activity of the Everett Tweakers has very little cost. They subsist on food stamps. They steal stuff sometimes, but they're not using utilities or cars. The purposeless activity of the Scientist Tweakers costs TRILLIONS in taxpayer money.
Fukn linguists gonna be fukn linguistsLinked vis RCS:As usual with linguists, an interesting and astute observation with a dubious explanation.
Observation:Speakers hesitate or make brief pauses filled with sounds like “uh” or “uhm” mostly before nouns. Such slow-down effects are far less frequent before verbs,
Makes sense. If the authors had included cusswords as pausemakers, the effect would have been even stronger. For instance, in dialects that use fukn as a pausemaker, fukn almost always precedes a noun or a predicate, never a verb or pronoun.
Trying it with the previous sentence:
If the fukn authors had included fukn cusswords as fukn pausemakers, the fukn effect would have been even stronger.
You'll never hear:
Fukn if the authors had fukn included cusswords as pausemakers, fukn the effect fukn would have been fukn even stronger.
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Explanation:The reason is that nouns are more difficult to plan because they’re usually only used when they represent new information.” Otherwise they are replaced with pronouns (e.g., “she”) or omitted, as in the following example: “My friend came back. She (my friend) took a seat” or “My friend came back and took a seat”. No such replacement principles apply to verbs – they are generally used regardless of whether they represent new or old information.
Close but no fukn cigar. Nouns aren't NEW information, they're just MORE VARIED information, which requires more scanning time in the file cabinet. In ordinary speech the vast majority of verbs are is or do. In English do is a proverb, substituting for all other verbs in the same way that a pronoun substitutes for nouns.
Choosing precise verbs is a difficult literary skill. Good authors know how to pack the sentence meaning into the verb, avoiding unnecessary adjectives.
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Note for clarity: Fucking as a meaningful CURSE is not the same word as the grammatical filler particle fukn.Fucking has different syntax.
Jesus. How dare you call this "science"??????????????????????In Cosmos:
Headline: Cambrian explosion was a hot event
Analysis of the oxygen isotope ratios in the shells indicated that sea surface temperatures at high latitudes had been very warm, exceeding 20 degrees Celsius.
The researchers also ran climate model simulations for the early Cambrian, which produced consistent results. Taken together, the isotope data and the simulations suggest that the early Cambrian climate was a typical greenhouse climate, similar to more recent greenhouse periods in the late Mesozoic and early Cenozoic periods, around 140 to 60 million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.
If you accept this, then WHY IN THE MOTHERFUCKING MOTHERFUCK DO YOU CONTINUE TO FUCKING TELL US THAT "GLOBAL WARMING" WILL AUTOMATICALLY CAUSE TOTAL EXTINCTION OF ALL LIFE?
Have you ever heard of LOGIC? Google it.
Ante = cere
Reading some of the older pieces at the Abbeville website, and simultaneously working on courseware about the cerebellum....
Dixie is America's cerebellum. Especially true before Madman Lincoln burned it down and killed 1/6 of the country to "prove" a totally delusional "point" and raise Wall Street share values.
Dixieland is the source of African influence, bringing Natural Law and morality and rhythm and resonance and muscle memory.
Yankeeland is the source of Euro influence (esp Kraut and Frog), bringing verbal "learning" and insane nonsensical theories and genocidal delusions and numerical abstraction. The Yankee cortex believes it can get along without the senses and muscles, so it constantly tries to exterminate the senses and muscles.
Of course the entire body can't get along without movement. Dancing and walking and making and cleaning keep the organism functioning. When you hold still for long periods the cerebellum loses sync, and the cortex stops sorting and pruning its memories and ideas