Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
One of my favorite foreign words is rather simple. It’s the German “doch”. It simply means yes, but to a negative question. For example, the question, “You aren’t going?” in English. If you answer “yes”, it is ambiguous (“yes, you aren’t going”, or “yes, you are going”). Doch removes that ambiguity. It always means (in this case), “Yes, you are going”.
French has this ("oui" vs. "si"), but I don't think Italian or Spanish does, do they?
We must endeavor to introduce this word into the common lexicon.
I think it might be Rio's coinage. She was the Queen of the Kerfauxfle. Though Msbelle's got a real knack for it too.
I think it might be Rio's coinage.
That should probably be a kerFUCKOfle, then.
I wrote them a longish email about how I thought pseudos isn't the problem, but that lack of community and ineffective moderation WAS the problem.
Indeed. The whole Google+ name debate has resulted in a lot of blogging about this issue. In fact, the other day a flist member linked to a comment by Kathy Sierra, where she said exactly what you said, and that she wished she's used a pseud from the beginning, not for herself, but for her family and friends who ended up taking a lot of damage as well.
The best semi-political blog comments section I know is Ta-Nehisi Coates' blog, and because it's moderated and there's a community built up, it doesn't matter what name I post under, so long as it's consistent. Whereas most other political blogs, the comments are unmoderated and it's a swamp of unpleasantness. And that's got nothing to do with real names.
The worst-behaved person I know on the internet, someone who appears to be having a slow psychological breakdown and who exhibits seriously threatening/stalkery behavior to a number of women he's fixated on, is a man posting and commenting under his legal name.
The cafe downstairs sells a cranberry flaxseed bagel. What is that, even? And no poppyseed.
What is that, even?
That's no bagel.
There's a word for this in English: Kerfauxfle.
'Course, that's a marriage of a Scots word and a French one, so not really English, so much.
That's no bagel.
It is the thing that wears a bagel like a cloak.
That's no bagel.
I see this, and I hear it in Harrison Ford's voice: That's no asteroid...