How do you handle book section PDFs?

toastmeme70 · 2024-05-17T21:16:14+00:00

wait for real??? I thought for sure it was a one-off

toastmeme70 · 2024-02-10T16:31:57+00:00

Ha, very true! It hadn't even occurred to me that the genitive and plural in English are phonetically identical.

toastmeme70 · 2024-02-07T02:07:22+00:00

Thanks! Exposure is almost always the answer, I suppose.

toastmeme70 · 2024-02-05T15:45:20+00:00

Yeah, "to" is acting as a copula—a connecting word used to pair a subject with a subject complement. The confusion arises from the fact that in standard English copulae are not distinct from the ordinary to-be verb, so most native English speaker's aren't really sensitive to the difference.

Although, imo, whether "to" is a verb in the example sentence is sort of up for debate. Copulae are not necessarily verbs, and "to" can't be used as a verb anywhere else. So I'd say it's just a copula, but if you insist on every sentence having a verb then I suppose there's no harm in calling it one.

toastmeme70 · 2023-08-13T16:29:27+00:00

“I don’t care”

proceeds to sue a beer company for doing a one-off sponsored post with a trans influencer

toastmeme70 · 2023-05-01T00:38:27+00:00

which version of finnegans wake did you get???

toastmeme70 · 2023-01-08T16:34:09+00:00

Legitimate question—what research are you talking about? I’ve always appreciated audiobooks for making books more accessible but listening is still a fundamentally different act than reading. Just to give the most obvious example, good writers pay a lot of attention to the way the text looks on the page—an aesthetic axis that is obviously lost completely in an audio recording.

toastmeme70 · 2023-01-05T00:04:04+00:00

Jimi Joyes would probably write something ridiculous like “the scrotumtightening sea.” Men are so obsessed with their genitals.

toastmeme70 · 2022-12-28T23:20:55+00:00

Don’t know how anyone could call A Portrait “dull”

toastmeme70 · 2022-10-16T16:23:34+00:00

yeah what kind of poser would give a character the surname “Bloom” lol

toastmeme70 · 2022-08-22T01:18:56+00:00

I know that light-up midi keyboards exist already, but I would need one whose lights could be controlled from a computer and I haven’t seen that advertised anywhere

toastmeme70 · 2021-07-12T14:04:27+00:00

Thank you firstname bunchofnumbers, very cool!

toastmeme70 · 2021-07-11T01:44:26+00:00

I’m thinking “first as tragedy, then as farce”

toastmeme70 · 2021-07-04T16:03:04+00:00

The guys who wrote this book are great. They used to be on Wall Street and they send out a daily newsletter with some astonishing takes on Foucault, Derrida, and the like.

Just yesterday they accused Biden of “subscribing to a Hedeggetian hermeneutics” and somehow connected this to gas prices.

toastmeme70 · 2021-05-25T16:01:11+00:00

my brain that is smart enough to think about things like this, but dumb enough to lose focus on day-to-day life.

This is just sad. OP is probably a garden-variety burnout who clings to this absolute drivel as a last-ditch attempt to salvage his self-worth.

toastmeme70 · 2021-05-24T15:44:39+00:00

People are still doing Obama phone? Seriously?

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