Paul Phillips ([info]extempore) wrote,
@ 2009-04-06 13:11:00
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We have a giant bucket of little plastic animals (doesn't everyone?) A recent visitor asked ivy about one of them.

"That's an alligator," she said, adding: "alligator is the past tense of crocodile."

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[info]normalcyispasse
2009-04-06 08:14 pm UTC (link)
Also, snake is the past tense of lizard.

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[info]ronebofh
2009-04-06 08:18 pm UTC (link)
Reptile conjugation is UNNATURAL.

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[info]undecemumbrae
2009-04-06 10:37 pm UTC (link)
Whenever I see capital letters on this blog I expect it to be about scrabble.

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[info]skin_it_mahatma
2009-04-06 11:44 pm UTC (link)
a dinosaur can be a past tense of crocodile.

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[info]tinymammoth
2009-04-07 12:42 am UTC (link)
awwww

I am the past tense of elephants. Unless science is successful in reconstructing my tiny relatives, in which case, we'll need some new tenses.

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[info]extempore
2009-04-07 01:45 pm UTC (link)
You are describing a tense situation.

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[info]shezzavague
2009-04-07 02:14 pm UTC (link)
I think she has the tense wrong, given:

"See you later, alligator."
"In a while, crocodile."

Complex conditionality, but I think the alligator is post-croc, not ad-croc.

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