In which I use "darn" and "shameful" twice

[oloriel]

Darn, XKCD kinda beat me to the syntactic Christmas tree joke. I've been meaning to draw that one for a couple of years and always failed because I'm really bad with tree diagrams, so bad I'm not even certain I could correctly analyse "Wishing you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year" or the like. I know, shameful.Eh well, one less project

Comments

[oloriel]

PULVERSCHNEE/PAPPSCHNEE OTP!

[chili_das_schaf]

Does the secret have anything to do with your missed period during the exams? ;)

Schne shippen made me laugh.

[oloriel]

Sherlock Chili at work, I see...

Yeah, me too. I'm so easily amused sometimes.

[chili_das_schaf]

I'll just wait if I'm right ;) (if yes the "bursting" would be rather appropriate).

[oloriel]

Why am I having mental images of the Alien kind now? O.ó

[indy1776]

Congratulations!

Hey-- with all you've been busy with, I think not reviewing and messing up the deadline is perfectly understandable. :)

[barbardin]

Hey, ich hab gesagt, was ich gezeichnet haben mag! ^^

[oloriel]

Ich dachte, du wolltest das vielleicht noch ein bisschen präzisieren ^^
Und die Anatomiewarnung gilt immer noch!

[arwensommer]

I feel sort of stupid that I don't get the Christmas tree joke?

[oloriel]

That style of structural diagram (in maths, linguistics, informatics, genealogy and probably a variety of other disciplines) is called a tree diagram. :)

A simple syntactic tree might look like this, for example:

[arwensommer]

... Ah! Now I don't feel so stupid anymore :)