British PM apologizes for Bloody Sunday
Buffy? I like that. That girl's so hot, she's buffy.
Forrest ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Tom Scola - Jun 15, 2010 8:38:55 am PDT #6686 of 30001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
§ ita § - Jun 15, 2010 8:41:20 am PDT #6687 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That must have started after I stopped reading. As far as I got, it was all "props to her" with some "maybe I wouldn't have said it *that* way, but still...brave of her to say it." I got bored.
But I've never got Eva Mendes anyway. I think she's a crap actress and not that pretty, so there's not that much I'm going to read about her.
Daisy Jane - Jun 15, 2010 8:50:48 am PDT #6688 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I think she looks lovely, but that quote was...what was that? I (usually) really love being married to Jon, but I don't think I would even off-handedly refer to our relationship as one where "belonging" would enter into it. I just don't see it that way.
Though I guess we do have strange ownership language when it comes to personal relationships. It's all MY wife, and a friend of MINE, and we HAVE a mom.
§ ita § - Jun 15, 2010 8:54:51 am PDT #6689 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Though I guess we do have strange ownership language when it comes to personal relationships. It's all MY wife, and a friend of MINE, and we HAVE a mom.
I don't think that is strange at all. I mean, one wants to distinguish this wife from someone else's wife--wife is a relationship, after all, as is friend and mother.
Woman? Not so much. I might want to be someone's wife or girlfriend, but I can't imagine ever being someone's woman. That's just weird.
Polter-Cow - Jun 15, 2010 8:57:13 am PDT #6690 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
You're like that White Town song!
Daisy Jane - Jun 15, 2010 9:03:10 am PDT #6691 of 30001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I don't think that is strange at all. I mean, one wants to distinguish this wife from someone else's wife--wife is a relationship, after all, as is friend and mother.
It seems like it's describing owning the person is all, not the relationship. Mother conjures an image of a female person.
I'm not really advocating/protesting anything here. Just noting something I find itchy when describing relationships, because yeah, Jon doesn't even jokingly refer to me as his woman.
Zenkitty - Jun 15, 2010 9:12:08 am PDT #6692 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Some science fiction series - might have been Retief - had an alien race whose language had different possessive pronouns depending not only of the sex of the speaker, but on the relationship/thing being referred to.
So the "my" in "my mother" (family-person) was different than the "my" in "my friend" (non-family person) and the "my" in "my tractor" (thing). I thought it was a brilliant idea and all languages should immediately adopt it. (They didn't.)
Miracleman - Jun 15, 2010 9:14:29 am PDT #6693 of 30001
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
Terminator Jesus
"Come with me if you want to live...in eternal paradise, assuming you repent of your sins."
Frankenbuddha - Jun 15, 2010 9:15:52 am PDT #6694 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Terminator Jesus
It certainly gives the line "I'll be back." a whole new meaning.
Stephanie - Jun 15, 2010 9:30:10 am PDT #6695 of 30001
Trust my rage
Univision is great! A bit jumpy but probably better announcers.