Loving the poetry talk!
Unfortunately, I have to grade nine more essays and write 62 narratives today, so I can't participate.
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Tell me more good stuff about me.
Kaylee ,'The Message'
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.
Pix - Jan 16, 2006 10:12:30 am PST #427 of 10002
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
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.
Jessica - Jan 16, 2006 10:27:27 am PST #435 of 10002
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
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".
Heh -- so I guess the phrase "comparing apples and oranges" doesn't work so well in Hebrew? (In English, "comparing apples and oranges" is idiomatic for "comparing 2 things so vastly different from one another that to compare them is pointless.")
Emily - Jan 16, 2006 10:38:56 am PST #436 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
"I caught this morning morning's minion."
Darling of daylight's dauphin!!! Sorry. Geekitude.