I <heart> Nilly. That is all.
Spike: You pissed in the Big Man's Chair? That's fantastic! Gunn: Spike, can you please turn off that warm fuzzy? Spike: What, the Lorne thing? Worn off. I just think that's bloody fabulous.
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All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American
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Karl - Dec 18, 2002 2:49:45 am PST #1030 of 9843
I adore all you motherfuckers so much -- PMM.
Fiona - Dec 18, 2002 4:11:40 am PST #1031 of 9843
Now I'm imagining myself running around in the streets, chasing a bad-behaving word, demanding it returned to its proper place in the sentence, and the word, with little feet and arms and head, flees from me and doesn't want to look back.
There's a great Woody Allen short story which ends with the hero trapped in a Spanish dictionary, being chased by a hairy, many-legged intransitive verb. (He thought he was jumping into Madame Bovary; he'd been having an affair with Emma).
Again: congratulations John and Mrs. John. Or should that be Thuy and Mr. Thuy? Anyway: all the very best, and I'm looking forward to the pictures too!
Theodosia - Dec 18, 2002 4:23:25 am PST #1032 of 9843
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Your English is often very elegant, Nilly! (And when it isn't, it's clear that there's somebody very intelligent trying to make sense out of a very tough language.)
katefate - Dec 18, 2002 6:13:19 am PST #1033 of 9843
Frail my heart apart and play me a little Shady Grove
The funny thing is, everybody here comes to me for proofreading whatever they have to write in English.
I'm not a bit surprised at that, Nilly.
meara - Dec 18, 2002 10:36:31 am PST #1034 of 9843
Yeah--other than when you start talking about concepts that don't really have english words, and you SAY that, I'd never know you weren't utterly fluent. t imagines self trying to post on spanish or french message board. t imagines spanish and french posters laughing their asses off at sentences like "the buffy, she is fun!" or "Willow I like best because I were an egg"
Fay - Dec 18, 2002 10:38:09 am PST #1035 of 9843
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
Bwah!
Meara is me. Only more articulate.
Rebecca Lizard - Dec 18, 2002 11:03:39 am PST #1036 of 9843
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
Nilly, you are very often much more articulate, in English, than people I know who speak no other language.
"Willow I like best because I were an egg"
Heh.
katefate - Dec 18, 2002 11:07:28 am PST #1037 of 9843
Frail my heart apart and play me a little Shady Grove
When I read that I thought, "Tag for RL!"
Rebecca Lizard - Dec 18, 2002 11:09:30 am PST #1038 of 9843
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
Hah!
I'll do that. When I wear this one out. Which should be t looks at watch in half an hour now.
Nilly - Dec 18, 2002 11:27:09 am PST #1039 of 9843
Swouncing
::blush:: Thanks, you guys. It's really good for my English-ego to read that.