Ok, problem here, T-Rex. You forgot explosiontastic remove “explosiontastic” from your sentence "I went “explosiontastic” explosiontastic mall." Particles are our fiends.
Even if T-Rex had it his way, those particles would still be the most popular words in the English language, because they’re important to our sentence structures. The best way to change that is to start omitting them, and in English, that’s considered bad grammar.
He’d have better luck with a language such as Latin, which doesn’t use particles.
None of those things are really “particles”, actually. Particles are things like the up in sew up, mess up, keep up, write up, finish up, freeze up and a zillion others, said particle denoting “completed/telic” action. So it doesn’t occur with stative verbs (hate up does not compute. And own up (to) involves own in the sense of “admit”, which is an eventive verb, in contrast to the sense of “possess”, which is stative.) (Particle to be distinguished from the preposition: in I looked up one of my college roommates it’s a particle, in I looked up the chimney it’s a preposition.
Ida No over 4 years ago
Ok, problem here, T-Rex. You forgot explosiontastic remove “explosiontastic” from your sentence "I went “explosiontastic” explosiontastic mall." Particles are our fiends.
scyphi26 over 4 years ago
Even if T-Rex had it his way, those particles would still be the most popular words in the English language, because they’re important to our sentence structures. The best way to change that is to start omitting them, and in English, that’s considered bad grammar.
He’d have better luck with a language such as Latin, which doesn’t use particles.
AndrewSihler over 4 years ago
None of those things are really “particles”, actually. Particles are things like the up in sew up, mess up, keep up, write up, finish up, freeze up and a zillion others, said particle denoting “completed/telic” action. So it doesn’t occur with stative verbs (hate up does not compute. And own up (to) involves own in the sense of “admit”, which is an eventive verb, in contrast to the sense of “possess”, which is stative.) (Particle to be distinguished from the preposition: in I looked up one of my college roommates it’s a particle, in I looked up the chimney it’s a preposition.