The Grammar of a Dinner
let's have chicken for dinner.
somewhere else, someone else utters:
let's have john for dinner.
we are alarmed by the latter
but a dinner, too, has its own grammar
& we are assured by grammarians
both utterances are in order.
john, + animate, + human,
couldn't be passed off as repast.
chicken is + animate, - human,
& can end up in any oven.
if we combine the items of grammar
the way things in cooking are,
we would then have:
let's have chicken for john for dinner,
let's have chicken for dinner for john,
let's have for john chicken for dinner,
let's have for dinner for john chicken;
but probably not:
let's have john for chicken for dinner,
let's have for dinner john for chicken.
john is a noun holding knife & fork.
chicken collocates with the verb eat.
grammarians favour such words
as delicious & john eats happily,
but in a gastronomic dinner
taxonomic john isn't to eat deliciously.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
i'm in love. with a wallet. butbutbut it costs a leg and an arm, at US$315. there is no point is asking my mother if i can buy it because she will try and kill me for the next 7 days. and if i do ultimately purchase it, my $315 wallet will be without any money inside. so how? dilemma lah.
but i really love it. dayum
but i really love it. dayum
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Friday, February 15, 2008
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
so kickboxing has ended with yesterday's last lesson. it's sad since tuesday will henceforth be the most dreadful day of the week. last night we got to spar with each other in boxing gloves and the body pad-thingie. bloody fun lah, though i got tired after 2 rounds. and now my body's aching like crazy but it was all worth it. i think i would seek external classes soon.
i'm pushing 20 but i have plans for the march school holidays please. and i want to canoe (or kayak) please. i guess i really don't want to grow up please.
i'm pushing 20 but i have plans for the march school holidays please. and i want to canoe (or kayak) please. i guess i really don't want to grow up please.
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