Friends Advent Calendar - Day 9
Posted by MeganL,
We've been snacking around the Christmas market with wurst and hot chocolate provided in the last two days. Along with the popcorn in Day 2, the minidolls are getting plenty to eat! Will we move on to other activities, or are there more treats for the minidolls behind door number 9?
More treats it is! I'll call this a s'mores station, though I don't see chocolate (we had that yesterday) or the graham crackers. But we do have two key ingredients, being a fire and some marshmallows. I think of s'mores as being something more of summer activity, but I won't say no to them now.
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I hate that I'm bothered by the white round plates not being pressed down equally...
Or is it 'round white plates'?
Dang, now I'm obsessing over that too...
You are actually allowed to eat toasted marshmallows by themselves.
@YanVanLan said:
"Or is it 'round white plates'?
Dang, now I'm obsessing over that too..."
As a non-native speaker (of any language), you learn all these fun grammar rules that no native speaker ever really knows about. Here's the one for the order of English adjectives, if there are multiple:
opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, purpose
'white' is clearly a color. And I guess 'round' is a shape. So, it'd be 'round, white'
You're welcome ;)
@YanVanLan said:
"Or is it 'round white plates'?
Dang, now I'm obsessing over that too..."
It's definitely white round plate. White describes the color of the round-shaped plate.
If you're instead being silly and I'm choosing the non-silly path, my only defense is that it's nearly 4 in the morning here.
I have never heard this "s'more" before.
And the list of adjectives are super-useful!
I learned that they go from the least objective to the most objective
Brickset is not the place I would expect to see a grammar discussion.
@YanVanLan: Darn you, now those uneven plates are bothering me, too.
Is it just me, or has a lot of the Friends calender revolved about food lately?
Build feels a bit weak today. It's fine for what it is and it's nice that it and the hot chocolate can be shared. Very 'friends'!
But it's not very festive, at least to me. I imagine it would be too cold to be outside in December even with a fire next to you.
@kfr said:
" @YanVanLan said:
"Or is it 'round white plates'?
Dang, now I'm obsessing over that too..."
As a non-native speaker (of any language), you learn all these fun grammar rules that no native speaker ever really knows about. Here's the one for the order of English adjectives, if there are multiple:
opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, purpose
'white' is clearly a color. And I guess 'round' is a shape. So, it'd be 'round, white'
You're welcome ;)
"
And of course, here is my contrarian adamant personal biased square old and overlarge take on that order.
In the UK we don't really do smores. We mostly just toast marshmallows on sticks and then eat them straight off the stick.
@kfr said:
" @YanVanLan said:
"Or is it 'round white plates'?
Dang, now I'm obsessing over that too..."
As a non-native speaker (of any language), you learn all these fun grammar rules that no native speaker ever really knows about. Here's the one for the order of English adjectives, if there are multiple:
opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, purpose
'white' is clearly a color. And I guess 'round' is a shape. So, it'd be 'round, white'
You're welcome ;)
"
Yes, except the 'rules' go out the window in favor of emphasis. Are you emphasizing the difference in color or shape? If neither, then follow the rule.
Nice Day. Good parts. Cute. But, seems a bit cheap, again. Sigh.
@Spritetoggle:
Here are a few things worth noting. One is that English is a living language, with rules that are constantly being tweaked, an exception for every rule, and a rule for every exception. Two is that some “rules” are things that some linguist has taken upon themselves to attempt to enforce for the entire language (without first gaining consensus from the English-speaking world) because they’re hung up on trying to make English (the world’s mutt of languages) behave more like some language they feel functions in a more elegant manner (resulting with stuff like quotes including “up with which I will not put”). Three, even the hard and fast rules are divided between American and British branches, and there’s a lot of stuff that’s either acceptable or not, depending on which side of the Atlantic you hail from. But the most important thing to know is that, unlike pretty much any other language I know of, with English you can outright break a lot of rules at whim.
@TheOtherMike said:
"Brickset is not the place I would expect to see a grammar discussion."
Dude, you have been on this site plenty long enough that you should know NOTHING is off limits or suprising when it comes to the comments section!!
There's an official order of adjectives? Wow. I assume that rule gets broken just as much as the rest of our grammatical rules so probably best to not worry (that's right, I split that infinitive--and I'd do it again).
@PurpleDave said:
" @Spritetoggle:
Here are a few things worth noting. One is that English is a living language, with rules that are constantly being tweaked, an exception for every rule, and a rule for every exception. Two is that some “rules” are things that some linguist has taken upon themselves to attempt to enforce for the entire language (without first gaining consensus from the English-speaking world) because they’re hung up on trying to make English (the world’s mutt of languages) behave more like some language they feel functions in a more elegant manner (resulting with stuff like quotes including “up with which I will not put”). Three, even the hard and fast rules are divided between American and British branches, and there’s a lot of stuff that’s either acceptable or not, depending on which side of the Atlantic you hail from. But the most important thing to know is that, unlike pretty much any other language I know of, with English you can outright break a lot of rules at whim."
Up with which I will not put up with which I will not put up with which I will not put with (ad infinitum)
I'd bet the Aussies and Kiwis have something to say about your third point completely neglecting their influence on english grammatical conjugation.
@darkstonegrey:
Canada might, but Australia and New Zealand are part of the British Commonwealth, and I think they hew more closely to what would now be referred to again as the King’s English. Like the UK, they sit east of the Atlantic, because they’re west of the International Date Line.
@ohrmazd: Fair point. After all, there's another grammar discussion going on in the article on today's City offering!