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Paladin Foster

PaladinFoster said
Can't say I have a girlfriend, that doesn't really matter to me anymore. Not more than it does to anyone really. I can say I don't need this baby blanket though.Gotta say the college experience rules. Real life rules. I have friends, classes, work, personal projects. I create art and get drunk, live life. Oh god I remember that now. I meant it as a joke but that's just so creepy and blech. Typical of younger me. Anyway yeah fuck like 90% of the people in Spam at the time of my leaving. Necroing this thread just to piss you buttchuggers off. Smell ya later.

Nice to see you're doing alright kiddo.

IS SPAM DEAD

To answer Problem 2, I have plotted the verbs kill and have. I believe that in looking at the relevant properties in the above chart, we can determine that one is a stable verb and the other is unstable. In the case of kill, we see a clear concentration of proto-agent and proto-theme properties for the following example: “Claire(Su) killed Andrew(DO).” The verb is stable not just because of the cluster of properties indicated, but because in every situation it is clear that Claire is the agent of Andrew’s demise. She is the cause. Even if the statement became passive (“Andrew(Su) was killed by Claire(IO)”), she is still the cause and he is still the theme. I believe that Andrew even fits the “comes into being” property because the larger meaning of that property is a change of state—something, by way of the predicate, is being altered. In this case it is Andrew’s classification of being alive that is changed. In no situation could it be that his state isn’t changed (“Claire killed Andrew, but Andrew didn’t die”), or that his state didn’t change but hers did. And we can’t say, “Claire killed Andrew,” but mean that Andrew killed Claire. The consistency of Claire’s status of being the agent means this is a stable verb. In contrast, have (or has) is not stable. For example someone might say, “Anne has red hair.” Unlike in the first case, where at first glance we intuitively know that Claire was the agent(killer) and Andrew was the theme(victim), in this case there is no clear agent or theme. Anne is the subject and her red hair is the direct object, but their syntactic roles don't connect to any semantic roles. Anne isn't volitional, she's not committing an act that has any effect on her hair, and she didn't do anything to cause her state of red hair. Her red hair is not changed by her action, is not being acted upon, and serves only to indicate a characteristic. The fact that 'has' (in this context) is a stative predicate also has an impact. Often stative predicates tend to be unstable verbs and leave indications of agent and/or theme unclear. In this case the proto-agent properties and intuition are consistent with that trend. I think one of the underlying points in Dowty's view of semantic and syntactic connections is that when verbs are stable and the agent and theme are clearly indicated, the semantic roles of each line up with the syntactic counterparts of an active sentence(Su to agent and DO to theme). In this case since neither seem to fit, I believe has is an unstable verb.

Drunk people refuse to go to sleep

shut up I'm going to sleep in a sec

I had some gin ok it wasn't that much

no jk I know what you mean. you're good rpg.

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I'd feel totes snubbed, but I'm not really around much anymore.

guyshelpme

You'll adjust to socializing with more people. You should for sure find ways to recharge/take a break (which can be hard on campus I know), but eventually the increased socializing will become a lot more comfortable for you. Just find people you feel comfortable with and try to open up a bit/be yourself.

It's a crapshoot but chances are you'll find some. I did, and I had no idea that was possible. lol

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ImANargleHunter said
:/

I was trying to think of some way to respond to this thread but instead I'm just happy to see the gif in your sig. yay kieren.

what is this?

please be less disappointing for your sequel performance than Griever has been.

And now the most anticipated Spam-fic of 2014

I will definitely be checking back for this one.

Is tinychat dead?

Aragorn said
He's kidding. The IRC is dead. They are too busy circle jerking in that skype group.

Lol wow