Yo, Hec, I think the word you're searching for is gerundage.
Jayne: Yeah, that was some pretty risky sittin' you did there. Wash: That's right, of course, 'cause they wouldn't arrest me if we got boarded, I'm just the pilot. I can always say I was flying the ship by accident.
'Serenity'
Bureaucracy 2: Like Sartre, Only Longer
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
amych - Sep 19, 2003 12:01:32 pm PDT #5320 of 10005
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
DXMachina - Sep 19, 2003 12:03:05 pm PDT #5321 of 10005
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
No, amy, Cindy doesn't want to do a gerund, she wants to *be* a gerund.
amych - Sep 19, 2003 12:05:13 pm PDT #5322 of 10005
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
See, this is what making people into verbs leads to. The floodgates open, and everyone wants to be a part of speech.
P.M. Marc - Sep 19, 2003 12:06:06 pm PDT #5323 of 10005
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Ooh, look at that shameless fishing for gerundification.
Sure, just cause you have heckling in the bag...
Rest of us have to work for our gerundage, babe.
§ ita § - Sep 19, 2003 12:06:26 pm PDT #5324 of 10005
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
ITA.
DXMachina - Sep 19, 2003 12:08:37 pm PDT #5325 of 10005
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Sadly, the only thing my name could be used as a verb for is shortening overly long links, and I'd really have to kill anybody who tried to apply it that way.
Katie M - Sep 19, 2003 12:10:20 pm PDT #5326 of 10005
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Well, you could always use it as a short-form for "miraculous end-of-story copout, perhaps involving a deity."
Cindy - Sep 19, 2003 12:10:35 pm PDT #5327 of 10005
Nobody
Sadly, the only thing my name could be used as a verb for is shortening overly long links, and I'd really have to kill anybody who tried to apply it that way.
Every time in the future that I have to put a pipe over a crowbar, to help me get leverage when loosening the lugnuts on a flat tire, I'm going to say I'm DXing it (because Theodosiaing it is just too difficult to pronounce).
Sean K - Sep 19, 2003 12:18:34 pm PDT #5328 of 10005
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Well, you could always use it as a short-form for "miraculous end-of-story copout, perhaps involving a deity."
Damn, Katie beat me to the really obvious joke...
Katie M - Sep 19, 2003 12:42:31 pm PDT #5329 of 10005
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Damn, Katie beat me to the really obvious joke...
I'm not brilliant, but I'm fast.