Today’s Zippy:
Thing is, past pluperfect is redundant, since pluperfect in English grammar is a synonym of past perfect.. As a result, grammars of Engish don’t treat past pluperfect as a technical term at all.
Archive for November, 2020
past pluperfect
November 6, 2020Fantasy food
November 5, 2020For some time now, a suite of afflictions (I omit the very unpleasant details) has prevented me from handling any truly solid food. A couple days ago I prepared a standard comfort sickroom food, plain white rice. My first solid food in a long time. And it was good. I still have no taste for anything more complicated. So I look forward to Thanksgiving (just a few weeks from now), and my now-standard Thanksgiving meal — see below — and it just seems unimaginable to me now, like fantasy food, though I have dreams about it.
Stirling Silliphant
November 3, 2020Today’s morning name — a rather poetic one, but his real name: Stirling Silliphant.
A diversion at the beginning of election week
November 2, 2020This morning’s little entertainment from the Daily Jocks site:
(#1) A bit of word play on mask and masc(uline), underwear models being chosen for their projection of high masculinity (as here)
