Ah, gray/grey, colour, flavour, judgement!
I love those words, though I always forget which gray is grey. I got very upset with one of my teachers in grade school for telling me colour was spelled wrong.
Inara: So, explain to me again why Zoe wasn't in the dress? Mal: Tactics, woman. Needed her in the back. 'Sides, those soft cotton dresses feel kinda nice. It's the whole... air-flow.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Buffista Fic: It Could Be Plot Bunnies
Where the Buffistas let their fanfic creative juices flow. May contain erotica.
Deena - Feb 25, 2003 3:05:32 pm PST #1719 of 10001
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara
Connie Neil - Feb 25, 2003 3:06:21 pm PST #1720 of 10001
brillig
FayJay is so darling when she's flustered.
erikaj - Feb 25, 2003 3:07:25 pm PST #1721 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Oh, she's cute all the time.
Fay - Feb 25, 2003 3:07:42 pm PST #1722 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
To clarify - I believe that gotten is perfectly standard US usage. But it's archaic UK usage. Ditto normalcy.
Atropa - Feb 25, 2003 3:08:45 pm PST #1723 of 10001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
feel like putting recommended music in with this.
But I won't.
A short note at the end of a piece saying "I was listening to such and such" would be lovely - Charles de Lint does that pretty often with his novels. Just please please please don't go the route of "during this particular scene, you MUST be listening to track X on CD blah" ...
... why yes, I once read and reviewed a novel that did just that. Said novel STILL holds the slot of "Worst Thing I've Ever Read. Ever."
Connie Neil - Feb 25, 2003 3:09:12 pm PST #1724 of 10001
brillig
Grey! Yes, I've always spelled it with an "e". I got self conscious about it a while ago and tried to fix it, but now I'm going to claim it as a printed dialect of my home region.
I will use "gotten" in speech, but I avoid writing it except in dialogue. I wonder if it comes from "forgotten" somehow, rootwise. wondering about the connection betrween "forget" and "get"
Fay - Feb 25, 2003 3:10:04 pm PST #1725 of 10001
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
See - not cute. Spinstery professorial humourless type. C'est moi.
I have totally failed to do any of the essay writing that I urgently needed to do today. I have prevaricated, prevaricated, prevaricated. I have made myself new User Icons for my LJ. I have fannied about.
I am an ass.
deborah grabien - Feb 25, 2003 3:10:05 pm PST #1726 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Fay, was "gotten" ever used in the UK? I had the feeling it evolved on its own from everyday American usage.
Which is, as it happens, NOT a value judgement. I use US street slang and have a hiphop daughter. Yo!
P.M. Marc - Feb 25, 2003 3:11:00 pm PST #1727 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
But it's archaic UK usage. Ditto normalcy
Is normalcy actually archaic, or was it never picked up in common use? As I said, it's a recent word. Normality pre-dates it, IIRC.
It's probably only common here because of Warren G. Harding, to be honest.
deborah grabien - Feb 25, 2003 3:11:07 pm PST #1728 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
I have fannied about.
A polite spinstery etc, no less.
Stop that arsing about!