Posted on 12/08/2001 2:51:43 PM PST by blam
No. You are doomed to wear this albatross around your neck as long as there is electricity powering the Internet. Your mistakes never, ever, go away. Worse than herpes.
Exciting finding. This pushes back the origin of the SUV by over 4,100 years!
Interesting
I think he’s taking this description of Egyptian society as a metaphor for the direction that our own is taking. HMM?
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You will regret those words when the alien craft lands on the pyramid. (The movie "Stargate" was a DOCUMENTARY don'tcha know)
Had you been schooled in a tradition that included Latin grammar, you would have known that this is a perfectly reasonable classical construction. It is called the ablative absolute.
If you are going to be a compulsive grammarian, then you need to understand the rhetorical tradition underlying the sentence construction employed by the classically educated world, a world that has sadly shrunk to such a state that someone like you can post something like this, calling himself a compulsive grammarian, and get away with it.
None of us are perfect, but when you take out a sword and wield it, ensure it has not been dulled by time and ignorance.
I don't understand your "underlying rhetorical tradition" argument. A dangling modifier is simply an illiteracy in modern English usage.
It really doesn't matter how Ovid used to phrase it because--news flash--HE WASN"T WRITING IN ENGLISH. I write English.
It is not substandard English and you just proved your abject ignorance. It is not a “dangling modifier.”
Great Pyramids built about 2550BC
Ur-Nanshe 1st King of Sumer about 2520BC
Great Flood about 2344BC
Akkadian Dynasty in Sumer about 2334-2154BC
Urnammu King of Sumer about 2112-2095BC
Abraham about 1991-1816BC
Moses about 1250BC
Trojan Wars about 1250BC
Mr. H has problems in the bedroom, so after trying all the regular doctors he tries a witch doctor. The witch doctor mixes up a potion, does some chants and tells him when it is time to perform in bed , count “1,2,3”.
When you are done, and no longer than 4 hours, count “1,2,3,4” to stop the erection. But then you have to wait 12 hours before you can go at it again.
He quickly drives home, tells his wife that he is finally cured and to get into bed. His wife of course is also exited and hops into bed. The man splashes on some extra cologne, and then says “1,2,3”.
The wife hears and asks “Honey, what is the 1,2,3 for?”
So the rule is, don't end your sentences with a preposition,
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as it leaves you with a dangling participle.
Fascinating. Great find.
Here’s the culprit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umm_al_Binni_lake
If you look around the area there are other similar depressions. The impact craters appear to indicate the objects came from the NE, perhaps an asteroid which broke-up prior to impact?
he he... you are a very cunning linguist, aren;t you
200-year-long drought may have killed Sumerian language
MSNBC | 12-4-2012 | Tia Ghose
Posted on Wed Dec 5 09:09:59 2012 by Renfield
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2965817/posts
What is less desirable, letting large unemployed populations sit unemployed and unpaid, or building large, impressive, or beautiful structures, that today bring in millions in tourist dollars to the countries in question?
A drought would of course occur after an impact event. I’ve been in that part of Iraq and the land is as flat as a pool table from formerly being a shallow sea. Any large, circular depression would be very suspect as it is not natural to the sedimentary seabed of a shallow, sand-blown ocean like the gulf.
There are two circular depressions near Umm Al Binni which are 20 miles in diameter.
Excellent observation.
Unless you know the facts you don’t have the right to have an opinion.
You could always do what the liberals do and just make up your own facts.
OK!! OK!! I surrender!! Five years later and I still get replies bashing this response. Fine. Fine. Fine. Fine. Fine. I admit to not knowing what I was talking about. I was young! I made a mistake!! I’m sorry!!! Five years is a long time ago already!!! I’ve paid my debt to freeperdom. I’ve moved on. I’m sorry!! Time to forgive and forget! It’s Christmas! Can’t we all just get along??!!
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