sits with Kathy
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."
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.
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.
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.
Pernicketeppy?
Heh. I love it! Because I *am.* I may have to change my tagline, though I just switched to this one.
Go Teppy! I love that. Change your tagline change your tagline change your tagline.
No pressure.
(whistling with evil innocence)
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.
Did the same thing happen with "a nincompoop"? That started out "an incompoop," sort of an off-the-rails incompetent?
Damn those persnicketey nincompoops and their pronunciation rules.