answers: prostrate/supine/prone, prostrate/prostate

[supercheesegirl]

What is the difference between "prostrate" and "supine"? (with added bonus coverage of "prone"!)
What is the difference between "prostrate" and "prostate"?

(with examples from Harry Potter, Angel, and Firefly)

Comments

[akasha_lilian]

Really liked this entry, but found it cute that you didn't venture to write a sentence with the last noun. *ggg*

[wanted_a_pony]

Thanks for another enlightening post! The cheery soundtrack of domestic fowls at the close is nice too.... ;-)

And yes, if this prevents even one painful description of some character massaging another's prostrate, you will have made the world a much happier place & me a happier fan. Bless you!

[sidlj]

If I ever got one of these wrong, I would be prostate with grief.

;-)

[supercheesegirl]

Ew! :)

[seanchaidh]

OMG, you guys actually used this idea! LOL Nothing's funnier than reading a story when Jack is stroking Daniel's prostrate, and of course that totally ruins the mood. Tee hee.

Another typo I used to see consistently in Classic BSG fandom -- the printed 'zines back in the days before I knew what fandom was -- there was one writer/publisher who always, ALWAYS wrote about how characters "shuttered" with cold or fear or really bad word choice. :)