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24717. arkymalarky - 12/5/2008 12:06:16 AM Best of luck to both of you--and Wonk too! 24718. wonkers2 - 12/5/2008 12:28:01 AM Tnx, Arky. 24719. wonkers2 - 12/5/2008 12:30:56 AM [I learned on NPR yesterday that consonants are much more important than vowels in English communication. as follows: I lrnd n NPR ystrdy tht cnsnts r mch mr imprtnt than vwls n nglsh cmmnctn. 24720. judithathome - 12/6/2008 1:10:48 AM Yes, there was a letter going 'round a few years ago that was written in that style...and it was very easily understood.
Which is a good thing for all these texters and twitterers that will grow up with absolutely dreadful spelling.
I am a good speller...my performance here notwithstanding...and I learned to spell by writing out vocabulary lists over and over...with definitions. And by reading. If I come across a word I don't know, which is more rare these days than back in my early years, I look it up and go over the spelling in my mind.
Kids today don't do that.
I recall an interview between Michael Kinsley and William F. Buckly which was delightful...Kinsley charged Buckley with giving up the word "avatar" for awhile, just to please him...Buckley replied "Avatar? Avatar? How can I possibly LIVE a day without the word 'avatar'?"
And this was pre-websites! 24721. robertjayb - 12/6/2008 2:22:36 AM I saw Kinsley last night with Charley Rose. He has had a new (?) Parkinson's operation involving electrodes in the brain, batteries, etc. He seemed to me much improved and much more in control of his speech and movements. 24722. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 12/6/2008 3:42:02 AM Well I hadn't seen him since he was first diagnosed and I was shocked. Brave guy! 24723. wonkers2 - 12/6/2008 4:30:31 AM I didn't know Kinsley had Parkinson's. He grew up and went to high school near where I live. 24724. arkymalarky - 12/6/2008 8:33:52 AM Bro should be on HGTV Sunday night at 7 with a folk group called The Leatherwoods.
Which reminds me, in conjunction with the Inferno discussion, that CharlieL popped in a while back and didn't pop back.I'd love to see him come back around. 24725. Ulgine Barrows - 12/6/2008 11:06:50 AM yadda, yadda, who's up for some chat?
24726. Ulgine Barrows - 12/6/2008 11:43:26 AM I've totally changed my social status by the work I do. I now work overnight. I'm learning Spanish so I can boss those cute Latino boys around.
I really like how they are ploite to me, unlike the white candy-ass lazy boyos I will fire after Christmas is over. 24727. Ulgine Barrows - 12/6/2008 11:45:20 AM I'm in an arguing mood, so I will say good day to you. 24728. alistairconnor - 12/6/2008 1:28:20 PM Hey babe!
How's your lad? I've got one of my own now (technically he's my girlfriend's but I think I'd better adopt him)
We are struggling for his soul at the moment 24729. alistairconnor - 12/6/2008 1:37:59 PM Ah crap I missed you.
I am definitely up for some chat if we can come up with a timeslot.
I have missed you!!
How many tenses can I say that in? (I'm trying to help the lad with his English, it's his worst subject. He's good with maths)
I have been missing you these last couple of years.
I had missed you the last couple of times you showed up, and I missed you again.
I had been missing you, now I'm looking forward to a chat.
I will miss you if you don't come back.
I would miss you if you didn't come back.
By January, I will have been missing you for at least two years.
etc...
Sadly, I couldn't put a grammatical name on all those tenses. Anyone care to have a go?
(Starting on the 17th I'll be in NZ for a month which might or might not make the chat time slot easier) 24730. alistairconnor - 12/6/2008 1:39:19 PM Bossing boys around on night shift. My girlfriend does that too, sometimes. In Spanish too (and at least three other languages) 24731. judithathome - 12/7/2008 12:21:06 AM Big fat rasberry to people who are so low as the ones who just swiped my 80 year old neighbor's purse out of her car in Sam's parking lot. The shitheels took it while she was returning the cart to the rack.
She had $210 in cash in it along with her checkbook and driver's license and a 50$ gift certificate she'd received for her birthday.
Yes, she was an idiot to leave her purse in her car but she is 80 and too trusting for her own good. Also on a fixed income.
Sometimes I just hate the human race....
24732. judithathome - 12/7/2008 1:04:54 AM Jeezus, I just got a call from her and she said she got her purse back! A young lady called her and asked if she had lost her purse and said she had it; they arranged a place to meet and MJ said everything was there...her money, checkbook, everything.
The two girls said they'd found it in Sam's parking lot and figured she would need it back...she offered them $100...twice!... and they refused to take her money.
I guess it fell out of her car and luckily, these two young ladies were angels in disguise and returned it to her. 24733. TheWizardOfWhimsy - 12/7/2008 6:32:48 AM How nice! 24734. alistairConnor - 12/7/2008 12:53:10 PM There you are Judith, always jumping to hasty conclusions about the human race!
Where would we be without a few faith-recharging moments like that one? Thanks for that... 24735. judithathome - 12/7/2008 4:54:45 PM Yes, it's true...I jump to hasty conclusions. Usually I am right and am thrilled to proven wrong in this case.
I've known this lady since I was 12 years old...she is slipping A LOT these days. I'm so happy that something good happened for her. 24736. Jenerator - 12/7/2008 6:28:59 PM Speaking of good things, I was in the line at Starbucks for a latte yesterday, when a stranger showed a cool act of kindness toward me. As I pulled up to get my drink and pay for it, the cashier said, "Your drink is paid for. The woman in front of you bought your drink for you."
I have no idea who she was. Isn't that a sweet thing to do?
I tried to catch up to her, but she was long gone.
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