Got an open house today
Sep. 30th, 2018 03:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyI visited this school with Ana two years ago, so it shouldn't be too new to me. I can skip the "Do you run this school like a prison" check, and as they're done by lottery I don't need to ask about grades - I just need to ask about dyslexia and if that's an issue. Need help with my wording here.
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Date: 2018-09-27 09:08 pm (UTC)This seems a nice entry in the casefiles of crime and rationality. Reduce the disincentive, and more crime happens.
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Date: 2018-09-28 12:06 am (UTC)I found this fascinating but they left one out: why does "I'm loving you" instead of "I love you" sound extremely wrong?
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Date: 2018-09-28 05:17 am (UTC)It makes the object of one's affections objectified...
*goes and reads a bit*
I think they left out things like, "The sister of my heart" or "the brother of my soul" -- both high animacy, but, well, I would feel they were more precise than "my heart's sister" or "my soul's brother." Probably because a "heart's sister" might be a cardiac organ, rather than a more clearly metaphorical relation.
Perhaps the rule is more that if the animacy is equal, then "the X of its Y" is more valid. The door of the house. The sister of her heart. (Where "heart" is metaphorically extended into the person herself.)
But then there's stuff like "The boyfriend of my childhood," which is indicating a relationship at a certain duration, and "My childhood's boyfriend" is just wrong. (Though "my childhood boyfriend" then works, but is less poetic. >_> )
Maybe those are rhetorical effect? (Palace of the King is fancier than The King's Palace...)
...I'll shut up now. >_>
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Date: 2018-09-28 06:20 am (UTC)However, I can answer that one. When speaking in the present tense, we don't use the progressive aspect with verbs such as like, love, feel, want.
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Date: 2018-09-28 06:54 pm (UTC)