Sounds about right to me, given all those circumstances.
Halloo. She came back from lunch. That's a big deal.
I am SO not clicking that link.
The fetuses aren't chewing. FYI.
Can't even shout, Can't even cry. The Gentlemen are coming by. Looking in windows, knocking on doors. They need to take seven, and they might take yours. Can't call to mom, can't say a word. You're gonna die screaming but you won't be heard.
Dream Girl ,'Bring On The Night'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Aug 03, 2011 10:49:18 am PDT #19142 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Ginger - Aug 03, 2011 10:49:40 am PDT #19143 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
'Course, that's a marriage of a Scots word and a French one, so not really English, so much.
Pfft. It's like you've never even *met* English.
English is promiscuous and will breed with any language.
Jesse - Aug 03, 2011 10:52:29 am PDT #19144 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sounds about right to me, given all those circumstances.
Nah, that's fair. Now I'm semi-considering leaving early, because why not, but maybe I'll save that for Friday. Of course we're all leaving early tomorrow, to go to the bar.
Kathy A - Aug 03, 2011 10:53:32 am PDT #19145 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
English is promiscuous and will breed with any language.
My office's Virtual Library has a quote randomizer which includes a quote about how English will drag another language down a dark alley, beat it silly, and then ransack its pockets for spare vocabulary.
le nubian - Aug 03, 2011 10:56:48 am PDT #19146 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Strega,
you make a lot of sense, but the "Lost" bitterness thread (at least when I read it) didn't exclude positive comments and it was a fun ass thread! The consequence in "Lost" is that it drove a LOT of people away.
Tom Scola - Aug 03, 2011 10:57:29 am PDT #19147 of 30001
hwæt
Kathy A - Aug 03, 2011 11:08:35 am PDT #19148 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Hee--from Tom's link:
English is essentially Pictish that was attacked out of nowhere by Angles cohabiting with Teutons who were done in by a drunk bunch of Vikings masquerading as Frenchmen who insisted they spoke Latin and Greek but lacked the Arabic in which to convey that. --Bill Hammel
Ginger - Aug 03, 2011 11:10:40 am PDT #19149 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
javachik - Aug 03, 2011 11:19:02 am PDT #19150 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Oh thank you, Ginger. I love that story.
sumi - Aug 03, 2011 11:22:52 am PDT #19151 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Yes, that is a most excellent story.