Hmm. It's sounds like the finest party I can imagine getting paid to go to.

Mal ,'Shindig'


Natter 54: Right here, dammit.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Jesse - Oct 02, 2007 8:43:47 am PDT #4427 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

Some awesome words for Pam Anderson from The Fug Girls


Theodosia - Oct 02, 2007 8:44:55 am PDT #4428 of 10001
'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"

I expect that both places had similar Indian names, but the pronunciation and spelling got filtered through the French and Spanish, respectively.

Mom on a Segway is nothing -- there used to be a guy on the Somerville bikepath near here that would push a stroller from his unicycle!


Liese S. - Oct 02, 2007 8:57:55 am PDT #4429 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Yeah, and a lot of native languages were oral, not written, so you'd be looking at transliteration anyway.


§ ita § - Oct 02, 2007 9:01:28 am PDT #4430 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

a lot of native languages were oral, not written, so you'd be looking at transliterations anyway

Transliteration is one writing method to another--if the native language is only oral you need a different word.


Trudy Booth - Oct 02, 2007 9:06:09 am PDT #4431 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

transcriptions?


Allyson - Oct 02, 2007 9:07:11 am PDT #4432 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Kat, I have no idea where to get a carseat for Noah. I think i just need the doohickey that the seat clicks into, right?


Sophia Brooks - Oct 02, 2007 9:08:12 am PDT #4433 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

trans-oral-ation?

tran-scribe-ation?

I am about to kill a professor. I have this weird office where I have the back desk, and there is an empty front desk all hitched together. I have a professor who teaches only one class who comes and sits at the front desk on Tuesdays, and sometimes students sit there. I am supposed to be answering the phones this month, and the damn professor turned my ringer down because it was annoying (it is really annoying, because everyone's phone rings on it, and I only have to answer 4 or 5 of them), but now I have missed calls for the big boss! And myself!


Liese S. - Oct 02, 2007 9:14:59 am PDT #4434 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

trans...something.

Isn't there a word for when you force your alphabet to someone else's oral language? Like what you do to get romaji?

eta: No, I guess that is transliteration, 'cause it's going from pictographs to roman letters, both written. Hmm.


tommyrot - Oct 02, 2007 9:16:23 am PDT #4435 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Transubstantiation?


DavidS - Oct 02, 2007 9:17:19 am PDT #4436 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

Trans fatty acids?

I think Trudy is right. Transcription is writing down something that was oral.