Buffistae

I love that. It seems like I must have seen it before, but I don't remember doing so. I think I must promptly steal it.

You make an interesting point about Facebook, javachick. I see what you mean. I think I both like and don't like that about Facebook, but I agree that it's freeing to understand that because someone doesn't want to be my "friend" doesn't necessarily mean they don't want to be my friend. I think my own biggest problem there, though, is that people use names that I don't recognize. I know I should know people, from the people that they know, but I often can't quite connect the right name to the right person. So, if I ever respond in a different way than you expect, anyone, please remind me who you are!

Gotta stop this sleepy posting. I hope it's better than no posting at all. I hope.

It was an early attempt, while we were at WX, to pluralize Buffista, but because of the Spanish derivation of "ista", it was decided that the "ae" plural would be the second and less-correct usage in dictionary term-age. As it were. Deep into the BtVS experience as we were at the time.

I am not a social networker. I have the threads here where I keep up with people I care about, and I still have a few threads on TableTalk where I discuss specific subjects with a small circle of posters. And I have LJ, where I am as open and honest as I ever am online, and I have many circles of friends there whose interests I share, and some of those overlap.

I pretty conclusively cut ties with everyone I ever knew in high school. I've never attended a reunion--why would I want to? The half-dozen people with whom I was close, who cared about each other, I stay in touch with. I have no interest whatever in "reconnecting" with anyone else. There was a high fatality rate among my college peers, and the survivors I keep track of in the trades, or the school newsletter. If I were advancing my career, looking for a partner, or of a gregarious nature, facebook would be an enthusiasm. As it is, I regard it as a tool to keep track of people in case catastrophe and diaspora befall my other boards. I understand I'm the anomaly here, but not everybody needs to know that Caryn-Ann just left the nail salon and is having a smoothie at 1218 Oak. Do they?

It was an early attempt, while we were at WX, to pluralize Buffista, but because of the Spanish derivation of "ista", it was decided that the "ae" plural would be the second and less-correct usage in dictionary term-age. As it were.

Really? I totally don't remember that. (Which doesn't mean it didn't happen; if that were true, I'd start dis-remembering things out of existence. Like the Bush administration.) Although I remember Rebecca Lizard saying she liked "Buffistae," but her brain wouldn't let her use the incorrect Latin ending.

Was there an actual discussion about it? With sides taken, and arguments bandied about? And a pronouncement that This Is Not Right?

Wait. I'm talking about the Buffistas/ae. Of *course* there was.

Maybe a new, more etymologically offensive plural? Buffistaopolis? Buffistasplosion? Buffistaplural?

Just so long as it's not Buffista's.

I wasn't thinking of the "ista". I was thinking of Dr. Richard Fagerlund, I guess. I just like to add "ae" to stuff sometimes.

I just like to add "ae" to stuff sometimes.

yeah, me too. I'm not sure if I saw it in print first but I have been writing "buffistae". It doesn't bug me, much as I'm not overly annoyed by the greek/latin hybrid "polyamory". To me it flows better than polyphilia (which sounds like a perversion) or multiamory (which sounds like the goal is proliferation).

Aren't there other hybrid words in common usage? Why isn't it OK for us to combine root languages to make new words? If this discussion doesn't belong in Goodbye & Good Riddance I'd love to continue it elsewhere.

Aren't there other hybrid words in common usage?

"Television" is a greek/latin hybrid.

As is "automobile." And both "heterosexual" and "homosexual."

yay! I'm so glad. I love mixing un-mixy things.

I don't recall if there was a big discussion. I seem to recall that we consensed, and it may have been because r_liz felt so adamantly about it. I just know I have a kneejerk "wrong!" now, when I see it used, which speaks, I'm sure, more to my suggestibility than to any correctness or incorrectness. I.E. I got no dog in this hunt. I merely recall and report.

After due diligence and cogitation, I can categorically state that I'm unable to discuss 2008, and further, I may never be. Suffice it to say, it's history. I'm looking forward.