That is a neat website! I love the usage chart by year.
You never know if a girl's gonna say 'yes', or if she's gonna laugh in your face and pull out your still-beating heart and crush it into the ground with her heel.
Xander ,'Help'
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Laga - Apr 11, 2011 11:01:05 am PDT #19550 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
brenda m - Apr 11, 2011 11:02:16 am PDT #19551 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Montreal rocks, Shir.
I thought homey was referring to a person, not a place. Huh.
That's a more recent slang usage.
§ ita § - Apr 11, 2011 11:02:54 am PDT #19552 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It's a buffista's site.
Shir - Apr 11, 2011 11:03:12 am PDT #19553 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Parlez-vous Francais?
Comme ci, comme ça. I only took the basic level in university. But I want and plan to improve it in the future.
Montreal rocks, Shir.
So I hear!
Laga - Apr 11, 2011 11:05:25 am PDT #19554 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I feel like we have a buffista or two in Montreal.
Shir - Apr 11, 2011 11:09:38 am PDT #19555 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Oh, and that homely story reminded me. This morning, in one of my classes, we had presentations. One of the students immigrated here from Russia, and whenever she tried to say "hishtana" (changed, v., singular-masculine/indefinite pronoun form) she said "hashtana" (urinating).
Then it hit me just how bitchy Hebrew can be.
§ ita § - Apr 11, 2011 11:11:32 am PDT #19556 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
We have one person listed as a Montrealer on the map. Brenda and I used to live there.
Shir - Apr 11, 2011 11:12:26 am PDT #19557 of 30000
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
As for the Montreal thing: unrealistic and ungrounded as it is at the moment, it was just what I needed to hear.
Laga - Apr 11, 2011 11:23:07 am PDT #19558 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
A (male) friend of mine was viting Mexico with his family. At a restaurant he went to reach across the table and spilled a bottle of wine all over the table, the waiter, and the floor. He stammered, "estoy muy, muy, embarazado"
I'm very, very, pregnant
Typo Boy - Apr 11, 2011 11:30:10 am PDT #19559 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I think Shir may be thinking (whether she knows it or not) of the Yiddish term "Hamish" pronounced more like "Home-ish-ah". And I don't think there is an English equivalent. "Cozy" captures some of it, but cozy is not really a word for a person. A "Hamish" person makes a place cozy and makes the people around her feel cozy. And my use of the word "her" is because when Yiddish was a living language it would have been really unusual to describe a man as "Hamish", though I hope gender roles are less rigid today.