OK, granted her last day is Friday, our boss's position is still empty, and our next-boss-up is on vacation this week, but my one coworker got in at like 10:30, took a long lunch, and just left. Seriously???
Sometimes a thing gets broke, can't be fixed.
Kaylee ,'Out Of Gas'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
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.
Jesse - Aug 03, 2011 10:39:34 am PDT #19139 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Nora Deirdre - Aug 03, 2011 10:42:13 am PDT #19140 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
ahahaha. Sounds about right to me, given all those circumstances.
smonster - Aug 03, 2011 10:46:41 am PDT #19141 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Words With No English Equivalent, Ctd
Ah, I love that stuff. The German "doch" has an equivalent in the French "si." I can't remember the linguistic term, and it's driving me bonkers.
French has this ("oui" vs. "si"), but I don't think Italian or Spanish does, do they?
And of course megan beat me to it.
'Course, that's a marriage of a Scots word and a French one, so not really English, so much.
Pfft. It's like you've never even *met* English.
Dude, that's how we make up English words all the time. cf., "Television."
And, of course, Hec beat me to it! I'll just be over here, in the slow commenting lane.
thought this was more interesting when I thought the fetuses were chewing.
I am SO not clicking that link.
§ ita § - Aug 03, 2011 10:49:18 am PDT #19142 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sounds about right to me, given all those circumstances.
Halloo. She came back from lunch. That's a big deal.
I am SO not clicking that link.
The fetuses aren't chewing. FYI.
Ginger - Aug 03, 2011 10:49:40 am PDT #19143 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
'Course, that's a marriage of a Scots word and a French one, so not really English, so much.
Pfft. It's like you've never even *met* English.
English is promiscuous and will breed with any language.
Jesse - Aug 03, 2011 10:52:29 am PDT #19144 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Sounds about right to me, given all those circumstances.
Nah, that's fair. Now I'm semi-considering leaving early, because why not, but maybe I'll save that for Friday. Of course we're all leaving early tomorrow, to go to the bar.
Kathy A - Aug 03, 2011 10:53:32 am PDT #19145 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
English is promiscuous and will breed with any language.
My office's Virtual Library has a quote randomizer which includes a quote about how English will drag another language down a dark alley, beat it silly, and then ransack its pockets for spare vocabulary.
le nubian - Aug 03, 2011 10:56:48 am PDT #19146 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Strega,
you make a lot of sense, but the "Lost" bitterness thread (at least when I read it) didn't exclude positive comments and it was a fun ass thread! The consequence in "Lost" is that it drove a LOT of people away.
Tom Scola - Aug 03, 2011 10:57:29 am PDT #19147 of 30001
hwæt
Kathy A - Aug 03, 2011 11:08:35 am PDT #19148 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Hee--from Tom's link:
English is essentially Pictish that was attacked out of nowhere by Angles cohabiting with Teutons who were done in by a drunk bunch of Vikings masquerading as Frenchmen who insisted they spoke Latin and Greek but lacked the Arabic in which to convey that. --Bill Hammel