Can you rephrase that? Bob
On Dec 6, 2010, at 7:25 AM, Walt Brown wrote: > Some sentences can, when one pauses to reflect on, meditate on, and inwardly > digest them, drag on in a way, which with their multiple subordinate, > embedded clauses, caveats (and, come to think of things, extra twiddly bits > in parentheses (often multiply parenthesised (to a seemingly absurd > degree))), serve only to irritate, annoy and otherwise provoke the reader, > recipient, interlocutor or other interpreter to shout an extremely > non-sentential "F*ck", owing to their final, and ultimately slow, almost > stupid, realisation, that sentences are not always so cut-and-dried as to > sport only a single, easily identifiable, subject, a verb (possibly phrasal > or involving, especially in English, the use of an auxiliary such as "have" > or "do", or a modal such as "should", "might", "may", "can/could", "ought > to", or "have to") and a simplistic, one-word object (as opposed to a > complex noun phrase, possiby also involving multiple embedded clauses); or, > to put it another way, or, possibly more idiomatically, "to cut a long story > short" (or, when one reflects upon ths sentence, more appositely, "to cut a > short story long"); some sentences are, unequivocally, "a pain in the nether > regions" (and those for the metaphorically challenged mean the buttocks, > bottom, dowp, bottom, arse) that can drive a good man (and, one should add > in these egalitarian days that the word 'man' here is used in an > all-inclusive fashion embracing women, transgendered people and eunuchs as > well as men Ding-an-Sich) to thoughts of despair or even suicide. > > > Some sentences can hurt a lot . . . :) > > Love, kisses and funny moises, Richmond. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
