Mister Micawber wrote: I think; therefore, I doubt whether I am or not. And this one is a take-off on Descartes' Cogito ergo sum . My dear friends, are you sure you're not dreaming? Then, it must be me that is dreaming of you? And this one

Thanks, Clive, for the concise clarification, but I still have some clouds over my head. That is, why, in Marius' google hits, do the samples with no about outnumber those with about ?

Excuse me! Nona de brit, but I conjesture it's better we start a new thread to discuss your alias. We have gone astray too far in another thread. I feel guilty in that I started it. On second thought, one dialect of Mandarin does have a word of

Not in my tongue but in one of my dictioaries, it contains the meaning of sleeping all the time.

Nona The Brit wrote: That's ok Pioussoul, no need to eat humble pie or your hat, we are here to clear up confusion. Thank you, Nona, for your kindness and lenience. By the way, why does

Thanks, nona the brit, for singling out my source of confusion. I think it's time for me to show a solo of eating my humble pie, my hat, and my words. Excuse me, my friends, if I offended you in any manner. No offence; I didn't mean it.

Inchoateknowledge wrote: prepositions have complements or objects following them -- call it what you want. To defer a prep means to remove from where it belongs to: before its complement. I have something to talk to you about . --

Nice and correct anaylis, Pioussoul. I have something to talk to you about . something is the complement of the prep about. You can defer the prep in formal register, but not omit

I have something to talk to you about . Is this 'about' required or optional? ---------------------- If we decompose your base sentence, we get two new individual sentences: 1. I have something. 2. I want to talk to you about

Hi, Friends, maybe the following is a better way to figure out this argument. If the choice is (A), then the argument looks like this: Premise 1: All psychiatrists are doctors. Premise 2: Only psychiatrists were invited to the