In the interest of full disclosure, I should mention I was snuggling smonster's linguistic geekiness. Because it's sexy.
Hey, preaching to the choir. I thought our Lady of the Perpetual Sea Breeze was the real deal until the Divine Miss J walked right through that door and right into my ass—which is where my heart is…physiologically. I could show you an x-ray.
Lorne ,'Time Bomb'
Spike's Bitches 45: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Zenkitty - Feb 03, 2010 1:00:09 pm PST #8992 of 30000
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
omnis_audis - Feb 03, 2010 1:02:21 pm PST #8993 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
Really? I always thought they filmed on location in Florida. How disappointing.Last night, I was watching season 3, ep 1-4, and one of them had this in the background: [link] Not very subtle, and rather unique.
Shir - Feb 03, 2010 1:03:34 pm PST #8994 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
you'll have to train my tongue how to say your name properly
My my, the possibilities.
In case I meet you in person
Whaddoyoumean "in case"?!
Seriously - I'm fine with English speakers, mostly Americans, to pronounce my name as Sheer. It's an accent thing, which I can suck at, at lot, so I won't demand it from others.
Barb - Feb 03, 2010 1:49:25 pm PST #8995 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Really? I always thought they filmed on location in Florida. How disappointing.
As far as I know, the one "Miami show" that actually films in Miami full time is Burn Notice. God love 'em, it's so neat seeing actual Miami streets rather than the one gratuitous shot of the Venetian Causeway.
Barb - Feb 03, 2010 1:49:46 pm PST #8996 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
Post-Toasties:
I have vanquished my revisions-- FEAR ME!
§ ita § - Feb 03, 2010 1:55:31 pm PST #8997 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I know Burn Notice gets mad discounts to film on location, but something about the first season of Dexter (yes, I'm a little behind) convinced me they were there. IMDB isn't that useful, since it doesn't track filming locations by episode. Maybe they started out there.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Feb 03, 2010 2:04:08 pm PST #8998 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Exceptionally long day. They like me at Derby University, where they have a superb Sociology of Religion department. Which is nice. Less nice: I wish people (friends, etc) wouldn't assume that just because a uni has said they're going to make me an offer, I can go there. I'm not quite sure why I'm so annoyed by this. Partly because I'm stressed over how I'm going to fund my next three to seven years of study. Partly because I don't know whether it's worse to waste a good mind and future academic career prospects, or to throw away a substantial sum of money while living on baked beans and trying to work out how to afford the train fares to my university. And partly because I want to be able to say "They like me at Derby!" without someone demanding to know exactly what my plans are, immediately, mainly for their own benefit, as though the above decisions are ones that I'm able to make over an afternoon cuppa. And I'm done. Thank you. (Also. They like me at Derby! :D )
I had a cockney accent.
I grew up with a truly horrific north London accent. I picked it up at school. My parents were not thrilled.
I'm fine with English speakers, mostly Americans, to pronounce my name as Sheer. It's an accent thing, which I can suck at, at lot, so I won't demand it from others.
I do feel I should try to do a bit better with your name. That 'r' is tricky in Hebrew, though. I say it like a French 'r' and The Girl cringes.
§ ita § - Feb 03, 2010 2:14:03 pm PST #8999 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
My parents are accent snobs. They wouldn't let me talk patois around my sister when she was learning to speak, so I never really grounded myself in Jamaican dialect. She's made up for the lost time. Me, I only go there under adrenalin.
I'm sure they were very excited when I dropped the Cockney accent for the RP accent. Didn't last that long once I left the UK, though.
WindSparrow - Feb 03, 2010 2:21:58 pm PST #9000 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.
That 'r' is tricky in Hebrew, though. I say it like a French 'r' and The Girl cringes.
Ok, if it's not as much of a French r (which I can manage reasonably well) as smonster's comments led me to think - Shir - which Americanization would you prefer: just "she" totally leaving off any form of consonent at the end, or "Sheer", or "Shi(French r)"? So I can practice up?
Hil R. - Feb 03, 2010 2:28:38 pm PST #9001 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I can sort of manage the Hebrew r. Not totally, though. I have more trouble with it at the end of words than in the middle -- I can say Shira or Shiri more easily than I can say Shir.
Just got a rejection email. Not from a job I'd interviewed for -- from a job I'd applied for and then never heard from again until now. So that leaves somewhere around 125 that I haven't heard from yet.