new names hadn't been invented yet?
It took the internets to come up with "Brytteni".
I'd rather stay home and watch television. It's often funnier than killing stuff.
Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
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.
amych - Jan 16, 2006 12:41:30 pm PST #464 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Strix - Jan 16, 2006 12:49:29 pm PST #465 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
One of my favorite Yeats poems:
WHEN you are old and gray and full of sleep
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true;
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead,
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars
Hil R. - Jan 16, 2006 1:05:36 pm PST #466 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
A lot of little kids exchange L and R sounds pretty frequently (several kids I babysat would sometimes call me "Hirraly" until they were about three years old), so I can see Sarah and Mary becoming Sally and Molly pretty easily. As for how to get from Molly to Polly, I'm not sure, but there's also Margaret to Meg to Peg, so there's some M/P exchange going on somehow.
Jessica - Jan 16, 2006 1:15:33 pm PST #467 of 10002
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
Well, M is the a voiced version of the P phoneme. (Whether that has anything to do with how nicknaming works, I do not know.)
Now someone explain how the Russians get "Sasha" from "Alexander"
[edit: Whoops, forgot about B.]
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 16, 2006 1:19:45 pm PST #468 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Is it just me, or was last night's GA not quite as good as normal?
I fell asleep during, but the early bits with everyone but Meredith hating the dog and Dr. McSatan waiting outside the elevator to greet her and Derek as they exited seemed pretty good.
kat perez - Jan 16, 2006 1:29:28 pm PST #469 of 10002
"We have trust issues." Mylar
Nicknames are tricky things. How do you get Lalo from Eduardo in Spanish? Or Pancha from Fernanda?
ION, the second Bridget Jones movie is really, really bad. Bad.
Sue - Jan 16, 2006 1:33:16 pm PST #470 of 10002
hip deep in pie
Is it just me, or was last night's GA not quite as good as normal?
It wasn't just you. I thought it was thoroughly average.
§ ita § - Jan 16, 2006 1:36:25 pm PST #471 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think my face set early. But not as dramatically as my sister.
PT says he's going to prevent me from taking the brown belt test. Bite me.
sarameg - Jan 16, 2006 1:41:52 pm PST #472 of 10002
Oh dear.
(that's not on the baby ita pictures, which are quite endearing.)
kat perez - Jan 16, 2006 1:51:18 pm PST #473 of 10002
"We have trust issues." Mylar
Chile has its first female president. Wow. The DH and I are kind of stunned. We liked Bachelet, but were kind of unsure of whether the country was ready to take the leap. Interesting article in El Mercurio if you read Spanish.