View Notes - Who Cares and So What from ENGL 1320 at University of North Texas. An accompaniment to Andrew Reeves's Warhammer post. Follow Tod onTwitter, view hisarchive, oremail him. Likewise if Im a school. By adding a question tag, you turn it into a question 'you don't eat meat, do you?'. Which makes your use of it even better.Report. So I got *that* going for me, which is nice.Report. C: The conclusions that hippies in general argue for are false.Report, But imagine someone analogized the throwing of rocks at these buses with killing abortion providers and said See, both sides use violence to get their political point across. But these are reasonable mistakes, not to be analogized with unreasonable, stupid, and morally vile positions. Gentrification, loss of what made SF a great community, growing income inequality, a failure of the upper middle class to try to integrate and live with lower classes, etc., How can you complain about gentrification AND a refusal to integrate? You can either dismiss these problems by saying, Eh, theyre the losers in life, as Brandon essentially does, or you can start talking about why they happen and how we might go about dealing with them without losing some of the good things about gentrification. Youre one of my favorite commenters at this site because youre consistently charitable, crystal clear, and respond to specific claims other commenters have actually said (not what you think theyve said). negative tag. What standard are you holding them to?Report. I would say that they do too little and that is protestable. Im OK if *you* get all in-touch-with-your-body by yourself over there. I know of no tags for these; they have no verbs to tag with. Its an apples to oranges comparison on a number of levels and complete FE.Report. Brandons just dismissed them, though, mostly mockingly. Given that, wheres the trouble in seeing a distinction between the two groups? He looks around and speaks to himself. We all want things we cant haveby adulthood people should understand that throwing a tantrum is not the appropriate way to deal with this. A sentence that begins with There is is called an existential clause, the sentence refers to the existence or presence of something. Im pretty sure that mistakenly viewing Google buses as a symptom of the very real social inequality problem in SF is not on par with the stupidity of 99% of religious conservativism, like not favoring contraception distribution in countries that are suffering from the AIDS epidemic. Examples: You speak English, don't you? Definition: Tag means something small that is added on or attached after a sentence. Question tags are more common in speaking than writing. A family of hospitals for your family. In English, existential clauses usually use the dummy subject construction (also known as expletive) with there, as in "There are boys in the yard". I like the low rents. And what did I say about those people Brandon? Having to live in a world where two men can get married, much less so.Report, @mark-thompson (man, Im actually remembering to use the @s!). You can specify conditions of storing and accessing cookies in your browser, Things did not spread instantly __ the whole nation, Spot the error in the given sentence We can add question tags like isn't it?, can you? Replies. But they neednt hold any developed views about advanced economic models and effective political strategies in order to feel that something is at stake when wealthy people buy up housing and drive up the cost of living in the areas where they live. That tells me that their notion of rising inequality and mine are extraordinarily different, and indeed directly at odds. Not sure what to say about it. at the White Eagle Hotel & Saloon. Yeah, fish those guys. Theyre also inconvenient for the non-Google people who use public transportation, which increases their visibility and their association with the frustration.. , Actually, I read BBs meaning to be something very different: that its somewhat helpful to remember where your own side goes off the rail as youre criticizing the other for doing the same. Im going to have to reserve judgment until you present more evidence than Josh Marshall referring to Boehners actions on the debt ceiling as a cave. Question tags: Grammar test 1. The birthers were fabricating an issue out of whole cloth to (what?) I imagine the benefit is space efficiency. Unfortunately, people with money run things, and people with money tend to be more like Brandon than me in their view of gentrification and what the winners and the losers deserve, so the conversation often doesnt happen, or doesnt go anywhere, until people get so angry that they start protesting Google Buses. Henry Ford and Pullman were the most prominent examples of this but other plenty of other businessmen had long lists of rules about what their employees could do off-hours. Regardless, that does not make the blanket targeting of anyone perceived to be in the group benefiting from those changes any more acceptable.Report. And to that, I am happy to double down on my this.. If the main part of the sentence is positive we usually add a negative question tag. Some people are going to be private no matter what. Online Study Care 24 ENGLISH FOR TODAY | Class Eight ENGLISH FOR TODAY | Classes Nine-Ten ENGLISH FOR TODAY | Classes Eleven-Twelve. (I rather suspect if I went inside I would get beat up.) yes. If Im a gym owner and I have the option of using X sq. Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Nicole Joseph sent a follow-up, apology email to the Peabody community on Feb. 17 at 6:30 p.m. CST. (I know this because my BIL owns such a company, has no office, but international staff that all work at home. Black. When city governments refuse to put money into areas until after they are gentrified, when landlords chase out long-standing tenants, when the new residents treat the older ones with disdain. Do I have to criticize them to make my more subtle above the fray argument go thru? Mc lcI. Some of us, at least, are talking about inequality and evictions in San Francisco. To turn the statement into a question, put a comma, then add the question tag. I dont know how liberal you consider me but I criticized the protests for exactly this. Tag questions are a fun way to get to know each other better . Imagine your son being forced to shower with a gay man. That sucks. However, how many people threw rocks? As I tell my students: You share this class with 10 other children. An example of this would be the statement 'you don't eat meat.'. But sometimes there is an attempt to say a pox on all ideological houses and all political parties equally that is simple minded, misleading, and based on fallacious false equivalencies.Report, Protesting against gentrification is fine. Gangbusters! Tag questions are sometimes added to the end of imperatives: Leave your coat in the hall, will you? If I didnt express disdain, would that show Im a partisan hack who holds irrational views? New Conservatives: Do You Want Vengeance, Or A Solution? al final de las frases. Mike Schilling gets the prize for being by the closest to the target. Just a free speech thing. I didnt, and still dont, understand what Tim was getting at in that post. But the "So What?" and "Who Cares?" challenge questions are easy to remember and provide a quick assessment tool. And its pretty clear that both sides dont do itat least not in anywhere near equal numbers. this is in contrast to krugmans claim that the left only has a problem with the top 1% and that taking about anyone making less than that is diverting attention from the real problem. And you can all have a beer with Karl Rove, who will tell you he can relate, because hes been there, brother, hes been there.Report, If we are talking false equivalence comparing the maroons tossing stones at Google buses to some of the things religious conservatives do which almost all of us in the place dislike( bigotry, homophobia, etc) is gold medal example of the species. FWIW. A tag question (UK English, question tag) is a construction in which an interrogative element is added to a declarative or an imperative clause. Im not saying you cant criticize them. To the larger issue, I will only say (restate? A commitment to community. Yellow. Looked at as an end-state, refusal to integrate looks like an accurate statement. "So what?" and "Who cares?" Conveys accomplishments in simple language free of technical jargon. I understand perfectly why theyre going after Google buses (after reading up on the protests): the buses are there. For example, the Boyfriend/Girlfriend tag shows how much a girl knows about her boyfriend and vice versa. Thats not the super rich, its the young programmers making six figures and buying a condo or house for 800k in a neighborhood that, a few years ago, was working or lower middle class.Report. Indeed, theyre so far at odds thatThat tells me that their notion of rising inequality and mine are extraordinarily different, and indeed directly at odds. From my perspective, Im someone who, thanks to the work of folks like Stillwater, has become persuaded that rising inequality is a legitimate issue. Gentrification is what happens when White Flight has successfully ruined a community. I dont like the young swaggering males who laugh at me and get in my face. Tag questions are made using an auxiliary verb (for example: be or have) and a subject pronoun (for example: I, you, she ). @zic The elephant in the room is laws on the books about rates of pay for computer-programming jobs in CA; either $40/hour or min. Thats just how the world works.Report, Vikram, theres a difference between being critical and mocking.Report. Moreover, it is not morally vile to protest gentrification. (c) You can swim very well.'. Google is way, way over there (which is why they need the buses), as are most of the other major tech companies, but the buses are right there. To what ends?Report, The elephant in the room is laws on the books about rates of pay for computer-programming jobs in CA; either $40/hour or min. Basically, the whole being naked part. And also that many of the Google employees were relatively recent immigrants, many of them from awfully poor countries. The answer to "Who Cares?" is making a precision connection with the reader with the need or problem. Maybe counterproductive, maybe not. ] Also, when I talk about showering with other men, Im referring to the entire process from undressing to showering to dressing. In these cases, the speaker's intonation rises at the end. To me, the attitude they expressed was decidedly unliberal. All Rights Reserved. They are often used for checking information that we think we know is true. *The reason I know this is because I once got clocked by a chunk of concrete thrown through a window. Are there any examples of neighborhoods that were in the process of gentrifying then stopped (and perhaps even ungentrified)? If the main verb in the sentence is have (not an auxiliary verb), it is more common to use do in the tag. Conservative tears the skin off of gay person for believing in the wrong God. Republicans have traditionally been (if only in a relative sense) defenders of property rights. A negative statement or sentence is one which has, 'no', 'not or 'never in its verb elements. Mark, Ive got mad respect for you, but surely you want to take this back or revise it. (Did you know that while reporting on doing business with the military during the mid 2000s, I used to get invited to Bushs fundraisers by my sources with alarming regularity; and not just mass mailing emails, but personal invitations to share a seat at their mega-bucks table for free. I dont have much more of an explanation other than I like having my privacy. It might make for a fun comparison to the gentrified ones, if we can look at one of those. If you treat them as hourly workers (e.g pay overtime), you can pay minimum wage, provided you can find someone wholl accept that.Report. Chris: What in the world has this nation come to?, Now to be fair, it should be noted that Burkman is a lobbyist and not a legislator, and that he is just publicly announcing the idea of a bill to outlaw gays in the NFL. Computer programmers inspire of their incomes still often have middle class tastes and it drives hipsters nuts. Do I need to preface every criticism I make of the GOP with a disclaimer that I do in fact criticize my own side, so Im a totes impartial commenter with established street cred? ), http://www.morganlewis.com/index.cfm/fuseaction/publication.detail/publicationID/3989632d-51ed-4da3-bed0-31703588790eReport, That may be true on the SSM issue, but theres plenty of other issues where its not true immigrant labor really is cheaper, ending employment discrimination against women and minorities increases labor supply, and affirmative action programs really do have the effect of limiting educational opportunities for lower class whites. salary of more then $80,000. 1. I am of a mixed mind on it, in part because no two gentrifications are identical. Ive been hit on by gay men. theyre protesting Google (and the other tech companies) as the symbol of increased income and housing inequality, and the cause of evictions and skyrocketing housing costs. Remember: the buses are both a symbol of the gentrification issue, because they carry the people who are doing the gentrification, and they are an actual nuisance to the people who use public transportation. As I understood the Google bus protests, it seemed more about symbolism and The Cause (TM) than actually making a real change. salary of more then $80,000. If I recall the film correctly, that means sexually excited. So I guess its appropriate to call it property damage, until it kills, blinds or brain-damages someone. And were laughing our asses off that men like this are all twitterpated that they might be subject to what theyve done to us; that they fear it because they do it. But what difference does that make to the point Im getting at? He is aregular inactivefor Marie Claire Internationaland the Daily Beast, and is currently writing a book on the sudden rise of exorcisms in the United States. That is, except perhaps at first when home prices are still relatively low and stores that wouldnt have come within 2 miles of a neighborhood start moving in, the people who already lived in a neighborhood rarely find gentrification beneficial. I apologize. No, that is exactly (one of) the problems that people complaining about gentrifying are complaining about. Because our expert team has solved all the questions of today's examination. I enjoyed my long runs northward that took me past handshake drug deals and million dollar homes. And it isnt loony to protest Google busses. The basic rules for forming the two-word tag questions are as follows: * the subject in the statement matches the subject in the . Or even with a woman unless were both into each other. We often use question tags when we expect the listener to agree with our statement. Seriously man, have you ever seen a gay porn star? We add a clause in the form of a question at the end of a sentence. Hell, now they can move to city hall, with the knowledge that people are paying attention and will see them.Report. Disaster Triage Color Tags. 2. (Brain-damage minimal, as far as I can tlcgh.) People shouldnt inherently feel ashamed of the fact that they have body parts. While Im sure there is a certain amount of inherent self-consciousness that accompanies adolescence, I do think we would be well-served to promote a healthier sense of ones body especially if we are only going to give two dozen girls just three stalls. That is the guy who is proposing a federally mandated ban on gay players in the NFL. who cares tag question ? I would reserve the word stupid for things like the denial of evolution or the belief that the poor are eating Tbone steaks with their welfare checks.Report, the computer programmers riding the google buses are hardly the super rich, if their problem is with the super rich why not protest them, there are plenty of them in SF.Report, Their problem isnt with the super rich. Reglas y ejemplos de las Tag questions. i posted a link he implied that the left only has a problem with top 1% and that talk about people making less than the is just a diversion. These protesters are, at root, targeting a company, and the rank and file thereof, for doing exactly that. Violations. I do know that the girls scramble to take advantage of the three stalls available to them because of how self-conscious they tend to be. Well, this response misses my argument by quite a bit, but nevertheless, I have done that, Tod. (One of them is Gone, Baby, Gone, which you might have seen the film version of.) a crowd of people has gathered to watching the cricket match, Make a list of items that you see in your house write their uses, Anand buys an articles for 600and spend some amount an its repair .if he sells it for 900.he losses 4%.at what percent should he sells it to gain8%. Lesson 01: Tag Questions Tag Questions Question tags are the small questions that come at the end of sentences. Yeah, thats luckily just property damage, but wed more properly call it an attempted stabbing, which I tend to take a dim view of. Theres nothing silly about that. @chris The thing is that nothing youve said differentiates those concerns from the (presumably mockable) concerns raised by various social conservatives. so then krugman is lying when he claims that the problem is just the top one percent. Perhaps; but the law does indicate that part of the root causes of gentrification in and about SF are legislated, which was my point.Report, Can liberals be outraged by this? YouTube Tag questions are questions you ask someone to either know more about the person or know how well the person knows you. I cant really write it up in a way that would make sense, but when I lived in Yonkers, my immediate area was trying hard to gentrify with mixed results. It's a bit early, isn't it? Th hin ti tip din3. Audience for impact statements: Your impact audience is the public: local, state, and federal officials, your peers, external grantors, and industry . A positive statement or affirmative sentence is a statement or sentence without, 'no, 'not or 'never in its verb elements. if they dont hate nerds why have does the fact that the riders of the buses are nerds keep coming up when people complain about them. Id prefer having the option of privacy and if the people who want to be naked around each other want, then maybe there can have their own room where they can do that. that doesnt make the way they treated black newcomers acceptable.Report. Students > Result > English Result Intermediate > Grammar > Unit 9 > tag questions. Th tng lai n6. Stillwater: The question tag must be negative if the sentence is positive and . I struggle to identify any benefit to them.Report. If the subject is nobody, somebody, everybody, no one, someone or everyone, we use "they" in the tag. 1. And it angers me when I meet adults who not only cant appropriately control themselves when such things happen, but who seem to actively think that they can and should have everything they want. I find that strange. This is a giant slow pitch softball for Rs who want to start to change the publics perception of them on gays.Report, http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2014/02/24/jack_burkman_michael_sam_gop_lobbyist_s_cynical_ploy_to_ban_gays_from_the.htmlReport, K, I liked that I could bring my friends to that sports bar. so, um, about as bad as what happens to the Pitt football teams bus when they go to WVU?Report, Yeah, I dont mean to minimize the potential (or actual) impact of violent behavior. I think that as the proverbs are universal, the tag question should be always 'isn't it'. Why would they be questions at all? They mean something like: "Is that right?" or "Do you agree?" They are very common in English. But I think the default towards that is based on a broader, more harmful prudishness about the human body.Report, One mans harmful prudishness is anothers protective prudishness.Report, My point is that a societal tilt towards prudishness gives us all sorts of complexes about our own bodies, most of them harmful. Some were well off, I suppose. The merely rich have a dity to help reduce inequality, too. The Joker may have anti-social personality disorder. At the moment it doesn't make sense because a question tag turns a statement into a question. Of course if a well connected guy thinks this will lead to good PR and not a massive outflow of clients and getting laughed off Fox, then that is the problem. It might make for a fun comparison to the gentrified ones, if we can look at one of those.Report. A 35-year-old female with severe chest pain: red tag d. A 60-year-old male with an open fracture with distal pulses: yellow tag Red-tagged clients need immediate care due to life-threatening injuries. He is not a Donald Trump/Frank Gafney type. ( Formal) #https://youtu.be/3cHHNeQkyr0what is the tag question of who cares? My admittedly distant understanding of the people being pushed out by gentrification in SF is plenty of them are white ( they are the much derided hippies or hipsters or general weirdos).Report. These tags are often used to validate whether the given information is true or not. I agree with your general assessment of gentrification. Are you now the spokesman for us straight guys? Share. express disapproval and undermine the legitimacy of a President they didnt like. Honestly, I see that way of looking at things as morally abominable, but I suspect youd see my way of looking at it as equally so. (note: yes women masturbate in the shower too. 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