Comments | kalquessa: Anything but

kalquessa

Anything but

Oct 29, 2006 18:55

Aaand another Ernie moment for you (they're coming thick and fast, tonight, she's been doing a lot of reading for school, and it makes her fizzy):

Ernie: Oh! There's something about that in Orthodoxy! About how little kids have more joy because they exalt montonomy ( Read more... )

random interludes, words are delicious, ernie

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mosinging1986 October 30 2006, 03:14:29 UTC

:::dies laughing:::

Now I'm never going to be able to spell or say that word again! It's never going to look quite right!

prester_scott October 30 2006, 03:14:55 UTC

Williams can be weird and obscure, but Chesterton is just every shade of awesome.

kalquessa October 30 2006, 03:18:51 UTC

This is quite true. I read Orthodoxy for part of my Lenten discipline last year and I just wanted to eat the book, it was so good.

detroitfather October 30 2006, 11:42:55 UTC

If you read Orthodoxy as part of a Lenten discipline, then I am going to have daily doses of dark chocolate as mine next year!

I exult in repeatedly reading Orthodoxy!

Indeed... thomas_a_kempis October 30 2006, 13:25:26 UTC

It's a tough life but someone has to do it... :)

BTW, have you read The Desert Fathers, published by the Cistercians?

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green_tea_lady October 30 2006, 04:48:31 UTC

Ummm, at first it was funny, but now its getting kind of...worrisome.

Did you mean... thomas_a_kempis October 30 2006, 13:27:27 UTC

monotonous? :) *chuckles at certainty of GTLady's response to low humour*

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Re: Did you mean... green_tea_lady October 30 2006, 16:41:24 UTC

Oh no you did not just...

kalquessa October 30 2006, 17:24:42 UTC

Solder.

Oh yes, I went there.

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ctrl_a October 30 2006, 06:16:05 UTC

Montonomy should totally be a word. I don't know what it would mean, but it's fun to say.

superversive October 30 2006, 06:20:47 UTC

The science of naming mountains, one would guess.

detroitfather October 30 2006, 11:44:28 UTC

The nomy suffix indicates something about Law. Perhaps it is the study of the laws of Montana? Or the laws of the mountain people?

superversive October 30 2006, 12:02:36 UTC

True enough, but I prefer the lousy pun on onoma to the serious derivation from nomia. To me it seems more in the spirit of a barbarous neologism to give it a barbarous derivation. Mons is not Greek in any case. We should properly be speaking of oronomy, but that would be no fun at all.

terrylj October 30 2006, 16:24:44 UTC

Maybe God is exalted by monotony. After all, all those rituals in all those denominations can't be wrong!

In which case, God is highly exalted in my life, is all I can say.

kalquessa October 30 2006, 17:25:31 UTC

Heh, in that case, you aren't the only one exalting God with your life...