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Ebeth’s idea. Her description: “not just like word origins but accents and slang and all that good stuff…”
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whee!!! thank you GAPA!!! virtual choklit coming your way…*BANG*
GAPA: Ouch!
ebeth: whoops. heh. I can see the headlines “GAPA killed by flying virtual choklit…”
k now i’m being insane (when am i not?)
i like cockney. it’s cool. english in general is interesting. i read a long boring book about it once. veeerry interesting.
I like accents too. I can do a lot of accents. whee what fun!
I can do a yooper accent cuz i was born there and it’s funny cuz most people don’t even know that they have an accent. so i do it and they go “that’s cool what is that?”
oh and i love how my grandma can’t understand anything i say and i have to explain everything to her.
OH! and i like reading old english. or like middleish english. but that’s coy woodnesse….
Words. Words aren’t real. : is locked away for bringing up her idiotic ideals:
Um, so accents. My grandma says “idear” instead of “idea” Like how JFK said “Cuber” ( Cuba), or so my mother claims. It’s the Eastern accent thing. I live on the West coast, and I don’t think I have an accent. Do people from California sound weird? In fact, what do you think when someone says Californa? I think :”Wow I wish I didn’t live here”, but that’s me.
Okay, I’m done.
When I imagine a California cliche-accent, I think about people? who speak a lot of sentences? as questions? even when they aren’t? But I used to live there (twice, for a total of 12 years), so I know that’s not really true. There are mannerisms, but it’s hard to put my finger on them.
Yeah, I’ve done that before? It seems like it’s girls? Actually, it’s the annoying girls at my school who think they’re older/more mature than thye are. But they aren’t. Sigh. Anyway I once read that there are certain words that the average person won’t say correctly. The word “data” for instance. Is it “Day-ta” ot “daa ta”? Hmm? There was more, but I can’t remember…
I’ve lived in the south my whole life, and I’ve been teased about my “accent” by my cousins for years. The fact is, I don’t have much of an accent at all. Once, a boy called my “yankee girl” because I pronouce my words distinctly, and I don’t slur anything. He was an idiot, so I didn’t put too much stock in his opinion, but it was still really weird. His biggest “proof” that I was a yankee was that I was born in North Carolina. ???? I argued that you have West Virginia, which is obviously not western, South Dakota which is obviously not southern, and North Carolina which is obviously not Northern. But, like I said before, he was an idiot, so he didn’t get it.
You want accents, come to Britain.
Little story : I’m from a small region to the west of Brimingham, known as the Black Country. The rest of Britain, including Brummies (from Birmingham), reckon we have a “Black Country accent”. Many years ago, my aged father used to do local deliveries for the railways (he wasn’t aged then), so he knew the area really well. He reckoned he could place the STREET someone came from from their accent. He also reckoned that someone from Old Hill visiting Lower Gornal would have difficulty being understood. Old Hill and Lower Gornal are about 5 miles apart. So much for the generic “Black Country accent”.
As for you lot, you don’t really have accents. You all just sound like Americans. So do Canadians.
I’m very glad of the Atlantic. It prevents me being lynched by irate Musebloggers.
im coming paul baker!!!!!! oms you should hear the people where i used to live in TN!!! i wasn’t born there so that preserved me from a southern accent but you seriously should hear these people!!! everyone can tell that i was born in the north because of how i talk. isn’t that interesting? i mean i never knew that accents could tell so much about a person!!! once i was in south carolina and some person i was randomly talking to told me that i was from the north!!! isn’t that wierd? i mean if that’s what an ice cream man could do then imagine what the world could do!!! also you could be stereo typed because of your accent!!! like if you sound like your from the north you could be stereo typed for the rest of your life!!! like some people say that people in the north are always in a hurry and even if your not you still could still get stereo typed!!! and some people say that if you live in the south your lazy but i know some people in the south that are always hurrying and they still get stereo typed!!!! isn’t that odd? we should have a thread on stereo types because there are so many different ones that i know of because of that second step program we’re forced to do in school and if we dont get a seperate thread im just going to ramble on about the different stereo types here!!! all right? anyone back that up?
wow that was a long post…
Die stereotypes, die. I’m with you kricket. people can be strange.
time to shout at pb&j now-WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?? ALSDKGHOWAIERLKFJLJDHGLok ok ok. american accents. There’s northern accents, southern accents, western and eastern accents, there’s a U.P accent in MI (haha i’m smart betcha didn’t know that) and probably a million others that i don’t know. so MEH!!! yes MEH!!! mwahaha
oms there’s no one on here!!!!!!! i mean, come on!!!! STOP FROLICKING!!!!!!!!!!!!! *stompsaroundroomshoutinginchoherentlaunguage* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *soundofkricketgettingdraggedoffbytheSITOWSSUA*
SITOWSSUA= Silence Is The Only Way So Shut Up Association
EVIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
by the way, what’s MEH stand for?
nothing. It’s just a word. I capitalized it to give it EMPHASIS!!! like as in MEH!!! not meh. MEH!!!!
I actually have no clue what it means. I don’t think it really even means anything. It’s just meh.
I DECLARE WAR AGAINST THE SITOWSSUA!!! DIE FIENDS!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! HEAR MY LOUD BATTLE CRIES AND FEEL YOUR KNEES TREMBLE IN TERROR!!!!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOIIIISSSSSEEE!!!!!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My mom grew up in Alabama, and when she moved to Mississippi she thought everyone had really bad southern accents. However, they made fun of her because of the was she pronounced her “I”s. Like, she would say, “a think that nat lat sure is brat,” instead of,”I think that night light sure is bright.” Everyone else had really bad country accents, but because of one letter they teased her.
oh
ATTACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hey accent-y people watch My Fair Lady. You will like it. Paul Baker will to since it proves his point of many English accents though we americans also have accents.
funny how people still catagorize people by “north” and “south” I guess I have a Minnesota accent. We make fun of ourselves by saying “doncha know, I’m from MinnesOHtah” and things like that.
Like in My Fair Lady, and the part where Higgins walks around asking people questions and singing their genealogy at them.
Have you ever read the Uncle Remus stories in the orig. version? They’re all slangy, like Topsy in Uncle Tom’s Cabin tenfold. A little difficult to understand. Some people claim I have a British accent. I deny this VEHEMENTLY. Sometimes I quote, oh, Oscar Wilde or something in a Brit accent just for fun, but in normal, everyday speech, I stand American. The tinge might just be too many radio episodes of Hitchhiker’s and Flanders and Swann when I was little. For example.
Me: *walks into classroom scene of chaos, half class leaving with Teacher 2* Whither wilt thou?
Teacher 1: Juliette, go with her to the library.
Me: Why are we splitting?
Teacher 1: Go!
Me: Never mine to reason why, only mine to do or die. *Sighs and walks out*
(I hereby give all Musophiles permission to use my brilliant repartee on the lines of combat.) I like using classical quotes at teachers. It makes them squirm. Excuse the digression.
That is so mean!
how about this one: nimiety (quite possibly spelled wrong)
omg i love my fair lady. good movie. except the guy was a jerk.
hahaha!!! queen j you are sooo evil! I have to try that on pautsch. she probably won’t understand a word i’m saying…
what does nimiety mean?
I, Monday the Mischeivous, the Mysterious, the Mad, do propose that poetry that does not rhyme should not be called poetry at all, but something else, so as not to confuse people. I also propose that the something else un-rhyming poetry is to be called should be Fliggerdigdiggity. I do not propose that there should be any obnoxious questions as to why. *spit to make proposition official*
I like words. They are nice things. Right now I am trying to act like a person with a very small number of words they say. I took out all the “likes” and “you knows” for reasons of keeping normal minds. Of course, no person on here has a normal mind. I am happy!
Translation in English instead of AbbreviatedMiddleSchoolese (not to be confused with LikeMiddleSchoolYouKnowese): I like words. They’re cool. Right now I’m trying to act like an idiot with a limited vocabulary. I took out all the “likes” and “you knows” for purposes of sanity retention. Of course, everyone on here is insane. YAAAAY!!
My all time favorite word is “substantransationalist”. I don’t know if I spelled it right, what I means, or technically if it even is a word. It was used in an Anne of Green Gables novel, I think Anne of Igleside. Jem used it on a boy to make him do something. He told him it was a “voodoo word” and would give him bad luck for a week if he said it to him. I just like it.
Actually, I was astounded a few years ago by one particular American accent which certainly rose above the generic. I’m not in the habit of watching the pretentious drivel spouted by TV chefs, but I happened to catch an early appearance by one Loyd Grossman. My instant reaction was that he was an American trying to speak in an English upper-class accent, and failing desperately, without realising it. I thought someone should tell him. Then I discovered he’s from Boston, Mass., and everyone speaks like that there. If anyone’s from Boston, YOU SOUND WEIRD. But not half as weird as I sound to you, probably. I really must get some Black Country dialect audio clips up on my website. Provide you all promise not to laugh too loud.
I promise!
maybe.
If you give me more choklit.
baaaaaaahston. baaaaaaahston. wheee!
heh we went to boston and talked in boston accents the whole time cuz we felt like it and then we came back and everybody laughed at us. fun times…
Theodwyn Notelven-you a rohan fan too? ROCK ON!!!
my fav word used to be onomatopoeia, then i found out about pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, but now my fav word is meh. It says everything you need. You can use it for anything it rocks. meh.
I am of the opinion that anyone, worldwide, would be able to tell the difference between a Boston accent, and a typical American accent.
My favorite word of the moment is “deliquescent.” It means “tending to melt or dissolve; esp.: tending to undergo gradual dissolution and liquefaction by the attraction and absorption of water from the air.” Not something you get to use a lot, but such a pleasure to pronounce. De…liq…UES…cent. Mmmm. Delicious.
By the way, there are scads of different accents even in the American South, as I’m sure MontgomeryGurl will confirm. The Deep South Mississippi-Louisiana accent is different from Cajun, which is different from Texan, which is different from the snarly East Tennessee accent, which is different from the delicate South Carolina accent (my favorite, and one of the prettiest varieties of English currently spoken on the planet, IMHO), which is different from the odd Tidewater accent of Virginia with its almost Canadian-sounding “ow” and “ou” diphthongs.
Yes, you are so totally right!!! I grew up in Mississippi, and I currently live in northern Louisiana, and I can barely understand Cajun. A lot of people don’t seem to realize the difference between Cajun and Southern, or the difference between nothern Louisiana and Cajun Louisiana, but trust me, it’s there. Cajun (culture and accent) is a lot more back-woods than southern. I’ve been to Cajun country, and I felt like I was in a different world. Texan is like a really over-blown Southern accent. The stereotypical Southern accent is really more Texan than Southern. The Virginia accent is kind of annoying. It’s very plain to me when someone is from Virginia.
There are also a lot of varieties of Midwestern accent. There’s the one I’m most familiar with, Chicaagaa (A-C talks that way), but there’s Iowa and Wisconsin and all that good stuff, too.
Nobody’s mentioned the famous New Yawk yet. My cousin lives there. But I understand him, unlike a lot of other New Yorkers.
ok people here’s one-what do you say, Iowah or Ioway?
The Wisconsin accent is sooooo annoying!!!!!! I always wish the people who have it would learn to talk normal (lol). I once knew somebody from Chicago. She had a really nasally accent, and one time she told me “you do heeave and eeaccant”. I almost burst out laughing, it was so funny that she was ragging me about an “eeaccent” when she couldn’t even pronounce the word right!!!!!
nimiety means a whole bunch. People tell me that when I try to talk eloquently I sound British. I asked my friends and they said so too. I didn’t even notice.
I used to be able to imitate a perfec Australian accent, but I can’t any more.
yeah my dad sounds british a lot when he says certain words. He’s British, but he was born in Florida. My nana and granddad still have british accents. Anyhoo back to my dad, it’s really weird cuz he’ll be talking in this normal (to me anyway) MI/OH accent and then suddenly he’ll say like one word that sounds brit and then he’ll go on talking like nothing happened. And then when he gets off the phone w/nana and granddad he sounds really british. It’s pretty funny.
Whenever i’m announcing something I say it in a pompous british male voice. I have no idea why, i just do. intentionally though. I’m weird like that.
oh q for pb&j, do british people say coo instead of cool? like not even coo but like…i dunno…cooh maybe? that’s what my dad does instead of cool. i don’t know if it’s british or florida or who knows, maybe just my dad but he does that. kooh? who knows…
i like to copy voices. not like specific accents really but like i listen to somebody and just repeat what they said in the same voice. it’s easier when they have an accent though…
Sounds like a trace of Cockney to me. They pronounce L as W at the end of words. It’s all very strange.
I’ve heard Brits say “coo” as a meaningless exclamation, as in, “Coo, luv, willyer looka’ that, now!” Also “cor.” Right, PB&J?
No, it comes out as outdated, Austen-type British for me.
this is a random thing everyone here from the early begginings of the blog remember: CoMish! well, now i found that it’s Kyrian, but whatever.
Interesting fact- The actors and actresses of Memoirs of a Geisha ( excluding Ken Watanabe and maybe Zhang Ziyi, I dunno) had to learn English with a Japanese accent. Except for Watanabe, they’re all Chinese! This is strange to me, but I guess China has better actors at the moment.
Also, I want everyone to know this, being the freakish person I am, “geisha” is pronounced ” gay-sha” not “gii- sha”
Dattebayo.
I read something about that movie, and the lead actress said that playing a Japanese characater while speaking English would be like an American “having to play a Russian, while speaking Tai, and doing the whole film with a slight British accent.”
EBETH!!! IM ON THE MUSEBLOG!
HAPPY NOW?!?!?!
Sorry everyone but this is her Republican (don’t shoot. elephants are endangered species.) friend from Michigan. She’s been bugging me FOREVER to get on here.
So anyway about accents + words + stuf.
I am the supreme matriarch of speling geeeks. I got within 1 leter of goin too the National Spleling Be in DC and thairfore I kno lotz of stoopid adn piontless wurds. Like churrigueresque, phthisiology, umfaan, cabochon, (I actually had to spel umfaan)
Along with 3000 more (seriously, not kidding)
Michiganders are notorious for having absolutely NO accent (yes, Paul Baker, we do have accents) and mocking ppl from Boston (Baah-stan), New York (New Yoik), Georgia (Goah-gia), Texas (Tay-a-xas), and Ohio (YES, ebeth, Ohaaaaio. Want some SODA? mwahaha.)
o yeah, and Canada. (eh?)
And the French Taunter accent is really kool too.
*gasp* WOW!!! I’m in shock!
*ebeth sits in shock*
took you long enough!
oh yeah go riette spleler persen.
the french taunter accent is so weird it’s funny.
and on the mocking thing-no i think that’s just you…
NO I don’t want some SODA, I want some POP thank you very much!!!
i feel special. i totally knew how to say geisha. go me. (actually i pronounced it wrong for ages but i figured it out eventually)
i’m reeeeally bored.
Konichiwa!
I actually learned a lot of Japanese just from listening to J-pop and J-rock ( Japanese pop and Japanese rock for the uninformed.)
So I understand words here and there. And such.
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I can understand German, but I can’t speak it so well. I don’t think I failed my Hebrew test! yaaay!
meh. latin. meh.
the word (meh) latin (meh) must always be surrounded by the word meh. It is the LAW!
so in meh latin meh we’re learning all the good fun grammar stuff. woohoo. oh joy. you can just hear the happiness in my voice.
as of now i can read a lot of it. it’s writing it that’s harder.
so lotsa meh latin meh hw to do. yay let’s conjugate a million verbs! what fun!
grrr.
yickleshmokel. that’s my new word of the day. what does it mean?
whoever sends me some virtual choklit gets to pick.
yes people-i am actually doing my latin hw. I have finally escaped the grasp of the evil overlord. of course i’m feeling incredibly guilty about not starting to research stuffins. but i haven’t done my latin for at least 2 wks now…
paro-I prepare
paras-you prepare
parat-he/she prepares
paramus-we prepare
paratis-you prepare
parant-they prepare.
oh joy. now i get to do some lovely translating…
i will spare you the details. unless you really want them…
*sigh* time for lovely hw now…
Draco dracone dracorum. I can understand a teeny bit of Greek, but those are the only words I know in latin, other than scientific names.
Greek???
Sign me up for the next time travel to Ancient Greee please!!
ah the joyous bliss of ignorance. my hand hurts. meh. over and over and over and AAAAH!!!
plus my lb is taking latin too so i don’t even get the fun of shouting “Abite molesti!” and watching him stare cluelessly at me. Now whenever I do that he does this incredibly annoying voice that is mockingly whiny and hideously screechy and yells back “go away you pest!” which is the translation.
*sigh* oh the horrors of my life.
today i learned where the word parlor came from. it was french. it was interesting. i forgot it though. of course. it’s french.
Dakara, haruka kanata.- So ( or” that’s why”) I’ll go far into the distance/far away. Japanese, if that wasn’t obvious since I’m posting it.
I was forced into learning Latin roots in 4-6 grade, and have since forgotton it all. I take Spanish ( and fail, yay! ), but I plan to go through a cleansing process during the summer and purge as Spanish from my mind. Not because of the language, it’s just the class.
Kokoro ni hibikamenu kotoba
Boku dake mou imi wo ushinau dake…
Kowashite yo
Ahahahah…okay I’m shutting up now. :scurries away:
Guten-tag!
(Germans are KOOL.)
(And the Dutch. They’re kool too.)
umm….yeah.
Ah blow my nose at you, you sons of a silly person! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!!!
I know that was kind of switched around, bt o well b/c EBETH STOLE THE MONTY PYTHON THAT I ALWAYS WATCH!!!!
Arrrrrgh.
well buy your own!!!
apparently you can get monty python on itunes…
haven’t checked yet cuz itunes has been messed…
German sounds like alternating coughin and throwing up. My sister is obsessed with going around and asking people, “sprechenzi kertuffen?” (do you speak the potato language?) it is really annoying.
Je parle francais pour un ano, pero yo hablo ahora espanol. And I get the two mixed up, as you can see. I don’t like Spanish. Je desiree parle francais. Le francais est formidable, vraiment. El espanol es malo.
But I LOVE words. And accents. Do you know, before I saw the Harry Potter movies, I had a completely American accent, but after seeing the first one I started to sound British. I didn’t even notice! I only know because people told me. Weird.
About three years ago, I started my own secret code. I can write in it fluently today, and I’m really glad, because I can keep all my secrets secret. It’s awesome. And some time ago, I started to write my own language, for speaking as well as writing. I haven’t gotten very far.
I love reading. I can read faster than just about anyone you’ll ever meet. (Around 15 seconds per page, if you want to be precise. Some kids timed me one day at lunchtime when I wasn’t paying attention.) Books are always my number one present for holidays and such. Most people think I’m crazy. Their loss.
My Ultimate Word is Ieron. (That’s an i, not an L.) It’s just so cool. Ieron stands for hidden, lonely planets far off in space, green and growing things embracing the world, a clear star shooting off into infinity, and a glowing beam of love between two hearts.
I write poems that do not rhyme. I think we should call that style of poem “ThyNitRime”. For no reason.
As long as we’re talking about languages and words, what about Ble? From our dear beloved Muse? Lotble. (I want to hear Ble all over this thread.)
Au revoir,
me
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What does BROBDINGNAGIAN mean? Is it a real word? you tell me.
You could look it up in one of my favorite books, Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. (P.S. Yes, the word is real.)
I have picked up a hawaiian accent. Which means i sway ‘ya’ at the end of every sentence ya. I haven’t quite picked up the part when people say ‘um’ instead of ‘it’ ya.
i picked up a weird accent that develops when ye try to speak kyrian while speaking really often
okay, who are some of you newbies?!!!!!!!! and who the heck is Mutt?
Mutt is kokopelli #2, who i think was on before me, not sure. stareintoinfinity i haven’t seen…
if i haven’t already mentioned it, I LOVE the french taunter accent.
Ok. Here’s how you enjoy the french taunter accent.
1. watch monty python a million times so you can get the accent. actually you’ll probably only need to see it once or twice but keep that a secret and then you’ll have an excuse for watching it a million times.
2. Think of some random insults. not the one’s used in the movie-everybody knows those. make up your own. Like “I spit in your face! ptooey!!”
3. Go up to random people in the hallway and say your insults in a french taunter accent. Watch their hilarious expressions.
heehee! i love doing that. especially when i’m on vacation and nobody knows me. mwahahahaha…
It’s interesting the different word choice people around the country use- for instance, do you call the silvery things in the hallways that you press a button and liquid comes out water fountains or drinking fountains? (I call them water fountains). Swim suits or bathing suits? What do you call those fizzy drinks that come in cans? (Around here, most people call them all Coke- so you could have a conversation in which person 1 says “Hey, you want a coke?” and person 2 replies “Sure, I’ll have pepsi” and it makes perfect sense to all involved). Also, do you say Mary, merry, and marry the same way or different ways? Ellis and Alice? My dad says them the same way, my mom says them differently.
drinking fountain, bathing suits, pop, differently.
yeah my last name sounds like a different first name (which i’m not going to reveal lest the all-powerful GAPA decides to delete this) and so i’m used to teachers that call me by my last name, but featherstone always uses first names so whenever he says ***** i start to get up but he actually means ***** not *****. difference of a vowel at the beginning. so my other teachers say my last name the same way he says this other girl’s first name. it’s pretty confusing.
I probably would say merry and marry the same way except whenever i use the word marry i’m usually talking in a british accent.
I say Coke when reffering to soft-drinks. I always hate it when people say “soda” or “pop”. I’m sensitive that way.
I say Mary, merry, and marry the same way. How else could I say them?
Ellis and Alice are supposed to be pronounced totally differently. The “e” sound and the “a” sound are not normally the same in my pronounciation.
About Mary, merry, and marry: in Britain many people say and hear them differently. I think they’re drilled in it in school. Some people in the United States make the same distinction. Roughly speaking, Mary = MAY-ree; merry = MEH-ree; marry = MAA-ree (where AA is my way of writing the short “a” sound in “cat”). So when they say “we’ll all be merry when I marry Mary,” all the vowels are different.
Just so you know, Mr. Baker, Yi Min and I think you are awesome and would never lynch you.
My favourite word?
Xenophobe.
How about xenophile?
“Marry, coz…” The Bard used it, esp. in As You Like It, as a version of Mary, as a swear (think the Christian Virgin Mary).
My name, which is Juliette, is confusing because 80% of the population hears “Julie”. The other 20% say “Romeo and Juliet! Oh ho ho!” and think they’re unbelievably witty. Also, many people are “Julie”, and I always start to get up but sort of sit down when there’s no “ette”, and vice versa. I know, I know. I don’t whine that much, do I? (Don’t answer that.)
I don’t really have a favorite word. Cynicism sounds very nice, as does opalescent, but besides that little foible no. And I am renowned for saying Adamsesque things like “Holy Zarquon singing fish!” and “What in the name of zarking fardwarks!” and occasionally “Foonting turlingdromes! Belgium!” when I stub my toe. Dunno why everyone laughs.
the adamsesque rocks. it makes you sound amazingly froody. sure some strags laugh, but they don’t know where their towel is.
heh. ok so it is pretty funny.
Infinity, you won’t belive this, but that is my EXACT TIME, give or take an odd second. And my mom can do half that. I love fast readers! Then you can read over thier shoulder without being bored as they finish five minutes after you.
oh help me. I’m sitting here listening to the british chickens AGAIN!!! SPARE ME!! PLEEEEASE!!!
“oh the grass! there are no farmers out there! how lovely!” yeah yeah go you. omg. k it’s a cool movie and all (i’m talking about chicken run here) but it gets soooo annoying!!!
erm….shouldn’t that be they finish five minutes before you? or i love slow readers? somehow that post doesn’t make any sense at all…
and i promise i will not say ANYTHING about the fast reading stuff! i promise! I won’t! really!
wow but it’s annoying though. sry guys.
Mutt is kokopelli #2, who i think was on before me, not sure. stareintoinfinity i haven’t seen…
i’m the one that comes for a month and then dissapeers for a random ammount of time. XXD
xenophile is good, too!
I’ve been working on my accents. I have stereotypical french worked out, and there was a group of crazy people in my class last year who thought I was British. ?!?!?!?!?!?!
Cockney is fun to do even if you have no idea how it’s really supposed to sound – which here in the US is very, as has been aforesaid, stereotypical. Cor, mate.
Coo? Dido Twite from the series by Joan Aiken says that.
Juliette, you aren’t alone. What in the zarking name of froody zarvocks?! Half the time I tell people my name, they ask me to spell it for them and the other half stare at me blankly. Idjits.
Ce va? Tres bien, mon petite fluer, j’em jue au foot, sacrebleu, le gronoui mouge le pomplemouse, sacado!
(Rough translation: How are you? I’m very good, my little flower, I like to play soccer, Scared Blue, The frog eats the grapefruit, Backpack!) I don’t soeak french on a class or anything, I picked it up from my sister. I take Spanish at school, but I stink at it.
haha featherstone says sacre bleu all the time. for EVERYTHING. it’s pretty funny.
the….frog…eats…the…grapefruit…backpack…
i’m going to think about that carefully now…
……………………………..
meh….
That’s not all. Je’m jue au Sims 2!
( I like to play the Sims 2!)
Hmm…Ce ne c’est pas ma faute je n’aime pas el espanol.
(It’s not my fault I don’t like Spanish.) J’aime Museblog et l’internet. Se le jour pour respire! (I like Museblog and the Internet. It’s a day for breathing!) Je suis fatigue. J’aime parlez le francais. (I’m tired. I like speaking French.) Desolez! (Sorry!)
Perhaps Robert would be kind enough to open a HG2G thread and another Coy Woodnesse-type thread. Please? Merci!
ohh
drinking fountia, swim suits, pop, fer, merry different than Mary, the other ones different, I don’t say pakyacah, I say park yer car.
ness
quietness
sureness
Lochness
meaness
stoopidness
selflessness
ickyness
goodness
graciousness
goshness
sillyness
teacherness
homeworkness (there is too much of it ness)
i declare next week the Week of Using Ness Too Much.
If you all don’t comply, I will set my Italian Pigeons on probably
nobody. Beware the wrath of Potatoes! Moohahahahaha
Pigs are cool and wet
They are not for pets
They stink really bad,
Kinda like my dad.
J’naime pas les escargots. Je joue softball. C’est facile!
blue bar
tan bar
I forgot au in my French sentance! oopsydoopsy.
*sighs* now I feel the urge to show off. You all asked for it.
Ojibwe: boozhoo, Boxty! Mino aya sana, neshemay. Weendamawashin, chimookoman, Zhaganashimowin, French. Howah! Geget chiwoningeyz.
Hebrew: Shalom, Boxty! T’hye lach briut, chaveriey. Tidaber basapha French od, yalda m’Artzot Habrit. Ze madlik! At medaberet tovah me’od.
Both of those mean the same thing, although the Objibwe is less precise, as I don’t know it as well. They mean, as a rough translation as some of the words have no English synonyms,
Hello, Boxty! I wish you good health, friend. Talkin French more, American girl. It’s cool! You speak really well.
im bored…
oh yeah!!!!!!!! hang on….
J’em jue el HP Message Board.
Parlevous francias? Oui. Jomepele Phoebe. Ce va tres bien.
It’s more of a sickly green than a tan bar. Though the color scheme, is, in fact, soothing. I happen just to dislike it extremely. So shoot me. Here I transcribe a conversation that happened yesterday afternoon:
Chad: So what’s your New Year’s Resolution?
MLS (My Luminous Self): Well, it’s a bit early for that sort of thing, you know? They always fail so embarrassingly early in the year that it’s frankly better just to skip it. Q.E.D.
Chad (or Cad, come to think of it):I don’t get it.
MLS: Nor should you. The great philosopher, Wittgenstein, once-
Chad: Who the heck is Wittgenstein?
MLS: A great philosopher, as I just said, who once said that philosophy is a battle against the betwitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Chad: What’s philosophy?
MLS: Oh, very funny. Honestly!
Chad: You’re soooo weird.
MLS: Many have said that, but few live to tell the tale. *stomps off*
Chad: You’re still weird!
MLS: Is there no escape?
Is chad an alias or..
or were you talking to…to..to… *whisper* Chad the muse??
heh. queen j, you are weird. but there’s no shame in that. weirdness is cool.
he didn’t know what philosophy was??? that’s pretty sad. I’m guessing that was not the real chad then. I would hope a muse would know something about that…
*gasp* unless our magazine is in…incompetent hands???
welll of course! koko runs it!
oh well then. i suppose you’re right.
of course i’m right! now I have a question for you.
yes?
why does ebeth do this random thing where she suddenly starts conversations between her alter egos?
i have no idea…
which one of us is bob anyway?
um…well i’m fred…
oh..i must be greg…
oh yeah…bob’s on the moon..
so she is! well that’s settled then. you’re fred and i’m greg. hello fred.
hello greg.
THE END
it’s early…
This is sorta random, but I live in Rhode Island and we call water fountains “bubblers”. Fortunately, my parents are from the midwest so I’m spared the embaressment of going somewhere not in RI and asking where the bubbler is.
Je parle français. Mon mot préféré est pamplemousse!
Welcome, Chickadee! They call water fountains that in Wisconsin, too.
What do you call milk shakes?
It was not the Chad, but a Chad. No need to worry.
I’m going to stick my neck out now and tell you quite candidly that I hate the Midwest. I call it America’s Gallbladder, as opposed to America’s Heartland, you know? It’s all overweight and backwoods and horror of horrors, rustic. But I’m whining, aren’t I?
i shall have my alter ego talk with me!!!!!!
*start*
hullo mousie!!!
hullo mousire!!!!!
wait, i thought i was mousire….
i’m confoosed….
then you must jeorjie!!!!
oh yeah!!!
i told you!!
wait then where’s mousire…..
up here guys!!!!!
oh there you are!!!!
how’d you get in a tree?
you don’t want to know….
wait, where’s Kricket?
she’s typing this remember?
oh yeah…. I knew that! not really…
jeorjie, stop babbling and get me down from here!!!
what about me!!!!
mousie, remember last time….
oops
*pulls* gotcha!!
aaaaaaaaaaacccccccckkkkkkk!!!!!!!!!
maybe i should have caught her…..
oops…….
you idiot!!!!!!!
sry
*growls* evil little….
guys guys stop fighting!!!!
who are you?
i’m ebeth’s alter ego greg!!!!
get away you…. you….
evil!!!!!!!!
*to be continued….
sry, i’m bored….
Gallbladders are cool. I like gallbladders.
Welcome, Chickadee!
We call milk shakes frapps. The Midwest isn’t as bad as the stereotypes suggest, but the whole gallbladder thing is pretty clever
In Cockney:
We ‘ave some loop de loop and Bangers and Cash… Oh, a some Dog’s Eye my fork all Robbin Hood.
What it means, I have yet to find out.
Ha, just a random something for your thoughts to munch on.
Well, I’m off to my mickey…
G’day
Hey, watch the Midwest snottities! I live there! And it isn’t a bit like a Gallbladder!
Maybe Queen J.’s part of it is. (She lives in Illinois.) But this doesn’t have much to do with words, does it?
Pomplemousse es tres bien! My french is horrid!
Crikey, mates! Cor, guvnor!
I could pass for a Cockney person in a pinch.
yay cockney. I ♥ cockney
hey! i like the midwest!
actually i like the northmidwest more…
heh. northmidwest. cool.
I’m sorry, I consider it a gallbladder. In the nicest, Tom Lehrer-ish way. Lizzie knows what I’m talking about.
i’m thirsty
Boy this is a weird discussion…
I just finished my math homework, and you know what’s a cool word? Hypotenuse. Hypotenuse, hypotenuse, hypotenuse. It’s fun to say.
that’s nice
And many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse!
I have a question for all you smart musers/GAPAs/evil aliens from McDonalds/Koko impersonaters-what are the grammatical words for cooperated? (co-operated? co operated? heeeellp…)
oh i meant grammatical rules not words.
words actually works though…sort of…
anyway…
I dunno. ‘co’ means to gether or joined, ‘operate’ is to, well, to operate. Operate together.
right but when you work together how do you say that?
i guess it’s sort of more a spleling question…
i don’t know…i feel depressed…i’m gonna run away now before i start ranting on the horrors of my life and how lamuth must die and how i want choklit. i’m guessing you guys don’t really want to hear one of those rants again…
so QUICK!!! get out the Happy-nator 2006!!! Hurry!
*beeps, creaks, other random mechanical noises. a ROBOT appears*
yaaaay! happiness!!!
*robot leaves*
ok i’m happy again. even if i don’t want to write three papers right now.
I get to show monty python for my proooooject! go meeee! happy days!!! gonna show the witches scene…3 min. exacatively.
hey there’s a word for you! exacatively.
oh yes and who here speaks french? we got choklits from nana+granddad for christmas (we always get them way early and open them early. it’s traditional. we’d never make it otherwise. the regular (nonfood) presents stay wrapped) and the name of them is french and it means little ovens. what are they called?
i would ask it the other way around except i have no idea how to splel it.
ok done rambling now back to the dreaded papers…
Help!
The
The triangle
The triangle disease
The triangle disease has
The triangle disease has spread
The triangle disease has spread to
The triangle disease has spread to this
The triangle disease has spread to this thread!
The French word for little ovens is “petits fours”. I have never tried them, but have heard of them. They sound good.
yay you win virtual petits fours and i learned how to spell petits fours without having to open the box and face the horrible temptation of taking one. (gotta make them last…gotta make them last…that’s dad’s #1 rule. crazy…)
Oh
Oh no!
Oh no! Not
Oh no! Not the
Oh no! Not the triangle
Oh no! Not the triangle disease!
Oh no! Not the triangle disease! HELP!!!
Oh no! Not the triangle disease!
Oh no! Not the triangle
Oh no! Not the
Oh no! Not
Oh no!
Oh
There’s a quarantine area now, you crazy trianglers.
I realized that.
I feel like i have the plague…
*sniff*
ok not really.
guys…what do you think of schmorfalicious?
bananananananananananananananas! hahahahahahahahahahaha! banananannanananananananananananannananananananananannannanananananananananananananaananannanananannanananananananananannanannanananananananannaanannaannananananananananananannaannananaanannanananananananas!
oh dear. nobody explained the grammar to me. *sniff* GAPA???
oh vell i’ll guess co-operate. I think that’s right…
bananananananananana cream pie! gotcha!! *splat*
haha!!!!! yaaaay! uh oh…
*runs away under fire from the Pi Machine Gun invented by Chad, which fires five pies every 3.1415 etc. seconds*
Sorry, Ebeth. Are you talking about grammar or about spelling?
eh…spelling i guess.
i dunno, i was tired last night.
still am…got up WAY too early. we have a late day today so we don’t have to be to skool until 9 and i got up at 6:30. you believe?? i feel stupid now. i could’ve slept!!!
*rants on until it’s time for skool*
I Have A Great word: OATWOP!
It is a breakfast cereal. 50% oats and 50% wop!
I can only sleep in if it’s the weekend. *sigh*
I think it’s physically impossible for me to sleep in on weekdays. *sighs again* (It’s very fun to sigh, I think it’s one of my hobbies) I’m bored, trying to avoid my homework. Blah, blah, blah. Wanna know another cool word? Osmiophilic. It’s got something to do with osmic acid. Whatever that is.
You know what I say?
GIOVANNI PERALUIGI DE LA PALISTRINA IF THAT”S HOW YOU SPELL IT!
what does that mean?
It’s Italian… I don’t exactly know…
I support ANTHROPOMORPHISM. Do you support ANTHROPOMORPHISM?
Hint: Richard is a very good filing cabinet, and we love him.
I think it’s
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.
But don’t worry about spelling him. Just get the CDs. He’s cool. Can you get the cheapo but really good Naxos CDs over there? Jeremy Summerly’s lot have released some stonking bits of Palestrina on Naxos. You HAVE to get the Missa Papae Marcelli. Even if you’re Jewish.
huh? what are we talking about again?
does anthropomorphism extend to things other than animals?
Anthropomorphism. A-N-T-H-R-O-P-O-M-O-R-P-H-I-S-M. According to dictionary.com, the “Attribution of human motivation, characteristics, or behavior to inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena.”
yes, I know what it is, but the definition our English teacher only mentioned animals.
there are lots of books where animals are like that. its a very good writing tool. even better if the animals actually act like animals, like in Watership Down.