Re: the Great Ye Discussion - did we already cover the fact that the 'ye' in (eg) Ye Olde Curiosity Shop is in fact a The? Because the 'Y' is actually the Anglo Saxon letter (iirc) thorn, which makes a 'th' sound?
Jars - WTFF? Crazy as a freaking FOX.
ion, I blame much of the bastardization of my speech patterns upon the Buffistas. When I got here, I may have sounded like the bastard child of Jane Austen and Bill or Ted, but by this point I use 'dude' and 'y'all' and 'sweet' in everyday conversation without giving it a second thought.
I mean, not that the discourse Chez Buffistas is exactly riddled with instances of these terms - but they crop up here (and, granted, over on LJ - which I only originally joined so I could stay in touch with my Buffista peeps when WorldCrossing went down...) with considerably greater frequency than they do in my meatspace existence. (Because that would constitute a great big fat zero percent of my offline friends' language use.) And although I use these terms in a sort of self-conscious taking-the-piss fashion, kind of...yet still they're now embedded in my vocabulary.
Oh! Teppy, was it you who asked about
I'm going to make the dinner
as a language structure? Because...how else does one say that?
ion, Still Obsessing Over From Eroica With Love.
Falling in love with a 30 year old Manga, however, is quite frustrating. This is clearly why my fannish flings are usually cinematic or televisual - it's so much easier to share the love. I find myself wanting to get all Jehova's Witness-y and doorstep people and try to make them embrace the slashy crack.