country dances and homonyms
It was very disorienting to see Jim Ellison on Firefly. Weird universe fusion thing, like. (And Knox, but he never made quite the same deep impression on me.)
I loved that I could say, now and then during the episodes, "Hey, I've danced to that."
I've been using this post by cathexys (in the virgule community) as a reading list for the past day or two. More meta links than you can shake a stick at, and a great way to revisit old kerfuffles interesting discussions and have them spin around in your head for a while.
By now, I do a double take when someone uses peek/peak/pique correctly. Same for pallet/palate/palette. This is very sad.
(Okay, okay, all you lovely people know this. To peek at something is to sneak a look at it. A peak is that pointy top part of a mountain, and in certain types of sex scenes, an orgasm. Pique is the cranky feeling I get when you ignore this well-crafted explanation and go read something else instead. A pallet is usually a primitive kind of bed-like arrangement that's very uncomfortable to sleep on. The palate, being the roof of the mouth, is also pretty uncomfortable to sleep on. And a palette is one of those roundish thingies with a hole for the thumb that painters use, and probably not that great to sleep on either, at that.
and yes, pallet can be an alternate spelling for palette. But that just makes life so complicated!)
*pokes at the internet* Somewhere out there, you're hiding fun stories with naked Simon in them from me, aren't you?
I loved that I could say, now and then during the episodes, "Hey, I've danced to that."
I've been using this post by cathexys (in the virgule community) as a reading list for the past day or two. More meta links than you can shake a stick at, and a great way to revisit old kerfuffles interesting discussions and have them spin around in your head for a while.
By now, I do a double take when someone uses peek/peak/pique correctly. Same for pallet/palate/palette. This is very sad.
(Okay, okay, all you lovely people know this. To peek at something is to sneak a look at it. A peak is that pointy top part of a mountain, and in certain types of sex scenes, an orgasm. Pique is the cranky feeling I get when you ignore this well-crafted explanation and go read something else instead. A pallet is usually a primitive kind of bed-like arrangement that's very uncomfortable to sleep on. The palate, being the roof of the mouth, is also pretty uncomfortable to sleep on. And a palette is one of those roundish thingies with a hole for the thumb that painters use, and probably not that great to sleep on either, at that.
and yes, pallet can be an alternate spelling for palette. But that just makes life so complicated!)
*pokes at the internet* Somewhere out there, you're hiding fun stories with naked Simon in them from me, aren't you?