language
Exhausted as I am, this is too good not to take the time to share.
Diving home, tuning the dial, some NPR station, I think.
Host says he had two guests for his show tonight.
what was I, about sixth or eighth to note the woman beating phrasing thing?
Oot! Oot! Eet! Eet!
« Woman Beating Obama Donor Gets Fired »
Before I click .. guessing,
Alas, this is not about a woman putting a beat-down on an Obama donor, is it?
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I've known lots of Clive Bundys. Good, hardworking people who are not uneducated, but are unsophisticated by some measures, so they speak the blunt, direct language of an earlier age.
» Edam cheese?... wax...
Made me laugh.
But.. yellow cheese.. wouldn't that be, um, AmerIndian on the outside, Asian on the... I de louse myself.
Puting Interested In Finland?
Possibilities:
Puting - poo-ting - digestive distress
Wow. Yesterday I'm up & at'em at 4. Today I'm groggy at the 6am alarm. Sudden onset of Spring Fever?
how can you work in a shoe store ... WITH an old machine in it ... and still not know...
transmission of culture.. how does it work?!
I am so out of fashion!
Not to be... okay, to BE name-ist... what kind of name is Rinsed Priapus anyway? If that was your name, wouldn't you change it to, like, John Wayne, or something?
I had just been thinking, considering I'm a useless old PITB, preternaturally shy, even self-loathing, why do I keep tossing comments out as if I think anybody wanted to read mine?
I submit Captain Hate's #153 as evidence that truly devastating insult can be ("turd" excepted) potty-mouth free. I'm not objecting to "bad language," per se.
"...inventor of the telephone was not banned Alexander...."
"named" not "banned" of course. thank you, whatyoumeanttosay function.
If George Pullman had been named Pushman, trains would have had engines at the back and cabooses in the front. (Which would've had a big impact on language.)
A rhyme is what I really want.
But Webster says these two lines can't.
"lingua franca" is Latin for "I would just say 'common language,' but using Latin makes me seem oh so much smarter."
Five o'clock. Sure, brain, I'll get up. Why not! It's close to Six. Sorta.
Thoughts that drive me from my bed:
"I think a strongly worded letter should be hand delivered… on a flaming spear."
Posted by: J.J. Sefton
When "flame wars" move from virtual to literal.
Good evening, and wercome to the Chicago Tokyo Hoter. No extla chalge fol freas. Arr freas ale flee!
autoselfdenounce
"Oi, that's my schtick!"
-Humpty Dumpty
Posted by: MWR
Yessss, I stand crawl connected.
As soon as I hit post, I thought, "wait..."
Remember when words meant things? —HR
Whatever I want them to mean.
um, Fen?
spreading warmth... message written in snow...
want to hit the Rephrase key?
Ach! Petzfeedin time. AFK
"I was not ordered to stand down. I was ordered to remain in place...."
Sure glad we got that question all cleared up!
Trois ! Trois ! Très bon!
webtravaux de la nuit
Avalanch
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"I doubt that anybody would miss the stupid mewling catamites." -Captain Hate
Ah, a dose of Capt Hate is like a bracing mug of fresh hot coffee.
Sven " claims he posts cryptically and confusingly on purpose." -DangerGirl
That was just code for what he really meant.
"No I don't think objecting to the Coke Ad is silly. It's fuckin America: SPEAK ENGLISH. NOTHING DIVIDES A COUNTRY FASTER THAN RELIGION AND LACK OF A COMMON LANGUAGE!"
"...because I literally blew through these in a rush."
Posted by: Vic
Literally literally or Joe Biden literally?
Not only are all people from Chad known as Chad, either individually or collectively, but everyone is named Chad. No other name. Just Chad.