Usually when I want something done several days ago. Preferably by Richard Pryor.
So, you want it flambéd?
(rassenfrassen html. I can't even joke in cyberspace!)
Mal: Can I come in? Inara: No. Mal: See? That's why I usually don't ask.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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."
juliana - Mar 23, 2004 7:44:28 am PST #1804 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Java cat - Mar 23, 2004 8:29:47 am PST #1805 of 10002
Not javachik
I read her Tess mysteries out of order so I am pretty confused about where things were left.
This is a fabulous site to aid in getting the books in order. You can search by author or by character. Handy, that.
And look! Deb Grabien's in there!
www.stopyourekillingme.com PS it's timing out without connecting but I expect that's a temporary thing.
bon bon - Mar 23, 2004 10:14:29 am PST #1806 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
100 most mispronounced words/phrases. There were a few I use that I hadn't known were wrong, most notably "spitting image."
This is why that 100 words list is crap.
Skyzy - Mar 23, 2004 12:28:51 pm PST #1807 of 10002
This is why that 100 words list is crap.
Yeah, I was reading the list and I was thinking that some of these pronunciations were perfectly acceptable in any dictionary you look.
Great example: often. I say "offen", but I know it's correct to say "often" (even if it irritates me). The list says the former is the only correct way.
RobertH - Mar 23, 2004 4:45:47 pm PST #1808 of 10002
Disaffected college student
The list is absolutely right where it agrees with me:
barbituRate, RRRRRate
. . . and absolutely wrong where it doesn't. Yeah, you shouldn't say "card shark" when you mean "cardsharp", but "card shark" has a perfectly valid meaning (to me, at least) of "person who is very good at some card game or another". Note the lack of trickiness in definition.
(And, hey, look, that other link agrees with me. Cool. I didn't read it first, honest.)
Side note: people have been saying "aks" for 1000 years? Huh. Well, 1000 years ago, "ask" and "ax" might've been synonyms.
Kathy A - Mar 23, 2004 4:50:15 pm PST #1809 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I always liked the origin of the word "nickname"--it started out as "an ekename" in Middle English ("eke" meaning "also"), and then the consonant drifted from the article to the noun. Very cool.
Pix - Mar 23, 2004 4:56:22 pm PST #1810 of 10002
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
"Pernickety" surprised me. No idea that extra "s" (as in persnickety) was not supposed to be there.
Oh no! I refuse. This is where I draw the line. I love the "s". The "s" makes it all snarky. The "s" allows you to relish saying that word -- "You're so per-SNICK-itey!"
In fact, that's what I'm being right now in refusing to accept this change. Persnickitey. Definitely not pernickitey.
Kathy A - Mar 23, 2004 5:05:17 pm PST #1811 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Pernickitey is NOT a word. Persnickitey is. I have spoken, and so it shall be. Bleah t sticks tongue at stupid rule-making people
Pix - Mar 23, 2004 5:05:57 pm PST #1812 of 10002
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
sits with Kathy
deborah grabien - Mar 23, 2004 5:08:32 pm PST #1813 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Jeez, I had a basically European upbringing and I learned the damned word without an S. That is neither an attempt to rule out anyone else's S, nor a hanging matter.