LC
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« Last Edit: November 07, 2009, 04:49:01 AM by LC »
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Signe
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This is bad news! For everyone! No, not really. Good luck to Lum! Unfortunately, a side effect of this is that I've now got the Meow Mix song stuck in my head with the meow word replaced by "Lum". I don't know why.  |
My Sig Image: hath rid itself of this mortal coil.
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UnSub
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They might be forcing him to write one weekly.
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Fordel
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This is bad news! For everyone! No, not really. Good luck to Lum! Unfortunately, a side effect of this is that I've now got the Meow Mix song stuck in my head with the meow word replaced by "Lum". I don't know why. Now it's in MY head |
and the gate is like I TOO AM CAPABLE OF SPEECH
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Evildrider
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This is bad news! For everyone! No, not really. Good luck to Lum! Unfortunately, a side effect of this is that I've now got the Meow Mix song stuck in my head with the meow word replaced by "Lum". I don't know why. Now it's in MY head I hate you Signe.... |
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WindupAtheist
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Fuck.
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"You're just a dick who quotes himself in his sig." -- Schild
"Yeah, it's pretty awesome." -- Me
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Lantyssa
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It didn't get stuck in mine.  |
Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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i want to make a joke about that being because there's nothing there for it to stick in, but in the end it's just because I'm jealous of your inured status.
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Lantyssa
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I know. All I have to say to that is:
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Musashi
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I for one, clicked.
Also, it's sad to see good writing go to waste.
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AKA Gyoza
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Soln
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the opportunity for evil is just delicious
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I didn't know Lum was a certified childcare attendant.
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SnakeCharmer
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I think I read that 'article' on his blog a year or two ago or so.
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LK
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Frankly I wish Lum would update his blog more, but se la vie. Not going to lambast him for having proper priorities.
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"Then there's the double-barreled shotgun from Doom 2 - no-one within your entire household could be of any doubt that it's been fired because it sounds like God slamming a door on his fingers." - Yahtzee Croshaw
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Tarami
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se la vie
C'est la vie.  |
- I'm giving you this one for free.
- Nothing's free in the waterworld.
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LK
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Oops. Guess my dirty American credentials are showing.
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"Then there's the double-barreled shotgun from Doom 2 - no-one within your entire household could be of any doubt that it's been fired because it sounds like God slamming a door on his fingers." - Yahtzee Croshaw
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Oops. Guess my dirty American credentials are showing.
Clint Eastwood hates the French so much he murders their language. |
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Signe
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I love to hear people who are not French say French words. I love how they say fillet fi-lay. And forte for-tay. I especially giggle at for-tay. Now I can't stop saying for-tay! I'll have to sing the Lum song for a while now, I guess to try and clear my head. |
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IainC
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When I lived in Paris, I would regularly end up rescuing lost Americans (I lived near the Porte de Versailles, which is nowhere near the Palais de Versailles but it's amazing how many tourists assume otherwise). West coast Americans were usually much worse at saying French names than Easterners for some reason. Except for Porte d'Orléans which none of them could say.
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Signe
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Por-tay dee Orleens!
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Nebu
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All this talk about French is giving me "Better off dead" flashbacks.
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Sky
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I love my TV an' hug my TV an' call it 'George'.
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I just start with the assumption that the french pronounce everything wrong and then move on to pronouncing it as awfully american as possible. Serves them right.
Of course, living in america, I do agree with their disdain of americans, but they have one effed up language.
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rattran
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It's like they have a different word for everything!
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HaemishM
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Goddamnit, that link is slow. Who the fuck still runs a dynamic site on Cold Fucking Fusion?
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Simond
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se la vie
C'est la vie. Sailor V  |
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« Last Edit: November 09, 2009, 01:39:03 PM by Simond »
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WindupAtheist
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That needs to be either smaller or funnier.
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Teleku
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Preferably both.
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Ingmar
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but they have one effed up language.
Eh, it's much easier to learn than English. |
The Transcendent One: AH... THE ROGUE CONSTRUCT.
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Sheepherder
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EAT SHIT AND DIE IRREGULAR VERBS
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Sir T
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Mulin Roje  |
Hic sunt dracones.
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Simond
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That needs to be either smaller or funnier. Je ne regret rien! |
"You're really a good person, aren't you? So, there's no path for you to take here. Go home. This isn't a place for someone like you."
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Teleku
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but they have one effed up language.
Eh, it's much easier to learn than English. Maybe on paper, trying to speak it is another thing entirely. I'm trying to figure out if I hate Chinese or French more.  |
"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor."
-Stephen Colbert
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Falconeer
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I love to hear people who are not French say French words. I love how they say fillet fi-lay. And forte for-tay. I especially giggle at for-tay. Now I can't stop saying for-tay! I'll have to sing the Lum song for a while now, I guess to try and clear my head. Isn't 'forte' Italian? Nonetheless, that reminds me of how they say 'namaste'. Hah. |
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Teleku
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Google tells me your both right! http://www.dailywritingtips.com/forte-or-forte-cache-or-cachet/How many times have you heard people say something is not their “forte” and pronounce forte as /for tay/?
This mispronunciation has become so wide-spread that it’s on its way to establishing itself as an acceptable variation. The error has arisen from the fact that there are two “fortes” in English, each with a different pronunciation.
forte /for tay/
Adverb (or adjective) meaning “strong” or “loud.” This word comes into English from Italian and is used chiefly in a musical context. Ex. Play this measure forte /for-tay/.
forte /fort/
Noun meaning “strong point,” “strength.” This word comes into English from French. Ex. Housekeeping is not my forte /fort/.
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"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor."
-Stephen Colbert
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Cadaverine
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Cache is pronounced cash. The people that pronounce it cash-ay? They need to stop. Same with forte. I've never heard it pronounced /fort/. But, I've never been to France, either, so anything is possible.
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Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.
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IainC
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Cache is pronounced cash. The people that pronounce it cash-ay? They need to stop. Same with forte. I've never heard it pronounced /fort/. But, I've never been to France, either, so anything is possible.
Although the word cachet is pronounced cash-ay. |
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