Bye Scarlett

@Miilky - Name him Chocolate. So then it will be Chocolate and Miilky XD

-giggles-
Anyways night. I shall decide in the morning. Right now my headache is becoming overbearing. >>

Oh no! Get an ice pack! Aspirin! Anything! Ibuprofen!

Night night again Miilky.

I got bored and made new banners, as indicated by my signature. But I can't put this new one on yet because my laptop's acting up.

If you want, here you go!

Nuuuuu, it'd destroy the aesthetics of my sig!

then? You can keep yours, but I'm just bored!

Yes I made stuff based off your template >: )

*gasps* you horribly sticky fingered bandit! Why don't you go read some porn like normal people do when they're bored! D:

Because porn bores me to death lately.

Anyway I'm gonna go head back into study mode now so I will ttyl...whenever the heck I show up again.

*gasps* You're not human! You're totally a robot!

Be gone foul robot! Be gone!

Wait what?

Ack! The evil robot is here! Run away! Run away! *runs away*

Originally Posted by Cookie Clone

@Fading - I feel stupid for not knowing exactly what rule she's breaking, but as a native speaker, you don't leave out random words like that. She's dragging the language outback and kicking it in the ribs, trying to make it conform. O_o

Wait. I found it! She's leaving out the predicative verb. As the article states, some languages do leave out that verb, in this case the "is" but English is not one of those languages.

Thanks! I'll be sure to memorize that and ask the teacher about it again tomorrow and see what she says XD

*stares at the robot conversation o_O;*

I can see ways of saying what she said in a similar manner, but not with those specific words. It doesn't work that specific way.

If she'd said "I found that movie thought provoking," there would be an omitted "to be". "I found that movie to be thought provoking." It's a bit above your every day speech. And the thought part would have to be in there. You rarely see the word provoking in that context without also having thought right there.

You're not a robot are you?

Yeah, that's what my friend said too. There are others ways of leaving out the is and was, but not in that particular way, it just sounds plain weird and unnatural. >__>;

And I don't think I'm a robot, but you never know...o 3o

Yep. Tell her to spend a few more years in America, or at least speaking English on forums ^_~!

Well, you are made of iron.....

Haha, I'd love to do that in her face XD She'll probably give me a hard time in her classes from then on though, and that'd be pretty troublesome >_> I'll just tell her that my American friends have all told me that leaving out the predicative verb is just plain wrong and weird. And see how she takes that, since she's been boasting to us about having been to the states before and all. :P

Didn't you say you used to live in Texas? So you have the same experience as her, plus you frequently and fluently speak in English online. I'd say you're a few steps ahead of her XD

Of course, it's best not to alienate her and have her bullying you for the rest of the time you're stuck in her class.

I'm bullying the poetry forum right now >_> Why does everything in there rhyme? :gonk:

Yeah, I've been living there for about eight years total in my life, though I technically only know up to fourth grade elementary in English since I came back here after that ^_^;; Don't want to let her know about it though, I've had bad past experience with teachers who learned about me having used to live in the states before. So I'll just pretend that I've been surfing online message boards and learned all my English there >_>;;

lol I think it's because most people think that poetry = rhymes. I personally like it better if the verses rhyme, but sometimes people overdo it, like having nearly all the lines rhyme, and using words that doesn't suit the poem just for the sake of making it rhyme. Haven't been to the Poetry forums on Mene much before though.

I can see how people might try to expect more from you even though it was so long ago. That's like people being born in another country and knowing the language, but moving to another where it's not spoken and forgetting it. If you don't use it, that knowledge doesn't always stay with you.

People automatically associate rhyming with poems. But they have no concept of verses or how to create lines or rhyme schemes. They just make stuff rhyme in short little lines and call it a poem. They also seem to think the more vague, obscure, and inaccessible it is, the deeper and more awesome it is or something. I'm generalizing of course, but that's what it feels like.

Makes me glad that I've always liked reading Goosebumps and Stephen King, those are two main reasons why I still kept up with my English despite not using them in my daily life much XD;; Then the Internet sprung up and I got sick of how people use chat speech and all that crap in Chinese and therefore escaped to the world of English websites...>.>;

Oh. Yeah. I've had a few people PM their poems to me back on MySpace asking me about my opinion. Truth be told, I had no idea what the hell they were trying to express through it, it looked very vague and random...but I just be polite and tell them that it's lovely. I don't have much of a poetic gene in me. <w < > w>;

I wish I'd kept up with my French. But I'm so lazy. I also took Japanese, but by then I was so lazy that I never really learned it to begin with >_> Even being an anime fan didn't help me learn it. I just didn't use it.

I don't think you need a poetry gene to appreciate poetry. I think that people need to get their heads out of their butts when they write poetry XD

Yeah, that happened to me when I was studying Japanese too. So far, I can recognize a few hirigana and katakana, recognize a few words in spoken Japanese, but that's about it. I usually just live off by attempting to decipher their meanings from the kanji >__>;

I don't even read them anymore ^_^; It's not helping that our teacher for English Literature seems to be a poem fan and has been going non-stop about poetry in our classes of late. I really don't have any interest in poetry at all but he's just cramming it all down into our heads...he's even mimicking the noise described in the books, such as 'Meeeh meeeeh' (sheep baahing), and 'weee weeeee' from this kid's crying. Makes me headdesk every time.

I've pretty much forgotten my katakana and hirigana. I can't even write my name in Japanese anymore. You'd think I should be able to do that at least. I can say a few small phrases and words, but that's it really. Nothing useful. Unless I get hunted down by some yakuza. Then I can yell "Stop!" and "Help me!" XD

I don't really read poetry much either. I especially don't care to read amateur works for most of the reasons I've stated. I just noticed that one of the thread regulars had posted in there and wandered in and started commenting. Some of them are...so not good. There was one about deflowering...I'm so not kidding. *winces*

I only know 'Stop', I've never even learned how to say "Help" XD;;

*cringe* Egh. x__x