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.
Hey, don't worry about it. Nest full of vampires, you come get me, okay. Box full of puppies, that's more of a judgement call.
Jonathan ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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."
Fred Pete - Mar 17, 2004 10:39:44 am PST #1444 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
§ 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)
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.
erikaj - Mar 17, 2004 11:51:26 am PST #1453 of 10002
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
I would never have thought of fack...oh, well, fack it.