When you genericize slurs like gay, retarded, or lame into insults, even if you're not referring to people when you use them ("That movie is so gay," etc.), you're training people to react to those words with derision. And you can point out all you'd like that intellectually, you know the difference between a gay person and a thing you call "gay ( Read more... )

Again, this really deserves whole ECKSBOCKS HUEG post, but that RP I mentioned I was in?

Yeah, yesterday I got to opportunity to simultaneously RP two really, really heavy hurt/comfort threads, one on the hurt side, one on the comfort side. It was amazingly, amazingly cathartic ( Read more... )

Rost Tyler pronounces labiodental [f] for interdental [θ]!

...yeah, I know, I'm sad; I just now noticed this.

It is very subtle, though. I had to step through the scene to verify, but I eventually caught her articulating it in word-initial position in [fɪŋk] (for [θɪŋk]) in The Doctor Dances, in the utterance "You know what I think? I think you ( Read more... )

"Мистер и миссис Дурсль проживали в доме номер четыре по Тисовой улице и всегда с гордостью заявляли, что они, слава богу, абсолютно нормальные люди."

"Mister and Misses Durcel lived in House Number Four along Tisovoy Street and always delcared with pride that they, glory to God, were absolutely normal people."

It's like five times funnier in ( Read more... )

Ах! Я забыла говорить: вчера я получила книгу «Гарри Поттер и Философский Камень»! Так красива книга! Я скоро буду читать.

So, I'm sure silentbreathing and rionaleonhart will be pleased to know that I've finally just said "Screw it" and ordered «Гарри Поттер и Философский Камень». Years ago I couldn't get through it in English; let's see if the allure of pretty pretty Cyrillic letters will keep me engaged this time.

Title: Ya Vas Lyubil
Rating: T.
Genre: Geekfic, Sam|Daniel friendship, a bit of angst, a bit of humour.
Beta: Nikto. By which I mean, no one. Special thanks do go to my Russian professors, from whom I get a number of the anecdotes used within.
Continuity: Seventh-seasonish, doesn't really relate to any episode.
Prerequisites: Know about the ( Read more... )

Every once in a while, when I think I have things figured, something comes along and smacks me upside the head and borks my entire concept of where I am. At the moment it's my college major ( Read more... )

*snicker*

So, if I want a Russian major, I have to take a Russian/East European Culture course of some sort. Or, that requirement can be satisfied by taking a year of another Slavic language, like Polish.

...*snicker*

I could take POLISH.

You can't deny how perfect that would be; I mean, Polish!

POLISH!

Some of you may not understand why ( Read more... )

_coherent: I hate rhyming slang.
draegonhawke: Man, I have nightmares about rhyming slang.
_coherent: ...you do?
draegonhawke: Well, not literal ones. It does make we want to crawl under a desk and writhe, though. Literally.
_coherent: You should cross it over with Silent Hill.
draegonhawke: AUGH. You know, I think that may be the one fic I refuse to write.
_coherent: Aww.
draegonhawke: ...you know, that really would be ( Read more... )