I have been thinking mostly about language and have a couple of fun things for you to do in your (many) idle moments.
Task 1.
Did you realise that there is an order to listed adjectives?
So if you want to talk about a new, beautiful, leather, big black work bag
or a ginger, elderly, fat, greedy, three-legged, sick, cat you need to order those adjectives.
Without leaving this page try it out.
Now, here is an acronym to help you.
OSACOMP.
The first person to tell me what it stands for without doing a search gets a Mars Bar!
Second task.
The yinkish dripner blorked quastofically into the nindin with the
pidibs.
Identfy the parts of speech in the above sentence. Nouns,verbs, adjectives etc. ( It is taken from a linguistics text book and the earlier reference from a blog, but I'm not giving links.)
Does this mean a part of speech is simply defined by its position in a sentence rather than its meaning?
I find the application of rules to instinctive, if that is the right word, language use a very interesting idea that is like an electric toaster when you try to take it apart.
You need to do this to understand the metaphor.
I encourage you all to loosen (or losen, as some would have it) the screws on your toasters.
I hear the sound of breaking glass from the other room.
It must be those damn courgettes again!