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wordplay yesterday, the third week of the hormonal cycle can bite me. Dear endocrines, what are you on about?, it's actually better that we're not ovulating, so stop making me so cranky kthx. [eta2: My GOD, I am not normally like a chocolate fiend, but for the past 48 hours, I've been, like, I am ready to turn my pen or my phone or my left hand into chocolate and then eat that. AUGH. Hormones SUCK. (And was it last week?, I pinged wordplay to say "I WANT PIZZA LIKE BREATHING but only about three bites, which makes it not at all worth having a whole pizza delivered", and she promised that when she rules the world, there will be pizza delivery by the slice. The fact that this is not yet available makes me suspect she is not yet our new benevolent overlord. [eta3: Overlady?])]
2. First rehearsal of the season last night, and -- oh, dear. Well, look -- just because the man was a Beatle and his choral music is what some (including our chorus master) might call overt, doesn't mean he wasn't sincere. No doubt we'll get all the snickering out of our system (including the director, who at the point of the gratuitous key change -- and, incidentally, when you modulate for dramatic effect, who modulates down?! -- turned and looked over his shoulder and raised his eyebrow at the above chorus master, and some of us had to change how we were holding our music so we could get through it without laughing at them) during the rehearsal process, so that in the performance we can sing it as it's meant.
3. I've had it with my camera. It's not the fact that it only has 3.1 megapixels that gets to me -- what non-professional needs more, really -- but the slow shutter speed is annoying and the fact that it eats batteries is making me crazy. Fully-charged batteries (relatively new and just out of the charger) almost completely drained after five or six pictures the other day. NOT ON. So please feel free to recommend me something (a) less battery-demanding and (b) smaller, in physical dimensions, because being able to put the thing in my pocket would be relatively cool.
[eta: 3a. Look how I just used "recommend" with a dative object but no preposition. Is that normal? Hmm, trivalent verbs:
Maybe it just feels weird to me because I had a friend as a kid who used to have "explain"+dative, which was really genuinely weird. (*"Explain me how this works.") What do you guys think? Is "recommend me a camera" okay?]
wordplay yesterday, the third week of the hormonal cycle can bite me. Dear endocrines, what are you on about?, it's actually better that we're not ovulating, so stop making me so cranky kthx. [eta2: My GOD, I am not normally like a chocolate fiend, but for the past 48 hours, I've been, like, I am ready to turn my pen or my phone or my left hand into chocolate and then eat that. AUGH. Hormones SUCK. (And was it last week?, I pinged wordplay to say "I WANT PIZZA LIKE BREATHING but only about three bites, which makes it not at all worth having a whole pizza delivered", and she promised that when she rules the world, there will be pizza delivery by the slice. The fact that this is not yet available makes me suspect she is not yet our new benevolent overlord. [eta3: Overlady?])]2. First rehearsal of the season last night, and -- oh, dear. Well, look -- just because the man was a Beatle and his choral music is what some (including our chorus master) might call overt, doesn't mean he wasn't sincere. No doubt we'll get all the snickering out of our system (including the director, who at the point of the gratuitous key change -- and, incidentally, when you modulate for dramatic effect, who modulates down?! -- turned and looked over his shoulder and raised his eyebrow at the above chorus master, and some of us had to change how we were holding our music so we could get through it without laughing at them) during the rehearsal process, so that in the performance we can sing it as it's meant.
3. I've had it with my camera. It's not the fact that it only has 3.1 megapixels that gets to me -- what non-professional needs more, really -- but the slow shutter speed is annoying and the fact that it eats batteries is making me crazy. Fully-charged batteries (relatively new and just out of the charger) almost completely drained after five or six pictures the other day. NOT ON. So please feel free to recommend me something (a) less battery-demanding and (b) smaller, in physical dimensions, because being able to put the thing in my pocket would be relatively cool.
[eta: 3a. Look how I just used "recommend" with a dative object but no preposition. Is that normal? Hmm, trivalent verbs:
VERB + NP(acc) + PP(=P+NP(dat))It's not a question of whether verbs can do this, in other words -- of course they can. It's a question of whether "recommend" fits in the same class as "send" and "offer" and "present" and the other GIVE-group verbs. Recommending is more of a speech act than a motion act, isn't it? But are there speaking verbs in the GIVE group? Does "tell" fit? ("She told the child a story" or "She told a story to the child".) How about "suggest"? "Propose"? "Submit", which could be more like GIVE or more like TELL, I guess.
VERB + NP(dat) + NP(acc)
So, "I gave the book to him" or "I gave him the book" (the examples are always "give" and "book"; I don't know why). "I sent the minions to her" or "I sent her the minions".
Maybe it just feels weird to me because I had a friend as a kid who used to have "explain"+dative, which was really genuinely weird. (*"Explain me how this works.") What do you guys think? Is "recommend me a camera" okay?]
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