What's the preferred word now, Romany?
edit: dilatory crosspost
Mal: Go on. Get in there. Give your brother a thrashing for messing up your plan. River: He takes so much looking after.
'Objects In Space'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Connie Neil - Sep 24, 2009 6:05:52 am PDT #10552 of 30001
brillig
megan walker - Sep 24, 2009 6:07:23 am PDT #10553 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Romani/Romany/Roma (the latter is actually a subset I think). There are many different spellings and plurals.
tommyrot - Sep 24, 2009 6:29:30 am PDT #10554 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Amy - Sep 24, 2009 6:49:04 am PDT #10555 of 30001
Because books.
Gmail's all borked and it's too quiet in here. Hold me.
Gudanov - Sep 24, 2009 6:52:34 am PDT #10556 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
I have no interesting news. I'm back on the PTA board as the only male board member again. I suppose this means I'll have to get a PTA membership now.
tommyrot - Sep 24, 2009 6:53:32 am PDT #10557 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
If you're really bored, stare at this for a while: [link]
-t - Sep 24, 2009 7:06:38 am PDT #10558 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
This looks like buffista and specifically Amy fodder: [link]
Aims - Sep 24, 2009 7:16:23 am PDT #10559 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Ok, so I have an open mind about grammar and letting language evolve. But when it comes to professional settings and educational settings, I am, like most people I know, a pretty closed book. Proper English. Done. Interrobang.
My sister has had a problem with textspeak in her middle school math classes. The quizzes her students get have essay and short questions on them. Sis has tried to nip it in the bud, but couldn't figure out how to do it right off the bat. Until this year. On the first quiz of the year, one of her students answered "IDK" to one of the questions. Sis failed her. The girl got every other answer right, but because of her "IDK", the girl was failed. My sister wrote "NOT ACCEPTABLE" in big, bold red letters, circled it a thousand times, and wrote a big "+0". And then, made an example of the quiz in class (but not the girl, specifically).
No more textspeak. Which I think is awesome. If you don't know something, be clever. Write something interesting.
Edited to fix spelling and grammar mistakes.
Laura - Sep 24, 2009 7:19:42 am PDT #10560 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Holds Amy with one arm while working with the other. There may be groping. No textspeak.
Aims - Sep 24, 2009 7:22:26 am PDT #10561 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
No textspeak.
Srsly.