I use both "perchance" and "persay" in everyday conversation, but I'm not unaware of their anachronisticicity. Also "mayhap."
I like money better than people. People can so rarely be exchanged for goods and/or services!
Willow ,'Showtime'
Natter 43: I Love My Dead Gay Whale Crosspost.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jessica - Mar 08, 2006 9:02:40 am PST #2732 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Gudanov - Mar 08, 2006 9:04:24 am PST #2733 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Now, "perforce" -- that's a different story....
That's a source control system, and it is heard often around here.
Nilly - Mar 08, 2006 9:05:26 am PST #2734 of 10001
Swouncing
Teppy!
Remember once that you had a piece about how "writing was always a part of you, or rather how you have always been a part of writing"? A friend of mine, who writes, talked today about her writing, from very early childhood, about how she always felt it's something that belongs to her, and I brought your sentence up, talking about how she always felt connected to the world of writing. So, thanks, I guess.
Steph L. - Mar 08, 2006 9:05:31 am PST #2735 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Now, "perforce" -- that's a different story....
That's a source control system, and it is heard often around here.
How about "perambulate"?
erikaj - Mar 08, 2006 9:06:42 am PST #2736 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I've tried with this place...honest. I even pretended I could decorate. Still no real home. I have a hometown in theory, could even ride by my high school and be true to it, if I didn't think that was the most reactionary sentiment on God's green earth... Still feel homeless, if not houseless.
TomW - Mar 08, 2006 9:06:45 am PST #2737 of 10001
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
That's a source control system, and it is heard often around here.
Same here, although we pronounce "Perforce" (the source control system) differently to "perforce".
§ ita § - Mar 08, 2006 9:06:53 am PST #2738 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Perchance is totally cromulent. I think I'm overusing fiefdom and aegis though. I'm switching to purview.
Steph L. - Mar 08, 2006 9:08:09 am PST #2739 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Remember once that you had a piece about how "writing was always a part of you, or rather how you have always been a part of writing"? A friend of mine, who writes, talked today about her writing, from very early childhood, about how she always felt it's something that belongs to her, and I brought your sentence up, talking about how she always felt connected to the world of writing. So, thanks, I guess.
Nilly! First, I'm *very* touched that you remember that line! Really. And second, you're welcome!
Sean K - Mar 08, 2006 9:08:41 am PST #2740 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
What about "persnickety"?
TomW - Mar 08, 2006 9:11:18 am PST #2741 of 10001
"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
What about "persnickety"?
I'm pretty sure that's in our mission statement.