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We all know the state that loneliness describes. Being on your own doesn't always mean loneliness. But sometimes being with other people brings about a state of acute loneliness, worse than being on your own. This can happen when you have the company of people with whom you have nothing in common. I am thinking of the feeling that partners of Alzheimers's experience, or of parents of severely brain damaged children. Also, I think some mothers might experience this with small babies. There is a person there, indicated by the body, but it is like there is no person in the body to relate to.
The reason I ask is there is loneliness, and loneliness. And my personal view is that loneliness in an adult is usually easy to accommodate. But the loneliness-with-people experience is near to impossible to accommodate to and is excruciating.
It there a particular word/phrase/expression which describes the loneliness-with-people feeling? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.25.4.14 ( talk) 08:32, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
In the sentence "What's the weather like over there?" is like a preposition or an adjective? I accept it's a preposition in She can bend it like Beckham, but that isn't quite the same as What's it like? or at least not quite. I am thinking that you could put a preposition or an adjective plus preposition here, as in What's it for? or What's it similar to? So in the last example, similar to is an adjective plus preposition, and like appears to fulfil the same role. So what's it really like? IBE ( talk) 09:24, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
What does that mean? Did Bruce Willis just come up with a new phrase? ☯ Bonkers The Clown \(^_^)/ Nonsensical Babble ☯ 15:00, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
To what real world event does this refer? Link, please. μηδείς ( talk) 21:47, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
I was chatting online with a friend who started the conversation by sending me a youtube link of one of my favorite movies from childhood. This how our conversation went:
I am not a native English speaker and have never come across "remembered of (something)" before. Is it grammatically correct?
Such a gentleman 19:59, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
I do not agree that "Remembers of" is wrong. "Remembers of" shows a deeper recollection than simply "Remembers". E.g., "Looking at old photographs, my 90-year-old grandfather remembers of his youth". However, I agree that most of the time "of" is not needed or is wrong. ☯ Bonkers The Clown \(^_^)/ Nonsensical Babble ☯ 09:42, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
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We all know the state that loneliness describes. Being on your own doesn't always mean loneliness. But sometimes being with other people brings about a state of acute loneliness, worse than being on your own. This can happen when you have the company of people with whom you have nothing in common. I am thinking of the feeling that partners of Alzheimers's experience, or of parents of severely brain damaged children. Also, I think some mothers might experience this with small babies. There is a person there, indicated by the body, but it is like there is no person in the body to relate to.
The reason I ask is there is loneliness, and loneliness. And my personal view is that loneliness in an adult is usually easy to accommodate. But the loneliness-with-people experience is near to impossible to accommodate to and is excruciating.
It there a particular word/phrase/expression which describes the loneliness-with-people feeling? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.25.4.14 ( talk) 08:32, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
In the sentence "What's the weather like over there?" is like a preposition or an adjective? I accept it's a preposition in She can bend it like Beckham, but that isn't quite the same as What's it like? or at least not quite. I am thinking that you could put a preposition or an adjective plus preposition here, as in What's it for? or What's it similar to? So in the last example, similar to is an adjective plus preposition, and like appears to fulfil the same role. So what's it really like? IBE ( talk) 09:24, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
What does that mean? Did Bruce Willis just come up with a new phrase? ☯ Bonkers The Clown \(^_^)/ Nonsensical Babble ☯ 15:00, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
To what real world event does this refer? Link, please. μηδείς ( talk) 21:47, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
I was chatting online with a friend who started the conversation by sending me a youtube link of one of my favorite movies from childhood. This how our conversation went:
I am not a native English speaker and have never come across "remembered of (something)" before. Is it grammatically correct?
Such a gentleman 19:59, 18 September 2013 (UTC)
I do not agree that "Remembers of" is wrong. "Remembers of" shows a deeper recollection than simply "Remembers". E.g., "Looking at old photographs, my 90-year-old grandfather remembers of his youth". However, I agree that most of the time "of" is not needed or is wrong. ☯ Bonkers The Clown \(^_^)/ Nonsensical Babble ☯ 09:42, 19 September 2013 (UTC)