Lommy, I'm not sure that's the best place to get your-

Actually, no, it is. Yes, base all you're school work on the endless truth you'll find there in that impressive Newspaper. ;)

You know there's something wrong when you read a guitarist's name "Tony Iommi" as "Tony Lommi" (although you knew the name before!), considering it an interesting discovery. Do I need to add anything else?

I think it is a good enough sign that you show up at 5:26am in a time where you have both University, work, family and friends to think about.

When you see a clip of penguins on TV and think "ooh lommies" :rolleyes:

Well, in the end I used my English book as the main source, but looking for letters to the editor in the BD Newspaper surely provided me much-needed amusement so that my work wasn't too hard... ;)


I think I should be flattered... :D Anyway, I'm amused at least. :p

When you find a picture with penguins on a school forum and start wondering if Lommy is also there on the forum. (Lommy is in the same school with me, but she sure shouldn't be on that forum.) :D

When you find it much easier to type your pseudonym than your real name!

When you sit in front of a computer in school for 75min after classes end, to 6PM and press CTRL + R every half-a-second in the WW-thread.

When you rejoice when you realise you can write about BD in a school essay... :D

More to it: When you do have a porfectly working computer at home, but don't want to waste the 30 minutes it takes to get home and at school.

Gotta hear more!

Your school must be the coolest EVER! :D

Oh it is! At least if would have asked me, I don't know about Lommy... :D

The answer would be the same, don't worry... :D

I have a course in a subject called "media" and we had to write an essay about why we use media and which media we use and the teacher told us to include internet in that, so... :smokin:

When, even when you're no longer as often in the Downs as you used to, you mark your calendar with significant dates such as your deathday, some fellow BDers' birthdays, the day you overcame your fear and entered the RPGs through the Green Dragon Inn, the day you started PMing a BDer with whom you're still corresponding after two years (the 'anniversary' was a few days ago)...

...and it didn't even occur to you as a sign of your addiction because you thought it was completely normal.

Oh, thanks for reminding me, Lommy! Last year I took a Comm class, and one of our requirements was to make a speech. At that time I was addicted enough to talk about what I gained from joining the Downs.

Another thing - some songs remind you of the happy times when you had plenty of time to spare for the Downs. I can't enumerate any, but when I hear them, I get that eerie nostalgic feeling.

Lastly, when you come across good lines while reading books, you automatically think, Hmm, this would make a good siggy.

When deprived of internet access and even cellphone reception
 

on holiday in remote parts ...you send postcards to every downer you have a real postal address for.... :cool:

When you are having two Downish dreams in a row. Hooray!

When you think it's a lamentable loss that you've ceased (temporarily, hopefully) having BD dreams, or being a subject of one. :(

And you've finally caught yourself automatically thinking "Lommy" when you see a group of penguins in a photo. Yay!

Oh! I thought that's normal...:p

It is! But whoever said I'm normal? :p

Speaking of whom...

When you find yourself wondering if Legate has three syllables, or two syllables and rhymes with date.

Finally? Is that some thing people should wait for? Like "Oooh, now I think of Lommy when I see penguins, now I must have seen the light!" or something like that? :p

Well, when you've had five BD dreams in a row, come back here and post it and I can consider taking it as a serious sign of addiction... :Merisu: ;)

? :D *slaps himself to the forehead* What madness is that?

Two.

But as far as I know, it does not rhyme with date. In fact, I think it's very hard to find something that it would rhyme with. Hmm... I don't know.

Hey, what, you had five? :rolleyes:

Well let's wait for the three following days. But I don't give much hope to it.

Of course, Lommy. It doesn't say much about me as a Downer if I'm not easily able to make that association.


I guess I'm entitled to appear self-confessedly stupid occasionally... but just how is "Legate" supposed to be pronounced anyway, Legate? :o

Don't worry, I had to look it up also when I used it (so that I knew it later if someone asked). English pronounciation is simply terrible, why can't they pronounce letters as they are written :p Simply, the pronounciation is something like "lae-get" (as in "lay" and "to get something"). Well, more or less.

Err it isn't ... is it?
 

I would say it leg-ut or legget may be - definitely not as in lay..

And there are good diachronic linguisic reasons for our spelling (as well as some random reasons) and in my opinion Mr Webster only confused the situation... why change plough to plow when it still is said differently to snow? :confused:

The Saucepan Man had a splendid sig that illustrated the many pronunciations of Eglish words ending in -ough (7 or 8 I think...). :D

Edit
Of course I am speaking as a speaker of more or less "Oxford English" .... the inhabitants of the erstwhile colonies may have a different opinion....

Well my dictionary has this explanation:

legate = ambassador, envoy [leg-it]

http://www.yourdictionary.com/legate (with pronunciation, but the voice sounds liek Microsoft Sam)

Yes, leg, good one, how come I did not think of that.:rolleyes: "Legget" is probably the closest. But isn't lay, without the y, sounding the same? I mean, the vowel? Maybe a little bit longer... I just could not remember any words where the English people pronounce "e" as I wanted.

Good, that should serve this purpose. Thanks.

Okay, I hope this matter is solved and we don't get any chat skwerl to be sent against us...

[QUOTE=Legate of Amon Lanc;535520]Yes, leg, good one, how come I did not think of that.:rolleyes: "Legget" is probably the closest. But isn't lay, without the y, sounding the same? I mean, the vowel? Maybe a little bit longer..QUOTE]



http://www.thefreedictionary.com/legate

No in British English it is quite a different sound - lay has a long pure vowel, leg has a short vowel so far in the back of the mouth that it is practically a gentle clearing of the throat. The mouth is in a completely different shape. If I say Legate with the lay sound I feel like I am auditioning for Minnie Driver's role in "The Riches":p

Yeesh...apparently I just can't pronounce anything right..

I've been pronounciating your name horribly wrong for a whole year. Now I must go re-teach myself. :rolleyes:

You know you're addicted to the Barrow Downs when you spend twenty minutes trying to pronounce Legate, ha. :p

So ... it's like ... leggit? :D

When, as a ww-mod, you're annoyed by the invisble mode -rule because it makes you unable to stalk your players... especially at Nights...

:rolleyes:

When although you're dead you keep refreshing the WW thread every 5 minutes. :D

A few more examples of the "seeing 'downers -phenomenon":

My little sister was studying geography and reading her geography textbook aloud. I really wasn't listening to her, but one word did catch my attention.
Me: "What?! Did you say "runemuodostelma"?
Sister: "Silly. I said "reunamuodostuma"."
Good for me. Even though I must say I'm a master of mishearing words. Maybe that I managed to hear "muodostuma" as "muodostelma" gives some idea of it. (Muodostuma and muodostelma both mean "formation" in Finnish, "muodostuma" is just something that has formed by itself and "muodostelma" is something shaped/formed by humans. And the proper English translation of the term "reunamuodostelma" is "ice marginal formation" or something like that, in case anyone was wondering. :D)

Also, my sister read that her toothbrush said "Legate" when it really said "Colgate". When I laughed at her and told her she seems to be addicted to the BD she replied something like: "No, I'm not. That was all your fault, because you always speak of the Barrow-Downs and Barrow-Downs people." I leave it for you to judge which one of us is to blame.

Lastly, I couldn't help laughing when studying irregular Swedish and found "to burn": brinna, brinner, brann, brunnit. Sounded all too much like Brinn(iel) to me... :rolleyes: :p

You, of course:p But still it seems to me that your sister could write to this thread herself. And whatever the case, I am very amused by this. :D (Actually, I happen to have a Colgate toothpaste...)

That's the only thing from all you named that I would consider "normal", because I would also read it like that. In fact, for already a very long time I have similar problem with the latin verb "volo". But that's even more obvious, I believe.

Fine. Though I don't (yet) consider myself as addicted to the Barrow-Downs..

No, no, no. It was more about her talking about Legate all the time... :D

EDIT: Wow, 10th post!!!

Hahaha. :D

I really can't say if it's fun or horrible to have someone in your life that can analyse to you about which BD-related topics and which BDers you talk the most about. Maybe I should ask Little Green to make me some sort of a report or diagram and post it here... :eek: :D

*envious cringe*

Nilpaurion Felagund, where in the real world are you!!!

:D

If not yet, then you have at least good start for it.:p

I just hope it was all in good ;)

One can always hope. ;)

I wonder if it's a sign of addiction that it really bothers me more that I haven't written the final narration for my late ww-game yet than that I have several unwritten texts for my creative writing lessons... :rolleyes:

I think that we are talking of an addiction to WW, which I would argue is not the same as an addiciotn to The Downs.

Well, Rune, if that's not good enough for you, how about making 107 posts in the past 15 days...? :eek: ;)