Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[wombat]

Also, I now feel compelled to go read the first 5 or so issues of The Tick. "Move along, we are just a hedge."

Mostly because I object to the new regime of splitting threads that wander, I feel compelled to remind everyone that there is a capybara in The Tick.  

Not that I have ever seen or read this work myself, despite the authoritativeness with which I make this pronouncement. Someone needs to tell me where to buy it.

[CortJstr]

In principle I agree with you but Merriam-Webster says it's okay and Ninja Burger uses it at least once so I'm going to have to say rstevens done okay with this one.

On the other hand, the Ninja Burger RPG sourcebook states that any player using the word "ninjas" is immediately dishonored and must lop off one of his remaining fingers if any. The plot thickens! Or maybe not.

Actually I could only find "ninjas" on that one page I linked. On the rest of the site they consistently use "ninja" as a plural. So maybe it was a typo. Or maybe the lack of updates is because the webmaster was forced to commit seppuku for allowing such a mistake.

Also, I now feel compelled to go read the first 5 or so issues of The Tick. "Move along, we are just a hedge."

Mostly because I object to the new regime of splitting threads that wander, I feel compelled to remind everyone that there is a capybara in The Tick.  

Not that I have ever seen or read this work myself, despite the authoritativeness with which I make this pronouncement. Someone needs to tell me where to buy it.

It was only on the cartoon show, not in the comic. Fox has yet to release it on DVD and the VHS is out of print. Speak did appear on some t-shirts as well.

[misterhaan]

Next week's debate: The use of fairy/fairie/faerie at Ren Faires.

at risk of bringing this discussion to something other than the correct plural form of ninja, i thought i would say that i think "færie" would be pronounced differently than "fairy" or "fairie" based on what i have observed on the pronunciation of the letter æ.  of course i'm assuming here that "faerie" was actually meant to be "færie" . . .
so anyway, æ is pronounced as a hard E every time i've seen it, so it wouldn't sound the same as ai, which is a hard A.

back to the topic of putting an 's' at the end of a word when you shouldn't, i feel the need to point out that m-w.com also says that 'anyways' is a word, when clearly it is not.

[AlohaDawg]

In principle I agree with you but Merriam-Webster says it's okay and Ninja Burger uses it at least once so I'm going to have to say rstevens done okay with this one.

On the other hand, the Ninja Burger RPG sourcebook states that any player using the word "ninjas" is immediately dishonored and must lop off one of his remaining fingers if any. The plot thickens! Or maybe not.

Actually I could only find "ninjas" on that one page I linked. On the rest of the site they consistently use "ninja" as a plural. So maybe it was a typo. Or maybe the lack of updates is because the webmaster was forced to commit seppuku for allowing such a mistake.

Also, I now feel compelled to go read the first 5 or so issues of The Tick. "Move along, we are just a hedge."

Mostly because I object to the new regime of splitting threads that wander, I feel compelled to remind everyone that there is a capybara in The Tick.  

Not that I have ever seen or read this work myself, despite the authoritativeness with which I make this pronouncement. Someone needs to tell me where to buy it.

It was only on the cartoon show, not in the comic. Fox has yet to release it on DVD and the VHS is out of print. Speak did appear on some t-shirts as well.

Lately, I have noticed Naked Mole Rats getting a lot of pop culture face time, too. Kim Possible has one for a sidekick and I saw a large group of them on a really strange Cartoon Network show that was on after my current favorite, Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

[CortJstr]

Next week's debate: The use of fairy/fairie/faerie at Ren Faires.

at risk of bringing this discussion to something other than the correct plural form of ninja, i thought i would say that i think "færie" would be pronounced differently than "fairy" or "fairie" based on what i have observed on the pronunciation of the letter æ.  of course i'm assuming here that "faerie" was actually meant to be "færie" . . .
so anyway, æ is pronounced as a hard E every time i've seen it, so it wouldn't sound the same as ai, which is a hard A.

back to the topic of putting an 's' at the end of a word when you shouldn't, i feel the need to point out that m-w.com also says that 'anyways' is a word, when clearly it is not.

I believe in greek ae is pronounced as a hard e but in latin it's a hard a. Which is why aegis is listed with two correct pronunciations.

At least they list anyways as dialect/archaic.

[wombat]

So much to catch up on, we are busy bees today.

1. People who spell it 'faerie' should be slapped.  This is not a prescriptive grammar point - it's just that observation has shown that people who do this, are inevitably people who need to be slapped.

2. Can anyone tell me what VHS episodes of The Tick have the capybara in them so I can look for them on ebay and such?  While I am still unemployed and have time to look (since this is, it is to be hoped, a temporary state.)

3. TSHIRTS?  OH god, why did you tell me this?

4.  The naked mole rat on Kim Possible is a Bad Thing.  You should not lead children to believe a pet naked mole rat is even a remote possibility.  You could not keep one naked mole rat - one naked mole rat taken away from its colony will die.  I am an Unemployed Small Mammal Professional and I say so. End of lecture number 1.

5. People say 'anyways' all the time.  Therefore it is a word.  I have a PhD in Linguistics and I say so.  Indulge me, since right now the PhD and $1.25 will get me on the subway and that's about it. I expect the urge that it gives me to be a messageboard curmudgeon will eventually fade. End of lecture number 2.

You'll all be relieved to hear I have to go out for a while now, and you can hope I won't have time to catch up when I get back.

[arkabee]

now, ninjas are cool.  

but,,,

naked mole rat ninjas on aquateen hunger force fighting fairy capybaras because they lost their indie-rock cred due to persistent online pedantry is the coolest.

and by coolest i mean, IT IS RAD.  i think.

[Nabubrush]

5. People say 'anyways' all the time.  Therefore it is a word.  I have a PhD in Linguistics and I say so.  Indulge me, since right now the PhD and $1.25 will get me on the subway and that's about it. I expect the urge that it gives me to be a messageboard curmudgeon will eventually fade. End of lecture number 2.

You and I are going to get married. It's going to be a tough break for the fiancee, but she'll get over it.

[misterhaan]

1. People who spell it 'faerie' should be slapped.  This is not a prescriptive grammar point - it's just that observation has shown that people who do this, are inevitably people who need to be slapped.

i very much agree with this statement.

[CortJstr]

So much to catch up on, we are busy bees today.

2. Can anyone tell me what VHS episodes of The Tick have the capybara in them so I can look for them on ebay and such?  While I am still unemployed and have time to look (since this is, it is to be hoped, a temporary state.)

3. TSHIRTS?  OH god, why did you tell me this?

I've found a Speak episode list but I must warn you, it's on Geocities and it really, really, really looks like it belongs on Geocities. Plus there is a background wav and a background midi when you get there. You've been warned.

The only Speak shirt left.

[AlohaDawg]

4.  The naked mole rat on Kim Possible is a Bad Thing.  You should not lead children to believe a pet naked mole rat is even a remote possibility.  You could not keep one naked mole rat - one naked mole rat taken away from its colony will die.  I am an Unemployed Small Mammal Professional and I say so. End of lecture number 1.

Next you'll tell me that they can't talk or kick bad guys in the balls or time travel or hit people with a stick or any of that stuff. Give kids a little more credit than that... seriously.

What?? No lecture on the implausibility of  Meatwad, Frylock, and Master Shake living next door to a hairy italian in Jersey? A man-sized container of Fries with a goatee and prehensile fries that blasts electricity from his eyes really exists?? COOL!

That said, yes, please slap all cape wearing Faerie speaking idgets back to wherever they came from. Then throw Stevie Nicks in there too, and lock the door. Our next mission: we eradicate the earth of sensitive trailer-dwelling white women who "really see angels flying around them". Smash their music boxes. Take away their buying privileges on QVC. Disconnect their webTV or AOL, whichever they are using.

[Pedro Picasso]

Saving the internet one cretinous group at a time!

It's too late.  That one September never ended.  We are now over run by the ninjas's.  You can only save yourself.

[wombat]

 Give kids a little more credit than that... seriously.

I would, if only people (kids and adults both) weren't so clueless about what animals can be pets.  I can't tell you how many people ask if tamarins make good pets.  If you knew the tiniest first thing about monkeys you wouldn't need to ask.  There's certainly no reason to think those people know the tiniest first thing about mole rats either.  And there's no reason to think that unscrupulous animal dealers wouldn't take advantage of that.

[wombat]

You and I are going to get married. It's going to be a tough break for the fiancee, but she'll get over it.

Maybe we can match her up with my husband?

[CortJstr]

I would, if only people (kids and adults both) weren't so clueless about what animals can be pets.  I can't tell you how many people ask if tamarins make good pets.  If you knew the tiniest first thing about monkeys you wouldn't need to ask.  There's certainly no reason to think those people know the tiniest first thing about mole rats either.  And there's no reason to think that unscrupulous animal dealers wouldn't take advantage of that.

I don't care, I still want a pygmy marmoset.