My students are, not illegitimately, making a grammatical transformation as well: turning the conjunctions into what are called "sentence adverbs" — words like "Presumably," "However" and, yes, "Hopefully" that are followed by commas when they start sentences.
They are actually planets, Venus and Jupiter coming into conjunction, in other words, near each other as seen from Earth.
The question is: Are people taking the base-rates and conjunction rule into account when they give an intuitive response?
Last year, for example, in conjunction with "Roberto Capucci: Art Into Fashion," the Philadelphia museum's store sold small-scale versions of Mr. Capucci's dresses, all of which were hand-sewn at the designer's couture house in Italy.
This weekend [1-2 October], we start to move into conjunction [where the sun blocks the signal from the spacecraft].
Each yields in robustly illustrative ways to "the voice of the book," a voice more protean than the artist's own; a voice that soars into conjunction with the voice of the region, the nation, the times.
Even more fortunately for them – and us – they were discovered playing in CBGB – which was, in the early 1970s, the heart of punk music in New York City – and then brought into conjunction with pop music maestro Mike Chapman.
When sacramentum was adopted as an ordinance by the early Christian Church in the 3rd century, the Latin word sacer ("holy") was brought into conjunction with the Greek word mystērion ("secret rite").
In the Iggeret ha-Kodesh ("The Holy Epistle"), for example, sexual intercourse in marriage was interpreted as a theurgical practice in which masculine and feminine hypostases (aspects) of the divine were brought into conjunction through appropriate meditations during sexual activity.
For many thousands of people, the then current knowledge – that there were barely any women on the site and that it had all the security of a rotting hammock – was apparently nothing compared with the news that there was a site out there that offered the chance, however small and dangerous, of being brought into conjunction with new sets of genitalia.
