KuReshtin's Vociferously Ruminating Harbinger of Random Banter - #147

[CynicalAvocado]

SHOTGUN!
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i'll take the rear

[AtlanteanTroll]

Conceded.

Oh, how so?

[Coidzor]

i'll take the rear

And I'll form the head!

[Quincunx]

Invasion Cork was rather. . .small. The venue would have suited a town the quarter the size of this one and the displays were props alone, very little in the way of costumes. However it was well populated with stormtroopers wandering around and a curious small-town amiability.

"No, we don't grab that end. That's the choppy-hands-off end."--a dad disentangling his preschooler from a lightsaber
"Waaaaaaaitaminute. . ."--a woman leaning in to talk to her man and finding an eavesdropping stormtrooper helmet in the way
"Let's get a picture of the severed heads display!"--someone's optimistic take on the display cases of facial props

SHOTGUN!

SHOTGUN! . ..¤%#!

[CynicalAvocado]

who's gonna be lookout?

[Gullara]

Oh, how so?

Umm, I think your thinking of conceited, she said conceded.

My (old) house never had any locks on doors except for the bathroom. I never thought about it really. My room in the basement was open to the living room type area. And that's where all our (my brothers) video games are, so they'd be up at the crack of dawn playing games pretty much in our (me and one brother) room. No privacy for me

By the way I have four brothers and I'm the oldest. Yes I ruled with an iron fist, until I moved out. Now my next brother down the totem pole has taken my place in our (their, I guess) room.

[AtlanteanTroll]

Umm, I think your thinking of conceited, she said conceded.

Woops. Ignore the white text behind the curtain.

[CurlyKitGirl]

Woops. Ignore the white text behind the curtain.

I'm insulted you'd think I'd use a malapromism, especially one with such a different meaning.
They don't even sound the same unless you have an absolutely terrible cold.

[CynicalAvocado]

malapromism? that's a big word :( big word hurt Cyn's head

[AtlanteanTroll]

I'm insulted you'd think I'd use a malapromism, especially one with such a different meaning.
They don't even sound the same unless you have an absolutely terrible cold.

No, no, that was my fault. I get words mixed up a few weeks ago, I kept mixing up succeed and secede. I'm just a bit dyslexic like that I suppose.

[Teddy]

I just spent three and a half hour running around and throwing grenades at Covenants in Firefight in Halo ODST. What the hell am I doing with my precious life!?

Well, well, at least it was pretty extremely intense towards the end (I've still got millions of explosions ringing in my ears).

[Snares]

It's spelled malapropism. After Mrs. Malaprop, in fact, a character in an 18th-century play who'd often make mix-ups with her words. The more you know...

I am a spelling wizard.

[CurlyKitGirl]

It's spelled malapropism. After Mrs. Malaprop, in fact, a character in an 18th-century play who'd often make mix-ups with her words. The more you know...

I am a spelling wizard.

I've been up doing assorted housework and academic work since six this morning. Tired Koorly is so tired she doesn't even care if she spelled something incorrectly.
This means she's so tired, she doesn't need to sleep for yet several more hours.
Or at least the Koorly is physically incapable of sleeping for several more hours. The other side of exhaustion is sparkly. And hungry.

Floccinauccinihipilification.

[Thufir]

When I was six years old, GameBoy had only been out for 4 months!

When I was six, they had just released the original Donkey Kong.

I happily relinquish the Old Man Hat.

I got through with a screwdriver

Sonic or regular?

"Mum, I'm locked out of my room! Can you get me my lockpicks/my screwdriver/my brother to help me lift the door off its hinges?
. . .
"No, Dad called earlier, he's not going to be home until six tomorrow morning and I need to get my work done tonight.
. . .
"Nah, it's fine. I've done this before."

Yet more valuable skills of the ineffable Koorly.

Use a piece of paper, credit card or other thin strip of material. It's much stealthier and a very useful skill to learn.
Because, and trsut me here, it's quite easy to learn, and is such a simple trick, yet it impresses everyone so very easily.

Credit cards (And other similar cards) can even be used for sneakily unlocking some of the buildings in uni which only certain people are allowed into.

Most bedrooms have locks, AFAIK, it being rare for a bedroom not to have some locking mechanism, however ineffective or poorly designed.

In ordinary residential houses? Trogland is crazy. None of the rooms in my house have any kind of locking mechanism.

I've been up doing assorted housework and academic work since six this morning. Tired Koorly is so tired she doesn't even care if she spelled something incorrectly.

This means she's so tired, she doesn't need to sleep for yet several more hours.
Or at least the Koorly is physically incapable of sleeping for several more hours. The other side of exhaustion is sparkly. And hungry.

Strange how that works, isn't it?

Floccinauccinihipilification.

Fixed for you. Sorry.
Edit: OK, that's kind of unclear. The bolded C is also struck through.

[CurlyKitGirl]

Yet more valuable skills of the ineffable Koorly.

What can I say, I'm a wretched villain descended from a long line of wretched pieces of scum and villains.
Sherlock Holmes may have art in the blood, but I have villainy there. And reading.

Credit cards (And other similar cards) can even be used for sneakily unlocking some of the buildings in uni which only certain people are allowed into.

All the places I need to get to regularly in uni are unguarded. Iust open the door and walk in. Aside from the Bod, but there you have to present the card to the lady at the desk, so we're diceless there.

In ordinary residential houses? Trogland is crazy. None of the rooms in my house have any kind of locking mechanism.

We did. But those houses were maybe forty years old at best.
I never used mine outisde of my first week there anyway.
Heck, on several occasions I completely forget to even shut my door, and not one thing disappeared. Noone even went in.
I could tell by the footprints on the carpeting.

I know. Who'd have though?

Strange how that works, isn't it?

Annoying too, as I can be absolutely kahnackered only a couple of hours after waking up as well.

Fixed for you. Sorry.
Edit: OK, that's kind of unclear. The bolded C is also struck through.

Like she said, exhaustion steals spelling. The only reason I can guarantee spelling antidisestablishmentarianism (oh the irony if I typo'd that) correctly is because I was dared to learn it in Y5. And so I did.
Not hard.

[Snares]

I've been up doing assorted housework and academic work since six this morning. Tired Koorly is so tired she doesn't even care if she spelled something incorrectly.
This means she's so tired, she doesn't need to sleep for yet several more hours.
Or at least the Koorly is physically incapable of sleeping for several more hours. The other side of exhaustion is sparkly. And hungry.

Floccinauccinihipilification.

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

And I can actually spell that without looking it up. It's my party trick. That and polyhexamethyleneadipamide.

And I suppose I have a bit of an advantage, what with having woken up at quarter to twelve this morning...

[CurlyKitGirl]

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

And I can actually spell that without looking it up. It's my party trick. That and polyhexamethyleneadipamide.

And I suppose I have a bit of an advantage, what with having woken up at quarter to twelve this morning...

Ah. Bu Mi - eighteen hours.

Grahrg.

If you're not careful I'll speak at you in French and Old English. And you know I will.

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

Ah. Bu Mi - eighteen hours.

Grahrg.

If you're not careful I'll speak at you in French and Old English. And you know I will.

Man, you should speak at us in some sort of weird, common-sense-bending mix of French and Old English. That would be a really strange language, don'tcha think?

[Snares]

Ah. Bu Mi - eighteen hours.

Grahrg.

If you're not careful I'll speak at you in French and Old English. And you know I will.

And if you do that, I'll speak at you in German, and the language I made up when I was 13. Or at least what I can remember of it. I'm not sure if it even counts as a language anyway, it was more a weird way of encoding words to get new ones that were still 'speakable' (most of the time) and I had a little grammatical system to go with it, albeit one that was pretty similar to English...

[Thufir]

All the places I need to get to regularly in uni are unguarded. Iust open the door and walk in. Aside from the Bod, but there you have to present the card to the lady at the desk, so we're diceless there.

Some places at Newcastle you have to wave your card at a thing and some of them only work for certain people, like the music practice rooms. But any card waved at the thing would partially unlock it enough so you could then slip some other card in to lever open the rest of the lock.

We did. But those houses were maybe forty years old at best.
I never used mine outisde of my first week there anyway.
Heck, on several occasions I completely forget to even shut my door, and not one thing disappeared. Noone even went in.
I could tell by the footprints on the carpeting.

I meant my home house. Student house had one of those chain things on my bedroom door and a bolt on the bathroom door. Not sure about the other bedrooms.

If you're not careful I'll speak at you in French and Old English. And you know I will.

Do it! I'll like it anyway, even though I won't understand it (Well, some of the French I might, but not the Old English).

[CurlyKitGirl]

Man, you should speak at us in some sort of weird, common-sense-bending mix of French and Old English. That would be a really strange language, don'tcha think?

Oh it'd definitely break common sense. One's Romantic, has a vocabulary of about 70 000 words and a much more regulated grammatical system.
The other is Germanic, has a limited vocabulary - many of which are hapax legomena (words which only appear once in the entire corpus of OE) - and it's grammar is fairly regular, but very complex.
In addition, as much of the OE I personally know without having several dictionaries to hand is poetic. It will be much more strictly condensed, because it follows the OE poetic forms. There are compounds and kennings (think an entire metaphor condensed into one word) and then there's the fact that OE is massively inflected so word order doesn't really matter at all. Plus OE doesn't often use determiners or function words, they're quite often implied; whereas French has (to an English speaker) way too many of them.
Oh, and OE occasionally has macrons, but it depends on the edition you're using, so tere's another barrel of problems there.

It'd be possible in a pidgin sense, but massively complicated.

Min nama Koorly - My name (implied: is) Koorly.
Ie suis Koorly - I am Koorly.

Ich eom modcearig - I am tired/wretched (lit:mind/heart/soul-weary).
Ie suis fatiguee - I am fatigued.

See?

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

Oh, I know all that. I know a touch of OE, and a lot of French. I was just taking stabs at ME.

[Teddy]

Min nama Koorly - My name (implied: is) Koorly.

Ich eom modcearig - I am tired/wretched (lit:mind/heart/soul-weary).

Given that both Old English and Swedish is Germanic, it isn't really surprising, but both of these make at least some sense to me. Especially the first sentence.

[CurlyKitGirl]

Some places at Newcastle you have to wave your card at a thing and some of them only work for certain people, like the music practice rooms. But any card waved at the thing would partially unlock it enough so you could then slip some other card in to lever open the rest of the lock.

o.o
I'll keep note of that iust in case I decide I want to go see the optics labs at the Physics Department.

I meant my home house. Student house had one of those chain things on my bedroom door and a bolt on the bathroom door. Not sure about the other bedrooms.

Aaaahhh, that makes more sense.

Do it! I'll like it anyway, even though I won't understand it (Well, some of the French I might, but not the Old English).

Please see above.
And below:
[[OE (and OE translation)= blue, French (and French translation) = green]]

Thufir is his nama, il est fort dans l'arene de mathematiques, se beadu mid feonda langsum. Mais il est triomphant!

[spoiler]
Thufir is his name,he is strong in the arena of mathematicsthe battle with his enemies long-lasting. But he is triumphant!

Oh, I know all that. I know a touch of OE, and a lot of French. I was just taking stabs at ME.

MdE's okay. It's a little more difficult than that though as MdE also has a good amount of Old Norse (especially Oop North) and a lot of Latin thanks to Norman French nobility, the Church and the courts of law.
Plus there're many dialects of MdE such as Kentish, East Midlands, Northumbrian, the one by the Welsh borders . . . I forget the rest.

And that's not even taking into account the four hundred year time span. The MdE of Ancrene Wisse is vastly different from that of Chaucer or the Gawain Poet, let along that of Malory.

EDIT:

Given that both Old English and Swedish is Germanic, it isn't really surprising, but both of these make at least some sense to me. Especially the first sentence.

I could go into more detail, but laziness.

The first one's pretty easy though as, for the English speakers, it's sillily similar to 'My (mine) name is Koorly)'
And as all English pronouns are Germanic they'd pass pretty easily in most of the other Germanic languages.

The 'modcearig' is a kenning found in The Wanderer which is why it's a little alien. But if you break it down:

mod (pronounced basically like 'mood' but a little shorter) = heart/thought/mind. Mind as in someone's mood.
cearig is harder. But if you know that 'g' if it is at the beginning or end of a word (generally - pronounciation is complicated) silent, and the 'c' can be either 'ch' as in church or 'k' as in kirk you get 'kirey' (rough transpronounciation). But it looks a lot like the English word 'weary' or tired.

Hence tired in mind/thought-weary etc.

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

MdE's okay. It's a little more difficult than that though as MdE also has a good amount of Old Norse (especially Oop North) and a lot of Latin thanks to Norman French nobility, the Church and the courts of law.
Plus there're many dialects of MdE such as Kentish, East Midlands, Northumbrian, the one by the Welsh borders . . . I forget the rest.

And that's not even taking into account the four hundred year time span. The MdE of Ancrene Wisse is vastly different from that of Chaucer or the Gawain Poet, let along that of Malory.

Bah, I meant modern English. Is the mE? I forget which acronym's which!

[CurlyKitGirl]

Bah, I meant modern English. Is the mE? I forget which acronym's which!

OE is Old English.
MdE is Middle English.
EMdE is Early Modern English.
MdnE is Modern English.

That's how I use them, and I'm fairly sure they're all correct. I remember you need the 'n' of Mdn to specify Modern rather than Middle.

[Thufir]

Aaaahhh, that makes more sense.

Of course, there's limited use to being able to lock my bedroom only from the inside. But my housemates wouldn't have dared go in there without my permission anyway.

Bah, I meant modern English. Is the mE? I forget which acronym's which!

You could iust type out the full thing rather than abbreviating it.

[RabbitHoleLost]

In ordinary residential houses? Trogland is crazy. None of the rooms in my house have any kind of locking mechanism.

Just thought I'd clarify;
I have never lived in a house with locks on bedroom doors. Atleast, no ones my dad put in himself.

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

OE is Old English.
MdE is Middle English.
EMdE is Early Modern English.
MdnE is Modern English.

That's how I use them, and I'm fairly sure they're all correct. I remember you need the 'n' of Mdn to specify Modern rather than Middle.

Just thought of something. Hey Curly, doesn't lacking a 'j' key make acronym's with a 'j' absolute hell?

[CurlyKitGirl]

Just thought of something. Hey Curly, doesn't lacking a 'j' key make acronym's with a 'j' absolute hell?

It does. I have to stab the keyboard so hard you can hear the thack! in the next room. Not to mention it's got to be in the perfect spot.

I can type a 'J', but it's easier to go I/i when everyone knows (or can extrapolate) why I'm typing the way I type.