teaching today

the first day

they will take my pict
ure

g says, 'there's a lot of cute guys around'
speaking of the students.

WE ARE PROFESSIONAL

run or beat off?

run or beat off?

i wonder where alex is from.

goat nuts.

wearing red socks today.

with skulls. and crossbones.

Fish or cut bait?

Go and be snotty, or don't go and be passive-aggressive?

I need guidance.

I went. I wasn't snotty. I think all is well.

huh?

wondering who the hell Katja is. Jinafishes?


double negative:

"I DIDNT mean to NOT put my name down."

it would be more grammatically correct to say

"i accidentally forgot to sign my name"

Downloading Mandrake 8.0 Linux. And downloading. And downloading. Holy cow, will it ever end?

we all don't not know the magic of the double negative patrick



AHHH. TOO MANY PEOPLE.
my tolerance has already slipped. find me a quiet room.


If I didn't start painting, I would have raised chickens.
~ Grandma Moses ~

patty patty, this is ironic.

first,
"it would be more grammatically correct"

you can't be more correct. that is poor usage.

your other sentence, however, is perfectly fine. and not a double negative.

You guys must be really bored to be making all this fuss about grammar,why don't you call an addiction hotline and tell them your hooked on phonics? Record it too,"what's up with f and ph"?,you can probably do better than me.Orion just turned 4 months on the 19th and he already has a tooth,it has barely broke the skin,but it,s there and the one next to it looks like it will pop out anytime ,he's such a sweet,happy,cuddly baby.I miss his brother,but things are coming around in that dept. too. Amee's last court appt. was in April,she had to go to court supervised visits with little Jon,she has to pay for half,and her ex,has to half,anyway,he's been coming there late,not paying his half,and all this is going to the judge,it's contempt of court,plus when little Jon was at one of the visit's,he mentioned that he doesn't live with his dad and never sees his dad,and it did come out that he hasn't received his birthday or Christmas presents from us,his "grammy" say's she got them for him.I hate that woman,more than I've ever hated anyone in my life,but this will all blow up in their face.

janny@sorabji.com

hell i always make a fuss about my grammar


she's gettin' mighty old ya know



RED SOCKS
red skies and deja vu

i often wonder where im from, my mother tells me i came from iside her womb. but i often think this cannot be the case as i am far to tall to fit in there.

I prefer to think i come from Hitchin

It makes me happier thinking like that.

agreeing with all this stuff about the importance of grammar because it makes sentances far easier to read for instance without it it would be very hard to read things and you would run out of breath without commas or full stops and double negatived are magic yes but we are not from the eas end so we do not nead to say things like i neva did nothing (see this sentance had no grammer in and i bet you had to add it yourself either that or you got very confused!)

wondering where are all you guys and galls from then?

nate i dont like the way my name and "goat nuts" come up in the same message like that!
It scares me!

Albuquerque!

wilting in the heat -> its soooo damn hot here today!!!! give me water, waaater before i shrivel up and dissapear

ah well im definately not from there!

http://crazyarchitects.moonfruit.com

thinking will this work?

realising clearly not!

Nate, you don't know a double negative from your ass, which is quite the double negative itself. Patrick sinned against grammar, but he was in good company:

Viola (Twelth Night) speaking of her heart -
"Nor never none. Shall mistress of it be, save I alone."

And Al Jolson: "You ain't heard nothing yet."

Ronald Reagan: "You ain't seen nothing yet, folks."

where r u from cat?

being who the hell she is!

http://www.geocities.com/m_katja

what?

is noticing that there are no beaver shots on Katja's website. DAMN!

beaver shots? like the ones building damns? aw they r cute!

ah i get it : katje is: being who the hell she is! ah hee hee

wondering if Yahoo chat have closed their "Boring British banalities" room or something.

oooh sorry to be so boring cat, didnt realise it was too lively in here for me!

fuck you, you ass

and fuck architects

architects suck

they are boring

sorry im not boring! how would u know what im like anyway?

Anyway im not a fuckin' architect i am a 1st year uni student

thinking

"I didnt mean to not put my name down"

"I did not mean to not put my name down"

double negative

poop

hey there is no need to be so negative about these double negatives!, i they neva done nothing bad

you are at architecture school and so i know how much you suck!!
sucker!!!!

corbusier up your ass!??!

SUPERDUTCH



the trouble is you don't get my joke. i am sorry. don't listen to me.

what joke? no its ok i dont mind listening to u even if u r nasty! heck we all are at times ->it can b fun! :) he he!!!!

fuckin Corbusier i hate him!!!! ill give him 'the Crow' what a fuckin ponce!

n eway how u know about Corbusier and stuff n e way? what do u do? if u dont mind me askin?

THIS IS NOT PERSONAL CHAT ROOMY!!??!!

CORBUSIER!?!
he likes me
he drew in my notebook


i know MANY THING!!

today, apparently, is not a good day to ask

lol gees it seems never is a good day looking at the old messaged here!

"I didnt mean to not put my name down"

not a double negative.

I didn't not mean to put my name down.

double negative.

eat me, cat.

The more i look at it the more it isnt wrong
heck he's right you know!

well its 12:30 way past the bedtime of boring fucking architects so i guess i had better negate myself doubletime off to bed (hold on that makes no sense) ah well

i'm always right, alex. and no one can convince me otherwise.

i happen to be in a line of work where i have easy access to a linguist. here is what she said:

"I meant to not put my name down. I didn't mean to put my name down. Do these mean the same thing?"

she also drew something that looked kind of like this:

~mean(x)
~put(y,z)

again, eat me.

hm. easy access to a linguist.



how lucky and omniscient can one person be?

Nate is incorrect.
Cat and the Pat are correct.

"I didnt mean to not put my name down"
Take a way one negative, (n't) in this case, and you get I did meant to not put my name down.

Take away the other negative, (not) and you are left with "I didn't mean to put my name down". That changes the meaning of the statement.

However, if you take BOTH negatives out, you are left with:
I did mean to put my name down.

THAT, MY FRIENDS IS THE DEFINITION OF DOUBLE NEGATIVE.

Alas Nate, you do not have access to such a cunning linguist. Damn but I've always wanted to use those two words in a sentence.

"Double Negative: The use of two or more negatives in the same construction....2) If the meaning is rhetorically positive. (She is not unintelligent: She is intelligent; You can't not respect their decision: You have to respect their decision; Nobody has NO friends: Everybody has some friends: I didn't mean to not put my name down; I meant to put my name down)."

The Oxford Companion to the English Language

son, he says,

i don't not matter if it ain't right iffin there ain't noone that cares what ya have t'say

well, yeah.

she actually said it was a double negative, but i thought i'd push it.

i don't think subordinate phrases should be considered for double negativehood. that makes the meaning of double negative so simplistic.

but you and patrick are correct, cat. you are peers. you are a club of two. enjoy your happy club.

and alex, you fucking moron. you were starting to believe me.

i'm never right. now you know.

oh, sorry cat. you're a club of three... you, patty and spunky.

you might say you are the queen of the club.

NATE!

NATE!,
You take that back, you walleyed muck sucker!!!
*SOB*

That's sob, not S.O.B.

Now now, Nate. No need to get all bitter and twisted. It's grammar, not the last chance to win a free buttfucking session with Spunky. You can afford to be wrong on this one.

By the way, I meant to enter my name.

Taking care of Lois the
Good's horses in
exchange for a ton of
alfalfa. The Bad Lois
moved to Arkansas.
Some miners bought
her property; they have
longhorn cattle. Not a
herd, just a couple of
pets.

Today I saw Ravi
Duck's penis. What a
shock: it is a
corkscrew, and I think
way too big for a duck
his size. It was an
accident; I was not
spying.

It is fire season and
rattlesnake season. I
am staying home. The
rodents are out of
control. They run in
packs and laugh aloud
when we try to frighten
them. There is a
squirrel in this room
right now. Au secours.

Where is Blindswine?

glad that sheila's still going. this world needs more sheila going on. hoping she has a good fire break around the house and a BIG macheté for snake hacking. advising steering clear of the pine squirrel: pound for pound the meanest little fucker in the west, despite their affinity for automobile tires. mwa.

back from Vancouver, after having just seen Radiohead yesterday. It's left me a little empty.

freezing my kiwi butt off

shit shit shit i did think u were right Nate but clearly this was your time to be wrong! it all becomes suddenly and horrificaly clear to me, this whole double negative thingy......

Sheila is like a breath of clean mountain air.

Any recommendations for snake leggings? I ask merely out of curiosity.

Suffering from overwhelming fear that his has pissed Nate off.

that is absolutely ridiculous, spunky.

why would anyone be afraid of pissing ME off?

christ almighty.

i stink. i'm going to go cut my hair.

So, is your hair the object that is causing nasal offense?

thinking.....

alex has anyone invited to eat flaming cock with hotfuck rammed so far up your ass you taste kerosene?

this morning is the dawn of wht hopes to be a continuing trend. i woke up feeling somewhat sparkly as last night was the firsxt night in i don't know how long i didn't consume more than 16oz of alcohol or sucked on pipe loaded with high grade dope and hash. im so UN HAZY this morning its toxicating.

Maybe its the new book i started this am.

Subterraneans.

elipses and run on sentences GALORE!!!!! I couldn't be a happier non-grammar fuck monkey.


don't be such a literalist spunky...the literal gets you into trouble more times that not.

do you think nate gives a rats ass about when he pisses you off?

just take your quarter grain and go puke a while.

boys are funny

over heating. It's hot. Too fucking hot

It's damn hot. No air movement. Friggin hot, and I have to friggin drive 80 friggin miles home, with no friggin wife at home and no friggin dinner, and no friggin money to go out because I am too busy spending it on friggin gas.
FUCK!

thinking the spunkster should be talking to his employer about mileage reimbursement or finding a new job

learning that i question too much to actually teach.

there is gonna be a storm tonite - a big one, someone will ahev to sleep downstairs to keep the dog company, bet it'll have to be me... thought dogs were sposed to guard the home, not need guarding themselves! and I have cement burns on my hands

Wondering just where the cement burns came from?
Do you have any matching on your knees???

no i dont have matching ones on my knees, i have burned my throat tho, (no not from the kerosene fucking thingy Pat!) from the dust, i have been laying concrete in the scorching heat

i have huge dreams.

they're impossible,

if you believe in that sort of thing.

Does anyone want an explanation for what alex is talking about???

you mean about how concrete out of the bag is a skin irritant?

I re-read the post. Nevermind. I thought he said he was laying ON concrete in the scorching heat.....
Ooops.
Anything mixed with sweat could be a skin irritant...

well, really, spunky, anything at all could be a skin irritant. it depends on what your skin is like.

but concrete is labeled as such.

Thank you Dr Nate

can't call me that spunky. i was kicked out of medschool.

Killing a patient has that effect.

no, she was already dead.

but she was beautiful man. such a beautiful creature, even in death.

you would have fucked her too.