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".
Why couldn't Giles have shackles like any self-respecting bachelor?
Xander ,'Beneath You'
Spike's Bitches 43: Who am I kidding? I love to brag.
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Sophia Brooks - Jan 23, 2009 4:28:53 pm PST #8843 of 10000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
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
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
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.)
Laga - Jan 23, 2009 5:01:57 pm PST #8848 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I used to think Dos Equis and Doseckis were two different types of beer.
Laga - Jan 23, 2009 5:02:57 pm PST #8849 of 10000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Our wii is here. D is playing Metroid. I just squeed, "Oh you're a little ball!" to which he replied, "Oballa!"
Sophia Brooks - Jan 23, 2009 5:04:01 pm PST #8850 of 10000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Ok, I JUST realized that draught is pronounced draft....
Steph L. - Jan 23, 2009 5:06:00 pm PST #8851 of 10000
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Sophia, I still "hear" it in my head as "drott," or something similar. It's like I read it and then my brain kicks in and reminds me "that's the one pronounced 'draft'!"
Sophia Brooks - Jan 23, 2009 5:09:51 pm PST #8852 of 10000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
At least it is not something I have ever had an occasion to say out loud!