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- Sun Sep 27, 2015 7:12 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Venting thread that still excludes eddy (2)
- Replies: 2639
- Views: 311635
Re: Venting thread that embraces everyone without distinctio
I myself have never heard any native NAE-speaker in Real Life use the term thong to describe a type of footware. When I was little, that was the only name I knew them by. Right up until about age ten or so when I learned the underwear definition of the word "thong" and the fact that most people onl...
- Sat Sep 26, 2015 7:14 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 374514
Re: Happy Things Thread
do you want to preserve that clover? :) Yeah I'm going to. I save some of the 4- and 5-leaf clovers that I find. It's become a bit of a Thing. It's now sitting in a shot glass of water by my computer just to perk it up a bit because it was very wilted by the time I got it home. Sometimes I'll keep ...
- Sat Sep 26, 2015 1:43 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 374514
Re: Happy Things Thread
check it out you sons and daughters of bitches i found a five-leafed clover
- Wed Aug 26, 2015 9:45 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, sir?)
- Replies: 5496
- Views: 776931
Re: ZBB member photos, part 5. (Something for the weekend, s
whatever that chocolate covered solid thing is on the side, it's shaped just like a big fungus conk that might grow on the end grain of a fallen logjal wrote:A giant icecream in Tivoli, Copenhagen.
- Mon Aug 24, 2015 4:16 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Conlang creation help request...
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2179
Re: Conlang creation help request...
Slab Bulkhead Fridge Largemeat Punt Speedchunk Butch Deadlift Bold Bigplank Splint Chesthair Flint Ironstag Bolt Vanderhuge Thick McRunfast Blast Hardcheese Buff Drinklots Trunk Slamchest Fist Rockbone Stump Beefgnaw Smash Lampjaw Punch Rockgroin Buck Plankchest Stump Chunkman Dirk Hardpeck Rip Stea...
- Thu Jun 18, 2015 12:51 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: NEWS FLASH: POPE FRANCIS ABANDONS USE OF LATIN
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2813
Re: NEWS FLASH: POPE FRANCIS ABANDONS USE OF LATIN
your subject counts as a clickbait-style headline >:[
- Wed Jun 17, 2015 3:01 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
- Replies: 1058
- Views: 225654
Re: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
Federal government websites back up after cyberattack
- Wed Jun 10, 2015 2:30 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
- Replies: 1058
- Views: 225654
Re: Cheese that smells
i imagine the crash blossom to be a flower that grows in the area where an airplane crashed, kind of like how morels come up after a forest fire, or those white flowers that grow on burial mounds in lord of the rings
- Tue Jun 02, 2015 2:21 am
- Forum: Conlangery & Conworlds
- Topic: Are a set of naming languages all I really need?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 4392
Re: Are a set of naming languages all I really need?
don't do any conlanging at all if you do not enjoy the process. it's a nichey nichey hobby, it's never actually 'finished', and its products will likely be of no interest to anyone but yourself. so if you don't enjoy the actual doing of it, fuck it. kludge up some passable names and get on to the bi...
- Sun May 03, 2015 9:58 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
- Replies: 1058
- Views: 225654
Re: Cheese that smells
headline language tends toward the terse, you can't be unaware of this. your revision would appear to a newspaper editor to gain nothing but additional characters.
- Sat May 02, 2015 7:06 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
- Replies: 1058
- Views: 225654
Re: Cheese that smells
whatViktor77 wrote:Not garden path, but the author might have mistaken NBC's audience with her young children, which is a perfectly reasonable mistake to make.
is there a more 'adult' way you would have phrased this?
- Fri May 01, 2015 12:59 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
- Replies: 1058
- Views: 225654
Re: Cheese that smells
The problem is the word 'by'. Mr. Ramsey didn't lose 122 to 84, according to the article - he lost by 122 to 84. That means that he got 122 votes less than 84. Huh? No, "122 to 84" is what he lost by. That was the score he lost by. Your reading wouldn't make sense at all, regardless of the numbers....
- Thu Apr 30, 2015 6:48 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Confusing headlines and other trips down the garden path
- Replies: 1058
- Views: 225654
Re: Cheese that smells
If the other person got 84 votes, you can't have lost to them by 122 votes, unless you somehow got negative votes. not necessarily; there exists a convention in sports* to put the winning score first, so that it makes equal sense to say you "won 5 to 3" and "lost 5 to 3". the sentence reads just fi...
- Tue Apr 28, 2015 2:02 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: What part of speech is "quote ... unquote"?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3677
Re: What part of speech is "quote ... unquote"?
yeah that really doesn't cover what it's doing when it appears that wayGulliver wrote:The OED lists it as an imperative verb, which I am not sure I wholly agree with. The entry is rather short.
I suppose it's interpreted as a sort of imperative-to-self. COMMENCE QUOTING! DESIST QUOTING! sorta thing.
- Tue Apr 28, 2015 1:59 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 374514
Re: Happy Things Thread
so y'all are just gonna let him parry the inner-city thing then? the kid probably thinks that comment still stands.
aah well
hey i have a happy thing ... i installed a standing desk at work. now maybe my back will not be in constant pain from having to sit so damn much.
aah well
hey i have a happy thing ... i installed a standing desk at work. now maybe my back will not be in constant pain from having to sit so damn much.
- Wed Apr 22, 2015 7:41 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
- Replies: 2878
- Views: 644096
Re: The Official ZBB Quote Thread
There are plenty of Han Chinese around here and it's not at all unusual to see individuals with whiter skin than most of the Caucasians on campus. (Not least of all because more of the White people here seem to sport tans.) yeah Hong Kong also has that thing going on, at least for women, about avoi...
- Wed Mar 11, 2015 1:44 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Boozy Uncle Thread
- Replies: 46
- Views: 16804
Re: The Boozy Uncle Thread
de gustibus and all that, I'm not about to tell anyone to stop liking Mountain Dew but it's noticeably even sweeter than most sodas. it's like a liquid version of lemon pie filling i'm open to cocktail recipes that make use of it, though ... i've read that MD was originally invented as a mixer for ...
- Thu Mar 05, 2015 9:55 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Boozy Uncle Thread
- Replies: 46
- Views: 16804
Re: The Boozy Uncle Thread
Can't help you with the mate-cocktail but I do know that Orangina makes an awesome variant tequila sunrise
- Tue Mar 03, 2015 2:36 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Boozy Uncle Thread
- Replies: 46
- Views: 16804
Re: The Boozy Uncle Thread
tee hee hee hee hee hee hee
- Tue Mar 03, 2015 1:55 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: The Boozy Uncle Thread
- Replies: 46
- Views: 16804
Re: The Boozy Uncle Thread
this recipe is not entirely my thing, and very much a cold-weather drink (and it's been unambiguously spring for about a month here)
but the presentation is fuckin adorable
http://kitchenette.jezebel.com/the-wint ... +katedries
but the presentation is fuckin adorable
http://kitchenette.jezebel.com/the-wint ... +katedries
- Wed Dec 10, 2014 2:50 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Zompist books feedback
- Replies: 73
- Views: 36425
Re: Zompist books feedback
naw I was just curious, I didn't mean to imply anything about hiring anyone
- Mon Dec 08, 2014 8:07 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 374514
Re: Happy Things Thread
I got a Vanagon Westfalia that I'm not above living in; it's just in kinda shit condition for the time being
I would budget more like 5K cause ... I will stay anywhere, not picky, but while I'm in a place i'm gonna make sure to eat and drink the local best.
I would budget more like 5K cause ... I will stay anywhere, not picky, but while I'm in a place i'm gonna make sure to eat and drink the local best.
- Mon Dec 08, 2014 6:31 am
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Zompist books feedback
- Replies: 73
- Views: 36425
Re: Zompist books feedback
do you ever employ a second set of eyes
- Fri Nov 28, 2014 2:14 pm
- Forum: None of the above
- Topic: Happy Things Thread
- Replies: 969
- Views: 374514
Re: Happy Things Thread
man for a few years now i've had this idea that once i have a good hoard of funds in one place, i'll do a big road trip of the US. but i'll probably make it a big U shape. Down the west coast, maybe cross into Mexico for a bit (save a deeper trip of Mexico for another time) then across Texas (I've a...
- Wed Nov 26, 2014 4:25 pm
- Forum: Languages & Linguistics
- Topic: "Behind" versus "In back of"
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3906
Re: "Behind" versus "In back of"
"in back of" is still heard here (British Columbia) from time to time. I know I've used it, and I'm certain I got that from my Dad's family whose English is a bit more Oldschool BC than more recent arrivals to the area (ie, fucking everybody ). But it doesn't overlap totally with "behind". I'm not e...