That's cool. Just last night while playing pool at a friend's house I mis-pronounced 'carom' as 'kuh-rome'. I tried to convince them it was an onomatopoeia, but no such luck.
Again, well-put post.
Btw, moderators - isn't it -1, redundant to mod my earlier comment off-topic?
I say near, because you neglected to mention how I SHOULD pronounce 'Lagrange'.
After a little research, I now know they were named after good ol' Joseph-Louis, which gives me a nationality and a good guess at the way the word sounds. However, as the internet is short on phonetic spellings (unless the subject is Quaoar), I'm still stuck with the age old reader's dilemna - which is a reader's vocabulary.
As an example - thank goodness for toner cartridges and internet browsers, or I may never have learned how to pronounce 'cyan' or 'cache'.
Back to 'Lagrange points', which come up in conversation almost as often as 'g-spots', which, coincidentally, also deal with heavenly bodies and points of attraction. Sadly, they also often attract dust.
They are pronounced 'gee-spots'. I recommend that you go find solitude in a quiet room and attempt to find yours.
Or, to put it another way - Go fuck yourself. Please pardon my French.
Also, I may be a fuckwit, but at least I managed to struggle through the difficult and time-consuming process of registering.
Would you have preferred 'I'm picking up good librations'?
Home, Home on Lagrange
Where the Moon and the Earth fight for sway
If these comets don't stop
my space station might pop
and I glow just a bit more each day
I'm working on a version of 'Ice, Ice, Baby' in honor of Mars.
'maybe playwrights don't know much about English'
I'd hazard a guess that only the English speaking ones do.
Since we so firmly moved from the realm of grammar to the 'world of theater' with the uber-literate reference to The Tempest and the un-abashed bashing of all playwrights everywhere (and what has a playwright ever done to you - besides perhaps passion plays and anything by Beckett?), I think it's fair to mention that the convention being attacked has nothing to do with which little pronoun can go the city, or the market, or wherever. In the sweet little drama we were presented with earlier - and it must be a play, as you brought up theater - there are two characters:
MeHer The symbol before the colon isn't bound by any of the rules you were applying. It could just as easily been a dialogue between A and B or Joanie and Chachi. I would save your impromptu grammar lessons for the green room.
I can't honestly say that I'm sure I spelled Chachi right. Feel free to correct me.
I think we were still naive enough to be bowled over by that atmosphere. That's all id is providing - atmosphere, in a sense. The first person is our best attempt at a 'human simulation', and the engine is the world we operate in. That's what was impressive, and it kept our attention because we were so lost in the illusion of another space. I realize I'm stating the obvious there.
Now, however, even as it becomes more immersive, the illusion require more sophistication. Personally, I can't wait until the first good everquest/quake hybrid shows up. I'm not really a fantasy buff, but the move from being completely combat-based to an alternate persistent reality will be huge, IMHO. Then we'll start having our quake and eating it too.
-groan-
I had only seen doom once, in passing. I wasn't much of a computer person (shock) other than a rudimentary knowldge of Mac's for high school/college journalism, but I had played some nintendo, and was familiar enough to appreciate the coolness of doom and multiplayer in general.
A while later a friend of mine loaned a me a NIN cd he said he had found in the gaming section. He was aware there was a demo on it, but bought it for the music (he be big fan). I didn't have a computer either, but I was dating a girl who worked at a place that did...
The three of us went there one night, she unlocked the door, and we loaded it onto her boss's computer (small office, hottest computer-I remember I loaded it in his quicken data).
I hadn't checked in on the whole 'desktop pc' revolution in a while, and the first time I figured out mouse-look was pretty...other-worldly.
Later I graduated to grabbing ip's from websites (it took me forever to learn how to cut-and-paste, I'm ashamed to say - hours of hunching over a daily planner and trying to read off a server so i can type in 'connect...'), and then quakespy. Actually, before that there was the little program that let you click on a link on a website and it would open quake to the server...what was that called?
But the big moment in quake for me was when I downloaded that stupid dog. Talk about altering my reality. I tried quark and made a pyramid... not very playable but you could tell what shape I was going for...And then I got Team Fortress and lived in the basement with a chain gun, staring at the wall for what seemed like hours.
Now we've got voice chat and gamespy arcade and aim-bots and clans./insert crotchety old voice here --
kids these days
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No, I read one once without a dwarf in it.
Even if the conditon is 'like new', I'm still not buying someone's old edition of 'Aqua Erotica: 18 Stories for a Steamy Bath'...
There's no way that they'll get any sort of "targeted" advertising...
Followed soon after with:All that will do is ensure that you get "default" ads targeted for your demographic...
Yes, I'm nit-picking. But, then again - atleast I'm not nit-picking.Ummm...ok.
Again, well-put post.
Btw, moderators - isn't it -1, redundant to mod my earlier comment off-topic?
It was clearly marked off-topic. ;)
This is off topic, but I do have a question, regarding this quote:
That in-it-of-itself is intrinsicly impossible to justify
I thought the phrase was 'in-and-of-itself', as in 'from it's very core' or 'from all levels and perspectives'. Have I been wrong all along?
- I say near, because you neglected to mention how I SHOULD pronounce 'Lagrange'.
After a little research, I now know they were named after good ol' Joseph-Louis, which gives me a nationality and a good guess at the way the word sounds. However, as the internet is short on phonetic spellings (unless the subject is Quaoar), I'm still stuck with the age old reader's dilemna - which is a reader's vocabulary.As an example - thank goodness for toner cartridges and internet browsers, or I may never have learned how to pronounce 'cyan' or 'cache'.
Back to 'Lagrange points', which come up in conversation almost as often as 'g-spots', which, coincidentally, also deal with heavenly bodies and points of attraction. Sadly, they also often attract dust.
They are pronounced 'gee-spots'. I recommend that you go find solitude in a quiet room and attempt to find yours.
Or, to put it another way - Go fuck yourself. Please pardon my French.
Also, I may be a fuckwit, but at least I managed to struggle through the difficult and time-consuming process of registering.
Would you have preferred 'I'm picking up good librations'?
Home, Home on Lagrange
Where the Moon and the Earth fight for sway
If these comets don't stop
my space station might pop
and I glow just a bit more each day
I'm working on a version of 'Ice, Ice, Baby' in honor of Mars.
I did think the Telly Savalas reference would make it a bit more obvious. I knew I should have gone with the easy Porsche Joke...
That was Tea Leoni.
Or was it Telly Savalas? That Telly is such a hottie.
Thanks for the best laugh I've had in days.
Suppose he got the chalk from alt.binaries.crayola?
On a related note, anyone know how to decompress a .rar file? I just nabbed the BIG box o' crayons...
Since we so firmly moved from the realm of grammar to the 'world of theater' with the uber-literate reference to The Tempest and the un-abashed bashing of all playwrights everywhere (and what has a playwright ever done to you - besides perhaps passion plays and anything by Beckett?), I think it's fair to mention that the convention being attacked has nothing to do with which little pronoun can go the city, or the market, or wherever.
Me HerIn the sweet little drama we were presented with earlier - and it must be a play, as you brought up theater - there are two characters:
The symbol before the colon isn't bound by any of the rules you were applying. It could just as easily been a dialogue between A and B or Joanie and Chachi.
I would save your impromptu grammar lessons for the green room.
I can't honestly say that I'm sure I spelled Chachi right. Feel free to correct me.
I think we were still naive enough to be bowled over by that atmosphere. That's all id is providing - atmosphere, in a sense. The first person is our best attempt at a 'human simulation', and the engine is the world we operate in. That's what was impressive, and it kept our attention because we were so lost in the illusion of another space. I realize I'm stating the obvious there. Now, however, even as it becomes more immersive, the illusion require more sophistication. Personally, I can't wait until the first good everquest/quake hybrid shows up. I'm not really a fantasy buff, but the move from being completely combat-based to an alternate persistent reality will be huge, IMHO. Then we'll start having our quake and eating it too. -groan-
I had only seen doom once, in passing. I wasn't much of a computer person (shock) other than a rudimentary knowldge of Mac's for high school/college journalism, but I had played some nintendo, and was familiar enough to appreciate the coolness of doom and multiplayer in general. A while later a friend of mine loaned a me a NIN cd he said he had found in the gaming section. He was aware there was a demo on it, but bought it for the music (he be big fan). I didn't have a computer either, but I was dating a girl who worked at a place that did... The three of us went there one night, she unlocked the door, and we loaded it onto her boss's computer (small office, hottest computer-I remember I loaded it in his quicken data). I hadn't checked in on the whole 'desktop pc' revolution in a while, and the first time I figured out mouse-look was pretty...other-worldly. Later I graduated to grabbing ip's from websites (it took me forever to learn how to cut-and-paste, I'm ashamed to say - hours of hunching over a daily planner and trying to read off a server so i can type in 'connect...'), and then quakespy. Actually, before that there was the little program that let you click on a link on a website and it would open quake to the server...what was that called? But the big moment in quake for me was when I downloaded that stupid dog. Talk about altering my reality. I tried quark and made a pyramid... not very playable but you could tell what shape I was going for...And then I got Team Fortress and lived in the basement with a chain gun, staring at the wall for what seemed like hours. Now we've got voice chat and gamespy arcade and aim-bots and clans. /insert crotchety old voice here --
kids these days
/resume be sure to point out your health, and what level you are on