Comments | flowery_twat: lets all do science!

flowery_twat

lets all do science!

Mar 09, 2006 13:08

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flowery_twat March 9 2006, 18:32:38 UTC

The tense mismatch is deliberate. Don't want to say more here, but there's a bit of an explanation at the end of list 3 in comments to jolie.

Thanks. :-)

msilverstar March 9 2006, 21:25:25 UTC

Oh good, cos I couldn't let that go, had to mark those as 4s!

swmbo March 9 2006, 19:25:21 UTC

*leans*

I took one and I shall take more! Because sometimes clicking buttons is as about as much of an effort as I can stand to make.

flowery_twat March 9 2006, 19:51:36 UTC

Oh, Bo. You're still at work, aren't you. Are you feeling any better?

*loves back to perfect health*

swmbo March 9 2006, 19:58:50 UTC

I am tired and cranky! But my throat is *slightly* less sore, which is a plus I think. And I am not hungry enough to eat (plus food sounds icky) so I think I will leave early, in a couple of hours, and then there is SOUP because I have some of the chicken noodle soup Mombo made when she came to visit me a couple weeks ago - she made so much I froze several containers.

ANd few things help more than homemade chicken noodle soup.

flowery_twat March 9 2006, 20:04:10 UTC

It sounds like Mom's Chicken Noodle Soup is *exactly* what you need. Also some sleep and some quiet and some kitty-snuggles. I'm glad your throat is less sore though. :-)

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I wonder jits March 9 2006, 22:14:19 UTC

If the use of spelling of words with two meanings is deliberate. ie 'pat -- pet'. There are two meanings of pet, one of which relates closely, the other, not so close.

Re: I wonder flowery_twat March 9 2006, 23:15:54 UTC

Lots and lots of these words are ambiguous - it's a big part of why I asked y'all to rely on first instincts. Either the related meaning popped to mind and you gave the pair a high score, or the unrelated meaning was more salient for you and you gave it a lower score - the relative likelihood of one meaning vs. another should become clear in the averaged data. This stuff is all very complicated when you try to pin down the relationship betweem meanings and word forms. So to answer your question, it's not so much that the ambiguity of 'pet' is deliberate as that it's unvoidable. :-)