'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.
I had a whole section about civic pride.
Mayor ,'Chosen'
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.
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
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
Ginger - Aug 03, 2011 11:10:40 am PDT #19149 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
javachik - Aug 03, 2011 11:19:02 am PDT #19150 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Oh thank you, Ginger. I love that story.
sumi - Aug 03, 2011 11:22:52 am PDT #19151 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Yes, that is a most excellent story.
Frankenbuddha - Aug 03, 2011 11:41:04 am PDT #19152 of 30001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Stoned wallabies make crop circles [link]
That's hilarious. And now I'm picturing billytea's DW getting stoned on poppies and running around in big circles.