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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.
Survivor.
Let's see if I can get "I Will Survive" out of my head now. Chances are slim.
I remember a handful of Mahgreb-Arabic words. Some of the ones Fay posted, and "Agi" with a "g" like George. Meaning come here, and used with a hand gesture that looks kinda like our shooing.
My brother went to language school when he joined the Navy right out of high school, and learned Farsi.
Owen's going to the sitter one day a week with out friend's 2 year old son who speaks Farsi (his dad is Iranian). I figure if they grow up together, Owen will at least learn to swear in Farsi.
He wasn't dating her? He proposed to someone he just knew? Huh.
Oh no, he's known her for 15 years. They've dated for intervals during that time, just not lately. It sounds more insane when summed up than it is. I think.
[Supernatural] Hm. Striga seems to be a "noxious weed." Oh, wait: " Latin striga and Italian strega also derives from hedge." So the words are related. Was it an evil plant? Because that would be kind of awesome.
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I always think Strega Nona. Is that wrong?
Strega:
It did appear kind of plant-like when it's first introduced. You see something that looks like tree branches in a window and then it turns out to be a hand. It was nicely creepy.
Anyone watching Law & Order du jour ? Writers can't tell the difference between a vulcan mind mold and a jedi mind trick? Bad Geeks.
Yeah, that made me scratch my head.
They've dated for intervals during that time, just not lately. It sounds more insane when summed up than it is. I think.
No, I like it. It's very charming.
Aha! It was a shtriga on Supernatural.
I think you're right that it was a shtriga on the show, but I think they spelled it striga. When I looked it up on wikipedia, it sounded like it had earlier root derivations. The Albanian shtriga is related to other witch/vampires such as the Romanian striga and the Roman strix. Of course, my eyes and my hearing isn't so good, if you think they actually used shtriga, they probably did.
I always think Strega Nona. Is that wrong?Heh. You're not the only one. That's actually one of the Tomie dePaula books that I didn't read when I was little, so I didn't have that immediate association when I picked "Strega." But I had several of his books, and when I was maybe 6 my dad could get me to laugh just by saying "Tomie dePaula." I thought that was the funniest name ever. So it works.
If you want to tell this story, and are only refraining out of concern that people don't want to know, you should not have that concern. If you don't want to tell the story, you should drink more beer. Or do both.
Aw, thanks. More beer! But no, it's not a dramatic & painful story. See previous post, I guess. Turns out it's not so long after all! It just can sound like it's crazy in the bad way rather than crazy in the neat way. When he was telling me the whole story I was thinking, "Well, I'll be bummed about this later, but it is awfully sweet. Sigh."