THIS AND THAT

 A  FEW  ITEMS FROM MY POST-IT NOTES

01.  Egg shells make good plant fertilizer.

02.  Put a raw egg in the bottom of your flowerpot when planting.

03.  Think of your dreams as vacations.

04.  Male dolphins are becoming gay.

05.  New Bedford, Massachusetts was called "The City of Palaces" in the 1800's.

06.  Who was "The Armpit Queen?"

07.  Do we dream in color?

UGLY WORDS

Did you learn these words in English class?

UNERGATIVE - relates to "verbs that are intransitive and characterized semantically by having a subject argument which is an agent that actively initiates the action expressed by the verbs -- like dance, hop, or jog."

HUH?

UNACCUSATIVE - relates to verbs that are intransitive and whose grammatical subject is not a semantic agent. That is, the subject does not actively initiate, or is not actively responsible for the action expressed by the verb - like melt, sink, or fall.

HUH?

Professor McWhorter suggests that unless you are a linguist, purge your memory banks of these two "ugly" words.

DONE!

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