JZ, I'm around too, if you need.
You're wrong about River. River's not on the ship. They didn't want her here, but she couldn't make herself leave. So she melted... Melted away. They didn't know she could do that, but she did.
River ,'Objects In Space'
Spike's Bitches 43: Who am I kidding? I love to brag.
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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…
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".
Hil R. - Jan 23, 2009 4:30:29 pm PST #8844 of 10000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I just found out today that I was saying proselytize wrong.
Now I'm all paranoid. pros-SELL-li-tize? pros-sell-li-TIZE? I can't even figure out how I say it now.
Sophia Brooks - Jan 23, 2009 4:33:06 pm PST #8845 of 10000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I was pronouncing it with a prose instead of a pros.
JenP - Jan 23, 2009 4:45:18 pm PST #8846 of 10000
I say PROSS-luh-tize. But the dictionary tells me you can also say PROSS-suh-luh-tize. Only not with my phonetics-on-the-fly.
Steph L. - Jan 23, 2009 5:00:43 pm PST #8847 of 10000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I just found out today that I was saying proselytize wrong.
I won't say how old I was when I realized that "draught" was pronounced "draft."
Or that "segway" was that weird word "segue" I kept seeing.
(No, really. Pretty fucking old. High school, I think. "Epitome" might fall in that Age of Enlightenment as well.)