Vote for the 2006 Word of the Year

Now New-Age Woman is making up etymology! Because "imagination" and "magus" MUST be related, right? They have the SAME THREE LETTERS!

(I was very nice in my comment, but it's caused a newage backup here, and I think I'm starting to get a headache.)

This morning's pretend German adjective is bumenkrashen, which means there is activity over at the grain elevator. You all have a grain elevator in the neighbourhood, don't you?

I have created a new German word: burnenbarken. It is an adjective for when dogs are barking and something nearby is burning, as in

Es ist ein burnenbarken Morgen.

Please alert Germany.

ЭКСПОННРОВАНО
ЧЕРНО-ВЕЛАЯ
ФН-64

(Bad romanisation attempt: eksponnrovano chyerno-vyelaya FN-64)

I visited France, staying at a B&B. The cats mewed with a different accent, and one of them sang a little song. Then I was given the opportunity to move there, and I was very happy to accept, seeing as how I needed total immersion in order to really learn the language. Plus, France had singing cats ( Read more... )

...just barely in the Yankee category. Are You a Yankee or a Rebel? (dialect-based quiz)

On page 298, apparently written in the margin:

Misi Muiris Ó Clérigh, 7 am tríamhain ódie.

(I am Maurice O'Clery, and I am weary this day.)

There was also the time travel/computer programming bit (Forty days by tale before the doleful Deluge, to Erin came the shortlived swarm, a multitude, a numbered array) and the thing about the octopus:

Mag ( Read more... )