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[Reg Smeeton]

I too have a Latin GCSE Reg, I still regularly have nightmares about present past participles.

Ahh but what you have to remember is that when Reg was at school latin was still the official spoken tongue of this septic Isle.

When Reg was at school they probably taught him grammar and sentence construction, something that was missing entirely from my English education. I learnt more from reading books than I did from English teachers.

   What is known as "parsing"  Defined thus:

   Parsing involves the procedure of bringing basic morphosyntactic categories into high-level syntactic relationships with one another.

[axs]

AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

[Reg Smeeton]

AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

 In cyber space, no-one can hear you scream.

[axs]

in my living room i can hear me scream.

[Reg Smeeton]

in my living room i can hear me scream.

 Are you sure its not you feel yourself scream, as the vibrations in your larynx, must be resonating internally at the same time as vibrations are being received on your ear drum....

[OOH! SHAUN TAYLOR]

how do you pronounce it?

i'm going to try and put that into a conversation today to sound cleverish, sort of!!!!!!  

 If you follow JA's advice and use it as an adjective, you wont sound at all clever.

 

I do wish I had a better knowledge of the English language, verb, noun, adjective wise.  Can't remember any of that kind of thing from school.

I think you do pretty well really Jock, considering it's not your first language.

[axs]

in my living room i can hear me scream.

 Are you sure its not you feel yourself scream, as the vibrations in your larynx, must be resonating internally at the same time as vibrations are being received on your ear drum....

But the sound waves hit the walls and furniture and bounce back and then i hear them.

[Reg Smeeton]

in my living room i can hear me scream.

 Are you sure its not you feel yourself scream, as the vibrations in your larynx, must be resonating internally at the same time as vibrations are being received on your ear drum....

But the sound waves hit the walls and furniture and bounce back and then i hear them.

 Are you sure this isn't  an example of Huygens/ Fresnel interference principle?
 
   Go on scream....lets get empirical.  Where do you hear it?

[axs]

Good question, but isn't Huygen's principle based on light wave - or does it work for sound too?

[Reg Smeeton]

Good question, but isn't Huygen's principle based on light wave - or does it work for sound too?

  Acoustic diffraction modelling ....

[axs]

i assume wave interference occurs with all types of waves. In this case it would depend on the specifics and whether the waves cause constructive or destructive interference once reflected.

meh, where's the wine gone.

[JPC82]

this thread is boring as heck  

[axs]

i can't hear you.

[Reg Smeeton]

i can't hear you.

 Nor can I......ear wax blockage.

 Some years ago I read an anthropology book, that argued a bona fide way of distinguishing separate homo sapiens groups, was on the basis of different ear wax....this theory suggested there were 6 separate groups of homo sapiens ....viz   (a) Australoid; (b) Caucasoid; (c) Mongoloid; (d) Negroid  (e) New Guinean pygmies (f) African pygmies.

 This now appears to be a wholly outdated and racist view, although thisis seeems to provide some evidence for (c)

[axs]

I don't think it's racist to say there are differences between people - you're not saying one is inferior to the other - just very slightly different.