Welcome to the Wakefield Doctrine (the theory of clarks, scotts and rogers)
ok… open your books to… you don’t get to go outside until after class etc
Sorry. Wanted to do a Summer School riff this Monday morning, but we woke up tired.
Damn! Metaphorically-speaking could you ask for more a clarklike theme than what’s inherent in that final phrase?
(oh, yeah. thanks for reminding us…anyone out there have a line on an app/site/whatever that will diagram sentences? We remember from elementary school having to diagram sentences on the chalkboard in front of the class. You know, with the slanting lines an shit for adverbs and adjectives. Increasingly finding ourselfs wanting to know what the technical term for things are, like that in the second sentence, ”…but we woke up tired’. Totally think it’s something like: ‘cross-species pre-injunctive phrase’. You know, with Latin sprinkled in like raisins in a breakfast cereal. Even as we typed the original sentence, we could hear one of the nuns (from back in school) say, “Mister clark, I would advise you get you one of them.”
(Full Disclosure: while it is accurate to cite a nun as being an elementary school teacher, we are taking liberties with how she would express herself. That wonderfully peculiar wording is courtesy of a utube channel about getting rid of bees and such. ‘First of all, go ahead and get you some apple juice.” Will try to find it and post it somewhere in this train-wreck of a post)
Damn! Found it! Here’s the link!
oh man! We totally need to let D. Avery and Violet’s Lentz know about these guys. What? Well, no! We’re not suggesting either of them have a pest/hornet problem. It’s just that they’re both, imo, Masters of Patois. They both gots that expert…whatever the term for it (yeah, our vocab is off today) for a special voice. Anyway, have linked them in.
We’re feelin’ kinda guilty about doing a mega-short Weekday post. These are usually reserved for Fridays when we’re done with the imaginary stuff (fiction written expressly for the Six Sentence Story bloghop). What say we just do a link. That way none of our New Readers will feel guilty for not reading everything in this post. lol as we’re sure they will. yeah, we’re looking at you Reelika and Ms. Pie. (well, no. not in a creepy, stalky way. we’re a clark not a roger! lol)
almost forgot! Your extra credit reading here.
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About clarkscottroger
I searched and there are apps that supposedly diagram sentences, but I haven’t tried any. I do love it when people sprinkle Latin (or Greek) works in sentences. It seems like permission to let my imagination soar as it will anyway to try to make sense out of what was written.
thanks Frank, I’ve come across a couple but I suspect I’m just hoping for a short cut for my GDS*lol
*Grammar Deficiency Syndrome
Are all clarks just born a bit tired, or is my low thyroid at it again?
don’t tell anyone, but it’s mostly because we tricked ourselfs into believing we needed to carry the weight of the world on our shoulder (aka other people) from, like, when we were foour or five years old
talk about under pressure …david bowie and queen i’m absolutely positive never had to deal with sentence diagrams but the song is spot on…. being called to the front of the room to diagram a sentence… what grade it started i have no idea…. oh, and, you forgot to list prepositions… terrifying… it was… but i sorta loved it too… does that make me sadistic or masochistic?… it was a challenge to the brain but the peer pressure was like a teapot getting ready to blow because all the water had been evaporated… i’d pee my pants but i know i’d die on the spot… nobody and i mean nobody even knows what that means anymore to diagram a sentence… so the links… wow! i’ve got enough reading time to last me a few days in those moments of oh well, got nothing to do between the hours of 2-4am… not even sure if i have fulfilled all the clarkscottroger slots/roles yet in this comment… though i did pass through a few of the links as i passed through… i can’t help but to imagine i’m looking up at the caterpillar sitting on a mushroom in a cloud of smoke on this particular post of ‘…doctrine’ but i’m along for the ride just the same… almost done… now, when i got to near the bottom of the post… yay shout out to Reelika but then oh dear, me… are you sure??…. thanks for the shout out but more pressure…. all i can think of is nuns with a ruler on my knuckles… i knew you guys were kookie and smart… my kinda peeps… thanks so much
a) nothing should be done between 2-4 other than sleep (ok, or write, but no editing!) 3:00 am is surely the most inimical hour of the fricken day! man! talk about the worn-section-of-the-fabric-of-benign-reality!! 2) not to worry about learning it all real fast… this is meant to be fun. Each of the three, (when you encounter a list-like description, e.g. ‘a herd of rogers riding their expensive bikes on the weekend, sporting their corporate spangled spandex, with the little mirrors on their helmets because…they are such! bicyclists. or a scott working in the convenience store… cheerful the way that tigers when they ‘play’ as cubs are all, like laughing and having fun. (scotts are the easiest to identify: look at their eyes (don’t get caught though lol) they are alert, always! nothing will occur in the immediate vicinity that they are not aware of (hell, look at the photo in the Doctrine of ‘the three Progenitors’ provided you can enlarge the photo sufficiently, you should be able to identify the scott just from his face (remember! the Wakefield Doctrine is gender neutral)… where was I?
lol
so, an approach many of us have taken when considering our own predominant worldview (remember only one lol) once you’re comfortable with a sense of the three, throw out the ‘no way’ of the three and compare how you feel when you look through the lens of the other two. one will be more clearer and comfortabler than the other… there ya go
Love that sign post. We have a local one by priory called Hog Trough Lane.
nice!
That extra credit reading showed a glorious time. Fun times.
and…and! it will help in seeing the clarks, scotts and rogers in your everyday world today!!