Home from the pool. It was hot out, but that’s why you go to the pool.
Just for a little emphasis? Some other languages, I have learned, regularly double words for emphasis. Very very interesting to see it occur in English too.
The WSJ had a really interesting article this weekend on how language affects thought. After learning some Gaelic, a language that very explicitly conveys a worldview different from most Western cultures, I've suspected something like this. But not to the degree of what's asserted in this article.
Hm. If I can figure out in which language LoM is currently thinking, does that make her more predictable? *\;-)
(And, LoM, what would the Gaelic--Farsi axis look like?)
I remember hot where even that wasn't enough. We retreated to basements.
I swam in an old pool on Alameda Navel Air Station that was huge. The center was 16 feet deep because it was design for pilot training. Their was a platform at the top of the hanger to throw the pilots off of. Well thats what the told kids they would do to them if they got to rowdy. I thought it looked cool and asked if they would throw me off. I got my first taste of what congressmen talk like then.