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I was thinking the Sammie's method of coping would be to laugh at the world, he'd be relatively light-hearted, and probably annoy his more dour partner, who copes with squick by rolling his eyes and getting irritated, no end.

As for department, I was probably either going to join the DAVD or possibly create a new Emergency Response Department for the really bad fics. Dunno yet. Depends what badfics I find when I start looking.

If you trust me I can get it to you, depending on if I can get it. I would have to get your real life address (off list of course). Or you could even have amazon send it to my place, and then I would send it to you.

What are you looking for? (I may be able to get it at a cheaper price than amazon). Since it isn:t an English book or something like that, it is not easy to get english books in Yamaguchi-ken. *wink*

Up to you, I would not be offended in the slightest if you don:t want to give me your address at all.

PS, depending on the weight, international shipping can be very stupid. Four paper back books form Canada to Japan by mail cost $30 CAD. If you don:t mind waiting for it (~6 months) I can get cheap shipping. If not, it does add to the price of the object.

Leto

As for LiveJournal, I advise looking for ficcing communities for whatever fandom you're writing in. Or, y'know, you could put it on your journal :)

Them and pretty much everyone on AFF.

See, this is why I don't go to ff.net or aff anymore: I just end up with more fics in my mission queue than any human can actually deal with...

The book made an attempt to explain their venom and such, though there were big logica gaps; I'll get us the raw material to work from. :)

Any chance there's anyone over there who'd be willing to mail it for you?

I'd love to hear the explanation behind that. Are you folks on AIM? MSN? Otherwise, Trojie has my e-mail.

~Neshomeh

And yes, cake is good. Just figured I'd say something on the board. What the hell, right? I mean, everyone else on the bloody board has turned up, I might as well toss something in. Don't get too wild at the party. ;) (I kid, of course)

Will do.

That would be rape, if the first character goes through with it anyway.

And that would be because ff.net are renowned for not actually bothering to enforce their own rules.

The idea that vampires could evolve is definitely right up her alley. (We're talking about the woman that worked out that, cladistically speaking, unicorns are goats, remember.) I think the sunlight thing's in there because notions of vampires draw rather more heavily on supernatural methods of thinking than evolutionary and scientific ones. You might as well question the possible evolutionary benefits to having your innards on fire.

But yes, as soon as Trojie's back from her convention, let's sit down and work this one out properly.

Any insight your professors could give would be smashing.

Gerund's a verb acting as a noun, right?

Past participle of some description sounds about right, I'm just terribly bad at remembering the words for all these things, since I was actually taught them in German. I had a good chat with my dad about it last night, and we're pretty certain "needs" is acting as a modal verb. So if we were speaking German (except they'd express the idea completely differently), that last verb would take the infinitive, which is very close to the English "needs to be checked" except without the "-ed" on the end. Not sure what form the verb would take in any other languages though.

The reason I ask about Latin is that, in mine and Sedri's original conversation, she also commented on me splitting infinitives, and this not being allowed. So she seems, at least to some degree, to have been taught the prescriptive Latinate grammar touted as superior in the 19th century. It's possible the checked/checking thing results from that same attempt to force a Germanic language into a Latin mould, so looking into Latin modals would be useful.

Then there's still this issue of "His head needs checking" versus "He needs his head checking". We've none of us yet been able to come up with any concrete reason why the former would be acceptable while the latter wouldn't. And my linguistics professor says that one's still up for debate. Any ideas? Looking at your previous post, and everyone else's, it seems as though the general consensus is that there's a head check noun phrase involved, but if that's the case, it makes no more sense to tack -ed on the end than -ing. If "needs" is being used as a modal verb, it needs another verb after, and that other verb can take various tenses ("I should go", "I should be going", or "I should have gone", for example) depending on meaning. Of course, stating this clearly brings us no closer to deciding the most appropriate tense for that verb. I'm just sure that past is no more (and also perhaps no less) applicable than the continuous present.

Gah. Tying my brain in knots here.

And this is the point when I lament the woeful state of English grammar teaching in English schools. *goes to look up transitive and intransitive verbs*

Your "he needs to have his head checked" is certainly standard, at least. But not a law, clearly, because this thread's shown that English has a million and one ways to say any particular thing.

PotCSues, who invented her, encouraged me to use her as much as I wanted, so I guess I'll do the same to you.

*encourage**encourage**encourage*

makari.crow@gmail.com. ^_^

…that seems kind of weird. Would a packet of Skittles be okay?

*throws you an otter plushie*

Ooh, cake!

a) America, which means you should totally disregard the next answer.
b) "He needs his head checked."

a) where are you from?
I'm from the Pacific side of the U.S. of A.
b) which grammatical construction would you usually use?
(i)"he needs his head checking"
OR
(ii)"he needs his head checked"
I'd use the latter.

1) Derby, via Krefeld, Hannover, Catterick and Harrogate. (Don't ask)

2) I use both, but more often than not it's 'he needs his head checked/examined/felt' with the addition of 'with a sledgehammer' to the end of that.

(Warning: I Am Not An English Teacher. take with a grain of salt)

Would "checked" still seem like past tense if I was to say "he's having his head checked by Dr. Freedenberg"? Transitive or intransitive, I don't think "checked" is past tense. It's being used in the perfective aspect, that of referring to the action as a whole, rather than the past tense. The two of them using the same word is just bad language design.

To my (American English) mind, anyways, "to have" can't be made implicit, because it's the primary verb in the sentence. It's a state-of-being sentence, in this case that while he does not have X, he should. (X, of course, being a trip to a psychologist.)

What can I say? English is a crazy language.

"His head needs checking" or "his head needs to be checked" are both valid sentences, and mean the same thing as "he needs to have his head checked". The last form is the most commonly used one around here, but that's probably a dialect thing rather than a real law.

There's something I want from Japan, but amazon.jp doesn't ship toys outside of the country. I can afford it, and it's something I really want, but the UK is not, no matter how much I want it to be sometimes, Japan.