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June 6, 2025
"Copulative sounds more exciting! (Don't say 'copulative sounds more excitingly.')"
Said I, in a discussion of copulative verbs inspired by the NYT headline "People Around President Trump Are Acting Very Strangely."
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I didn't know that. Perhaps Catholic school 8th grade grammar class wasn't comfortable discussing copulative verbs.
Like Grok, I will add an ironic smiley face at the end of my comment.
Acting strangely would be the NYT coming to terms with and holding themselves accountable for nearly a century of coddling America’s enemies and propagandizing for their leftwing puppeteers.
Remember the Montagues and the Copulates.
Garnering is a copulative conception of a lion and lionesses in a pride parade on an African savanna.
"Perhaps Catholic school 8th grade grammar class wasn't comfortable discussing copulative verbs."
I didn't hear that term in school either. The other term for it is "linking verb."
"People Around President Trump Are Acting Very Strangely."
How many times did the NYT say that about people around Biden?
Copulative sounds more excitive.
I see Althouse has no fear of being replaced by AI.
Montagues & Capulets Evgeny Kissim. Russian audiences are more educated than American, in particular knowing when not to applaud.
After glancing all that chatter, I'm going with "It's Not Right but It's Okay" by Whitney Houston
Or, maybe a mirror image? Then again, if it's not Ok, then it isn't right either. No mirror image then.
(In Russian one says ``stone red'' instead of ``the stone is red''; do they feel the copula to be missing in the sense, or attach it in *thought*?) - Wittgenstein
"Copulative" is how I answer the question "How are you?" So far no bites. I think I need to talk to more educated women.
I like how you put Grok in its place.
Should the woman be thought of as the subject or the predicate?
Wow, that quote from Wittgenstein is pretty pathetic.
Who knew that he predated Chomsky in thinking that "deep grammar" or semantics was based on the English language?
Sorry, I meant "deep structure" of course.
Democrats around anybody act violently.
Grok has guac all over its Mechanical Intelligence (MI).
Althouse is our resident Anthropogenic Intelligence (AI).
Is copulent cromulent?
My opulent, corpulent self says no, from my very corpuscles.
From Strunk & White (from memory): I feel badly with mittens on.
I'm too stupid to answer this, but apparently "fuck" is not a copulative verb.
Fuck!
Actually, it's not a verb at all in that sentence. Damn this is hard. I'm back in school, struggling for that B in English. Which is my language, I ought to know it a little.
"We should fuck." Not a copulative verb. I think.
AI says that copulative verbs are never action verbs, which seems fucked up to me. "We fuck with great noise and passion." That's copulative. Come on, AI, you dummy.
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