Gerund-o-rama

[Coolville]

GERUND-O-RAMA

Welcome Gerundians.

At last a space has been cleared and reserved for you in the endless circuits of cyberspace where you can whittle away the time pursuing the noble Gerundian way.

There is only one rule:

1. Gerund

Gecoolvillerund

 

[Coolville]

With this inaugural message it is my distinct pleasure to honour the visionary who has led us down the path to Gerund.

gemathgirlrund

May she live long and gerund.

 

[Coolville]

gerundbump

 

[Coolville]

Hey coolville!

How's it gerunding?!

 

[Coolville]

Gerund!
Thanks for gerunding!

Well, back to the gerund...












(don't ask...)

 

[wildsweetone]

hmmm i get it. so i just think of a latin word and squish an english one between two end of the latin bit, right?

hmm

genwildsweetoneii

not

tell me what is the point to having gerunds?

 

[Angeline]

How are you doing?

Thinking of you. Wondering why you are doing this. Is this what you were wanting?

Nice meeting you.

 

[wildsweetone]

for the life of me i have read what a gerund is, i think, and i still can't figure it out lol

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Gerund

Huh?

 

[Weird Harold]

Re: Gerund

Huh?

Gerund: A peculiarly English use of certain verb forms as nouns that doesn't translate well into more sensible languages, like Swedish.

A gerund is the "ing" form of a verb used as a Noun in the sentence structure -- see Angeline's post for a good example of gerunds in action.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Thank you, Harold! You've managed to fight off my insanity for yet some time.

 

[Coolville]

gerund

gerund

 

[wildsweetone]

gerunding i'm thinking...


what's the matter dear, feeling left out?

 

[Guest]

gerunds

I learned about gerunds in Latin class...They are a kind of funky participle (running, sitting,...) in the perfect, passive, past tense...translation: any phrase that looks like this "having been _______ed"

My favorite gerundive phrase is "amoverunda lingua": having been loved with/by tongue.

Don't use them much myself... I'm not that passive!

 

[Guest]

mea culpa

Now that I have shown myself to be both ignorant and arrogant,

I beg all of y'all's forgiveness.

cupida amandae (desirous of loving),

bridget

 

[Coolville]

gerund

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Oh sure...

Oh sure: the gerunds get all the attention, all the press.

But what about your pluperfect? Your appositive? Your ablative? Your stinkin' interobang!?

They just don't rate, huh?

---dr.M.

 

[Angeline]

Doc, this one's for you!

When I saw Mabeuse’s post, I had already decided, as is often my wont, to write about grammar & so I said with a loud voice, wondering how he would respond, “Howdja like this example, doc"!?

(I threw in an extra gerund and an ampersand for good measure, lol.)


[there is technically one error in the sentence though, i think--the interobang doesn't work because, to be correct, the end quote mark should come after the question mark, but the exclamation point should be outside it, but i'm not up on my er interobang style, lol]

phew

did i get it right, harold?!

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

But what about your pluperfect? Your appositive? Your ablative? Your stinkin' interobang!?

You can take your "pluperfect appositive" and shove it up your "ablative" then go "interobang" yourself in the imperfect past tense where your type belongs.

Gerund-choo.

Gerund-hite.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Angeline

Game.
Set.
Match.

---dr.M.

 

[Angeline]

Match?

Maybe, but I was afraid you might ask for them in Latin and then I'd be sunk.

And Mr. Rumple? Grammar are fun. I like poetry better though.

 

[Coolville]

Re: Match?

Maybe, but I was afraid you might ask for them in Latin and then I'd be sunk.

Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?














How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

 

[Coolville]

gerund

 

[Angeline]

Latin?

Hands language trophy to Coolville.

 

[Coolville]

Re: Latin?

Hands language trophy to Coolville.

Estne volumen in toga, an solum tibi libet me videre?
- et nihil est--in vita priore ego imperator Romanus fui !