It's weird. I will use "theater" when I am going to see a movie but "theatre" when I am going to see a performance.
Well, personally, I kind of want to slay the dragon.
Angel ,'Not Fade Away'
Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
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javachik - Apr 29, 2010 1:51:02 pm PDT #26327 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
tommyrot - Apr 29, 2010 1:52:03 pm PDT #26328 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.
It's weird. I will use "theater" when I am going to see a movie but "theatre" when I am going to see a performance.
It's not weird, because that's what I do too.
§ ita § - Apr 29, 2010 1:52:46 pm PDT #26329 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
No, it is weird. Stop pretending.
::pretends to care about Dana's spelling permission::
Liese S. - Apr 29, 2010 1:53:20 pm PDT #26330 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
I wish I had an iota of consistency, but I fear that ship has sailed.
Hee. You contain multitudes.
Travel is a big one for me because of my company name. I'm a traveling music school. Travelling music school. Travell...travell...
I wanted to register all the varieties for my domain names.
I still use some of the unAmerican spellings, but I have no valid reason for doing so other than being a pretentious little Anglophile, evidently. Hee.
Barb - Apr 29, 2010 1:55:13 pm PDT #26331 of 30001
“Not dead yet!”
Thing is, if I'm thinking of it as a place where one goes to watch a film, it's a movie theater. If it's a performing arts building or discussion of the actvity, then it's very firmly "theatre" in my mind. At least I'm consistent in my inconsistencies.
Also, I just caught the CE in a mistake and kind of felt slightly victorious.
Cass - Apr 29, 2010 1:57:04 pm PDT #26332 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
but I have no valid reason for doing so other than being a pretentious little Anglophile, evidently.
Which is really reason enough for me.
Jesse - Apr 29, 2010 1:59:16 pm PDT #26333 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It's weird. I will use "theater" when I am going to see a movie but "theatre" when I am going to see a performance.
Do you pronounce it "thee-ah-tah" in that case?
Also, there was a whole thing on mustache v. mustaches or moustaches on A Way With Words recently.
§ ita § - Apr 29, 2010 2:00:15 pm PDT #26334 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I just caught the CE in a mistake and kind of felt slightly victorious.
The Chris Evans? The Christopher Eccleston? Because catching either of them would be the sort of day I wish you.
Also, me.
I'm not sure why my accent is so much more fragile than my spelling. I don't know if traveler will ever look right (and mustache is an abomination, and not in the cute way), but I hate when I hear how I talk. I haven't sounded like me in a while, but I miss it.
Although sometimes people pop their Ts around me, and it makes me paranoid. Except, of course, in my name. But every now and again an American will hit all those Ts in a sentence and look at me like it was my fault and I have no idea how to react.
Amy - Apr 29, 2010 2:02:50 pm PDT #26335 of 30001
Because books.
CE = the copy editor
I'd like to catch the Chris Evans in a mistake or any way. Also Robert Downey Jr. who was so adorable on Letterman last night, he made me squeal.
Jesse - Apr 29, 2010 2:03:14 pm PDT #26336 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I don't tell the job people about the two weeks I'll need off in June until they offer me the job, right?