Jessica, I got a "Bad Link" message.
Snow has stopped in DC.
Mal: He calls back, you keep them occupied. Wash: What do I do, shadow puppets?
'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.
Fred Pete - Feb 12, 2006 7:22:40 am PST #6687 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Nilly - Feb 12, 2006 7:23:07 am PST #6688 of 10002
Swouncing
Trudy, I would probably have responded to the snow like the little kids. Also, completely without connection, you were in my thoughts a lot last week, what with all the family hardships. You're back home now, right?
meara, I guess we're talking about the same documentary.
How come it's "more rare"? Is it because "rarer" looks like somebody didn't know what letters to use and just put "r"s in all the places they could think of?
Hil R. - Feb 12, 2006 7:24:47 am PST #6689 of 10002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Hil! Congratulations on the internship!
Thanks!
I'm fairly certain that "rarer" is OK.
§ ita § - Feb 12, 2006 7:25:07 am PST #6690 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I can't think that "meeting the person" is up to statistics alone
I don't believe anything's up to statistics. A one in a million chance means it does happen.
amych - Feb 12, 2006 7:27:15 am PST #6691 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
"Rarer" is okay, but a pain in the ass to pronounce -- I suspect that's why people tend to use "more rare". Which is also awfully R-ish, now that I look at it, and yet still not as bad.
Trudy Booth - Feb 12, 2006 7:27:52 am PST #6692 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Thanks, Nilly. Yes, I'm finally home. My Mother is still with her sister and will be spending an extra day there due to the weather which is good -- now that the hub-bub has died down its really sinking in for them that their Mother is gone. I keep alternating between being sad about my Grandmother and then remembering that Mimi is gone too. (Oh, "Mimi" is short for Miriam. My Grandmother and her siblings were David, Paul, John, Ruth, Miriam and Esther).
The reason it is "more rare" as opposed to "rarer" is that English is random and weird.
Laura - Feb 12, 2006 7:28:07 am PST #6693 of 10002
Our wings are not tired.
Sad to not be able to see Jessica's pictures.
Nilly - Feb 12, 2006 7:28:26 am PST #6694 of 10002
Swouncing
I would love to post some more, but I have to run.
Have great rest-of-the-weekend, everybody!
Strix - Feb 12, 2006 7:29:28 am PST #6695 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
well, most adjectives can be parsed that way: fast, faster, fastest. Rare can be, too: rare, rarer, rarest.
I think maybe I just prefer "more rare" because "rarer" sounds weird. Like "rar"
It might just be the midwest accent thing, though.
Daisy Jane - Feb 12, 2006 7:30:53 am PST #6696 of 10002
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Y'all cannot post so much on a Sunday. It makes me think it's Monday, and then I panic. Also, I need an extra day of weekend.