My little sneaky fingerprints

[alibi2014]

It's 1:20 AM, I just got home from work, I'm eating yoghurt for dinner while texting with a friend about Star Trek and Sherlock. What better time for a meme?

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[zinnia_rose]

7. Ha, can you believe I've never read ANY of those books?? Maybe I'll have to check them out.
22. D: Sorry your dad married such a nasty person. Among other things, making pastries is TOTALLY NOT A STUPID INTEREST.
24. Yes! I completely agree! Indifferent people are awfully boring. So are people who agree with me on everything.
50. I am oddly amused that you find the word dissonance appealing, given its meaning. :p
55. Does the tetragrammaton (speaking of cool words) itself bother you, or just when vowels are added? The link mentions two ways to vowelate insert vowels -- does one bother you more than the other? (Hmm, actually, the second one appears to be wrong. So never mind, maybe.) And if you don't mind me asking, then why do you spell out God instead of G-d? (Sorry if these are dumb/offensive questions. I have basically zero religious sensibilities, so I am clueless rather than malicious.)
56. DUDE. YES. I've been lucky enough to have gotten mostly awesome teachers, but bad teachers really suck. I can only assume they were brilliant researchers, because they sure weren't hired for their teaching skills. I had an organic chemistry professor who treated each lesson like a review session. For some bizarre reason he seemed to be under the impression that we were already familiar with the material. The entire class was like "...what the hell are you talking about?"

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[alibi2014]

Haha, tetragrammaton is a cool word! The Hebrew word itself (i.e. the tetragrammaton) doesn't bother me at all, because it's just the name of God as written in Hebrew. It only bothers me when people try to pronounce it literally. The Hebrew word is kind of like an acronym, and one that's not intended to be pronounced as it's written. It's actually forbidden for Jews to pronounce God's name as it's written; when we come across it in the Torah or whatever, we use the title "Adonai" in its place.

I don't have any problem writing the word "God" because I see it as just kind of a placeholder word. The word doesn't have any power for me; it's just a label I use, rather than a real name. I do always capitalize God, though, mostly just for grammatical reasons, since it is, after all, a proper noun.

Absolutely no offense taken! I'm always happy to answer questions, and as I said, it's really very hard to upset me. I hope this made some kind of sense. Also, "vowelate" is a word that needs to exist.

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[zinnia_rose]

That makes a lot of sense, thanks! :D

(When I run the word, I will add "vowelate" to the OED and nobody will be able to stop me.)