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.
Dawn: I think a date should be in a real fancy restaurant, then champagne at a night club with a floor show, then ballroom dancing. Joyce: Unfortunately, we're not dating in a movie from the thirties.
'Get It Done'
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.
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.
§ 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."
DXMachina - Jan 31, 2005 8:41:50 am PST #2390 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
What is really weird is that rhyme and rhythm do not use "rhy" in the same way.
It's that damnable silent e again, causing all sorts of trouble, givin' short vowels notions that they're long.
Steph L. - Jan 31, 2005 8:42:11 am PST #2391 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
The town of "Campbell," in Northern Ohio, is pronounced "camel."
Beverly - Jan 31, 2005 8:42:22 am PST #2392 of 10002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
It's AR-kin-sah. Isn't it?
§ ita § - Jan 31, 2005 8:42:50 am PST #2393 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
When I was six or so, I got into an argument with a teacher about reptiles having pre-dated birds. No, I was told. God created them both at the same time. Checking Genesis, he wasn't even right about that.
shrift - Jan 31, 2005 8:44:29 am PST #2394 of 10002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
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?
Dude, even cow looks wrong if I write it enough times.