Arkie

[rhanihf]

Here are a few photos of our baby Arkie, she's 8 mths old now so she is almost a cat. Most of you will no doubt be estatic to see photos of Nobby (her nickname), and to those of you who arn't and think I have gone a bit cat crazy (I know who you are Rebecca Scott) bad luck!.

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dialectical space

[rhanihf]

No I dont think it would work, not that its not a good idea just that I dont think people have the time and most probably not the interest. These are the sorts of things you could set up yourself as a teacher/lecturer and make it assessable so it would be compulsory.

As for my rabbit/kangaroo/bunny/cat creature. Since the user pic photos where she'd been unwell with allergies (yes the cat we got because she would be non-allergy causeing to us gets allergies itself- I see the irony)she has been desexed and put on some weight.

I was thinking about getting a few of us together one day over the hol's and going through all the english language elements like your eg:"rhetorical terms: Inversion, parallelism, repetition, propositioning clauses, tricolon, as well as arguing against the fact, begging the question, ad homonym,etc". I think Marc would be interested, Matt Humphery, maybe Marie, Gemma?
What do you think?

Re: dialectical space

[dr_mindbender82]

Defiantly, even the more advanced stuff like logic gates, inductive, and deductive arguments, syllogistic formula, there is a guy who works the service station down the road studying engineering, he promised when he gets the time he’s going to teach me binary which is how your deductive arguments work in relation to truth functions, which brings a whole new level to English with true and false statements and conductivity between arguments.

I think we should start with dialectics and rhetoric, and then move into logic. Grammar should probably be the foundation on which we start from like the German Gymnasium schools, and the old Grammar and Collage Prep schools. But it depends again on which school of grammar we want to start with, there are two major ones, traditional grammar, and transitive grammar. Transitive grammar developed alongside linguistics back in the sixties, and is less of a discipline, and more of a linguistic science.

dialectical space

[rhanihf]

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[john_mahoney]

Personally I'm more of a dog guy, but I have to say, thats a cute little cat :)

[rhanihf]

Thank you, I love dogs too but we cant have one where we live. Our family labrador who was 15 had to be put down last week which was very sad but she had a great life and was a great companion to all of us at different times when we were in our teens, or the parents of teens. Arkie is a Devon Rex and her personality is very dog like. She always wants to be around us and involved. My husband and her play hide and seek and run around the house like maniacs, and she is good company. My friends have put an 'Talking about Arkie ban' on me, personally i cant understand it!