u/PlacidoFlamingo7

Hope it’s okay for me to post here. I’m total laity.

As a kid, I wanted to go into ministry (even though my family didn’t go into church till I was like 16 or 17.). Now, I’m a middle age dude and a lawyer. I enjoy my work, and I believe it has value, but it has nowhere the vibrancy or importance of tending Christ’s sheep or spreading the gospel.

It has got to be exhausting to spend your life thinking consciously about the stuff that matters most and tending probably actively to some of the most complicated members of the church.

Anyway, this might not be coherent, but I guess I’m thrusting at something vaguely like 1 Corinthians 12. This part of the body is grateful for y’all.

Well, sadly, there’s a lot of things you could plausibly call him—many people who go by many names commit burglaries in Hamburg each year. A city of nearly two million residents, Hamburg naturally has a meaningful number of crimes each year, and some of those are burglaries. Hamburg police statistics suggest that 2025 saw roughly 2,800 residential burglaries, and there is almost assuredly a range of names reflected in these statistics, to say nothing of those offenders who target commercial properties.

For all these reasons and more, one cannot safely assume there is a single thing that you can call a hamburger who commits a burglary; the numbers are simply too large for that.

Because he was a German golden retriever

I understand that Mandarin Chinese is both (1) S-V-O and (2) topic-comment. My impression as a layman is that (2) kind of dilutes (1), but I guess I get it insofar as topic-comment kind of exists in English to an extent too (“this guy, I don’t like”). What I do not understand though is why, in mandarin, the form “no one” or “nothing” as an object can be formed by putting “shei dou” or “shenme dou” before the verb but after the subject. That feels to me like pure S-O-V. If “shei dou” or “shenme dou” preceded the subject, then I could maybe make peace with this on the understanding that it’s just a topic-comment. But the present state of affairs seems illogical to me. I’ve asked AI and it basically just describes the pattern but without explaining its genesis or logic. Can anyone demystify this for me?

And there’s some of each