Thursday, September 02, 2004
Want a Gmail Account?
I have six Gmail accounts (see also the Unofficial Gmail FAQ) to give away . If you would like one then all you have to do is with a reply to the following post (read it carefully!) seen recently on a Birmingham discussion forum. The most appropriate, humourous or plain useful replies will be rewarded with an invitation to Gmail:
I took a 19 year old Indian doctor's daughter to see Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, cos I knew she liked David Bowie. I thought it would be a happy-go-lucky Xmas film. She was somewhat appalled by the scenes of buggery at the start and terrible goings on during the film. She never spoke to me again. And I never went back to the Electric*. Shame it's closed though.
shoe of death
*The Electric Cinema (built in 1909) in Birmingham was Britain's oldest cinema. It closed down not so long ago due to "economic conditions". Public outcry at yet another blow to independent film programming has lead to plans to re-open it under new ownership.
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2 Comments:
Well, you don't have to send a reply if you don't want to! The Gmail offer is still valid though. Just contact me if you want one...
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Darren, at 9/06/2004 8:44 PM
Well, Steve wrote:
Serves yow roight skip! Sounds loik a roight mardy bint!
Yow should of taken her to see somethink loik Return of the Jeddi loik everybady else, had a bucket of popcorn, a bag of scratchings 'n'a snog and yow'd be a multi millionaire, fluent in hindi and living in Bombay now. Better than Digbeth! Anyroad up, who's this David Bowie ? Wouldn't like to ask him for a light on Balsall Heath!and mentioned e-brummie, which was a good effort. One Gmail invitation for him then!
The kind of answer I was expecting (I only got one!) was
"Wasn't she a bit young for you?"
(Well it was a "Nineteen-year old Indian doctor" "'s" "daughter" Geddit?!)
It's all to do with clitics and the fact that the possessive -s is not a proper genitive case (cf. "The King of Sparta's wife": if this was a genitive, we would be talking about Sparta's wife, wouldn't we?.
English is a little more supple than purist grammar would suggest and context can help when deciphering tricky possessives. However, in the Electric cinema example, I suggest that "the nineteen-year old daughter of an Indian doctor" would have been a structure less open to unfortunate interpretation.
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Darren, at 9/11/2004 7:35 PM
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