Well, then, this is a day I'll feel good to be me.

Mal ,'Trash'


Spike's Bitches 43: Who am I kidding? I love to brag.  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


Fay - Jan 23, 2009 3:10:37 pm PST #8834 of 10000
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

Oh, JZ, that's awful. That poor kid.


DCJensen - Jan 23, 2009 3:20:37 pm PST #8835 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.

In pronunciation news, I'm going to have to take a completely contrary position. I love accents and dialects, so odd pronunciations even ones I think are "wrong" don't bother me usually. I love the ways words change on different parts ofthe country and world; plus, who can really say what the correct one is?more standardized, sure, but wrong? I think it just depends on your perception. I'm a liberal commie when it comes to these things, I guess.

Now that I've said this, of course, I'm going to think of a bunch of exceptions.

I have no problem with most. I might even slip in the odd vee-hick-l now and then myself.

Most of the time it's just a overemphasis of different components of the words according to the region.

I used to be more tolerant of NUKE-u-lr before GWB, I must admit.

When someone else mispronounces it I can roll my eyes, when the POTUS says it in an official capacity, I cringe.


DCJensen - Jan 23, 2009 3:24:11 pm PST #8836 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Friday quietly ended the Bush administration's ban on giving federal money to international groups that perform abortions or provide information on the option.


DCJensen - Jan 23, 2009 3:34:28 pm PST #8837 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.

Thanks to Shrift, I immediately went to Monster.com and changed my password.

Scary.


juliana - Jan 23, 2009 3:55:37 pm PST #8838 of 10000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…

JZ, I'm around too, if you need.


dcp - Jan 23, 2009 4:16:33 pm PST #8839 of 10000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.

But...it's not even *spelled* chipoLte.

My grandfather could never pronounce Chick-Fil-A. It always came out "Chick-a-fil."

However, he could say "catfish fillet" just fine.


JZ - Jan 23, 2009 4:16:36 pm PST #8840 of 10000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

Aw, juliana! Our door is always open to you (obviously, we made it home by now), but how are you doing with the Death Flu?


Sophia Brooks - Jan 23, 2009 4:20:58 pm PST #8841 of 10000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I am so sorry for your loss askye. I am giving my kitty some extra cuddles.

My mother cannot say Vietnam or salsa. She somehow puts a million extra vowels in them (and we are from Western NY). So it is vee-a-AT-nam and saaw- all- SUH. Drives me nuts. And I do somehow draw the line between accents and just saying the wrong word, like Chi-pol-te.

Of course, I can't pronounce many words that I see mostly in writing. I just found out today that I was saying proselytize wrong.


beekaytee - Jan 23, 2009 4:22:21 pm PST #8842 of 10000
Compassionately intolerant

My stepmother used to say em-BOYD-ree for embroidery. I could never figure out how she got that.


Sophia Brooks - Jan 23, 2009 4:28:53 pm PST #8843 of 10000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

When I was younger I used to get after my mother because she could never remember the names of famous people, books, or movies, and would either make up names or use a name that is close but not quite. For example, she calls the movie White Nights, "Knights in White Satin". But now I do the exact same thing. When we were doing the play "Accidental Death of an Anarchist", I kept calling it "Accidental Tourist". Now we are doing a play called "The Hairy Dutchman" and I keep saying "The Flying Dutchman" or "The Hairy Ape".