Jules Jones

I have a paid account on both Dreamwidth and LiveJournal, but I've never used the poll facility on DW, and wanted to see how it interacts with the cross-posting facility. The answer seems to be that it cross-posts with a link to the poll on DW, using the poll title as the link text, and also cross-posts any text that's not part of the poll. Which does avoid split answers and is a sensible way to do it (quite apart from any coding issues for cross-posting), but means that anyone who doesn't want to post at DW isn't going to take part. And the code generated can't be cut-n-pasted in LJ -- you have to re-enter the questions into LJ's poll generator if you want to have a poll rather than just show people what the question/answer set is.

This is, of course, a deeply evil poll where Stevie's concerned, because she's been waiting for me to tell her whether to put the Inspector Singh book on order at the library. :->

watervole and I were discussing a point of grammar, and realised that it was an excellent opportunity for me to play with one of the shiny toys that came with the paid account. Hence, poll...

Do you seen any difference in meaning between the following two sentences
"the boy was hitting the ball"
and
"the boy hit the ball"?
[Poll #1284967]