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Cake day: August 4th, 2023

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  • Oh, I guess one thing about 4b. Thinking more about 4b, I find I can’t really imagine it being said “you got you some candy” instead of “you gotchu some candy” or “you gotcha some candy”.

    Also, leaving out the personal dative feels too formal to use with young kids unless being at least a little stern.

    Oh, and aside from the obvious differences in the pronouns involved (“she” only refers to female subjects, “it” only for “things”… can you tell I’m not that knowledgeable on linguistics jargon, lol) I don’t really see much difference in who is referred to in those examples, nor in contrasting them with equivalent examples without the dative except for the aforementioned differences in formality and “playfulness”.




  • Native (midwestern American) English speaker here.

    They all sound a little humorous to me. As if the speaker is speaking kindof playfully. Maybe as if to a young child, or perhaps putting on a purposefully-funny (southern American?) accent.

    But aside from that, they all sound quite natural to me and I could see myself using any/all of them if I was in a relatively playful mood.

    Even 5c doesn’t seem unreasonable to me. (Maybe a pet of unknown gender got into the bag of candy? “Control your damned dog! It broke into my kitchen and it got it some candy out of my cupboard!”)

    That said, this isn’t the first time I’ve seen an asterisk on a “grammatically incorrect” sentence/construction and thought “why did they mark that unacceptable?”





  • Far be it from me to dissuade anyone from applying the solution of 3D printing to any problem, but why not just buy one of those universal suction-cup-type flag car flag pole mounts and sticking it to the hatch itself?

    Or maybe get a trailer hitch installed and use one of those flag poles that connect to a trailer hitch.

    Mind you, those things I’m talking about tend to be made of steel. Definitely wouldn’t want your flagpole coming off on the highway or atop a bridge and impaling someone in another vehicle.

    And, I’m not sure what legal considerations there might be for this venture, so it might be best to do your research. I know in my area, if anything sticks out too far out the back of your vehicle, you’re legally required to add a red piece of cloth or something. There are probably maximum lengths you may be allowed for a flag on your car.

    If you insist on a 3D printed solution:

    • I imagine you’d have to design it yourself. Even if you got help from a professional CAD kind of person, I’d have to think they’d have to be able to measure and work with your car in person.
    • Mount it at multiple places. Trailer hitch and have the hatch hold it in place and connect it to roof rack bars, for instance.
    • Use strong materials (straps, carabiners, steel, wood) for most of it and try to avoid having the 3D-printed parts take the brunt of the weight and/or stress.
    • Take into account things like gradual warping due to stress and material fatigue.
    • I know I’m harping on mechanical strength, bur make it bulkier than you think it needs to be and use 100% infill.
    • Test it a lot for potential failures as best yoi can before taking your car out with the flag mounted on it. Maybe try some drives with only the pole and no flag first, then with a smaller flag before moving on to the real deal. Start on back roads and move up to larger streets and then to highways. Check for any signs of stress or warping between every test.
    • Be willing to give up before endangering anyone. Better to live your life with an off-the-shelf solution or no solution than to be responsible for injuring someone.
    • Be willing to scale down a little. Settle for a smaller flag, maybe.
    • Consider how much this will affect your own visibility as the driver.

    You know. Just… be careful about the whole endeavor.


  • I feel like we’ve said this to OP already too, but:

    …it came off that he was so popular…

    However it may have come off, not enough people voted for him to win him the primary. He wasn’t that popular. For reasons mentioned elsewhere.

    It’s possible some people who favored Sanders over Hillary voted for Hillary in the primary anyway fearing that she was more likely to win the primary and not wanting to chance unintentionally boosting the chances of someone other than Hillary or Sanders getting the nomination. I don’t know of any polls or anything that might have indicated that was or wasn’t the case. But that still means people didn’t vote enough for Bernie.




  • No president has tried it before. Whether he can get away with pardoning himself has yet to be seen. For him not to get away with it would require someone to bring some sort of court case challenging it. And to bring a case, they have to have “standing.” (That is to say, they have to have some credible justification why the self-pardoning action the president took wronged the petitioner in some way.) Which would probably require some legal argument that has never been made before.

    I’m guessing Trump probably could get away with it, but given that no president has tried this, we’ll just have to see for sure.