Yeah I freaked people out by saying things like "half past four" and "a quarter till 3" in college. Did not know they were not standard language until I got laughed at a few times.
Well some friends of Buffy played a funny joke and they took her stuff and now she wants us to help get it back from her friends who sleep all day and have no tans.
Xander ,'Lessons'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Typo Boy - May 25, 2011 2:34:55 pm PDT #14918 of 28609
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Laga - May 25, 2011 2:37:01 pm PDT #14919 of 28609
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I say half past and quarter to! It feels odd when Brits say "half four" I never know if that's 3:30 or 4:30.
Connie Neil - May 25, 2011 2:42:00 pm PDT #14920 of 28609
brillig
Half past and quarter to are Britishisms?
Anne W. - May 25, 2011 2:43:10 pm PDT #14921 of 28609
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I use them frequently. I also tend to use "quarter of" as often as I do "quarter to."
Hil R. - May 25, 2011 2:47:38 pm PDT #14922 of 28609
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I use them frequently. I also tend to use "quarter of" as often as I do "quarter to."
Me too. I think I tend to use "quarter of" for hours that start with a consonant, and "quarter to" for ones that start with a vowel, so I kind of slur it to "quarter o'six" or "quarter t'eight."
I'm rereading "A House Like a Lotus." Madeleine L'Engle books were a huge part of me as a kid and teenager. I was so sad when she died, and then I read her obituary and found out that, for most of my life, she'd been the librarian at the church a block away from my grandmother's apartment. I wish I could have known that when she was alive, and maybe gone and met her sometime, but I have no idea what I would have said. But from ages 10 through 17 or so, I must have walked by that church clutching one of her books dozens of times.
Consuela - May 25, 2011 2:59:06 pm PDT #14923 of 28609
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
But from ages 10 through 17 or so, I must have walked by that church clutching one of her books dozens of times.
Hil, that's pretty awesome.
I love L'Engle: she's so compassionate. That said, I recall not liking House Like a Lotus much; it's the one where Poly freaks out because an older woman makes a pass at her, right?
I now have a sudden hankering to reread a ton of L'Engle. Maybe after the Rowling binge, and then the Pratchett binge...
Typo Boy - May 25, 2011 3:09:30 pm PDT #14924 of 28609
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I was given a hard time for using them. Dont know if britishism but seen as odd.
EpicTangent - May 25, 2011 3:15:48 pm PDT #14925 of 28609
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
I say half past and quarter to! It feels odd when Brits say "half four" I never know if that's 3:30 or 4:30.
Me too, both parts!
Hil R. - May 25, 2011 3:23:59 pm PDT #14926 of 28609
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
That said, I recall not liking House Like a Lotus much; it's the one where
Yeah. It's a very oddly written scene, too.
There are a lot of strange things about this book. Polly, who's 16, is dating a guy in his mid-twenties, and her parents have no comment at all about that. They seem happy that she's being social at all.
Ginger - May 25, 2011 3:28:31 pm PDT #14927 of 28609
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Considering who her parents are, I figure they're just glad she's not dating an evil disembodied brain.