the off-topic thread

I have a new kitten. Her name is Emu. When I called her, she just stood thee looking at me. I tried calling her again, but she just vanished into the bushes.

 

two of my roomates arent paying the utility bills, then have thier friend come over and do four loads of his laundry. PAY THE BILLS!!!! ahh anger

 

Yeah, i like to sign my cards with the bunnies names too, so what?

 

I need some new lypsel!!

 

Im feeling better!!!!!!!


Im better im better im better

WOOOOT!


Ahh, the eyes are blurry but the spirit is now willing...college here i comes (3 years and a few days late)

 

Da sun dunt go dowunz. Tis just an illoojun causd bai da wrld spinnin rownd lolz

 

indeed this is so on topic that i think i might go eat one im hungry, that said i think ill have a biscuit they are deffinatly better

 

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1. ... the difficult task of attempting to define 'what a [[_____]] is', we should concentrate on describing what we recognise ...
2. ... different methods used in various languages to mark the '[[_____]] constituent' of sentences. It has also been used by ...
3. ... this part of the conversation. Characterising the individual speaker's [[_____]] as 'what I think we're talking about' ...
4. ... 'making your contribution relevant in terms of the existing [[_____]] framework' — could be captured more succinctly in the ...
5. ... discourse in terms of what the participants share. The '[[_____]] framework', as an analytic device, is essentially a means ...
6. ... 'Make your contribution relevant in terms of the existing [[_____]] framework.' What we have characterised as a convention of ...
7. ... and 'the speaker's topic' within a '[[_____]] framework'. We shall also consider briefly how markers of ...
8. ... and is he, this system or the other players the [[_____]] of (7)? It is possible to make a guess at ...
9. ... et al. 1987; von Braun 1988). This is an important [[_____]] since 95 per cent of rural households in the USA ...
10. ... Had a good pub-crawl last night. Everyone talking about war-jolly [[_____]] for a night out. 'Look on the bright side ...
11. ... some recent attempts to construct a theoretical notion of '[[_____]]', a notion which seems to be essential to concepts ...
12. ... summary of Tey's work, and so is an appropriate [[_____]] for a conclusion. With a longer dissertation, be careful not ...
13. ... by Venneman to provide a formal means of identifying the [[_____]] in a discourse fragment. He suggests that like 'all ...
14. ... basis for making claims about notions such as 'the [[_____]] of a discourse' is extremely misleading. Relevance and speaking ...
15. ... investigation. He considers the expression 'topic' or '[[_____]] of a discourse' as referring to a discourse subject ...
16. ... of the discourse subject. (Venneman, 1975 317) This definition of [[_____]] has a certain intuitive appeal, in the sense that what ...
17. ... topic' in this type of experiment suggests that the [[_____]] of a text is equivalent to the title and that ...
18. ... demonstration of what was promised in the paragraph's opening, [[_____]] sentence. A short essay covering four A4 pages (about 1, ...
19. ... people change with technology. Learning Learning has been a major [[_____]] within academic psychology for the past century or so. The ...
20. ... appears to be able to recognise speaker D's alternative [[_____]] and accepts what she thinks speaker D is talking about ...
21. ... distinguish their notion of topic from the grammarians' sentential [[_____]], Keenan & Schieffelin (1976) used the term discourse topic. They ...
22. ... understood, in eighteenth-century drama. (b) Treat a specific question or [[_____]] as an instance of a more general question or topic ...
23. ... that have topics, but speakers' (Morgan, 1975: 434). Discourse [[_____]] In an attempt to distinguish their notion of topic from ...
24. ... contributes to the conversation in terms of both the existing [[_____]] framework and his or her personal topic. It is clear ...
25. ... be judged to be relevant in terms of the existing [[_____]] framework and also to add some information to the topic ...
26. ... subsequent remarks to the two salient time co-ordinates within the [[_____]] framework and adds some specific information on the 'money ...
27. ... particular point in a discourse. Once the elements in the [[_____]] framework and the interrelationships between them have been identified, the ...
28. ... no such thing as the one correct expression of the [[_____]] for any fragment of discourse. There will always be a ...
29. ... book to see what other people have written about the [[_____]] you are working on. You can use abstracts as an ...
30. ... both 'speaking topically' and 'speaking on a [[_____]]' are present. Both forms are based on the existing ...
31. ... to be comprehensive, and there are aspects of a huge [[_____]] that are barely touched. What the book does attempt to ...
32. ... That is, in building a framework for the analysis of [[_____]], we are not adding any machinery to the apparatus of ...
33. ... choice is consistent with the overall purpose of the essay [[_____]] you are proposing. Once you have chosen your texts (or ...
34. ... simple sentence (see Chapter 5). Nor are we considering '[[_____]]' as a grammatical constituent of any kind. We are ...
35. ... are primarily interested in the general pretheoretical notion of '[[_____]]' as 'what is being talked about' in ...
36. ... wishes to use the very attractive pretheoretical notion of '[[_____]]' as 'what is being talked/written about' ...
37. ... Guernsey / I haven't read yet The treatment of '[[_____]]' as a grammatical term, identifying a constituent in the ...
38. ... towards that theme (which may be anything from a conventional [[_____]], such as lost love, to an apparently unresolvable philosophical question ...
39. ... for being left-handed + + Given a fragment of conversation and a [[_____]] framework as in (10), it is possible for the analyst ...
40. ... We shall consider the possibility of representing 'the discourse [[_____]]' as a proposition when we investigate the proposition-based analysis ...
41. ... discourse' is extremely misleading. Relevance and speaking topically The [[_____]] framework, as we have described it, represents the area of ...
42. ... framework within which the topic is constituted, that is, the [[_____]] framework. As a way of characterising the type of feature ...
43. ... something than with what he talked about. Any consideration of [[_____]] involves asking why the speaker said what he said in ...
44. ... 4 SIGNPOSTING AND CONNECTIVES It is not only headings and [[_____]] sentences at the beginning of paragraphs which signal the directions ...
45. ... the discourse as a whole. Identifying the elements in the [[_____]] framework at any point in the discourse allows the analyst ...
46. ... with a quotation from someone else (see pp. 95—7). * Use [[_____]] sentences at the beginning (and sometimes also at the end ...
47. ... is written. Specific suggestions * If you are stuck for a [[_____]], look at our description of the range of possible points ...
48. ... in goods should be facilitated. Details of this very large [[_____]] must be sought elsewhere but the principal exceptions are briefly ...
49. ... in a particular discourse fragment. Certain elements which constrain the [[_____]] can be determined before this discourse begins. These elements are ...
50. ... as you answer an exam question or devise an essay [[_____]] will begin to fall into place. With the larger objectives ...
51. ... cease to be attempts to add anything to the conversational [[_____]]. Speaker B's view of the conversation has consequently become one ...
52. ... far, we have been concentrating on describing the 'conversational [[_____]]', but neglecting the notion of speaker's topic. As ...
53. ... ' are present. Both forms are based on the existing [[_____]] framework, but the distinction derives from what each individual speaker ...
54. ... the case of tragedy. If you are writing on this [[_____]] you can work out a list of different sorts of ...
55. ... In the terms used by Tyler (1978: 452), the '[[_____]]' can only be 'one possible paraphrase' of ...
56. ... TO SET QUESTIONS If you have to devise your own [[_____]], you can do so by selecting and combining from the ...
57. ... that is destined to become the magnum opus on the [[_____]] of chemical sensitivity, which is an important component of the ...
58. ... begin by returning to the question of defining your essay [[_____]]. You choose an author; but then you need to decide ...
59. ... found in them is worker participation, quite different from our [[_____]] of client participation. Some of the conclusions from this literature ...
60. ... literature on worker participation is of limited relevance to the [[_____]] of client participation, some of the recent research on the ...
61. ... clarity than de Santillana's. Kemp identifies optics as a [[_____]] of common concern to both art and science. (In a ...
62. ... of art.) Of the many interweaving strands within this extensive [[_____]] he concentrates primarily on the way artists have deployed scientific ...
63. ... Indeed, most conversational analysis is undertaken with this single '[[_____]]' concept as a working assumption. Yet, in extract (13 ...
64. ... are writing about important things, such as culture (a serious [[_____]]). These connotations of seriousness lead to academic writing having a ...
65. ... the relationship between pairs of sentences. The notion of '[[_____]]' considered by Venneman reflects the limitations of his investigation ...
66. ... characterisation of the topic framework for any discourse fragment. The [[_____]] framework consists of elements derivable from the physical context and ...
67. ... suggest that they constitute the contextual framework within which the [[_____]] is constituted, that is, the topic framework. As a way ...
68. ... the recommendations of The Fish Report, although some of the [[_____]] papers continued to support the idea of integration in general ...
69. ... what follows + but + is not on a separate speaker's [[_____]], but continues the talk 'about' 'my drink'. At ...
70. ... pick up' any elements from speaker M's personal [[_____]], but continues on her own personal topic area (i.e. ...
71. ... not simply assume that there is a single, static '[[_____]] of conversation' in any conversational fragment. If there is ...
72. ... which the conversational analyst tends to abstract as the '[[_____]] of conversation' for the participants ('What we're talking ...
73. ... that this potential incompatibility rarely leads to conflict over the [[_____]] of conversation. What typically happens is that, in the negotiation ...
74. ... 'what is being talked about', i.e. the [[_____]] of conversation, which is much more comprehensive, and certainly of ...
75. ... fragment. If there is an entity identifiable as 'the [[_____]] of conversation', the analyst should consider what evidence from ...
76. ... or bad at his job, something which is indeed a [[_____]] of conversation among MPs, not just among the media's ...
77. ... look at them differently, and it's avoided as a [[_____]] of conversation.' Resources are scarce, medical treatment limited and ...
78. ... is typically made by appealing to an intuitive notion of [[_____]]. The conversationalists stop talking about 'money' and move ...
79. ... at this point, a part of speaker M's personal [[_____]] which could become, in the developing conversation, a shared topic ...
80. ... 'topic' is rarely made explicit. In fact, '[[_____]]' could be described as the most frequently used, unexplained ...
81. ... be offering some new elements as part of the conversational [[_____]], again deriving from some personal reference (as in my father ...
82. ... there to be many guidelines available but for a particular [[_____]] the designer can assume that he need not be inhibited ...
83. ... for discourse participants to have to work out 'the [[_____]] of discourse' one sentence at a time. The most ...
84. ... as 'register' differences depending on variables like the [[_____]] of discussion and the roles of the participants (see e. ...
85. ... answer. (You do not need to know much about the [[_____]] to do this; you only need to be able to ...
86. ... to be included in a representation of this speaker's [[_____]], i.e. what he was talking about. It is not ...

 

subject?

 

neigh, a fish swallowing a banana
said the horse exporting concordance data

 

Oh whats it all for and whats the use?
Why am i such a tragedy
Here in the basement, going mad living inside my own head
And my bodys sick and i was the last mistake of a child
And whats the use?

 

Sure, deck your limbs in pants,
Yours are the limbs, my sweeting.
You look divine as you advance . . .
Have you seen yourself retreating?

- Ogden Nash

 

I've never seen a tartan mouse
I expect I never will
but if i did
I'd shake his hand
and tell him he looked brill!

 

Im so bored my minds just one big vacuum and theres no-one here but me and its been way too long
Someone take my hand and take me on adventures and spark me up again
Pleasey?

 

My friend wants to feel better about himself, I told him to do some voluntary work. The act of giving to those needier than oneself should encourage self appreciation surely.

 

Out three nights this week and working as well, this must be what it feels like to have a life

 

Im eating chocolate
Im just shoving it in without caring
Its rich and creameh
Im dizzeh

 

Tried having a life. Didn't like it

 

I don't understand

 

Rustling up some fajitas this afternoon. I always like making them from scratch (except from the shells like). Even butchered the breast meat from a whole chicken. Got all the veg nicely sliced and ready to go. Trouble with making them from scratch, and not using one of the kits. Is getting the spices right...

Currently looking for the right mix of chili powder, cumin, paprika and corriander.