maybe it rhymes with Goethe
Zoe: She shot you. Mal: Well, yeah, she did a bit... still --
'Serenity'
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."
Laga - Jan 02, 2009 9:34:17 am PST #8241 of 28431
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
DavidS - Jan 02, 2009 9:36:53 am PST #8242 of 28431
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Almost as annoying is when someone does spell the names with long versions of easily pronouncible names complicated with silent letters or - shades of SG1! - added apostrophes or something.
I dislike the added apostrophes approach. It's roughly equivalent in my brain to purposeful misspellings in advertising to catch your attention. Cheap and cheesy. T'leac, your faux exoticism is tiresome! I hereby redub you: Bob.
Barb - Jan 02, 2009 9:39:54 am PST #8243 of 28431
“Not dead yet!”
T'leac, your faux exoticism is tiresome! I hereby redub you: Bob.
Hec owes me a roll of paper towels and a fresh Diet Coke.
sumi - Jan 02, 2009 9:49:11 am PST #8244 of 28431
Art Crawl!!!
Chicago or original German pronunciation?
DavidS - Jan 02, 2009 9:50:35 am PST #8245 of 28431
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
My favorite sports sign ever was when the Minnesota Twins had Kent Hrbek at first base and Gary Gaetti at third.
Some Twin fan held up a sign that said: "Hrbek! Buy a vowel from Gaetti!"
I think of this whenever I found vowel deficient aliens and exoticants (vamps, elves, etc.).
DavidS - Jan 02, 2009 9:55:22 am PST #8246 of 28431
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
My favorite moment in sports fandom though came from the Duke University student body.
Their unrelentingly obnoxious razzing of opposing players reached an unprecedented low when they threw pieces of stereo equipment onto the basketball floor against an opposing team whose star player had been caught stealing stereo equipment.
Roundly castigated in the press and the Dean for their rudeness they showed up at the next games with signs that said "Please miss!" when opponents took their free throws. And when they disagreed with a ref's call, they'd chant in unison "We big to differ! We beg to differ!" That must've sounded awesome with 60,000 fans.
Laga - Jan 02, 2009 10:01:08 am PST #8247 of 28431
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I think my favorite sports fandom moment (not that I was alive but still) is Caltech hacking the Rose Bowl flip cards in 1961.
Beverly - Jan 02, 2009 10:05:01 am PST #8248 of 28431
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
McCaffrey made the apostraphe a plot point, though. A child's name was a derivation of the parents' names, almost always two syllables. If one became a dragonrider, the first vowel was dropped for an apostraphe, as an honorific significator. Pronunciation wasn't too difficult with only two syllables. I thought it was a nifty idea, even though the reader meets most characters as riders and never learns their full given names.
Barb - Jan 02, 2009 10:08:37 am PST #8249 of 28431
“Not dead yet!”
Fay - Jan 02, 2009 10:20:47 am PST #8250 of 28431
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
How do you pronounce "Kvothe"?
Happily, he explains this long before it becomes an issue - since initially we meet him going under a less daunting nom de guerre.
It's pronounced almost exactly like Quoth.