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We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good

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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."

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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

It's actually been a really hard year, when you stop and do the math. Eliot would cry, too, if it didn't take him seventy minutes of therapy, two cocktails, and a Sondheim medley before he can experience a human emotion through the haze of his PTSD.

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)

P.M. Marc - Mar 17, 2004 11:50:34 am PST #1451 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

Um, I say "Earl."

Oy. Sweetpeach, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Say it isn't so. (weeps)

At w-o-r-k, many peeps say Earl. Drives me bonkers.

Vortex - Mar 17, 2004 11:50:35 am PST #1452 of 10002

"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

It's U-R-L.

I think that more people dont "Earl" because it's sounds too much like puking.

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