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XKCD- what all nerds should aspire to in romance.

only, me, i'd take grammar over fibbonnaci sequences or Hamiltonian-whatsijigs.

Date: 2007-10-21 02:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] highlyeccentric.livejournal.com
i swear i didn't used to be this passionate about grammar...

Date: 2007-10-21 02:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] goblinpaladin.livejournal.com
Maybe it's just the French.

Maybe it's Maybelline.

Maybe it's the fact that nearly every conversation we have devolves to comparative linguistics.

Date: 2007-10-21 02:26 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] highlyeccentric.livejournal.com
bugger it. I am NOT translating "maybe she's born with it" into OE. WASTE OF TIME.

Date: 2007-10-21 02:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] goblinpaladin.livejournal.com
Subjunctive clause or adverb?

:D

Date: 2007-10-21 02:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] highlyeccentric.livejournal.com
ooooh, subjunctive. that would solve my adverb problem.
question is... past or present tense?

that could be a TWO WORD phrase. how dull.

Date: 2007-10-21 02:33 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] goblinpaladin.livejournal.com
But so concise! That's awesome!

I would use the past tense. Modern English is all fuzzy with tenses. She 'was' born with it, or not, but the ad uses 'is' because advertisements suck.

Date: 2007-10-21 02:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] highlyeccentric.livejournal.com
noooo

not going there....

noooooooooooooooooooooo

judith!

Date: 2007-10-21 02:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] goblinpaladin.livejournal.com
Wait- you should translate it into French. :P "The advertisement said she may have been born with it."

Date: 2007-10-21 02:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] highlyeccentric.livejournal.com
um...

la publicite a dit que elle pourrait etre nee avec cella

perhaps.

Date: 2007-10-21 02:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] goblinpaladin.livejournal.com
There we go, then. Helped you with study!

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Date: 2007-10-21 02:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] highlyeccentric.livejournal.com
la publicite a exprime/ la possibilite que elle soit nee avec cela.

eeee, subjunctives!

Date: 2007-10-21 03:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] goblinpaladin.livejournal.com
Yay!

Mind, I hate subjunctives. But that's because in Latin they are EEEVIILL.

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Date: 2007-10-21 09:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] niamh-sage.livejournal.com
In het Nederlands:

Misschien is ze ermee geboren.

:P

Date: 2007-10-21 09:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] highlyeccentric.livejournal.com
you have an excuse for being able to do that... no NERDPRIZE for you...

Date: 2007-10-21 09:40 am (UTC)

Date: 2007-10-21 02:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blackbuttoneyes.livejournal.com
I love XKCD!!

Date: 2007-10-21 02:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] highlyeccentric.livejournal.com
my life has turned into an unwritten XKCD strip. with grammar instead of the fibonnacci sequence.

Date: 2007-10-21 03:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blackbuttoneyes.livejournal.com
Doesn't seem like a bad sort of life =)

Date: 2007-10-21 03:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] highlyeccentric.livejournal.com
as long as it stays in the reals of XKCD!Sweet and restrains its courtly poetic tendancies, it will be a most excellent sort of life.

Date: 2007-10-21 03:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blackbuttoneyes.livejournal.com
In general that is sound advice. A little courtly love is all right now and again, but I imagine adultery and watching from afar is more emotionally complicated than they sometimes make it out to be =)

Date: 2007-10-21 03:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] highlyeccentric.livejournal.com
not to mention angsty.
courtly love kinda falls on its head it the gazed upon party decides they like you back... unless, of course, they're married.

which, fortunately, is not the case here.

Date: 2007-10-21 04:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blackbuttoneyes.livejournal.com
Phew! That's good then. Yeah, courtly love only really works as long as it's unrequited or adulterous...again, both unhealthy and angsty.... and more often than not puts you squarely in the second circle of Hell, at least where Dante is concerned.

Date: 2007-10-21 04:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] highlyeccentric.livejournal.com
yeah, and *DANTE* was such a great connessieur of healthy relationships... him and his barely pubsecent beatrice

Date: 2007-10-21 01:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blackbuttoneyes.livejournal.com
Hahaha true! But then she bitched him out in heaven about it so it turned out all right in the end. =)

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