SIDEBAR @ "Story by Sentence"
 

Ok, this probly won't fly....

But, the dang Aussie, needs a story... and, dammit... he should get one.

The areas of venture seem to be with regards into "venture" or at least "add-venture"

Lets look at the fact to build this story:

1) the guys an Aussie..... he probably started the sentence after wild crock love. (something about clothess ripped off the gator licking all the eyefluid from his sockets)

2) he likes beer

3) uhhhh, c'mon people lets make the sentence story... this is a possible newbie thread:

a "counter thread" ie to "to step to the sidebar and bitch or explore..."


4) Bessy, go fetch us some beers.


5) If the mans sentence story don't get dropped and killed, then call for a "sidebar" and discuss it.

6) Mayhaps Mr UT could edit it.

7) (i thought that was funny calling the birds getting infected, human flue.

and PS ... Im not trying to be an asshole... I'd just like to the multiple story lines come together.

I'm on it.

I think I just discovered where the English and the American language parted....

There actually is American English; it's just not universally spoken here, unfortunately. The pervasive "progressive" enthusiasm for relativism is killing it slowly; a semantic demonstration of Gresham's Law.

You can still see examples of actual American English, as well as some insightful speculation on why it's becoming rarer here.

Interesting stuff, Maggie, but I am sure the split came sometime around the infinitive. After that it was (Eng) certainly going to be/ (Am) going to certainly be downhill all the way...!

Resisting split infinitives comes from obsessing about how directly English translates into Latin. As big a fan as I am of prescriptive grammar, ordinarily infinitive splitting is not something up with which I will not put.

It's hardly worth worrying about at this point, given some of the larger battles in progress; a pecadillo in the face of the high crimes and misdemenors currently before us. But in your example, the actual transgression isn't the split infinitive. It's the misplaced modifier. That it's misplaced into the middle of the prepositional phrase just compounds the crime.

I blame Webster

At the link, what is the late Mr Mitchell bending over?
It looks like something that might go with a printing press.

too bloody true!

Didn't he end up in Morocco?

I'm not sure, but that book he wrote, (the one with all the words) reeked havoc on the Kings English.

I also blame AOL.

Aah Tiddy, the evidence of a clear difference in ages shines through yet again - The Morocco reference stems from an old Bob Hope movie 'Road to Morocco' in which the title song makes a reference to Webster's dictionary, as Bob and Bing sing 'Like Webster's dictionary, we're Morocco bound' - an interesting play on words - they being on their way (bound) for Morocco, while Websters Dictionary sported a a label declaring it to be Morocco bound(covered in Moroccan leather - Morocco being a popular source of leather at that time).

Gotcha, Cyclefrance... hahhaha, yeah it's good play on words. (I forgot about the "Road to..." movies, in fact I don't think I've seen them all)

@ Cyclefrance, i liked the links in sentence story partII (and all the "b b b b" words")

@ Beestie---- that pic cracked me up. That must be the PBS guy who had tv program in learning to paint landscapes... hahahaha He would always paint cliff, mountains, rivers.
Always somewhere in the program he'd come up with "I think we need to put a big ol tree in here" (I always wonder what kind of big ol tree he would put in a glacier landscape)
And he had a catch phrase he'd always said.
Martha Stewart owned "It's a good thing". This guy had something like "... and its just that simple"


@MaggieL, I'll have to see about getting some material, or samples, of the Mitchell works.