A Brief Linguistic Protest: clytemnestra215

clytemnestra215

A Brief Linguistic Protest

Jun 06, 2010 04:30

Sela = me.

[04:03AM] Sela: the spelling of the word 'guitar' makes no sense
[04:03AM] Sela: what is that u doing in there?
[04:03AM] Sela: like an interloper in the night
[04:04AM] Sela: it serves no purpose
[04:05AM] Sela: apparently it is the fault of Spain!
[04:06AM] Sela: it is from the Greek 'kithara' and also the Persian 'sihtar' and later the 14th century English 'giterne.'
[04:06AM] Sela: and then the Spanish had to fuck it up with 'guittarra'
[04:06AM] Sela: and there we have it
[04:06AM] Sela: from the Arabic 'qitar,' from the Greek 'kithara'
[04:07AM] Sela: that is where the spanish word came
[04:07AM] Sela: this is highly unreasonable
[04:07AM] Sela: they just DECIDED to put a u in there?
[04:07AM] Sela: they DECIDED it would be a good idea?
[04:07AM] Sela: it was not a good idea
[04:07AM] Sela: i protest
[04:07AM] Sela: i file a complaint
[04:08AM] Sela: it is stupid
[04:08AM] Sela: their rash and unreasonable decisions have CONSEQUENCES
[04:08AM] Sela: which we feel even today!
[04:08AM] Sela: even today!!
[04:08AM] Sela: this very day!!!
[04:14AM] Sela: it is not to be borne :(

no of course i am not obsessed, we hate erich, important philosophical debates, pedantic, linguistics, chat logs, greek, suz is a bit odd, i'll get over it eventually, rooooaaarr!!!!, more time spent writing tags than entry, o rly, emo one-liners, treachery, bah