I can't believe that I have not yet mentioned the Blind Idiot Translation of Revenge of the Sith that I found a few weeks ago via TV Tropes Wiki. It's basically a Chinese bootleg version of Revenge of the Sith, translated back into English (albeit very badly) from Chinese. It's from this translation that we get the Internet meme (and frequent ( Read more... )

I present to you (actually, mostly Clarisse, but the rest of you can take a look too) my personal name list, or "PNL" as we call it over at behindthename.com.

Note: The majority of these I would not use on a real child; I just like the name.

Girls:

Adela/Adele/Adelle
Aderyn
Adhara
Alice
Alina
Andromeda
Anna
Annabel/Annabella/Annabelle
Astrid
Aubrey
Axelle
Azalea
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the improper-grammar saga continues: we were going over our "parallel structures" worksheets in class this morning, and when rob was reading his correct answer, he said "[insert beginning of sentence here, which introduces a list]--and then i put one of those colon things--[insert the list-ish rest of the sentence here]." shaylagh and i were just ( Read more... )