you could still buy buckets of bricks, and the whole back wall was loose bricks for people that wanted to make their own bucket. I've been playing with Lego for thirty years. I always wanted to make what was on the box first, but eventually it became whatever the hell I wanted it to be. If someone wants to whine about children not being creative these days, I think Lego is the last reason they aren't creative!

My thoughts exactly. I know dozens of Mac users that wouldn't have a clue how to check because they've lived under the false impression that Macs are completely invunerable.

When taking "History of the English Language" last year as part of my graduate work, the professor I studied under was part of the Middle English Dictionary Project. It was interesting to speak with him on the life and death of words after the printing press, and I remember him giving a 30 to 50 year estimation for a word to cement itself or become rare. It doesn't really seem like this is anything new.

My first look at the word and all I could think was morphologically unproductive. It has a strange sound to it when said, and IMO something better could have been found that would have given a better description of the "field". Oh well, this is what happens when a physicist is doing the job of a linguist.

The episode is available on Netflix should you wish to watch it. Season 4, Episode 24 according to Google.

Obviously you weren't in Seattle for the months of June, July, August, and September. All we've had are gorgeous sunny days with temperatures between 60 and 85F. Four months of amazing whether and eight months of drizzle and chill is definitely more favorable than the five months of 90F+, 100% humidity BS I moved out of when I left the south.

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AUX -> { {(T)(M)(to)} (perf)(prog)(pass)}

An auxilliary can be a tense, modal, or to along with the combinations of the perfect, progressive, passive aspects. This rule comes from The Grammar Book (which I have sitting on my desk because I am a TESOL instructor), chapter 31, page 645. The use of to to make the infinitive in English is accepted by most linguists to act as any other auxilliary and conform to the rules of how adverbials interact with auxilliaries.

The idea of not splitting infinitives was concieved in the 19th century when linguist tried to push Latin grammar onto the English language with the Latin infinitive being an inflection of the verb rather than an aspect of the verb as it has been since English pushed towards the analytic side of the language spectrum.

Alan Wake did this between chapters (each was supposed to be an episode of a TV series). It made it really easy to set the game down for a few days and come back without problems, or forgetting what happened.

I always find statements like this funny when a friend with an iPhone can't make or recieve calls in a place I can with my phone. iPhones are great little handheld gadgets, but I swear when it come to being an actual phone they are one of the most worthless phones on the market. It doesn't matter if it's ATT, Verizon, or another carrier.

Pre-order codes from GameStop are now printed on your reciept at the time of pre-order or pick-up. Unless they are swiping your reciept or taking the code out of the game packaging, there is nothing for them to steal.

and yes that means I use IE. But, when it consistently tells me things like Downloader_Diablo2_enUS.exe can harm my computer after downloading it from battle.net I tend to not believe in its ability to really determine if something is malicious or not. As always, proper instruction on internet safety will go farther than a security feature that any idiot can bypass.

I seriously, do not need to post before having my first cup of coffee. I probably shouldn't be tutoring of teaching either. Yikes!

I can live with ain't and gansta, and using who instead of whom in all cases. But lol was being add to the OED was bad enough. l33t in its many for being added to the OED would be an atrocity!

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