I say "bloody" and "bugger" a lot, too. I think it comes from being a raging Anglophile, but I know my first exposure was the month we spent in Australia when I was 8. I got a hell of an education that month.
Giles, help! He's going to scold me!
Buffy ,'Never Leave Me'
Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.
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.
juliana - Aug 18, 2005 11:53:31 am PDT #9212 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
brenda m - Aug 18, 2005 11:53:55 am PDT #9213 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Except it's not obviously intentional. No more than the rest of my swearing, anyway.
For me, I meant but didn't say. But since I've very rarely heard anglos use it other than "ironically" I guess I can't really say how I'd take it in practice.
*meaning what people usually mean when they say ironically, which is of course, not generally ironic at all. Ironic.
tommyrot - Aug 18, 2005 11:54:26 am PDT #9214 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.
Once, to my embarrassment, I used "Wank!"
-t - Aug 18, 2005 11:56:51 am PDT #9215 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
*meaning what people usually mean when they say ironically, which is of course, not generally ironic at all. Ironic.
brenda, I think you just turned my skull into a Klein bottle
sumi - Aug 18, 2005 11:57:23 am PDT #9216 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
So, is it possible on AIM to have sent somebody a message/friended somebody without being aware that you were doing it?
§ ita § - Aug 18, 2005 12:01:06 pm PDT #9217 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
is it possible on AIM to have sent somebody a message/friended somebody without being aware that you were doing it?
If you're drunk, maybe.
But since I've very rarely heard anglos use it other than "ironically" I guess I can't really say how I'd take it in practice.
I'm not exactly sure how many of my anglo friends swore in French, but I came away with "calice" and "taber..." I have no idea how one spells taberouite for real, nor why I should need to bowdlerise my French swearing. But I do, sometimes.
Glamcookie - Aug 18, 2005 12:02:38 pm PDT #9218 of 10002
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
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sumi - Aug 18, 2005 12:03:59 pm PDT #9219 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
I'm not drunk, but I am tired. (I just got some snarky message from somebody on AIM asking me who I was -- I asked the same thing and the other person was all "you wanted to talk to me " - which is interesting since I have no idea who the heck they are.) I just blocked them. Could they be an AIM troll? (They were listed under "new buddy".)
Atropa - Aug 18, 2005 12:04:12 pm PDT #9220 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
pounds head on desk
I'm filling out the various documents for my interview next week. "Wage or Salary Required:" I don't know. More than I'm making now. There isn't really anyone at the company I can ask, quiet-like, about the average salary for technical editors.
§ ita § - Aug 18, 2005 12:05:55 pm PDT #9221 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I just got some snarky message from somebody on AIM asking me who I was -- I asked the same thing and the other person was all "you wanted to talk to me " - which is interesting since I have no idea who the heck they are.
Oy. I know not of the more recent clients, but I'm prompted specifically if I want to start a convo with someone I've never spoken to before (even if they're on my friends list). So I don't know how that can happen.