You're welcome--I thought of it because I was reading some messages DH had forwarded me months ago and thinking about the contrasts in how his group plays with language, etc.
Fred: It's the pictures in my mind that are getting me. It's like being stuck in a really bad movie with those Clockwork Orange clampy things on my eyeballs. Wesley: Why imagine? Reality's disturbing enough.
'Shells'
Voting Discussion: We're Screwing In Light Bulbs AIFG!
We open it up, we talks the talk, we votes, we shuts it down. This thread is to free up Bureaucracy for daily details as we hammer out the Big Issues towards a vote. Open only when a proposal has been made and seconded according to Buffista policy (Which we voted on!). If this thread is closed, hie thee to Bureaucracy instead!
Susan W. - Jan 27, 2004 6:38:09 am PST #3423 of 10289
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Sean K - Jan 27, 2004 7:51:22 am PST #3424 of 10289
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I'm fully in support of this proposal, and intend to opt in.
I do have a question, though...
Erin, you mentioned that $PERSON NAME will be stripped, and not make its way into the lexicon. Is there any way to make some kind of a footnote about the usage of $PERSON NAME as a verb? We're not even close to the first set of people to do something like that, and even if specific words aren't common enough to be included in a dictionary, that specific form of usage seems to be getting more and more common, and worthy of some kind of note. So I just wonder.
§ ita § - Jan 27, 2004 7:57:54 am PST #3425 of 10289
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Is there any way to make some kind of a footnote about the usage of $PERSON NAME as a verb?
Over and above the name-verbs actually remaining in the text? Etymology, you mean?
Sean K - Jan 27, 2004 8:17:07 am PST #3426 of 10289
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Etymology, you mean?
Yeah, because I got the impression from the proposal that words like nillying or mearaing were going to be stripped from the text.
§ ita § - Jan 27, 2004 8:20:22 am PST #3427 of 10289
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I got the impression from the proposal that words like nillying or mearaing were going to be stripped from the text.
Nope: erinaceous "Voting Discussion: We're Screwing In Light Bulbs AIFG!" Jan 26, 2004 5:17:48 pm PST
Sean K - Jan 27, 2004 9:17:26 am PST #3428 of 10289
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Ah! Okay. I got all confuzzled somewhere.
Laura - Jan 27, 2004 9:18:41 am PST #3429 of 10289
Our wings are not tired.
We're not even close to the first set of people to do something like that, and even if specific words aren't common enough to be included in a dictionary, that specific form of usage seems to be getting more and more common, and worthy of some kind of note.
t Natter I worked with a man whose reputation for bullshit was such that for years after his departure we still called bullshitting "lastname"ing. Fortunately nillying or mearaing are more positive behaviors. t /Natter
Elena - Jan 27, 2004 1:54:05 pm PST #3430 of 10289
Thanks for all the fish.
You people do realise that 'Wrod' could make it into the dictionary.
Didn't think about that, did ya.
Steph L. - Jan 27, 2004 2:36:30 pm PST #3431 of 10289
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Wrod is mine! Mine mine mine!!!!
amych - Jan 27, 2004 2:38:02 pm PST #3432 of 10289
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Wrod is mine! Mine mine mine!!!!
That's right. It's POSTER_NAME's.