Yeah, this is the one where Michael is Gaugin's secret heir. Doesn't have quite the same ring, I admit. Apparently the golf cart one has finally been finished, although the chapters got eaten in a board hiccup. I'll be on the lookout for it.
Tara: What's so bad about them coming here? Aren't they good guys? I mean, Watchers, that's just like whole other Gileses, right? Buffy: Yes! They're scary and horrible!
'Potential'
Fan Fiction: Writers, Readers, and Enablers
This thread is for fanfic recs, links, and discussion, but not for actual posting of fanfic.
Dana - Mar 10, 2005 8:07:47 am PST #9596 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Katie M - Mar 10, 2005 8:30:21 am PST #9597 of 10000
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Gaugin? Er, painter Gaugin? How does he get to have secret heirs?
Sophia Brooks - Mar 10, 2005 11:33:08 am PST #9598 of 10000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
First I read this a "Gaugin's secret HAIR" and was even more confused!
But what I really came here to post was about how fanfiction has made me realize how weirdly many people hear/spell what I would consider common phrases. I mean, I thought the words of Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Dah included "Happy as a Rafter in the marketplace...", but still it just makes me giggle a bit:
for example, I just read
I have the near uncontrollable urge to yell `good riddins' as Amy leaves the debate, but somehow I hold my tongue.
DebetEsse - Mar 10, 2005 11:40:33 am PST #9599 of 10000
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Oh, oh. Can we play the "most annoying mis-heard phrases" game?
The people who say "Doggie Dog World"? Make me want to do minor acts of violence.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 10, 2005 11:41:20 am PST #9600 of 10000
"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
It's particularly fun when you run across a long passage full of multi-syllable words to indicate the speaker is a genius, and the author doesn't know how to spell really ordinary ones like "are" or "you're."
Yeah Shakespeare, you've convinced me that Daniel Jackson is a "genus" without compare.
Steph L. - Mar 10, 2005 11:41:56 am PST #9601 of 10000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
The one I despise is "for all intensive purposes."
Scrappy - Mar 10, 2005 11:45:25 am PST #9602 of 10000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Good one, tep!
How about with "baited breath"?
§ ita § - Mar 10, 2005 11:46:31 am PST #9603 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It seems a fic should be written that validly has both baited breaths and intensive purposes.
Dana - Mar 10, 2005 11:48:24 am PST #9604 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
I saw a rec the other day that used the phrase "a mute point".
Nutty - Mar 10, 2005 11:53:55 am PST #9605 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I know a couple of linguists who call these mis-heard and mis-derived phrases "eggcorns," after an example of someone coming up with an elaborate explanation for why the things that fall off oak trees are like eggs that wear hats. (We call them acorns.)
I think you get 1 eggcorn point if you reproduce a mis-heard phrase without thinking it through, but 5 points if you think through a completely legitimate (or anyway, reasonable) derivation history for your mis-hearing.
And, a lot of these dealies end up as general parlance. Do you know anybody who says the "spit and image" of someone? No -- we all say "spitting image", which was an eggcorn invented probably 100 years ago.
I think you have to have a very good sense of humor to be a linguist.