Height

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104183551&ps=bb4

So apparently being short means that you live closer to the present, based on the lesser time it takes for a person to get feedback from nerves and synchronize them all.

I don't view it as a disadvantage for tall people. Rather, I am time-travelling, and I'll feel you a tenth of a second in the future.

Today, Latin retaught me the predicate nominative. In Latin, the nouns conjugate - the proper term is declension, but the idea is similar. Depending on whether the noun is being used as a nominative, generative (possessive), dative (indirect object), accusative (direct object), ablative (various things like location and instrumentality), or vocative, it has slightly different endings. I'd assumed that the nominative would always be the subject, or subject-like. I was running into sentences where two words, one before and one after the verb, would both appear to be the nominative. "Regina est femina." The queen is a woman? Or the woman is a queen? Or both? Then I looked in the book where it explained that the nominative can be a predicate. In the case the verb, rather than describing an action on a direct object, describes the subject. Oy, I'd forgotten more than I thought about these grammar things.

Of course, except for the order of the words (which can only be trusted to a certain degree), I don't yet know whether the predicate nominative is just the one with less emphasis, or what. I'll ask tomorrow.