Nilly snerked! Is it your first time, Nilly? I don't recall your snerking often, if ever.

Okay, I'm just way past sleep debt. I need to shut down the computer and go to bed. G'night.

I don't recall your snerking often

Usually I COMM instead, but I thought this would work less well outside of context. But I do exercise my right to snerk, and Buffistas give me lots of opportunities to.

Of course, like plenty of other things that I may find relatively easy to write in a post (like 'y'all' or 'gotcha'), I will have a much harder time realizing how to actually pronounce it.

Rhymes with "jerk" or "lurk", I think. Does that help?

I think I'll have to wait until I hear somebody pronounce it out loud before I (probably mis)pronounce it myself...

Ah, but Nilly, all these questions and more will be answered in a matter of months! The Buffistas will happily pronouce all kinds of words for you! :)

Yup, how amazing is that? And, no doubt, make me attempt to pronounce all sorts of complicated words as well. Which I will happily try to not-tie my tongue while doing so.

Fay (I'm not sure if you've 'met' her yet - she's from England) was in last year's F2F, and she was encouraged to pronounce all sort of very USA-ian words ('yo' is the one I manage to remember, but somebody who was actually there will obviously have better details).

Nilly, there's actually video of Fay in LA, being daintily and delightfully profane at Plei's urging. I told my beloved Roz Kaveney about it before Fay went to London to visit her, post-Egypt, and Roz laughed like a drain.

It was lovely, almost as lovely as Fay.

Fay in LA, being daintily and delightfully profane

I don't think I can imagine Fay being anything other than dainty and delightful.

DXM was generous enough to send me a tape of last year's F2F, but I mostly remember her only pronounce the 'yo', in her lovely accent.

And, to make this thread drift a little less, you should have an e-mail from me.

Hooray for erika!!! That's fantastic news.

(And Nilly, Y'all is (more or less, and depending on how Southern you are) pronounced like "yawl," sometimes with a slight glottal stop between the "yuh" and the "awl.")

Fugeddaboutit with British t's is the one I still giggle about.(Not that mine would be any less funny to real members of The Thing...Nilly, La Cosa Nostra, This Thing of Ours=The Mafia.)