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Ziryab

May 14, 2013

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#921

Ubik42 wrote:

Ziryab wrote:

"This" is clearly ambiguous. I think the grammarians call it an "unclear antecedent".

Also, when someone says "It is raining", to what does the "it" refer to?

Beats me.

TheMasterBuilder

May 14, 2013

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#922

Ziryab wrote:

Ubik42 wrote:

Ziryab wrote:

"This" is clearly ambiguous. I think the grammarians call it an "unclear antecedent".

Also, when someone says "It is raining", to what does the "it" refer to?

Beats me.

Apparently it's called a syntactic expletive. Basically it's there because English requires there to always be a subject in every sentence. "Rains" is not a complete sentence and is very confusing, so "it" is essentially an artificial subject, so it is "it" that rains instead of nothing.

Ubik42

May 14, 2013

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#923

TheMasterBuilder wrote:

Ziryab wrote:

Ubik42 wrote:

Ziryab wrote:

"This" is clearly ambiguous. I think the grammarians call it an "unclear antecedent".

Also, when someone says "It is raining", to what does the "it" refer to?

Beats me.

Apparently it's called a syntactic expletive. Basically it's there because English requires there to always be a subject in every sentence. "Rains" is not a complete sentence and is very confusing, so "it" is essentially an artificial subject, so it is "it" that rains instead of nothing.

Iceland 3, USA 0

nameno1had

May 14, 2013

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#924

TheMasterBuilder wrote:

Ziryab wrote:

Ubik42 wrote:

Ziryab wrote:

"This" is clearly ambiguous. I think the grammarians call it an "unclear antecedent".

Also, when someone says "It is raining", to what does the "it" refer to?

Beats me.

Apparently it's called a syntactic expletive. Basically it's there because English requires there to always be a subject in every sentence. "Rains" is not a complete sentence and is very confusing, so "it" is essentially an artificial subject, so it is "it" that rains instead of nothing.

An artificial subject ? It is called a pronoun. It is a very real subject. It is a substitute word for the proper name of the subject of the sentence.

nameno1had

May 14, 2013

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#925

USA 1 - Iceland 0

TheGrobe

May 14, 2013

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#926

But the proper name of what exactly? Do try to keep up.

netzach

May 14, 2013

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#927

'Raining outside?'

'Yeah!'...

Scotland 10- USA 0- Iceland 0

nameno1had

May 14, 2013

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#928

The proper name is irrelevant to what the pronoun replaces, it still replaces the proper name, regardless in this context...

...you really should know better by now, I don't know why you bother...

nameno1had

May 14, 2013

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#929

netzach wrote:

'Raining outside?'

'Yeah!'...

Scotland 10- USA 0- Iceland 0

The people in Washington and Oregon don't agree...

nameno1had

May 14, 2013

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#930

nameno1had wrote:

netzach wrote:

'Raining outside?'

'Yeah!'...

Scotland 10- USA 0- Iceland 0

The people in Washington and Oregon don't agree...

By sheer volume, it rains more in one of those states in a year, than in Scotland...

DaMaGor

May 14, 2013

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#931

Ubik42 wrote:

temp_ddg wrote:

Ubik42 wrote:

Anyway, so the consensus is you should resign when down 5 points? I have to admit, I havent seen a valid counterargument.

It's a stupid idea, that's a valid counterargument. First, you'll be changing chess rules, then it wouldn't be chess anymore, it'd be a variation (like chess960).

And second, chess.com can't afford having a top engine to check every freaking move on every freaking game being played on the site. Do you have ANY idea what kind of resources chess.com would need to do that?

It doesnt need a top engine, you are checking pure material, not positional evaluations. I suspect a poorly trained second assisstant bookeeper armed with an abacus could do it.

I too, thought it was stupid, but over time the OP and his allies have come up with irrefutable and unaswerable mathematical proofs of their theses.

"second assistant bookkeeper"

Allusion to Atlas Shrugged (Robert Stadler...good choice)? Not sure I've ever heard that phrase outside of it, and it's kind of a strange one for this context otherwise.

netzach

May 14, 2013

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#932

We know rain and we know english-language.

Had both of these for centuries before USA was even invented :)

nameno1had wrote:

The people in Washington and Oregon don't agree...

nameno1had

May 14, 2013

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#933

netzach wrote:

We know rain and we know english-language.

Had both of these for centuries before USA was even invented :)

nameno1had wrote:

The people in Washington and Oregon don't agree...with Netzach, but agree with Nemo wholeheartedly, because he is from the US and has studied the climates of both places from a dry vantage point. Netzach by contrast, is unable to study climates occuring in other parts of the world because, it rains too much in Scotland to allow such things to occur...

netzach

May 14, 2013

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#934

A positive consequence is that in Scotland we can succinctly describe the weather in numerous ways!

nameno1had

May 14, 2013

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#935

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Ziryab

May 14, 2013

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#936

nameno1had wrote:

netzach wrote:

'Raining outside?'

'Yeah!'...

Scotland 10- USA 0- Iceland 0

The people in Washington and Oregon don't agree...

I live in Washington, and 'though it rained yesterday, it doesn't rain much here. When we say, "it is raining," we are usually talking about something other than rain (birdshit, for example).

Of course, the we(s)t side of Washington is another story.

nameno1had

May 14, 2013

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#937

Ziryab wrote:

nameno1had wrote:

netzach wrote:

'Raining outside?'

'Yeah!'...

Scotland 10- USA 0- Iceland 0

The people in Washington and Oregon don't agree...

I live in Washington, and 'though it rained yesterday, it doesn't rain much here. When we say, "it is raining," we are usually talking about something other than rain (birdshit, for example).

Of course, the we(s)t side of Washington is another story.

As long as it isn't raining ashes, you probably don't worry much... ?

Ubik42

May 14, 2013

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#938

All along the watchtower was actually written, not by Jimi Handrix, but by Samuel Anders, former pyramid player, long before Hendrix was even born.

nameno1had

May 14, 2013

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#939

Bob Dylan...

www.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_along_the_watch_tower

Ubik42

May 14, 2013

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#940

Sorry, Anders predates Bob Dylan by nearly 150,000 years.

http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Samuel_Anders

Q.E.D.