Nilly!
Also,
Even though in Hebrew they come on opposite sides ("tasty chocolate", for example, doesn't have the adjective before the noun it describes, but after it, so in fact you're saying "chocolate tasty". It always seemed to make more sense, for me - first you say what it is, then describe its attributes)
IIRC, English used to be more flexible about that, many hundreds of years ago; you could play around with word order depending on what you wanted to emphasize, and even adjectives wobbled around a bit on occasion. We still have the light fantastic and the siege perilous and maybe one other, but generally our adjectives are big bossy doms who insist on going first.
t Waits for Nilly to figure out that Polter-Cow is not suggesting that I murder her.
t OK, That's over.
On JZ's post... Somebody buy that skank a cheesburger, mkay?
Timelies all!
Nilly!(I'm rarely around when you are, so i had to shout)
Augh, that dress looks like someone ate a bag of Skittles and then puked a rainbow on the dress.
You realize that would make you a Gloomy Gus, right?
David.
Davey, Davey, Davey... I'm going to have to come back with a Frederick Burr Opper reference that will have you googling in a heartbeat, you happy hooligan.
the official most heinous bridesmaid's dress ever in the history of anything, ever, like, ever, and it made my eyes hurt so badly I had to show all y'all to share the pain.
I think the Stars and Stripes one I saw in a store window in Eastern Washington is worse. Similar cut. Satin. Red, White, and Blue.
JZ! Sheryl!
(OK, who else wants an exclamation point after their names?)
I can't think in anything in either Hebrew or Aramic (granted, I don't know that well at all, I should ask my brother), that has the adjective before the noun. The adverd can come before the verb, however, even though mostly it sounds a bit awkward or "heavy", in the lack of a better word.
Suddenly I am glad that both the times I've been a bridesmaid that I was able to wear sane colors.(Black for one, and green for the other)
I don't mind that dress. Not for bridesmaids, mind you, but it makes me smile.
They started re-running H:LotS in Israel in a cables channel that my friend T gets, and she agreed to tape it for me (it's 5 days a week, she's a sweetheart for doing this). I'll be able to watch it from the beginning, finally.
Ooh. I wish they would do that here.
Jesse, now I wish you had a VCR that could play PAL, so that I could share the tapes with you. They even have subtitles, not dubbing. Silly differences-in-technology.
You're awesome.
Oh, that more women recognized this fundamental truth.
Surely many women recognize this, Gus.
No matter what I'm writing, I always start with a draft that's much longer than the final result. I type everything I know, then chip away all the stuff that's not necessary.
