Friday Foolishness

[holdouttrout]

I'm not as sick today, which means I'm barely ill, since yesterday "sick" consisted of a stuffy head and being just a little tired. Today I have a slightly stuffy head and feel otherwise fine. I'll take it.

Tomorrow I am going to a pirate party, and I will have earring and an eyepatch and be bringing a cake wreck a la CakeWrecks. It is going to be "chocolate with an overtone of pirates." See if you can figure out what I intend to make.

If you are a nerd like me, you probably have diagrammed sentences at some point in your life....and LIKED it. If so, you can take a look at Sentence Diagrams. Check out the examples from famous texts.

If you are a romantic like me, you might appreciate this video (with multi-fannish angst and kissing!):

Currently, my wireless at home sucks, so I may or may not be around on IM. *glares at new devil-router* Hopefully I'll get that fixed this weekend if not sooner.

Comments

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Well...considering I only knew of parse trees from your comment, and I've had a whole five minutes to look at them, I think that part of the appeal of sentence diagramming is the visual structure, showing how words relate to each other.

[gdwatson.livejournal.com]

The main thing you lose with parse trees is back-references. Otherwise, the structure of the sentence is made really, really obvious-- you just have to read the pronouns as you would if you were reading the sentence.