This is actually the very first time ever in some decades that it has been necessary.
Actually, you've mentioned it here before, and I've said the same thing before. I think this was just the first time other people chimed in too.
Cordelia: You're him. You're Angel's son. Connor: It's not like I got to choose.
'Hell Bound'
Spike's Bitches 29: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
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§ ita § - Apr 03, 2006 11:23:00 am PDT #7091 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Topic!Cindy - Apr 03, 2006 11:24:39 am PDT #7092 of 10001
What is even happening?
Jars, since Fay's "Nickle uh" surprised me, how do you pronounce your Karen. Here, it's not "Car - en" and it's not quite "Care - n". In this part of the U.S. "Care" would sound like it would if spelled "Cair", but in other parts, it's more like "Kear".
The "a" I use in "Ka" is like the short A Americans use in the word "add" which is different than the short A in car.
Amy - Apr 03, 2006 11:24:56 am PDT #7093 of 10001
Because books.
Just skipped a billion posts. Have been working all day and need the break...
Amy is not particularly nick-able, although lots of people shorten it to Aim or Aims in conversation. Which I don't mind.
Except when Ben's very new, first-year-teaching, first grade teacher called me Aim the very first time she met me, and from there on out. She was extremely friendly and bubbly (and a very good teacher), so I felt weird calling her on it. I was tempted to call her Joss, though (her name was Jocelyn).
Also, Ben broke her foot the second day of school by accidentally dropping his desk on it, so I felt like she got a pass.
Jessica - Apr 03, 2006 11:25:55 am PDT #7094 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I've heard both Kar and Kari for Karen, but not more often than I've heard the name Karen used in full.
Nicole - Apr 03, 2006 11:26:05 am PDT #7095 of 10001
I'm getting the pig!
So. I was busily working (shut it. sometimes I actually work.) so very, very busily that I failed to realize that my iTunes was stuck on repeat. For roughly an hour. And I didn't know. For an hour. One song. An hour.
That's odd, right?
It shouldn't take someone that long to notice shit like that, right? Especially when it's a song like Galvanize by The Chemical Brothers. There's enough repetition in that song to bug me with just a single play. And since it's four and a half minutes long, that means I just listened to it about thirteen times. In a row.
I think my the lack of sleep is starting to get to me.
Topic!Cindy - Apr 03, 2006 11:27:29 am PDT #7096 of 10001
What is even happening?
Except when Ben's very new, first-year-teaching, first grade teacher called me Aim the very first time she met me, and from there on out. She was extremely friendly and bubbly (and a very good teacher), so I felt weird calling her on it. I was tempted to call her Joss, though (her name was Jocelyn).Too familar! Too familiar. You totally should have called her Joss. I can't not call my Ben's friend Josh, "Joss". It's an actual problem.
amych - Apr 03, 2006 11:28:57 am PDT #7097 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I've never liked Aim(s) for myself -- although I'm happy to use it for the Empress, as she seems fine with it -- but it's never come up often enough to move from mild dislike to seething hatred.
On the other hand, my one real fight, back in the third grade, was with a kid who insisted that Amy couldn't possibly be my real name because all two-syllable names ending in "y" are nicknames. If anything, you have to admire his commitment to (albeit wrongheaded) logical consistency, as well as his willingness to get punched in the face by a girl.
Trudy Booth - Apr 03, 2006 11:29:22 am PDT #7098 of 10001
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
Actually, you've mentioned it here before, and I've said the same thing before. I think this was just the first time other people chimed in too.
How kind of you to keep track of that. I honestly had no recollection.
Fay - Apr 03, 2006 11:29:34 am PDT #7099 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Really? I would have pronounced it "nih-COLE-uh."
I can totally understand that if one is just seeing it in writing, and from a culture where the name is unfamiliar. But I bet if I'd introduced myself to you in person, you'd have listened to the sounds and taken them on board, rather than proceeded to call me Nicholas, NicOLEuh, Nicole or Nicolai for the next month or so. (Which is more than can be said for some of my co-workers.)
Amy - Apr 03, 2006 11:29:48 am PDT #7100 of 10001
Because books.
Too familar! Too familiar. You totally should have called her Joss. I can't not call my Ben's friend Josh, "Joss". It's an actual problem.
It was just so weird to have this 24-year-old girl calling me "Aim" like we were buddies.