Fack here.
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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."
Katerina Bee - Mar 17, 2004 10:29:28 am PST #1441 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
Vortex - Mar 17, 2004 10:29:59 am PST #1442 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
But, more importantly, how were you pronouncing "erudite"?
Ha! That, at least, I knew how to pronounce.
Heh. Co-worker and I just had a long discussion about whether one pronounces "FAQ" as a word ("fack"), or as letters (F-A-Q). I say word; he says letters.
I say fack, but that's because I come from a military background, and they LOVE making abbreviations into words (although, technically the definition of an acronym is when the initials form a word in common usage, i.e. NASA, but not C.I.A.). I mean, I call the High Occupancy Vehicle lane the HOV (prounounced "huv") lane.
DavidS - Mar 17, 2004 10:38:06 am PST #1443 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I used to think "draught" was a totally different word than "draft."
Me too. "What is this game they played back in Olde England? It was called drots." Similarly I had pegged "gaoler" as "gail-er" instead of "jailer" and still read "cupboard" as "cup-board" instead of "cubberd."
Two people laughed in my face for pronouncing "chimera" with a "CHIM-ur-uh" instead of "Kie-meeruh." Two! C'mon that one's not a gimme.
Fred Pete - Mar 17, 2004 10:39:44 am PST #1444 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Two people laughed in my face for pronouncing "chimera" with a "CHIM-ur-uh" instead of "Ki-meeruh." Two! C'mon that one's not a gimme.
I once belonged to a club named Chimera. Hard to pronounce wrong after that.
§ ita § - Mar 17, 2004 11:10:21 am PST #1445 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
We still play draughts in Jamaica.
Jesse - Mar 17, 2004 11:27:52 am PST #1446 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I get this weekly email from my local mystery book store, and thought this was pretty funny:
Now, I’m going to give a plug to a book that doesn’t really need it, and I know that some of you will groan. But, the new Robert B. Parker, BAD BUSINESS ($24.95) was just signed, and truthfully, I thought it was pretty good. (My one complaint is that I would have liked to see more Hawk, and less Susan, but that’s par for the course. More violence, less psychoanalysis. )
It makes me laugh that theoretically she's supposed to be selling these books -- "truthfully, pretty good"? Heh.
Java cat - Mar 17, 2004 11:42:14 am PST #1447 of 10002
Not javachik
"CHIM-ur-uh"
It ISN'T? Uh oh.
I say "fack" for FAQ, too. How do you say URL? I spell it. Is it supposed to be "Earl"?
Steph L. - Mar 17, 2004 11:47:20 am PST #1448 of 10002
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
For URL, I say "you are ell." Never heard anyone say it "Earl."
So far, co-worker and erika are the only 2 people who say F-A-Q, rather than "fack."
Fackers, unite!
Strix - Mar 17, 2004 11:48:18 am PST #1449 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Um, I say "Earl."
P.M. Marc - Mar 17, 2004 11:49:40 am PST #1450 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Similarly I had pegged "gaoler" as "gail-er" instead of "jailer" and still read "cupboard" as "cup-board" instead of "cubberd."
I still read "gaoler" and "gaol" as gail.
I say "fack" for FAQ, too. How do you say URL? I spell it. Is it supposed to be "Earl"?
Say it Earl, and I will fack your shit up, damn it.
It's U-R-L.
The other gives me freakin' hives.
(Though I fack for FAQ)