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.
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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.
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
P.M. Marc - Jan 31, 2005 8:44:29 am PST #2395 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
How would y'all say Sequim, Puyallup, or Tsawwassen?
beathen - Jan 31, 2005 8:44:32 am PST #2396 of 10002
Sure I went over to the Dark Side, but just to pick up a few things.
It's AR-kin-sah. Isn't it?
I've heard that people from Kansas like to call it "Our-Kansas"
Okay, now the word "Kansas" is starting to look funny.
Ginger - Jan 31, 2005 8:45:33 am PST #2397 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Also, why is "climb" spelled C-L-I-M-B instead of C-L-I-M-E?
Because it comes from the Old English "climban." English is strangly conservative for a language that lets you add words willy nilly.
And I still don't understand people who say "Missour-UH" and "Cincinnat-UH." There's a freaking I on the end of the names, people.
There's an S on the end of Illinois.
t lived in a part of Missouri that said "Missour-uh"
sarameg - Jan 31, 2005 8:48:17 am PST #2398 of 10002
How would y'all say Sequim, Puyallup, or Tsawwassen?
I would get a concerned look on my face and point at the words.
beathen - Jan 31, 2005 8:49:27 am PST #2399 of 10002
Sure I went over to the Dark Side, but just to pick up a few things.
There's an S on the end of Illinois.
Also there's Des Moines.
P.M. Marc - Jan 31, 2005 8:51:01 am PST #2400 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
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I would get a concerned look on my face and point at the words.
We have a lot of placenames that have that effect on people up here in the PNW.
DXMachina - Jan 31, 2005 8:51:03 am PST #2401 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Dude, even cow looks wrong if I write it enough times.
Cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow, cow...
Huh. I wonder if that's why Gary Larson quit doing the Farside.
§ ita § - Jan 31, 2005 8:51:21 am PST #2402 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Tchopatoulis. IJS.
Katie M - Jan 31, 2005 8:51:45 am PST #2403 of 10002
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
How would y'all say Sequim, Puyallup, or Tsawwassen?
*opens mouth*
*realizes would be cheating*
*closes mouth*
(To be fair, I don't know how to pronounce Tsawwassen. "tsaww-WAWW-sen" is probably what I'd try.)