1. I don't think you ever gave a straight answer to explain your claim that "I couldn't care less" and "I could care less" have the same meaning.
2. In your "ask me anything" topic about linguistics, you never gave the answer to any of my handful of questions.
3. Nor have you given an answer in "John is easy to please" vs. "John is eager to please"
Where's the beef?
And there's the Dvorak topic. I guess that when AMan says "ask me anything", he doesn't mean to imply that he'll answer what he's asked.
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"If I pick nine, you'd better not be racist against me!"
"No promises, niney."
Reasonable supposition is reasonable.
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1. "Less" is a negative polarity item that licenses a covert "n't" morpheme
2. Which?
3. "John is easy to please" has an underlying order close to "It is easy to please John" whereby the other phrase has no such alternation
4. I'm typing this post using Dvorak
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Evan: I'm just drilling holes. Last two weeks, **** it.
2. Check the archives.
3. So does that involve reflexivity? I thought "reflexive" meant that the noun was the object of the verb and that the verb had an open-ended subject (John being easy to please doesn't specify who is pleasing him).
4. That doesn't answer the questions that I asked in your Dvorak topic (thanks to Kodi for reminding me).
2. Here's a link: http://arfer.net/pms/topics/54780769
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"If I pick nine, you'd better not be racist against me!"
"No promises, niney."
3. So does that involve reflexivity? I thought "reflexive" meant that the noun was the object of the verb and that the verb had an open-ended subject (John being easy to please doesn't specify who is pleasing him).
No, reflexive refers to cases in which the subject and the object refer to the same entity. But you are correct that the subject of "to please" in "John is easy to please" is open-ended, but the subject of "to please" in "John is eager to please" is John.
I'll do the rest later.
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Seth: What are you making?
Evan: I'm just drilling holes. Last two weeks, **** it.
I guess that when AMan says "ask me anything", he doesn't mean to imply that he'll answer what he's asked.
For some reason, I find this revelation to be very funny.
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I find the revelation very revealing.
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"...you should try reading my posts being getting all emo." --FoxMetal
In a great show of irony, AMan doesn't follow through ("I'll do the rest later") in a topic about follow-through!