Nutty (whom I seem to just follow around and COMM today), in Natter:

The New Testament is slightly hampered in its unified message by its being translated badly several times, and the bad translations being taken as earthshatteringly Right And Infallible, which is just cruising for a Greek nerd to get all "um, actually".

Moral of this story: Primary sources are our friends, and make us not look like morons lo those 1100 years later.

I sometimes have to remind myself that most of you come by these things from a completely different angle - mostly, you know so much, that I need to remind myself that I can't use a Hebrew word when I'm missing an English one, because no, you won't understand it (that's why I was so startled the first time ita wrote 'Krav Maga', both Hebrew words - it was like the very thing I was trying to avoid doing jumped in my face and said 'ha, I'm here anyway, from your subconscious to computer screens worldwide').

-- Nilly

It's like anthropology in miniature - - putting on your coats/jackets . . . see what you were doing last time it was cold.

--Sumi

Erin G.:

I want to have gilded slave- of- love nipples, but the cat ate all my gold flake. Now he's pooping ingots.

billytea:

See, here's a thing for me. Whenever I hear some autobiography or article or interview being advertised as "Randolph Stoatbladder - in his own words", I always think "What, he ran out of English ones?" Like, if you tuned in you'd get "Fninkle. Yarzblot, nak blint geznibah." (Pause for rapturous applause from captive audience.)

Betsy Haynes Perry: If people were writing "David Bowie takes me out to dinner and chit-chats" stories, I would be indifferent. It's the "Everybody in N!Sync gets off with each other and a raccoon" fiction that I find deeply offensive.

RPF talk in Fanfiction.

Michele T. in Buffy:

I cannot possibly imagine William, the human, from even the little we saw of him, going "eh, I was a vampire, these things happen" and going on. I called him snapping like a twig over the summer, and I'm happy that he did.

I actually can believe him like this. He doesn't even have half a deck, but he's holding on to his three pretty tightly.

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Julie, depressing me in Firefly:

I told someone else on another board- Joss was in love with Buffy and he still loves her, he just doesn't want to be with her.

And just because Daddy Joss left mummy Buffy doesn't mean that he doesn't still care about us. And Auntie Firefly is probably a nice person, and no, she isn't mummy. But no matter what happens between her and Daddy, he STILL isn't coming home to mummy.

billytea in Buffy:

I mean, you can take a concept like 'that feeling you get, when you lean back in your chair, and you lean back just a little too far and overbalance, and you catch yourself just in time', and find that the Germans have a single word for it. And that it translates the original phrase exactly, only with the spaces missing.

Yerg. And again with the spelling mistakes. ita, could I ask you to change 'oringal' to 'original'? I've fixed up the original (so to speak).