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fajrdrako

A pronunciation question....

Jun 26, 2008 10:45

The phrase of the day on 'a word a day' today was "devil's advocate", a phrase I've always liked. But it surprised me by saying that "advocate" was pronounced "advo-kate". When "advocate" is a noun, I pronounce it "advo-cat".

Have I been wrong all these years?

(If so, won't be the first time, won't be the last.)

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walkingowl June 26 2008, 19:39:47 UTC

Been? Shone? Z?

You're not wrong.

fajrdrako June 26 2008, 19:54:03 UTC

Bin. Shon. Zed.

Happily right!

walkingowl June 26 2008, 19:57:42 UTC

Hi, cutie. I'm logging off to go drive sixty miles, now. Wish my arm the best. xo

fajrdrako June 26 2008, 20:01:09 UTC

May your arm be strong and painless! May the drive go well.

We're getting a gorgeous thunderstorm right now.

And I'm about to write a short Apaplexy zine.

walkingowl June 26 2008, 22:44:56 UTC

May your arm be strong and painless! May the drive go well.

Working on strong. The drive was soothing -- I had the windows open and there was good, cool air. Plus, the car being hot actually helped: the warm seat against my back was basically a heating pad. Not a bad thing.

I was a little worse when I got out of the car -- at first. Then it got less bad, rapidly. I think I am indeed just still working off one or two days of sleeping on it wrong. Could I be that lucky? How I hope!

We're getting a gorgeous thunderstorm right now.

Amazing and lovely. I think we had one last night -- puddles outside this morning, and I think I heard it on the windows (I could add that purring drowned it out, but that isn't quite true this time: the little tiger giggling and running madly to and fro is what drowned it out this time! she was in fine form). Nothing better than a thunderstorm.

And I'm about to write a short Apaplexy zine.I may try to do that later, when I get back to campus. Yes, I still have a sixty-mile drive ahead of me again... ( ... )

fajrdrako June 27 2008, 03:32:28 UTC

I finished my zine and emailed it to Tasia. Yay me!

No mailing comments, though, I couldn't find the last apa. Not easy to look for it, either. So.

It was a gorgeous evening - coolish and with dramatic clouds.

Glad your shoulders are easing. I hope they continue to improve.

walkingowl June 28 2008, 04:24:08 UTC

I was not able to do a zine. Too stressed out to try to do something last-minute. For soem reason, I got a sudden intestinal upset during my last three hours at work; it seems to have eased, now, but I'm left wondering if I didn't cook something properly, or put it into a container that I had not washed properly...? This is an awful lot of intestinal upset stuff coming very close together ( ... )

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