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Every planet has its own weird customs. About a year before we met, I spent six weeks on a moon where the principal form of recreation was juggling geese. My hand to God. Baby geese. Goslings. They were juggled.

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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."

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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.

JohnSweden - Mar 23, 2004 5:15:30 pm PST #1814 of 10002

I can't even.

Well, I just finished GGK's The Last Light of the Sun. I'm not horribly horribly broken like I usually am at the end of a Kay book, but that sense of longing and wistfulness that he always invokes at the end of a journey is there, just kind of sweet and sad, haunting in the background like music. It's a relief and a disappointment at the same time. It feels like he stayed his hand, but you could tell the strength was there, unexercised. I feel like he wanted to tell more of a story of ordinary people's lives, caught up in fate, then returned to life, so he didn't quite crank the power all the way up. Pretty damned cool.

Steph L. - Mar 23, 2004 5:17:39 pm PST #1815 of 10002

I look more rad than Lutheranism

That is neither an attempt to rule out anyone else's S

Thank god, because my name would look silly without my S....

Tho' I could switch to Teppy.

deborah grabien - Mar 23, 2004 5:18:19 pm PST #1816 of 10002

It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.

Pernicketeppy?

Steph L. - Mar 23, 2004 5:22:25 pm PST #1817 of 10002

I look more rad than Lutheranism

Heh. I love it! Because I *am.* I may have to change my tagline, though I just switched to this one.

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