When I was in first or second grade, I was really annoyed at the way "comb" is spelled.
I used to be really annoyed as "scissors" for that damned silent 'c'. Also, the store "Hechinger's" for sounding like a disease.
Well, a gathering is brie, mellow song stylings; shindig, dip, less mellow song stylings, perhaps a large amount of malt beverage, and hootenanny, well, it's chock full of hoot, just a little bit of nanny.
Oz ,'Beneath You'
Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jessica - Jan 31, 2005 8:30:18 am PST #2380 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Nilly - Jan 31, 2005 8:30:19 am PST #2381 of 10002
Swouncing
Does anyone else have the thing where you know a word is spelled correctly, but the more you write it, the more wrong it looks?
In English, I do. In Hebrew, much much less.
Dana? It's the first time I'm posting with you since your trip, so (skipper me) welcome back! I hope you had a great time.
[Edit: my post # is all 2s and 3s games goodness. It's easy to spell numbers, unless it's in Arabic]
tommyrot - Jan 31, 2005 8:30:21 am PST #2382 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Brought on by the blood sugar wonkiness caused by too much puh-SKE-ti.
Probably. I should eat more meatbulbs with my puhsketti....
shrift - Jan 31, 2005 8:31:40 am PST #2383 of 10002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
and shrift should call in sick tomorrow and Wednesday.
So totally can't. But it's a nice thought.
My plans for today are to a) only work 8 hours, and b) go directly to bed when I get home, c) don't pass Go and collect $200, d) wake up and watch DVDs, and e) go back to bed.
It is a bold and daring plan.
Dana - Jan 31, 2005 8:31:43 am PST #2384 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Thanks, Nilly! I did have a great time. Except for the bits when it was raining and windy and I was outside.
beathen - Jan 31, 2005 8:31:51 am PST #2385 of 10002
Sure I went over to the Dark Side, but just to pick up a few things.
Does anyone else have the thing where you know a word is spelled correctly, but the more you write it, the more wrong it looks?
"When" gets me every now and then.
§ ita § - Jan 31, 2005 8:32:13 am PST #2386 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My solution to words being spelled wrong was to pronounce them as spelled. Mostly this resulted in kuh-nives. Sometimes also kuh-knifes, although I knew better. I just didn't like the arbitrariness of it all.
tommyrot - Jan 31, 2005 8:35:10 am PST #2387 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
When I was in first grade, I got into an agrument with a bunch of my classmates. I insisted that the earth went around the sun, and they insisited that the sun went around the earth. So I thought to myself, "A second-grader will know." So the group of us asked a second-grader, who also said the sun goes around the earth.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 31, 2005 8:36:42 am PST #2388 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Also, what is the correct way to say "Arkansas"? I always say "are-can-saw".
That's right. The problem is not people saying Native American origin words like "Arkansas" and "Missouri" wrong, but that the people who first wrote them down using the English alphabet were apparently on some early form of crack.
tommyrot - Jan 31, 2005 8:38:02 am PST #2389 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
"Shawano" kills me. It's pronounced "SHAW-no."