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You still aren't over the avatar thing, are you?

Um... well... how should I put it...

Does TheAP's bouncing avatar bother you?

YES IT DOES!

Is that a question or a statement?

Doesn't it speak for itself?

Can writing speak?

Isn't it obvious to us in the spectrum that inanimate objects speak, so to say, in their own quiet way?

Is this the case for everyone on the spectrum?

Is there any clear method to teach non-English speaking savages, like myself, when to use "in" and when to use "on" in abstract expressions?

The previous question ends in "in abstract expressions." From my point of view, it could as well end in "on abstract expressions." The previous sentence says "ends in", which from my point of view could be "ends on" as well.

Not to confuse the issue further, but couldn't it just as well be "with abstract expressions," perhaps a matter more akin to the French "de", dependent upon context, the subtlety of which is more colloquial and intuitive rather than rationally understood by native speakers, OR perhaps more a matter of speaking/writing STYLE than "correct" grammar?

(Read this to yourself with a "Valley Girl" accent, adding as many gratuitous uses of the word "like" as you wish):

I think the use of the English preposition "in" is fairly idiomatic in abstract terms? It has a pretty clear meaning when it is describing concrete spatial relationships? But I have actually seen native English speakers - mostly Americans - miswriting the phrase "one and the same" as "one IN the same"? So if even people who grew up here get confused by it (and use a preposition in place of a conjunction), non-native speakers can't be faulted for their confusion?

And on the subject of avatars, if TheAP's chick lays an egg, given its relative youth, would that effectively award TheAP a Pullet Surprise?? (double journalism pun there?)

What's a Pullet Surprise?

A really old joke - in which an elementary school student did not understand what a Pulitzer Prize is, and thought it had something to do with young chickens (pullets). As in, Pullet Surprise.

Given that your username could be The Associated Press, and your avatar could be a chick (but is it really Tweetie Pie?) it seemed apt . Capisce?

Isn't that clever?