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Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.  

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meara - Nov 11, 2009 5:49:27 pm PST #122 of 30000

But if they're under a skirt and petticoats isn't the shiny sort of hidden?


WindSparrow - Nov 11, 2009 6:07:42 pm PST #123 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.

But if they're under a skirt and petticoats isn't the shiny sort of hidden?

Hiding the shiny under the skirt and petticoats makes 'em cute. It's like a silly joke shared with just a privileged few in an otherwise highbrow discourse.


Hil R. - Nov 11, 2009 6:12:32 pm PST #124 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Oh. One of my officemates today (not the one I usually tell about) was complaining for about five minutes about how it's so horrible that people are so sensitive that he can't even use the word "niggardly."


Pix - Nov 11, 2009 6:24:35 pm PST #125 of 30000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

Well, to be fair, that word doesn't actually have any relationship with the n-word: [link]

The adverb form niggardly, miserly or stingily, was formed in the sixteenth century from niggard, a miser or stingy person. In the Wycliffe Bible of 1384 it was spelled nygard; earlier still it can be found as nigon, and another form nig also existed. We are pretty sure this was borrowed from a Scandinavian source, because there are related words in several Germanic languages, for example, the Old Norse hnøgger, meaning “stingy”. So it has nothing to do with nigger, which comes via French nègre from Spanish negro, ultimately from Latin niger, meaning “black”.

Nonetheless, as this article points out, it's so similar that it inevitably causes strife in the US and therefore is often best avoided.

t /etymology pedant


Hil R. - Nov 11, 2009 6:29:17 pm PST #126 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

Yeah, I know. His point was that the "often best avoided" was just not fair. I'm not sure what he thinks he's losing by avoiding one word which has approximately a thousand perfectly good synonyms, but he was for some reason very upset about this and complaining about it for a long while. Loudly.


Pix - Nov 11, 2009 6:30:12 pm PST #127 of 30000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

Gotcha.


Cashmere - Nov 11, 2009 6:31:12 pm PST #128 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.

His point was that the "often best avoided" was just not fair.

Fair is for fucking five year olds. He need to get the fuck over it.


DCJensen - Nov 11, 2009 6:33:21 pm PST #129 of 30000
All is well that ends in pizza.

Quote The Princess bride book at him.

"Life isn't fair, Bill. We tell our children that it is, but it's a terrible thing to do. It's not only a lie, it's a cruel lie. Life is not fair, and it never has been, and it's never going to be."


Hil R. - Nov 11, 2009 6:43:41 pm PST #130 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l

This is kind of adorable. I'm reading about the curriculum at Sidwell Friends (I had an actual reason for going to this website, then found the info I was looking for and started just clicking around), and the fourth graders there have lessons in mediation and working out problems and finding peaceful solutions, and then, on certain days, two fourth graders go to join the first and second graders at recess as the designated "peacemakers," and if any of the younger kids have an argument about something, they bring it to the fourth grade peacemakers who help them find a peaceful way to settle the argument.


DavidS - Nov 11, 2009 6:56:40 pm PST #131 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

I'm not sure what he thinks he's losing by avoiding one word which has approximately a thousand perfectly good synonyms, but he was for some reason very upset about this and complaining about it for a long while. Loudly.

I share his grievance. Different synonyms have different nuances. The word shouldn't be put out to pasture because other people are ignorant.