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Dec. 8th, 2010
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Dec. 8th, 2010 01:19 pmRe-, uh, not tweeting, but the same idea (rebroadcasting?), ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
coyotegoth:
From the Dopp Juice blog, by way ofbodlon:
"I want to build an online marketplace for gender-variant clothing solutions.
"Not a store where I sell to you, but a service like Etsy and Ebay where we sell to each other, in a focused, supportive community. And while we're at it, we also trade all sorts of tips and inspirations on how best to look the way we want, gender-be-damned.
"You know what I'm talking about. Tuxes for hips and breasts. Size 16 extra-wide high heels. Custom alterations, custom orders, custom tailoring. Hot unisex indie designer labels. Hand-made t-shirts. That awesome skirt from your closet that doesn't fit you anymore. A good chest binder. That amazing jacket you found at a thrift store for $5 that you want to resell. And while we're at it, let's bring in styles from every subculture that celebrates androgyny, which is pretty much all of them."
coyotegoth:From the Dopp Juice blog, by way of
bodlon:"I want to build an online marketplace for gender-variant clothing solutions.
"Not a store where I sell to you, but a service like Etsy and Ebay where we sell to each other, in a focused, supportive community. And while we're at it, we also trade all sorts of tips and inspirations on how best to look the way we want, gender-be-damned.
"You know what I'm talking about. Tuxes for hips and breasts. Size 16 extra-wide high heels. Custom alterations, custom orders, custom tailoring. Hot unisex indie designer labels. Hand-made t-shirts. That awesome skirt from your closet that doesn't fit you anymore. A good chest binder. That amazing jacket you found at a thrift store for $5 that you want to resell. And while we're at it, let's bring in styles from every subculture that celebrates androgyny, which is pretty much all of them."
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Dec. 8th, 2010 01:26 pmDoes anyone else find past-participle constructions like the following rather odd?
"dinner needs cooked"
"it needs done"
"my shirt needs cleaned"
"essay needs written"
My own idiom wants the present participle: needs cooking, doing, cleaning, writing. The participle is playing the part of a noun here (like saying you need scissors or lunch or anything else), and my language processing center doesn't like the sound of the past participle as a noun. (I know what writings are, but what are writtens?) The cases I can think of where it would seem to be a noun, it's actually a modifier on a noun that's implied: "Would you like scrambled or fried?" (eggs) "The great unwashed" (masses of people).
I'm not passing judgement that it's bad English, but it sounds so wrong to my ear yet so many people do it that I wonder if this is one of those regional habits.
"dinner needs cooked"
"it needs done"
"my shirt needs cleaned"
"essay needs written"
My own idiom wants the present participle: needs cooking, doing, cleaning, writing. The participle is playing the part of a noun here (like saying you need scissors or lunch or anything else), and my language processing center doesn't like the sound of the past participle as a noun. (I know what writings are, but what are writtens?) The cases I can think of where it would seem to be a noun, it's actually a modifier on a noun that's implied: "Would you like scrambled or fried?" (eggs) "The great unwashed" (masses of people).
I'm not passing judgement that it's bad English, but it sounds so wrong to my ear yet so many people do it that I wonder if this is one of those regional habits.
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Dec. 8th, 2010 07:12 pmIn case you didn't know, this year's winter solstice (Dec 21) is also the full moon and a total lunar eclipse.