Yeah, 'splendid'. It has to be.
Very belated edit: it really does helps to actually correctly spell the one damn word that the post is about. Sheesh.
How did your brain even learn human speech? I'm just so curious.
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Pete, Husband of Jilli - Aug 13, 2008 8:54:01 am PDT #1820 of 5059
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
smonster - Aug 13, 2008 9:07:10 am PDT #1821 of 5059
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Hmm. I'm trying to think of another example in Fray where the slang term was formed by removing the middle of the original. Not saying y'all are wrong, just wondering how linguistically consistent Joss' argot is. Most of the words are fairly logical substitutes (the Laws) or shortenings from the front or back end (Haddyn, nessa).
According to the glossary compiled here, the answer is none. Unless there's something I'm not getting about "toy."
Interesting. If you're me.
...wanna hear about palatalization of consonants in the Moldovan dialect of Romanian?
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amych - Aug 13, 2008 9:09:01 am PDT #1822 of 5059
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
...wanna hear about palatalization of consonants in the Moldovan dialect of Romanian?
OMG smonster is so hot.
smonster - Aug 13, 2008 9:14:38 am PDT #1823 of 5059
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Hee. Did I mention that I know this not from a class, but "field observations" in Peace Corps? I kept having this argument with a fellow volunteer who would complain about how they dropped the beginnings of words, and we didn't do that in English.
me: What about "I'munna go to the store?" Where's the 'g'?
her: Well, *I* don't do that.
me: You're from ARKANSAS.
Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 13, 2008 11:15:25 am PDT #1824 of 5059
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Hey! Some of us can speak with mostly correct grammar.
smonster - Aug 13, 2008 11:43:15 am PDT #1825 of 5059
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I'm not even really talking about grammar, just elision. That's how we got contractions, you know. Plus, I was coming from a descriptive perspective, not proscriptive. I LOOOOVE dialects and accents.
smonster - Aug 14, 2008 7:10:00 am PDT #1826 of 5059
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
For completeness' sake - I went back and reread latest Buffy w/ an eye for the slang... I found "histry" as the closest example of something similar, but that's pretty much how the word is pronounced anyway.
Hmm. I think I know just the Buffista to talk to about this mystery.
Torque - Aug 16, 2008 1:39:35 pm PDT #1827 of 5059
Bad Wolf
Buffy 17...... woah (I know I'm really late to this party.
I had to re-read Fray before I jumped into this arc.
Getting ready to start Spike After the Fall. Hope it doesn't suck.
Torque - Aug 16, 2008 5:04:16 pm PDT #1828 of 5059
Bad Wolf
Oooh I just had a happy thought...
Super Giles comes back, that would be cool.
sumi - Aug 19, 2008 10:47:03 am PDT #1829 of 5059
Art Crawl!!!
That would be cool!
(I just read the issue. . . still have Angel and Spike to go.)