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.
Oh, at first it was confusing. Just the idea of computers was like — whoa! I'm eleven hundred years old! I had trouble adjusting to the idea of Lutherans.
Anya ,'Get It Done'
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katefate - Dec 18, 2002 6:13:19 am PST #1033 of 9843
Frail my heart apart and play me a little Shady Grove
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.
DavidS - Dec 18, 2002 11:13:05 pm PST #1040 of 9843
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
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).
tener I think. Love that story.
Theodosia - Dec 19, 2002 8:00:19 am PST #1041 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"
Congrats to Fiona & Mr. Fiona & Benno, who now are homeowners! (See Beep Me for details!)
Jon B. - Dec 19, 2002 8:04:44 am PST #1042 of 9843
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Yay Fiona! The house sounds lovely. I'm all for semi-fixer-uppers.