RedFeather
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Post by RedFeather on Dec 7, 2005 14:14:04 GMT -5
Aww, why be afraid of Spazzy? She's rather cute! *pat-pats the little red-and-yellow velociraptor*
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Post by Vorchia on Dec 8, 2005 2:27:09 GMT -5
Aww, why be afraid of Spazzy? She's rather cute! *pat-pats the little red-and-yellow velociraptor* Uhoh... Velociraptors are small but when they get annoyed...
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Post by Vorchia on Dec 26, 2005 4:17:05 GMT -5
She still doesn't have any survival instinct, now she tagged me with a questionaire at Deviant art AND hit me with a Deviant snowball... ;D
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Vira Redclaw
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Post by Vira Redclaw on Jan 12, 2006 12:37:05 GMT -5
*laughin*
Hey, you should show Min the piccy on deviantArt of the human who poked the Velo too much, lol!
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Post by Azonthus on Jan 14, 2006 9:09:54 GMT -5
Aww, why be afraid of Spazzy? She's rather cute! *pat-pats the little red-and-yellow velociraptor* Finally! Somebody acknowleges that I'm CUTE! Greg's not biased! Now to harness the cuteness to take over the world
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Post by Vorchia on Jan 15, 2006 15:35:13 GMT -5
I'll never understand how come the English spoken world can use a word as cute in such a double way... To me cute, cute is what a small newborn child is or a puppy, a BABY. To me a baby is cute, to me a baby or a babe is a child, from his or her birth to the age of about 18 months when it can walk and is less mommy-dependent. I cannot figure out the association of the words babe/baby and or cute with an adult woman the way English speaking people seem to do. Where did this strange association come from?? Whats with the need to be CUTE?? Cuteness is what a young child or animal needs to convince adults of its innocence and need for parental care... What a boy thinks or feels about his girlfriend is anything BUT parental so why is it the same word that is being used? It really makes zero sense to me. And how can normal guys who aren't pedophiliacs refer to a woman they find attractive or sexy as a 'babe'?? Does it have to do with the way a baby feeds on mothermilk that they wish they might imitate or something?? I'll never understand your language people!!
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SilvanoshiS
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Post by SilvanoshiS on Jan 16, 2006 2:39:22 GMT -5
Babe mutated in our language, it no longer means baby as it once did... It means woman, or a slightly derrogatory term thereof. Cute, is not so much a double standard, but a word with 2 completely distict and seperate meanings... I bet there are a few of those in every language. But being an English teacher, I only know of English. I don't know what I'm talking about, I'm just rambling.
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Post by Vorchia on Jan 16, 2006 2:43:30 GMT -5
Its ok, I was only being the weird foreigner myself.
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SilvanoshiS
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Post by SilvanoshiS on Jan 16, 2006 2:44:36 GMT -5
It's ok, I wasn't making ANY sense.
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Vira Redclaw
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Post by Vira Redclaw on Jan 16, 2006 11:58:04 GMT -5
*pouncey tackles SilvanoshiS* You is an English teacher?! *grabs and runs and ties to tree* You now teach me to major in English so I know ALLLLLLLLLLLL sorts of big bad words to use in me story. Yes?! I hold you hostage. 100 choco bars for release of Silvanoshi. j/k lol
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Barry
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You Steal me Mountain Dew, I kill you!
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Post by Barry on Jan 16, 2006 16:30:42 GMT -5
*pouncey tackles SilvanoshiS* You is an English teacher?! *grabs and runs and ties to tree* You now teach me to major in English so I know ALLLLLLLLLLLL sorts of big bad words to use in me story. Yes?! I hold you hostage. 100 choco bars for release of Silvanoshi. j/k lol LOL!!!
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Post by Azonthus on Jan 16, 2006 18:12:24 GMT -5
*You now teach me to major in English so I know ALLLLLLLLLLLL sorts of big bad words to use in me story. Yes?! *keeps quiet on her vast knowledge of bombastic words * Methinks Vira's gacting looby!
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Post by Vorchia on Jan 17, 2006 3:28:22 GMT -5
Hey Vira why don't you just do the 'a word a day' thingy Az does? It gives you a difficult word a day... Or try reading literature like Dickens, that man has such a huge vocabulary I have to use my dictionary just about every sentence. The same goes for the english translation of 'The three musketeers', by Alexandre Dumas. If you want to expand your vocabulary, I suggest those, or an academic science book of course. ;D Heck, read the Science or the Nature! (The most important science journals in case anyone didn't know. The publications in those journals ARE illegible, even real scientists (as in opposed to moi, who isn't done with her education yet) will need their dictionaries...) Oh and Vira, one more thing. ?Tienes un curso espaƱol de tu biblioteca ahora?
What, we have an English major in our midst? You can probably recognise me by my 'Dutch' spelling and grammar mistakes by now can't you? I know I tend to type 'woken' when I mean 'waked', switch 'j' and 'y', put 'u' after an 'ie' etc etc... I am so glad I can modify my posts. lol
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SilvanoshiS
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Post by SilvanoshiS on Jan 18, 2006 2:26:48 GMT -5
Oh holy mother of *is pounced on*... Vira! Let me go! Dickens.... I like him. Jane Austin is good, as is Dumas. I would also recomend William Gibson and Cory Doctorow if you're a sci-fi/cyberpunk junkie. But if you want true literary gold, in my opinion, it's a toss up between Oscar Wilde and Dickens.
I've never liked the verb "wake", it's too hard to congigate in the past tense. to Wake, will wake, is woke, was awoken, was woken up.... I think you have it right when you type woken. I may be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure that's right.
As for big words, you only need one. It's the biggest word you've ever heard, and this is how it goes: Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
You know you're a nerd when you can spell that without looking at anything.
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Post by Vorchia on Jan 18, 2006 8:37:45 GMT -5
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