spelling, grammar, punctuation helps

[bedlamsbard]

Am...I just attracting the anonymice (oh, come on, like you never think of "anonymous" as "anonymouse") recently or something?

At least this time I don't think it's a flame. Or someone telling me that OBVIOUSLY I'm not getting the religious imagery.

*blinks in confusion*

Comments

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

ANONYMICE.

Best word. Ever. No, wait, that's dévergonder, French for 'to go to the bad'. But Anonymice comes close.

[almostinstinct.livejournal.com]

Nu-uh, it's hablababa, the subjunctive of hablar. But, yes, kudos to anonymice.

[lazaefair.livejournal.com]

I'm strongly in favor if defenestration myself.

[lassiterfics.livejournal.com]

ppl have used the word anonymice before :)

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

IT JUST LOOKS LIKE MOUSE. I cannot help myself! It's not like there's a good plural for anonymous anyway...

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

i didn't think i'd come at it completely out of thin air...

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

That's a pretty good word, it's true.

*considers* Of course, there's thinken, which has the distinction of surviving three versions of the English language with its grammatical oddities intact... BUT DO NOT ASK ME ABOUT THINKEN, or I will never shut up.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

Should I ask or just google?

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

*waves* DO NOT ASK MEEE.

Well. Basically, it's the ancestor of 'methinks', and it means 'it seems to me '. It doesn't mean 'I think', because it never appears with a subject pronoun. It's more a perceptive process than a cognitive, but it often refers to perception of non-physical and/or false things. (Think comes from OE Thenken, and the spellings smush together in late middle english / early modern english) ANYWAY I love this word with an undying passion, and have this mad fixation with differentiating between active and passive cognitive processes, and between cognitive and perceptive processes. It's vr. interesting to see which characters in which situation are assigned different types of verbs for essentially the same purposes (The awakening scenes in Midsummer Night's Dream are good for that)

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what you just said, but okay!

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

I TOLD YOU NOT TO ASK.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

I COULD NOT HELP MYSELF.

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

IF MY RL FRIENDS WERE HERE THEY WOULD ALL LAUGH AT YOU. They all had to put up with me blathering about this word for nearly a year.

[bedlamsbard.livejournal.com]

YET FORTUNATELY I AM ON THE OTHERSIDE OF AN OCEAN AND A CONTINENT. *sad face*