I love History-of-English geekiness. More, more!
A nap would be lovely, but food would be even better. Too bad I have water and honey mustard dressing in my fridge.
"We Real Cool"
This is one of my favorites!
Well, if we followed the recipe...should be cake. A demon-violence-free-zone cake.
Lorne ,'Why We Fight'
Natter 42, the Universe, and Everything
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, flaming otters, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
kat perez - Jan 16, 2006 9:50:22 am PST #425 of 10002
"We have trust issues." Mylar
Strix - Jan 16, 2006 9:57:12 am PST #426 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Kat, check out the "Favorite Poem" project. They have lots of people (just regular people) explaining why their favroite poem is THEIR favorite poem.
"We Real Cool" is one of them.
Pix - Jan 16, 2006 10:12:30 am PST #427 of 10002
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Loving the poetry talk!
Unfortunately, I have to grade nine more essays and write 62 narratives today, so I can't participate.
t sulk
Strix - Jan 16, 2006 10:13:55 am PST #428 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Jesus, Kristin, make me feel like a slacker! Damn.
I'd be whimpering, and looking for heroin and cheap gutter sex. Ugh.
Kathy A - Jan 16, 2006 10:13:59 am PST #429 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I love History-of-English geekiness. More, more!
Well, one thing more. I learned the official term for one of my favorite word things: metanalysis. It's the term for when the initial letter for a noun transfers back or forth to the article preceeding it. Thus, a napron (which I'm guessing, but have nothing to cite to prove it, was probably related to a napkin) became an apron. Also, a nickname was originally an ekename ("eke" being the Old and Middle English word for "also"). I find that process to be just too damn cool!
Betsy HP - Jan 16, 2006 10:15:55 am PST #430 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
"A norange" is another one; that's why the Spanish call them "naranjas" and we call them "oranges".
§ ita § - Jan 16, 2006 10:18:29 am PST #431 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
kat perez - Jan 16, 2006 10:20:22 am PST #432 of 10002
"We have trust issues." Mylar
Mmmm. Spicy brains.
I love the Favorite Poems site. Now I have Gerard Manly Hopkins on the brain. "I caught this morning morning's minion." Love!
Strix - Jan 16, 2006 10:22:46 am PST #433 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Isn't it a great site?! I'm going to link my classroom TV to my computer and show a bunch of them next week.
Hopefully. If I get the splitter-thingie I need.
Nilly - Jan 16, 2006 10:25:06 am PST #434 of 10002
Swouncing
I thought I was already logging off, but I had one e-mail to answer, and then I saw this:
Also, a nickname was originally an ekename ("eke" being the Old and Middle English word for "also").
Oh, that is cool!
In Hebrew, it's either archaeology (sp?) and 2000-years-old words from ancient Hebrew and Aramic, or the last century's re-innovated language, man-made, in a way. So just the difference in the processes of the ways the words evolve is already fascinaging to me.
Yeah, geek, I can't help it.
we call them "oranges"
The Hebrew word for orange ("tapooz") is a composition of two words, the one for apple ("tapoo'akh") and the one for gold ("zahav"), so an orange is a "golden apple". But that's not as cool as how its English name was formed. Also, the name was created this way on purpose, by the people who re-invented the Hebrew language at the beginning of the 20th century, so the whole process is different.
OK, really going home now.