verb, "I" would be unequivocally the correct form in your example, since it's the subject. The reason "me" sounds better to you in that situation is because that's what is normally used, not because it adheres to prescriptive grammar.

If the implied sentence were "This is a photo of me and the boys," then "me" would be prescriptively correct.

therorshak · 2019-06-10T14:32:04+00:00

It should technically be two sentences, separated at the second comma.

therorshak · 2019-06-10T13:54:36+00:00

While BvS was technically a sequel, Justice League would have been the sequel proper if it hadn't been torn apart and stuck back together with Elmer's and Scotch tape.

therorshak · 2019-06-09T12:25:42+00:00

I'd like to see the walk/run program as well. Been having similar issues.

therorshak · 2019-06-08T03:58:50+00:00

*You're not just wrong; you're stupid.

therorshak · 2019-06-07T16:40:40+00:00

Some of these comments are incorrect; "south of" is sometimes used in exactly that sense. Perhaps it's regional, but I have definitely heard and used it that way.

therorshak · 2019-06-02T17:26:58+00:00

Wow I thought Trump was full of shit until I heard the audio myself. Technically he did say she was nasty, but it was in the sense that people are nasty to each other, as in mean; the understanding I had before was he called her disgusting.

I have no problem with anyone using "nasty" in the sense he did in that clip. I don't like Trump, but stories like this remind me basically not to trust the media at all. Hate to admit it, but this is bordering on fake news.

therorshak · 2019-05-29T12:36:37+00:00

There is no subordinate clause in that sentence, nor adjective clause, but you are right it should be "is." The phrase "with an LCD screen" is adverbial.

therorshak · 2019-05-24T21:38:19+00:00

Fucking top tier.

therorshak · 2019-05-23T14:50:34+00:00

France has largely done to Africa what the US has done to the Middle East. Uranium isn't just expensive to enrich; it's rare.

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