Homophones

[cosmolinguist]

Seth and I played Scrabble. We had some great words, like "levers" and "squirts."

Scrabble is always fun.

Me: 'Ot'? That's not a word!
Seth: Sure it is. It means zero.
Me: It's not speleld like that.
Seth: How's it spelled?
Me: A-U-G-H-T.
Seth: [gets up, gets his Scrabble dictionary, looks it up] Awww, you're right. [removes his tiles from the board] But haven't you ever heard old people say they were born in ...
Me: Oh, I know it's a word, it's jut not spelled like that.
Seth: Darn English majors.

Comments

[command-four.livejournal.com]

I always thought it was just naught.... or is it nought? The first might be better because you can call this decade "The Naughties".

[cosmolinguist]

It's spelled "naught." And that means the same thing, basically. (Which is odd; if naught means "nothing," shouldn't aught mean "anything"? :-D)

Yeah, that would mean we're living in the Naughties, wouldn't it?

[cepcion.livejournal.com]

I rather like the 00's (oh-oh's) for describing this decade.

[setharoo.livejournal.com]

I'll miss you as a roomie, Holly. But at least I have your lamp to keep me company. (Mwa ha ha ha!)

[kwakhed.livejournal.com]

so he wasn't referring to the mascot for industrial band einsturzende neubauten (which is known as O.T.)?

Re:

[setharoo.livejournal.com]

I don't think proper names (or abbrieviations of proper names) are allowed in Scrabble. But a cool reference that I should have thought of nonetheless.

[cosmolinguist]

No, you can't use names or abbreviations.

I am left to assume that the kwakhed is being silly ... Gasp!

[kwakhed.livejournal.com]

now that's just a loopy assumption there... :-P

i guess foreign words are out, so you couldn't use "einsturzende" or "neubauten"... and i guess we already said no abbreviations, so KMFDM is out too...

[cosmolinguist]

I guess foreign words are out.... And an unfortuante thing it is for me. I'm amazed at how often I think of a great word that's in another language, and even more amazed at the time it takes me to realize "No, Holly, 'ganz' is not English, so you can't use it." I think German, especially, is infiltrating my brain.