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Meaning of "float" (primitive between 366 and 367)? - stupiddog - 2009-05-24
Hello,
I am no native English speaker and a bit clueless about what "float" means here. Regarding the use in a party context, wiktionary.org says it is a softdrink with a scoop of vanilla ice in it, but if that is the correct meaing, what is the "platform structure" the explanation talks about?
Greetings,
Stupid Dog
Meaning of "float" (primitive between 366 and 367)? - stupiddog - 2009-05-24
Silly me, I had better taken a look at a picture of it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Root_Beer_Float.jpg
Meaning of "float" (primitive between 366 and 367)? - Gingerninja - 2009-05-24
Personally for stories i used the image of a "Float" as in one of those things you see in parades that people stand on.
http://www.rotaryfloat.org/images/pastfloats/Float1997a.jpg that type of thing.
Meaning of "float" (primitive between 366 and 367)? - edsmaffs - 2009-05-24
I use the primitive 'balloon' here, just to confuse anyone who's reading my stories!
Meaning of "float" (primitive between 366 and 367)? - harhol - 2009-05-24
A float is a big wooden structure which is used in a street parade. Americans are big on them. Personally I've never seen one IRL so I think of floats you get at the swimming pool.
Meaning of "float" (primitive between 366 and 367)? - vengeorgeb - 2009-05-24
Gingerninja and harhol are right stupiddogg. I confess I didn't know what a float was either when I first studied it. Here is another example: http://mexicoenburgos.com/eventos/cabalgata06/carroza.jpg
If you are like me you will finish Rtk1 having learned a great deal of new English, specially from the stories from the site, so for us it is 一石二鳥
Meaning of "float" (primitive between 366 and 367)? - sethg - 2009-05-24
Yeah, I definitely thought of it as this kind of float: http://www.nationalnotary.org/userimages/roseParade/roseParadeFloatLG.jpg
And yeah... I'm a native English speaker and I'll admit... I've had to look up several keywords and even a couple of primitives (silage?) throughout the book. You can tell Heisig is a big time academic.
Meaning of "float" (primitive between 366 and 367)? - Gingerninja - 2009-05-24
yeah i think theres a couple keywords in there that even throw us native english speakers. not surprisngly they are the words that ive had hardest time coming up with stickable stories for.
i have seen "floats" where i live, can't say i was overly impressed. America does seem to more into them however. Think Macy's Day Parade at thanksgiving.
Meaning of "float" (primitive between 366 and 367)? - Proxx - 2009-05-24
Hey,
I used "Floß" (raft).
Considering the following stories for the float primitive, this translation seems quite reasonable - correct me if I am wrong. At least this interpretation worked for me.
Meaning of "float" (primitive between 366 and 367)? - stupiddog - 2009-05-24
sethg Wrote:And yeah... I'm a native English speaker and I'll admit... I've had to look up several keywords and even a couple of primitives (silage?) throughout the book. You can tell Heisig is a big time academic.You bet! Actually, I thought my English was quite ok already because I watch a lot of British and American TV every day, but I guess that cannot substitute for reading good literature once in a while.
Which, I have to admit, is not one of my greater hobbies (rule of thumb: if it is longer than a text message, you better make a movie out of it to get me interested...)
Meaning of "float" (primitive between 366 and 367)? - drivers99 - 2009-05-24
The last fiction book I started reading recently (A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroghs) had a lot of words that I decided to look up because I didn't really know what they were. One of them was "promontory," and so when that came up as a keyword I was really happy because that is the only way I would have known what it was and I already had a picture in my head from the book!
Meaning of "float" (primitive between 366 and 367)? - liosama - 2009-05-24
Or you could use a different primitive all together =D. I actually had no idea what you were talking about when you said float, because I call mine a Trident/Very long spear.
See my stories if you like, I use extended meanings off the initial spear one.
Meaning of "float" (primitive between 366 and 367)? - lagwagon555 - 2009-05-24
I think I'm the only person who used 'float' as in something which floats on water. It made scaffolding very easy: Wood which floats is used as scaffolding for those southeast asian floating villages.
Meaning of "float" (primitive between 366 and 367)? - mafried - 2009-05-24
i used Mardi Gras for this one
Meaning of "float" (primitive between 366 and 367)? - Machine_Gun_Cat - 2009-05-25
Gingerninja Wrote:yeah i think theres a couple keywords in there that even throw us native english speakers. not surprisngly they are the words that ive had hardest time coming up with stickable stories for.I had at least two stories where the main punchline was that I didn't actually know the meaning of the keyword.
i have seen "floats" where i live, can't say i was overly impressed. America does seem to more into them however. Think Macy's Day Parade at thanksgiving.
Meaning of "float" (primitive between 366 and 367)? - eroichigo - 2009-06-13
Float wouldn't stick in my mind so I changed it to mean "Mesh" just from the way it looks. Tree + Mesh = scaffolding..
Gold + Mesh = Coin. I picture a coin with a mesh pattern on it. These stuck right away after I changed the meaning of the primitive.
Meaning of "float" (primitive between 366 and 367)? - Asakk - 2009-06-13
I'm also not an native english speaker and couldn't understand what float was either, so I used it as the verb 'to float', and I think I did good stories, anyway...