Wordwizard

You had to bring cats into it as well.
Bella and Arwen conduct nocturnal conferences against us.

It seems that these constructions are purposely vague. The questions are always “are they grammatically correct?” and “are they ambiguous?”. Never do the posters say “if not, how do you make them correct and explicit”. I suspect that’s because they already know how to make them clear. What they rea...

tony h wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 04, 2019 11:40 am

gdwdwrkr wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 03, 2019 4:44 pm

Aren't they on the 7th planet?

To be honest, as far as space goes I don't know my 7th planet from my elbow.

It can be found when you use both hands.

Aren't they on the 7th planet?
"According to the Chinese plans, a Chinese will land on the moon for the first time until 2030." -rocket scientist

Something about this just don't seem rite.

Yet, still it is commonly used, so it is.
Our team might win yet, once.

It is certainly not odd that the ice and snow were between the wooden blocks and the load.

trolley
...and here we might add "so it is" or "once".

"Yet" is tricky and versatile. I returned to the farm-market, and asked the Mennonite boy who was on duty at the time if they had "any basil-plants yet". The weeks had elapsed since I'd last asked, and I thought that surely they might have some started now. The boy's response indicated that they'd h...

Wake Up Little Susie

Tony h.
I had a pair of mentors like the Olivers. Different as night and day, they worked together as you described. One of their secrets to happiness: when arguing, laughter and peace must ensue immediately after one of them brings-up a third family-member.

Appalachian is another one of those.
And being one of those, we used to have PEEKin buns.

Wait!
Carrie Fisher starred in Star Wars!?
Star Wars is a film-series!?

Also, as Shelly has pointed-out, the use of a comma can add clarity.
If you insert a comma into a., " They were being disrespectful, talking loudly, and using bad language.", then in the list each behavior stands alone.

Nobody loves me but my Mother, and she could be jivin' too.
Lyrics, and how we hear them, can be funny.
Only recently have I stopped wondering who the hell "Leslie" is in the song "Groovin'".