Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Right, so, how?

No bars held, I feel bad. There's a feeling in my stomach that won't go away that stops me from thinking about what I want to think about. Isn't that weird. I really feel bad, like there's someone grabbing at it everytime I try. I need this to end. I don't want it to come back; I want it to go away. Why won't it go away. Is there any way I can make this fucking thing go away. I didn't even feel like saying fucking there; I just sort of said it because I thought it might've made me feel better or something like that, but it didn't, not at all, so cussing is not the answer. Are you afraid of what I am saying? Probably not, for you do not understand what I'm saying because of random querkyness. Never ever land seems to grow and shrink in an epic wonderful bath of beauty, but then it tries to die, but refuses to do so without dragging the world around with it. I just stated the wrong thing, but I did so because I don't know what I want to say; I just know that I really want to say something badly. I want to make myself free from this torment. I want to free myself from this torment.

See, I bettered my grammar on the spot there in a linear way without deleting or correcting the previous sentence. That was fun. It's fun when I talk about grammar; indeed it is. I need to do that more. I need to write about stuff more too, for I think about tons of things. Lets see, what have I thought about recently; my mind is trying to block it right now, or maybe I'm just making an excuse for not looking for it hard enough; you decide which.

Oh, that's right, recently I was thinking about prepositions. They can drastically change the context of a sentence. Lets go through some examples for fun.

We'll start with an extremely simple sentence, and see what happens when we change the preposition:

"I jumped over the rock."

Over is one of the most used prepositions that follows the verb jump. The context in this sentence is quite obvious. It entails three basic steps: a start on one side of a rock, an upward movement that involves getting above the rock, and an end at another side of the rock. Now lets try changing the preposition:

"I jumped under the rock."

Hmm, this sentence doesn't involve the rock as much as the previous sentence, now does it? At its most basic level, it involves only one step: a jump, however, this jump must take place underneath a rock for the sentence to be a valid description. From now on, I'm going to call the person who does the action the player to shorten the amount of claptrap I have to write.  In the previous sentence, the player needed the rock in order to do the action, but in this sentence, the player doesn't need the rock.

Now let me be clear with what I mean here. Without a doubt, the presence of the rock is required for both sentences; however, it is not required for both actions. The player in the under sentence can jump with or without the rock because his action is self contained, ie. no steps in its execution require the rock.  The player in the over sentence, on the other hand, cannot jump without the rock because one of the steps requires the rock (the step where he is above the it).

This sentence, the under sentence if you're not sharp, can also have another un-mentioned context. The player could be jumping over something while remaining under the rock, or jumping into something (we'll explore that, too, don't worry) while remaining under the rock, or something else of that nature. For example, the rock could be a stalactite, and the player could be jumping over a stalagmite.

I really need to get to work, so I bid you good bye, and I hope you've enjoyed this little lesson in English that probably doesn't even apply good grammar in its sentences, definitely doesn't apply good arrangement in its paragraphs, and awkwardly ends itself, as your eyes follow these letters scrunched into words and arranged into sentences, with this behemoth of a bad sentence that really weakly, but without any doubt, follows the rules of English grammar.

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