Two people laughed in my face for pronouncing "chimera" with a "CHIM-ur-uh" instead of "Ki-meeruh." Two! C'mon that one's not a gimme.
I once belonged to a club named Chimera. Hard to pronounce wrong after that.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Fred Pete - Mar 17, 2004 10:39:44 am PST #1444 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
§ ita § - Mar 17, 2004 11:10:21 am PST #1445 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
We still play draughts in Jamaica.
Jesse - Mar 17, 2004 11:27:52 am PST #1446 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I get this weekly email from my local mystery book store, and thought this was pretty funny:
Now, I’m going to give a plug to a book that doesn’t really need it, and I know that some of you will groan. But, the new Robert B. Parker, BAD BUSINESS ($24.95) was just signed, and truthfully, I thought it was pretty good. (My one complaint is that I would have liked to see more Hawk, and less Susan, but that’s par for the course. More violence, less psychoanalysis. )
It makes me laugh that theoretically she's supposed to be selling these books -- "truthfully, pretty good"? Heh.
Java cat - Mar 17, 2004 11:42:14 am PST #1447 of 10002
Not javachik
"CHIM-ur-uh"
It ISN'T? Uh oh.
I say "fack" for FAQ, too. How do you say URL? I spell it. Is it supposed to be "Earl"?
Steph L. - Mar 17, 2004 11:47:20 am PST #1448 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
For URL, I say "you are ell." Never heard anyone say it "Earl."
So far, co-worker and erika are the only 2 people who say F-A-Q, rather than "fack."
Fackers, unite!
Strix - Mar 17, 2004 11:48:18 am PST #1449 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Um, I say "Earl."
P.M. Marc - Mar 17, 2004 11:49:40 am PST #1450 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Similarly I had pegged "gaoler" as "gail-er" instead of "jailer" and still read "cupboard" as "cup-board" instead of "cubberd."
I still read "gaoler" and "gaol" as gail.
I say "fack" for FAQ, too. How do you say URL? I spell it. Is it supposed to be "Earl"?
Say it Earl, and I will fack your shit up, damn it.
It's U-R-L.
The other gives me freakin' hives.
(Though I fack for FAQ)
P.M. Marc - Mar 17, 2004 11:50:34 am PST #1451 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Um, I say "Earl."
Oy. Sweetpeach, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Say it isn't so. (weeps)
At w-o-r-k, many peeps say Earl. Drives me bonkers.
Vortex - Mar 17, 2004 11:50:35 am PST #1452 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
It's U-R-L.
I think that more people dont "Earl" because it's sounds too much like puking.
erikaj - Mar 17, 2004 11:51:26 am PST #1453 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I would never have thought of fack...oh, well, fack it.