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| m | Posted: 15.03.2003, 20:12 | |
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It's not funny! I press the button and it doesn't stay down and then when it does, the bread stays in the toaster for ages but doesn't change colour so you put it in again and then suddenly it strongly resembles charcoal... Is that how you spell charcoal? It looks wrong. I used to be good at spelling. Random side note - Casualty just started and I realized I was in this night last week too but it doesn't feel like a whole week ago. This year is going too fast!!! |
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| Midge | Posted: 17.03.2003, 22:35 | |
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I've got a toast story to share with you... I had a prayer meeting in my room early one morning (well, 8am) and one person expected me to make her some toast. So in between running up and down stairs to let people in, I stuck the bread under the grill. I kept checking it, but it suddenly went from normal bread to total blackness. So I put another couple of slices under the grill and checked them much sooner. But by now the grill had really got heated up and next time I checked them they were basically on fire. So I decided to give up, but then coincidentally someone turned up to the prayer meeting with a new electric toaster they'd just bought still in its box, so we opened it and stuck another couple of slices in it. This time the toast was done just fine, but when it was done, it pinged the toast up in the air and it landed on the carpet just in front of the door. Now I'd've been quite happy to eat this toast, but the person in question always asks me to wash ice-cubes before I put them in her drink, so there was no way she'd eat it. So at that point we gave up and started praying... |
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| darkly | Posted: 19.03.2003, 01:24 | |
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ROTFLMAO! You know what - you can't write stuff as funny as real life. (Unless of course you are writing about an event that happened in real life to convey it to people who were not there and it.... Oh, Night!) |
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| davidb | Posted: 19.03.2003, 12:31 | |
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I know what ROTFL is, but what's MAO? Much And Often? Have a good day, D  |
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| Midge | Posted: 19.03.2003, 16:38 | |
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Roach On Toast For Lunch? Roars of Tummy-Filled Laughter? |
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| Midge | Posted: 20.03.2003, 20:22 | |
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OK here's my final guess (which came to me in bed last night): Rolling on the floor laughing my arse off?? (NB how an intransitive verb is made transitive by the addition of a directional modifier )
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| darkly | Posted: 21.03.2003, 00:49 | |
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And our winner is Midge.... is 'off' the directional modifier? The wonders of the Internet. So my arse is a direct object, laughing is an intransitive verb and 'off' or 'my arse off' is the directional modifier which makes it transitive? "Curioser and curisor", said Alice, as she tumbled down the rabbit hole. (Has tumbled been made transitive by the addition of the direct object rabbit hole' and the directional modifier 'down'?) |
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| darkly | Posted: 21.03.2003, 00:52 | |
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"The crowd moves across the field in an attempt to see the rock star get into her helicopter." I don't understand how 'moves' has no direct object. The crowd is moving.... I can see how it has no noun phrase as a direct object, but is that always necessary? |
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| davidb | Posted: 21.03.2003, 13:59 | |
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Thanks, Midge and Darkly, you've made me grin! Have a good day, D |
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| andy | Posted: 10.04.2003, 14:15 | |
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I like epithets. |
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| Midge | Posted: 30.04.2003, 23:43 | |
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Y'wot? You mean like "Streaky" Bacon? |
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| andy | Posted: 01.05.2003, 11:49 | |
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>>"The crowd moves across the field in an attempt to see the rock star get into her helicopter." >> >>I don't understand how 'moves' has no direct object. The crowd is moving.... I can see how it has no noun phrase as a direct object, but is that always necessary? The crowd is the subject. If the crowd were carrying something - "The crowd moved their fat arses across the field ..." then the arses would be the direct object. You can always tell an indirect object by the preposition before it (in this case "across" is the preposition. Other examples are "to", "from", "over", etc.) I don't understand what you mean in your last sentence. |
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| andy | Posted: 01.05.2003, 11:59 | |
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>>Y'wot? You mean like "Streaky" Bacon? No - using a noun as an adjective e.g. Pig Man, House Insurance, Road Map. Are my examples right? There are surely better ones .. anyone? |
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| darkly | Posted: 02.05.2003, 00:25 | |
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Main Entry: ep�i�thet Pronunciation: 'e-p&-"thet also -th&t Function: noun Etymology: Latin epitheton, from Greek, from neuter of epithetos added, from epitithenai to put on, add, from epi- + tithenai to put -- more at DO Date: 1579 1 a : a characterizing word or phrase accompanying or occurring in place of the name of a person or thing b : a disparaging or abusive word or phrase c : the part of a taxonomic name identifying a subordinate unit within a genus 2 obsolete : EXPRESSION - ep�i�thet�ic /"e-p&-'the-tik/ or ep�i�thet�i�cal /-ti-k&l/ adjective About as bright as a four watt bulb  |
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| Midge | Posted: 02.05.2003, 01:40 | |
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>>No - using a noun as an adjective e.g. Pig Man, House Insurance, Road Map. And you like this?  |
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| Midge | Posted: 02.05.2003, 01:55 | |
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The word 'epithet' in the context of linguistic theory makes me think of the example "the bastard", which Chomskyans seem to be fond of. Such epithets are interesting (for them) in that they act like pronouns rather than noun phrases... http://www2.let.uu.nl/UiL-OTS/Lexicon/zoek.pl?lemma=Anaphoric+epithet http://www.cla.sc.edu/LING/faculty/dubinsky/Ling739/lecturenotes/11-7-LING739-notes.pdf |
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