[linguistics, uni, lol, public post]

[naatz]

The given sentence: "He continued stroking her head even after she'd stopped crying."

Mission: Find the pre-assumptions in the sentence. Explain your reasoning.

Pre-assumptions found:
- She had cried.
- He stroked her head while she cried.
- She had stopped crying.

Explanation:
In order to stop stroking somebody, firstly the action must be begun

Comments

[silverplate88]

And what do you suppose the trigger of hearing about his stupid question will do to the consequent behavior of the prof?

I'm not near as good at this as you are, I'm not a comparative linguist, so I am not making any pre-assumptions at all relative to what action he / she will next perform.

Maybe this would all sound better in Classical Polish? .... pre-assuming you have not dropped it yet lol

[naatz]

1) Teacher/driller, not prof. :P And, I assume, it will break his brain. Either before or after he chews me out for using sarcasm again.

2) That's not comparative linguistics, just plain old bullshitting and I have no idea why we're being taught that.

3) It's not Classical Polish, it's Standard Modern Polish! And no, I haven't dropped it yet. I like it.

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[silverplate88]

So much for pre-assumptions about plain old bullshitting. Also about how a driller with a broken brain will sound or look chewing out a sarcastic but correct student O.o

[mintsui]

Stop this, vile woman! You are going to make me go through my writings! ALL OF THEM!

Are these so much pre-assumptions as they are given facts, anyway? If he's CONTINUING something, he was doing it before, ... baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

Do your teachers always give you brain-breaking assignments?

[naatz]

What writings are you talking about? B)

We had to differentiate between pre-assumptions and go-along sentences. They ARE given facts, because the sentence treats them as a given fact; otherwise the sentence wouldn't have been able to exist. {It's a bit hard to stroke somebody's head after she cried, when she'd never cried, after all.}

It's just the two, really, and only one of them {not this one} enjoys breaking us. I think this one suffers along us at having to give us these assignments.

-- not that I pity him in any way for having to read the answers. It is his fault I broke his brain, after all.

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[naatz]

PS - Icon love! Very fitting. ;)

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