What about "persnickety"?
I'm pretty sure that's in our mission statement.
I always thought the name Serenity had a vaguely funereal sound to it.
Simon ,'Out Of Gas'
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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."
Nilly - Mar 08, 2006 9:11:38 am PST #2742 of 10001
Swouncing
you remember that line
It just rang so lovely, like "if nothing that you do matters, all that matters is what you do" in the sense that it made and the sense in its sound, you know?
Also, English has words that are just fun to say out loud, even if I have no idea what half of the words you're typing may mean.
§ ita § - Mar 08, 2006 9:15:13 am PST #2743 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
English has words that are just fun to say out loud, even if I have no idea what half of the words you're typing may mean.
That's the whole background to persnickety right there. It's a sequence of syllables that just had to be said, and eventually folks decided it needed a definition, and chose to use it to describe the people who didn't get the joy of saying it.
Or, well, something not at all like that.
Aims - Mar 08, 2006 9:16:55 am PST #2744 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Cattywhompus.
One of my favorite words.
lori - Mar 08, 2006 9:17:31 am PST #2745 of 10001
you guys rent, right?
Yep. Because we only pay $895/mo for a 2BR, 1BA duplex house with fenced back yard and half a two-car garage. Can't ever move.
Nilly - Mar 08, 2006 9:17:42 am PST #2746 of 10001
Swouncing
Or, well, something not at all like that.
What if I like your definition better? Also, as long as it works (and I've looked this word up, it definitely works!), why not? [Edit: of course, now I can't stop saying "persnickety" out loud to myself. If Tom were here, he'd thing the Israelis only send crazy people on time-travelling missions.]
Gudanov - Mar 08, 2006 9:19:14 am PST #2747 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Because we only pay $895/mo for a 2BR, 1BA duplex house with fenced back yard and half a two-car garage.
That sounds like a miracle for LA.
lori - Mar 08, 2006 9:20:17 am PST #2748 of 10001
Well, we do live in the Valley, and not on That side of the hill, but yeah.
brenda m - Mar 08, 2006 9:20:19 am PST #2749 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
"persay"
Per se, or a word I don't know?
§ ita § - Mar 08, 2006 9:21:38 am PST #2750 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That sounds like a miracle for LA.
It so is. To be anywhere in the area yet remotely inhabitable (which theirs is much more than, FTR) it's a sign that lori might be the chosen one to save all mankind.
Or at least SoCal. Hopefully not just the Valley.