In one of the Anne of Green Gables books, there's a pretentious mother who insists on calling her son St. Clair. (His real name is Jacob, but that's a long story.) After I learned the right way to pronounce St. John, I wondered if St. Clair was supposed to be pronounced Sinclair.
Now, I can hold a note for a long time...actually I can hold a note forever. But eventually that's just noise. It's the change we're listening for. The note coming after, and the one after that. That's what makes it music.
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Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
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Hil R. - Mar 23, 2011 3:33:03 pm PDT #29957 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Amy - Mar 23, 2011 3:36:22 pm PDT #29958 of 30001
Because books.
We're having thunder and lightning here, too, sara. And tomorrow snow, or so they tell me.
Sue - Mar 23, 2011 3:36:50 pm PDT #29959 of 30001
hip deep in pie
St. Clair was supposed to be pronounced Sinclair.
Yep. There's a local historian with the name St. Clair. whose name I used to see at work. For years, I didn't realize my friend's friend "Sinclair" was that historian.
Hil R. - Mar 23, 2011 3:36:55 pm PDT #29960 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
We had thunder hail earlier.
§ ita § - Mar 23, 2011 3:37:33 pm PDT #29961 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
How I learnt to get pegged and like it. Jezebel. NSFW language. Creepily SFW picture. Incredibly heteronormative assertions justified by "I was being funny!"
My god, this shit makes me crazy.
sarameg - Mar 23, 2011 3:39:57 pm PDT #29962 of 30001
There's a very very small chance of snow this weekend. I'm pretending it doesn't exist.
More lightning. And tons of rain, but no hail so far. When it hailed the other day, I was taking a shower, and have a glass skylight right over the tub. Freaking loud and actually scared me for a second before I figured out it was hail on the glass.
G (my neighbor's 4 year old) called Loki Loki-bean yesterday and informed me she always called him that. And I find myself doing the same now.
Ginger - Mar 23, 2011 3:41:15 pm PDT #29963 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
You know, unless you have the kanji you can't really be sure that a similar syllable means the same thing. . .
As I understand it, when karate came to Japan from Okinawa it was called "China hand," even though the Okinawan form may have risen independently from Chinese martial arts. I rather suspect it was called that because the Japanese didn't think much of Okinawa. The kanji used for China was sometimes pronounced kara, and someone proposed using the kanji for empty, also pronounced kara, instead. It's unclear who came up with the idea, but the spelling was popularized by Gichin Funakoshi, sometimes called the father of Japanese karate.
§ ita § - Mar 23, 2011 3:42:19 pm PDT #29964 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It is raining buckets here again. Oy. This is not what I signed up for.
beekaytee - Mar 23, 2011 3:48:50 pm PDT #29965 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
Lightening and rain here too. That must be a hella big storm.
Jesse - Mar 23, 2011 3:52:43 pm PDT #29966 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My god, this shit makes me crazy.
Jesus christ, it was like pulling teeth to get that article to load (your link didn't do it for me), and then to read the actual comment....this is why I've given up the whole Gawker family.
Not to mention the actual content of the essay or the comments.