We got a heated throw blanket for Christmas. I don’t think my dog will leave it for anything. He likes it even more than his usual spot on my lap.
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Uh, it is slavery. I am their slave. Right now Nemo is whining and pseudo-barking looking for a snack that isn’t coming.
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I told you what I think of genitive case, but I suppose I am not clear what you mean by “case structure”. Is that like describing the grammatical construct state with cons cells?
You’re familiar that IE languages have a series of cases such as accusative, locative, dative, and genitive. These change how words are constructed to show relationships between parts of speech. English has largely disposed of them in practice by using a fixed word order.
Try looking at Russian, Latin, or Greek if you want over the top examples of case structure.
I had assumed tijar you had learned a non-English western language at some point.
The English possessive ‘s’ is the remaining of the genitive case in English.
Bob’s House
House of Bob
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Yes, I have learned a bit about Latin and Sanskrit. Not much, but enough that it makes English seem quite limited/limiting in terms of relationships. (cries)
January 14, 2016
The crabs have staked out a position in my pubic wildlife area and refuse to leave. They claim to have grazing rights, and do not acknowledge my sovereign authority of what I consider holy land.
Please send rhetorical arguments. And snacks. Hold the lube.
*signed*
there will be no fun in funruly today
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I tried to hold the lube, darling… but, it’s just so slippery!
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Molds per se not so often, but you can buy containers of Saccharomyces with the usual purpose of exploiting them to death. Most health stores also sell some select bacteria, though in their case eating them and releasing them into the wild can get hard to tell apart.
If we really care about all species, though, the kingdom that are most often treated as property, bought, sold, and used up, are the Plantae. In our defense, they don’t always seem that concerned with escape.
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KRYTEN: I’ve done a spot of tidying up.
LISTER: But where is everything? Where’s me coffee cup with the mould in it?
KRYTEN: I threw it away, sir.
LISTER: But I was breeding that mould. His name was “Albert.” I was trying to get him two foot high.
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It’s more like being a Bee Landlord. You give them room, and take honey in exchange.
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Hungarian has 21 cases…
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sort of a sharecropping arrangement, then?
I suppose? It’s kinda hard to apply specific property-ownership dynamics to something that only involves 1 human and something that has no conception of property.
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That’s why I suggested you do a conlang.
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#ALL BREAD IS MURDER
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246 ways of conjugating a verb, lofász!
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“Would messiur like a ■■■■■ scalp massage?”
“Your tongue smells like butt. Your butt”
“Why yes messiuer, that is the house fragrance. I shall commence forthwith.”
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