( continues...) Knows Your Kid Better than You Do
Okay, that was just pathetic that the post continued for that little, interrupted point. Ugh. Need chocolate.
I want to torture you. I used to love it, and it's been a long time. I mean, the last time I tortured someone, they didn't even have chainsaws.
Angel ,'Chosen'
Spike's Bitches 25 to Life
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Topic!Cindy - Aug 09, 2005 10:08:11 am PDT #5515 of 10001
What is even happening?
Nora Deirdre - Aug 09, 2005 10:14:40 am PDT #5516 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Chocolate for Cindy.
Must scheme to get together with you soon!
Fred Pete - Aug 09, 2005 10:17:17 am PDT #5517 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
If I was going to put my Dutch SiL on the page, I would try to capture the flavor of the way she speaks English. She will say something like "We were most happy to see the Mother on her visit." Which is a combination of translating from Dutch in her head and learning English from schoolbooks. Cleaning up the grammar on her sentences would not be accurate.
Fair, because it captures the rhythm. But I'd be tearing my hair out if it were written as, "Ve vere most happy to see die Mutter on her fisit." Which is what I think of as "written dialect."
Cass - Aug 09, 2005 10:23:00 am PDT #5518 of 10001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
Also, I have remembered two valuable lessons from my NanaGood to hear this. It sounds like your doctor is at least responding. I am so glad you were not some new inexperienced mother too.
When she played (or at least seemed to be playing) obtuse when I requested that they submit a Vaccine Adverse Event Report through VAERS.org, I got specific, and detailed, and extra haughty and righteously incensed.Good.
I am writing out an email to a client (a good one, one I actually like working with quite a lot) that not every single element of a page can be the most important. Please sir, don't make me write a Web site with flashing yellow text.
§ ita § - Aug 09, 2005 10:24:07 am PDT #5519 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Which is what I think of as "written dialect."
I know there is at least one effort underway to standardise Jamaican Patois spelling. I just don't know what they went with. But the difference between "Him not go work like that" and "Im naa go wuk like dat" is big enough that maybe standardisation ...
Oh, fuck if I know. I just know you can't write it without the accent and not have it look supremely alien.
Pix - Aug 09, 2005 10:24:21 am PDT #5520 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
Hippity Happity Birthday, Aimee!!!
Connie Neil - Aug 09, 2005 10:25:05 am PDT #5521 of 10001
brillig
She will say something like "We were most happy to see the Mother on her visit."
Shows the word choice usage of a non-native English speaker without going overboard, perfect. In a page of un-attributed dialogue, you'd know instantly who was speaking.
Typo Boy - Aug 09, 2005 10:33:59 am PDT #5522 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Happy Empress Aimee Day.
Ginger - Aug 09, 2005 10:49:08 am PDT #5523 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Gerald Durrell, by any chance?
And Betsy gets it in one.
Ha! I guessed right too. Gerald Durrell does tend to do the superior Englishman thing, but he's so funny that I tend to forgive him. It's hard to know if I would be so forgiving if I were one of his native bearers.
Ellie is so cute, but looks a bit dubious about the swimming experience.
Aims - Aug 09, 2005 11:16:41 am PDT #5524 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Emeline is a feminist. My Beety Crocker catalog came yesterday and within 30 seconds it was completley torn to shreds.