Oh Partyman, I'd have you over for tea but my place is just a MESS.
You know, I just... I woke up, and I looked in the mirror, and I thought, hey, what's with all the sin? I need to change. I'm... I'm dirty. I'm, I'm bad with the... sex and the envy and that, that loud music us kids listen to nowadays.
Buffy ,'Lessons'
Natter 34: Freak With No Name
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.
Allyson - Apr 19, 2005 2:29:03 pm PDT #7215 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
bon bon - Apr 19, 2005 2:45:07 pm PDT #7216 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Matronym.
-t - Apr 19, 2005 2:46:06 pm PDT #7217 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Matronym.
Even if you aren't named after your mother?
Susan W. - Apr 19, 2005 2:51:01 pm PDT #7218 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
So one might shoo with "Va!" or "Vas-y!"
So this is what I should use? Not "Allez!"?
I'm confused, but I guess that's what I get for trying to toss in bits of a language I've never studied.
bon bon - Apr 19, 2005 2:52:04 pm PDT #7219 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Sparky1 - Apr 19, 2005 2:52:38 pm PDT #7220 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
matronymic, n. and a. a. A name derived from that of a mother or maternal ancestor, esp. by the addition of an affix indicating such descent.
So says the OED. No entry for matronym.
x-posty dictionaries
§ ita § - Apr 19, 2005 2:53:31 pm PDT #7221 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Bon, I think she wants the word for the other person in the namesake pair, not a word for the name itself.
bon bon - Apr 19, 2005 2:58:26 pm PDT #7222 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
My understanding is that matronymic is the name. Matronym is the named.
§ ita § - Apr 19, 2005 2:59:51 pm PDT #7223 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Patronym applies to the name, so I'd extrapolate matronym to the same relationship.
aurelia - Apr 19, 2005 3:01:27 pm PDT #7224 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Hey, Aurelia, I was just thinking about you Friday! My 11-year-old is fascinated by stage lighting now. I was telling him about footlights and then I wondered -whatever happened to footlights, and when did they go out? When I was doing amateur theater as a teenager, we still used them.
Oooh, the history of stage lighting. When stages were lit with candles or oil lamps, the lights lined the edge of the stage because that was the closest they could get to the actors. Then came lenses and reflectors and electricity which meant the stage could be lit from further away. Then someone figured out that if they put the lights up over the audience they could make a more realistic looking picture. A much more detailed timeline can be found here [link] . It's a neat read just because things have changed so much, so quickly because of changes in technology.
Footlights still exist in some places for the same reason mom always cut the end off the ham before baking it. 'Cause that's how it was always done.
Have your son look in a mirror and use a flashlight to light his face from different angles. Light from below is spooky and unnatural because all the shadows are in the wrong places. Sometimes this can be useful in a show, but more often than not it isn't really the desired effect.