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

[Kaelaroth]

I had lunch with a Holocaust survivor today. I can't tell you quite how I feel. Privileged to have met him barely covers it.

[Gullara]

Speaking of annoying grammatical errors. Two of my brothers use "much" instead of "many". For example, "How much pies are there?" Every time I hear it I practically scream "many!" at them

Also, I always forget the difference between, please don't shoot me, "its" and "it's". Could somebody clear that up for me?

[Dogmantra]

Speaking of annoying grammatical errors. Two of my brothers use "much" instead of "many". For example, "How much pies are there?" Every time I hear it I practically scream "many!" at them

Also, I always forget the difference between, please don't shoot me, "its" and "it's". Could somebody clear that up for me?

"Its" is possession, as in "That's its purpose". "It's" is it is or it has.

[Dallas-Dakota]

Here ya go.

It’s or its?

These two words can cause a lot of confusion: many people are uncertain about whether or not to use an apostrophe. These are the rules to remember:

o
its (without an apostrophe) means ‘belonging to it’:

The dog wagged its tail.
Each case is judged on its own merits.

o
it’s (with an apostrophe) means ‘it is’ or ‘it has’:

It’s been a long day.
It’s cold outside.
It’s a comfortable car and it’s got some great gadgets.

[Coidzor]

Indeed. It's flying away using its wings.

I had lunch with a Holocaust survivor today. I can't tell you quite how I feel. Privileged to have met him barely covers it.

How'd that come about?

[Gullara]

Thanks. Now that I see it it makes perfect sense.

[AtlanteanTroll]

Please be joking.

About what? Becuase I wan't. Looking back on it, it's pretty obvious irregardless is a double negative. Still no joke.

[Starfols]

I had lunch with a Holocaust survivor today. I can't tell you quite how I feel. Privileged to have met him barely covers it.

I've felt privileged to speak with soldiers, and I have a coat and some other things from the time period, but I'd like to experience it on the more personal level.

[AtlanteanTroll]

I talked with a Hibakusha while in Japan. It was akward and enlightening.

[CurlyKitGirl]

Ach, crivens, ye hae me bang tae rights there. Ah see ye have the kennin ae the readin.

It's the only kennin' I have.
Except for the fact that a kenning is also a word in OE which has a wholly poetic meaning such as banhus (bone-house) meaning body.
So while I only have one kenning, I know many more.

Alas no. Gilt looks more towards the disreputable brigand end of pirate than the charming and florid, though from the little I watched it seemed better than I expected from the trailer.

But Gilt is meant to be gilt! Hes supposed to be florid nd so over-the-top the idea of him actually being a pirate or villain is impossible.

Well, to be fair, it's been out 52 hours. It's not entirely unreasonable for someone to assume you'd already read it.
But, yeah. Wrath. Actually there's a line from the book which would be rather appropriate here, but obviously I don't want to spoil anything and anyway I can't remember the wording.

v.v
I have a confession to make.
I still haven't read it. I got ill last night - the kind of ill where you can handle being out of the house for maybe ten, fifteen minutes tops.
Dad won't buy it yet either.
This is the longest I've been without reading a new Discworld release the day of its release since Monstrous Regiment. All the others were either the day of, or the day afterwards.

You are an evil evil person and I love you.

Thank you. :smallevil:
Best bit about that was I eventually went to bed about four o'clock this morning, and maybe ten minutes later I started getting The Cough a la Marble Hornets, and the milkman comes around half four on a Saturday. But he was early today.
I was smirking into the darkness about how Slender Man-y it was with the distorted shadow of the milkman in his headlines emblazoned across the ceiling while I coughed.
Oh the delicious irony.

The trio of blogs is still very tempting. I fell asleep thinking about how certain qualities of the Slender Man were evocative of the UnSeelie.
And then dreamt about buying a copy of House of Leaves.

Thenks. And I blame you.
Remember how terrible my english was when I first came to the forums?

But seriously, I've learned more english from you and the forums then I ever did from elementary, high school and college* put toghetter.

*Language department at my college sucks.
Finally after much bitching they let me take the test. Apparently my command of english, except grammar**, is at Uni level....o.0
**Which is just below uni level

That's amazing! I do remember your English was fairly poor, but for it to be that good in so short a while is fantastic.
And they say internet forums don't teach you anything.

Been trying to help my GF with her English assignment. I have determined that being a teacher for someone you cannot be harsh on is entirely ineffective and not terribly fun at all. She's a decent writer when it comes to poetry and dialogue, but she doesn't get formal writing at all, and trying to make her understand it has been an exercise in futility.

Tell her to pretend she's a grown up writing something boring.
I acquired a formal style of writing by reading. Then Y10 came with actual coursework, and we had Practice Coursework and lessons on writing a formal essay.
Dull.
Most people found it hard doing the transition from fairly formal Formal Work and Proiects to Super Formal Work, but I blinked.
I blamed my reading for it. Still do

IRN (In Related News):
Suffering from my lack of Discworld and being ill today I picked up H2G2 for the first time ever today.
The book Dad has only has the first four in the trilogy of five (or six), and I've only been reading for three hours. I'm on chapter ten of The Restuarant at the End of the Universe.
Review when I'm done with Book the Second?
Prolly.
I've had some giggles though.

[Dogmantra]

Review when I'm done with Book the Second?
Prolly.
I've had some giggles though.

Wait 'til you're done with the trilogy (of five).

Seriously, H2G2's one of those rare series that gets better with every installment.

[Quincunx]

Singular? This from one of the major contributors of the 'Shipping Thread, the shared virgin's-milk mythos from which one would draw kennings if one had paid considerably more attention than I had? Without you, we would have fewer. Mind, with as many references to other existing material as you had, the 'shippers probably obtained more unique mythos per paragraph from Cristo Meyers than anyone else, but for synthesis you reign supreme.

[Dallas-Dakota]

That's amazing! I do remember your English was fairly poor, but for it to be that good in so short a while is fantastic.
And they say internet forums don't teach you anything.

Well my brains are just messed, I can speak really basic French and German, but anything past ''really basic'' is refused by my brains.(And the really basic parts have only been shoved in by countless years of practice)
In fact, I failed a couple of high school years because of my inability with Latin, French and German.

And it's already been around 3 years, time passes quickly, eh?

[InaVegt]

I remember my first posts on gitp....

They looked somewhat like this:

hey im looking for a few peple to play an asianthemes pbp game with if your intrested please tel me

[Dallas-Dakota]

Yeah, mine were like that too, except the actual content, which was more like ''hey, wahts up?''

A rather scary TEN THOUSAND posts ago.

o.0

Also, strawberries are delicious. And will totally conqour the-fruit-which-must-not-be-talked-about.

*hugs* I love you all. Ready for round two?

[Kaelaroth]

How'd that come about?

He'd married a friend of a friend of a family friend. Complicated links, but a fascinating man.

[Zeb The Troll]

It's a Bushism - a mashing of "irrespective" and "regardless". Do people actually use it?

Predates the man, even.

By quite a bit. According to the almighty Wiki, it first appeared in a dictionary in 1912. He's not responsible for ALL of our English woes, for cryin' out loud.

[Rawhide]

How do you feel about the word "irregardless"?

How do you feel about the word "apron"?

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

How do you feel about the word "apron"?

I have deepseated emotional problems against that word.

[Phase]

Seriously, H2G2's one of those rare series that gets better with every installment.

I actually thought it was more of a bell curve, with the books peaking in the middle, until "Mostly Harmless" was the worst. Maybe I'm the minority, but why do I care, I gots mah paycheck. I'm going to go buy a boat!

[Rawhide]

I have deepseated emotional problems against that word.

I ask because apron is was an incorrect spelling. The correct spelling is was napron.

How many of you would spell it as napron and be upset at the usage of the incorrect word apron? Instead of writing "a napron", so many people wrote "an apron" instead, that the word napron has been dropped from dictionaries and replaced by the word apron. I bet there were many purists back in the day complaining about its misuse...

P.S. Though, personally, I do think we should try to avoid the use of the word irregardless. We don't need another situation like inflammable/flammable.

[KenderWizard]

In fairness, not too much could go wrong from misunderstanding the word "apron". A baking-related delay, perhaps.

Regardless vs irregardless has a bit more chance of a serious misunderstanding, but probably most people will work it out.

Flammable vs inflammable, however. That could lead to a terrible misunderstanding indeed....

[Pyrian]

Amusingly, the rise of "flammable" is precisely on the basis of the fact that people might think "inflammable" was the inverse of "flammable" rather than a derivative of "inflame" (which is indeed where it actually came from).

[Vaynor]

Irregardless of your beliefs, a napron is inflammable.

[Moonshadow]

I really don't like drunken people. They both repulse and disgust me. They think I'm a pathetic idiot for not wanting to get drunk with them, and tell me that I don't know how to have fun, and that I'm boring.

And yet they still try to drag me into talking with them

Go away. You're drunk, and I think you're pathetic for feeling the need to get that way because you think it's fun.

Sick of people putting me down because I don't get drunk

[Skeppio]

Screw them. You don't have to be drunk to be cool, Naoto.

[Phase]

Don't mistake that for not drinking water if you're overheated. Go ahead and do that, please.

[Lioness]

Screw them. You don't have to be drunk to be cool, Naoto.

+1 post of agreement.

Getting drunk isn't a requirement of coolness. In fact, it'd give you a coolness penalty unless associating with other drunk people.

I've never been more than tipsy. And that was 1-small-cup-of-punch tispy. Not a fan of going any further. Not being in control sucks.

I'll make one exception. A game of Baron Munchausen is bound to be more fun if everyone is just slightly drunk

[Kneenibble]

I had lunch with a Holocaust survivor today. I can't tell you quite how I feel. Privileged to have met him barely covers it.

Will you so highly privilege us with details of your exchange, dear lord?

[Thufir]

I do! I do!

Though by now we should all know that occasionally I go on the murderous grammar rampages and attempt to kill all the ignorant people.

Well, someone has to.

First it was prepositions, then the difference between "less" and "fewer" (an article in our local paper used the phrase "less children", and I ended up throwing it across the room and then going on a rant about it to my little brothers), and now it's a variety of things. Though my rampages never seem to work.

ETA: Another pet peeve of mine is when people use "good" instead of "well". As in "How are you?" "I'm good." What if I don't define "good" the same way you do? Huh? HUH?

These, however, are getting too picky.

Speaking of annoying grammatical errors. Two of my brothers use "much" instead of "many". For example, "How much pies are there?" Every time I hear it I practically scream "many!" at them

Hit them with something.

But Gilt is meant to be gilt! He's supposed to be florid and so over-the-top the idea of him actually being a pirate or villain is impossible.

Well, I think they went for looking so disreputable no-one could believe he was actually so.

v.v
I have a confession to make.
I still haven't read it. I got ill last night - the kind of ill where you can handle being out of the house for maybe ten, fifteen minutes tops.
Dad won't buy it yet either.
This is the longest I've been without reading a new Discworld release the day of its release since Monstrous Regiment. All the others were either the day of, or the day afterwards.

Illness bad (Tree Curly pretty)

IRN (In Related News):
Suffering from my lack of Discworld and being ill today I picked up H2G2 for the first time ever today.
The book Dad has only has the first four in the trilogy of five (or six), and I've only been reading for three hours. I'm on chapter ten of The Restuarant at the End of the Universe.
Review when I'm done with Book the Second?
Prolly.
I've had some giggles though.

Yay! Excellent books them.

I remember my first posts on gitp....

I was looking at mine the other day. I've changed a bit, and stopped posting in the OotS discussion threads at all (I only did occasionally anyway), but not such a great deal of difference in manner I think.

I really don't like drunken people. They both repulse and disgust me. They think I'm a pathetic idiot for not wanting to get drunk with them, and tell me that I don't know how to have fun, and that I'm boring.

And yet they still try to drag me into talking with them

Go away. You're drunk, and I think you're pathetic for feeling the need to get that way because you think it's fun.

Sick of people putting me down because I don't get drunk

OK, that's bad, but you shouldn't generalise and lump all drunken people in with those who do this. I know some lovely drunken people.

ION: Spent much of yesterday at a friend's house. Got to play a bit on a gamelan. Played a ~6 hour game of mission Risk. Almost won, but then so did everyone else.
Of course, having had only 4 hours sleep due to I Shall Wear Midnight and having to get up to meet said friend I was pretty knackered towards the end.
And now, I will shortly be going to the beach.