How's school, Holly?

[cosmolinguist]

Things I've learned recently:

English is great because it has puns. It has sarcasm and wit. But diagramming a pun sucks.

Frankenstein is a lot like Lilo & Stitch.

There is probaly no appreciable difference between skipping class quite intentionally and truly forgetting that you have class.

Though I got up at eight o'clock for a class I hate yesterday after going to bed at two, I could hardly get up by ten for my more enjoyable 10:30 class Wednesday and today, though I went to sleep at around one the nights before.

It makes no sense, at all, for the past tense of "pay" to be spelled "paid," whilst the past tense of "play" is "played." All you did was add an L!

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[autumnsshadow.livejournal.com]

There is probaly no real difference between skipping class quite intentionally and truly forgetting that you have class.

Except that when you truly forget to go to class you feel stupid for forgetting, but when you skip class, you only feel stupid if you forgot you had an exam.

[cosmolinguist]

This is true. I intentionally skipped class on Monday because I needed a break, I knew what we were going to talk about and just the thought of it bored me. But on Wednesday it just totally slipped my mind, and I did indeed feel quite stupid.

But, that's the class I'm going to now. I'm very proud of myself.

[karaksindru.livejournal.com]

Interesting ... I hadn't drawn the Frankenstein / Lilo & Stitch comparison, though it is quite obvious ...

I guess I was just caught up in the voice acting and animation ...

My brain is forever making connections between odd, disparate things...

[cosmolinguist]

I thought in class yesterday of the mad scientist guy saying that, since Stitch couldn't gravitate toward cities, steal street signs, back up sewers, adn steal everyone's left shoe, he wouldn't no what to do. "I never gave hima greater purpose." Yeah, it's a cheesy thought, but Frankenstein's monster is the same way.

From then on, I couldn't stop thinking about this. :-) It drove me crazy. My prof called Victor a mad scientist and I thought of the line "I prefer ... evil gen-i-us!"

I thought of how he never gives his creature a name, always referring to him as "Experiment 626," just as we are forced to always call Frankenstein's creature "the monster." Bit of a loaded term, eh?

Crazy, I know, but you're talking to someone who wrote her 12th-grade English term paper on how much Dr. Seuss is like Shakespeare.

[karaksindru.livejournal.com]

I just like David Ogden Stiers ... and I can immitate Stitch pretty well, if I do say so myself... which I kinda have to, since the only person who's heard my immitation is currently in Wasthington (I think) and I haven't heard from her in many months..

Your quotation, madam, is incorrect.

[comradexavier.livejournal.com]

I do believe that Stitch's programmed behavior regarding street signs is to reverse them, rather than steal them.

Well, it wasn't a real quotation anyway

[cosmolinguist]

You're right, that was it. I haven't seen that movie in quite a long time, though ... and I obviously wrote this comment in a hurry, as there are horrible typos in it and everything.

It's nice to see you're resumed being proofreader of my journal so you can tell me what I do wrong. :-)

Re: Well, it wasn't a real quotation anyway

[comradexavier.livejournal.com]

I do believe the contraction you meant to use is, "you've," rather than, "you're."

Re: Well, it wasn't a real quotation anyway

[cosmolinguist]

I don't know what I'd do without you. :-)

[photomoviegeek.livejournal.com]

It makes no sense, at all, for the past tense of "pay" to be spelled "paid," whilst the past tense of "play" is "played." All you did was add an L!

That's to avoid getting the dreaded "plaid"--a color/design scheme which looks fine on shirts, but awful on pants, and never should the twain meet.

[cosmolinguist]

That's a good point. I hadn't thought of "plaid." :-) I recently noticed a few instances of people writing "payed," though, and it made me think. But then, my grammar & language class has started to affect my thinking outside of class quite a bit. Because I'm a nerd.

[mllesarah.livejournal.com]

pay and paid come from french, perhaps. The word to pay is payer, but,(depending on your region) the conjegated form is either paye or paie. They sound the same. They use paie in the north, which is where the people who invaded England with William the Conquerer came from. Voilà, there is my idea on the whole thing.

[cosmolinguist]

Quite a neat theory, Sarah Jean. Better even than the dinosaurs, maybe.

[mllesarah.livejournal.com]

Stupid invasions, giving the poor english speakers such a difficult language to have to use...

My french came in handy, eh? This may be one of the first times that French has helped out your grammar! Usually your smattering of German is more than enough!