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[thebruce]

mine's currently 'nosh'... from yesterday's crossword as in 'I had a midnight nosh' hehe 'noshing at midnight'

[johnny5]

I calls 'em as I sees 'em, but you're flattered to be a geek? Well, your stock value is through the roof on that one.

For my word of the day entry, I have several saved for just such occasions:

facinorous (fuh-SIN-uhr-uhs) - adjective - Extremely wicked.
ventripotent (ven-TRI-pot-ehnt) - adjective - Having a large belly
dasypygal (da-si-PYE-gul) - adjective - Having hairy buttocks
saponaceous (sap-uh-NAY-shush) - adjective - Soapy, slippery, evasive.

Of course, Farscape-isms are always appropriate: Frelling-Dren-Drannit-Hezmana-Greebol-Loomas-Fahrbot-Tralk-Mivonks-Frelnik-Thoddo-Yotz

[Phaedra]

[angelo]

Phaedra a geek?!? Who'd a guessed...


Too many oatmeal cream pies... I'm becoming ventripotent.

Me likey.

[johnny5]

[angelo]

[hmrpita]

[Cherry Cotton]

I would (of course) complain about parenthetical comments (like this), but the sad truth is that I, Cherry Cotton, use them way, as in way way, too much. I'll even nest sentences so deeply that they'll begin to collapse and become a grammatical black hole.

(A grammatical black hole, by the way, is defined as OMGWTFBBQ!!!1!!1)

You know what? I am flabbergasted that Jesus has no siz-ziz. I'm going to go back to church and tell all the Evangelical Super Squads that the reason attendance is down in America, is, because, you know... Jesus has lost the siz-ziz. You need to put the siz-ziz BACK in Jesus, my friend. That's all I have to say.

(And, hmrpita, thank you, THANK YOU, for the moment of grammatical bonding, as it made my day. )

By the way, Shad0, I'm curious: what tipped you off that my paragraph was in Dvorak? I never cease to be amazed by ARGers.

You know what my other pet peeve is? Too many apostrophes and not enough commas. For every apostrophe that is there and shouldn't be, there's a space where a comma should be and isn't. Maybe I just use commas too much, but they can change the meaning of your sentence so they need to be handled with caution. Just turn some of those apostrophes upside down and you're good to go.

(edit: just after I wrote this, I realized that you were complaining about not only too many apostrophes, but too many commas... You know what? I'm going to give you all my extra commas. Here. [whoooo] That's a load off.)

Of course, now I'm taking Japanese, where you can change the meaning of the sentence just by misplacing a stroke in an elaborate tapestry of language. I love Japanese because it's so much fun to draw what I'm saying, but I hate it because it tries all my artistry skills so deeply. Lately I've been taking to practicing Japanese on my Nintendo DS, which makes me worry that I'm scratching it up by drawing the symbols for, say, "Japanese cooking" over and over and over again... (the character for "cooking" looks like a rice paddy exploding, if I remember correctly, or maybe two men juggling ants. This is followed by a scene in Paris, or maybe a game of chess. You decide.)

By the way, if anybody tells you that Japanese is just pictures, shoot them. Do you know what a cow looks like in Japanese? You draw a sloppy diagonal stroke, and then a horizontal stroke coming off of it to the right, and then another one below it, and then a vertical stroke coming through the middle from the top. THAT's a goddamn cow. You might expect it to look like, you know, a soda bottle with ears or something, but no. I heard somebody in my college's cafeteria implying that Japanese was underdeveloped because it used pictograms and not fancy words, and I wanted to draw a cow in Japanese for him just to show that it's the same level of abstraction, only bizarre and different.

But, I'm not sure I'd want to embarrass myself in public by drawing a cow for a stranger as a form of spontaneous argument, so I kept it to myself. Hey, I just found out that "tenki" (weather) and "Nintendo" (midget Italian plumbers) share the "ten" character in common. Isn't that spiffy?

(You know what my grammatical guilty pleasure is? The semicolon.)

[hmrpita]

[Cherry Cotton]

[CoffeeJedi]

y'all need to buy this book:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1592400876/002-9922097-5535252?v=glance

Cherry, I once saw a little diagram of the evolution of Japanese, i think the word was elephant. It started out looking like, well, a little picture of an elephant. Over the millenia it evolved into something akin to a rice paddy exploding.

[hmrpita]

[Shad0]

Re: Dvorak

[angelo]

Re: Dvorak

[Shad0]

Re: Dvorak