Idiolect update
I now say mrr and mrrfle out loud, not just in IM conversations. Huh.
I sometimes find myself compelled to say LOL out loud, pronounced "loll" not "ell-oh-ell". Every time I do, I hedge it by saying that I need to kill myself for saying LOL out loud. Ggeh, this is one word I want to stop using.
I'm trying to train myself to use "fair" the way Daine, from the Tortall books, uses it -- meaning "fairly" or "very". Like, "If you want to lie to a god -- and sometimes it's fair useful -- do it with the truth." (BTW, I find this an interesting concept: gods can smell/detect deceit in a human, but they can't tell if you're lying by omission.)
Also, my use of the words "accustomed" and "unaccustomed" seems to differ from most people's, to the point that they don't understand me, so let me clear that up. I use them as adjectives, thus: an accustomed action/state is one that you're accustomed to/used to.
Like:
"I'm a second semester senior now, which is really unaccustomed."
"This is my accustomed thing to do before Karate."
They're still not full adjectives, though. I'd never talk about "an (un)accustomed apple"; they can only describe actions or states.
I sometimes find myself compelled to say LOL out loud, pronounced "loll" not "ell-oh-ell". Every time I do, I hedge it by saying that I need to kill myself for saying LOL out loud. Ggeh, this is one word I want to stop using.
I'm trying to train myself to use "fair" the way Daine, from the Tortall books, uses it -- meaning "fairly" or "very". Like, "If you want to lie to a god -- and sometimes it's fair useful -- do it with the truth." (BTW, I find this an interesting concept: gods can smell/detect deceit in a human, but they can't tell if you're lying by omission.)
Also, my use of the words "accustomed" and "unaccustomed" seems to differ from most people's, to the point that they don't understand me, so let me clear that up. I use them as adjectives, thus: an accustomed action/state is one that you're accustomed to/used to.
Like:
"I'm a second semester senior now, which is really unaccustomed."
"This is my accustomed thing to do before Karate."
They're still not full adjectives, though. I'd never talk about "an (un)accustomed apple"; they can only describe actions or states.