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Alive without breath
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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. 
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09-09-2007, 11:52 AM
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A Voice That Gainsayeth
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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?
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09-09-2007, 09:26 PM
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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.
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09-10-2007, 06:38 AM
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When you see a clip of penguins on TV and think "ooh lommies"
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09-10-2007, 09:38 AM
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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.)
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10-18-2007, 10:12 AM
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Relic of Wandering Days
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: You'll See Perpetual Change.
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When you find it much easier to type your pseudonym than your real name!
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11-01-2007, 10:03 AM
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Silver in My Silent Heart
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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.
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11-01-2007, 11:32 AM
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Shady She-Penguin
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When you rejoice when you realise you can write about BD in a school essay...
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11-01-2007, 12:34 PM
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11-01-2007, 12:37 PM
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11-01-2007, 01:09 PM
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11-02-2007, 01:11 AM
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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... 
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11-02-2007, 03:03 AM
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Hauntress of the Havens
Join Date: Mar 2003
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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. Last edited by Lhunardawen; 11-02-2007 at 03:10 AM. |
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11-05-2007, 01:44 PM
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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....
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11-07-2007, 02:46 AM
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A Voice That Gainsayeth
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When you are having two Downish dreams in a row. Hooray!
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11-07-2007, 04:11 AM
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Hauntress of the Havens
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When you think it's a lamentable loss that you've ceased (temporarily, hopefully) having BD dreams, or being a subject of one.
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11-07-2007, 04:14 AM
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A Voice That Gainsayeth
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11-07-2007, 04:18 AM
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Hauntress of the Havens
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11-07-2007, 04:26 AM
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11-07-2007, 04:48 AM
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*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. Quote:
Well let's wait for the three following days. But I don't give much hope to it.
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11-07-2007, 09:43 AM
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I guess I'm entitled to appear self-confessedly stupid occasionally... but just how is "Legate" supposed to be pronounced anyway, Legate? 
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11-07-2007, 02:02 PM
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A Voice That Gainsayeth
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Simply, the pronounciation is something like "lae-get" (as in "lay" and "to get something"). Well, more or less.
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11-07-2007, 02:32 PM
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Pilgrim Soul
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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?  The Saucepan Man had a splendid sig that illustrated the many pronunciations of Eglish words ending in -ough (7 or 8 I think...). 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....
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11-07-2007, 02:41 PM
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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)
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A Voice That Gainsayeth
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"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.Quote:
Okay, I hope this matter is solved and we don't get any chat skwerl to be sent against us...
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"Should the story say 'he ate bread,' the dramatic producer can only show 'a piece of bread' according to his taste or fancy, but the hearer of the story will think of bread in general and picture it in some form of his own." -On Fairy-Stories Last edited by Legate of Amon Lanc; 11-07-2007 at 02:45 PM. |
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11-07-2007, 03:00 PM
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Pilgrim Soul
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[QUOTE=Legate of Amon Lanc;535520]Yes, leg, good one, how come I did not think of that.
"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"
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11-07-2007, 11:33 PM
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I've been pronounciating your name horribly wrong for a whole year. Now I must go re-teach myself. You know you're addicted to the Barrow Downs when you spend twenty minutes trying to pronounce Legate, ha.
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11-08-2007, 04:59 PM
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So ... it's like ... leggit?
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11-17-2007, 11:10 AM
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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...
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11-17-2007, 11:12 AM
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When although you're dead you keep refreshing the WW thread every 5 minutes.
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11-24-2007, 03:42 PM
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Shady She-Penguin
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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. )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...
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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. (Actually, I happen to have a Colgate toothpaste...)Quote:
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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... 
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Hauntress of the Havens
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*envious cringe*
Nilpaurion Felagund, where in the real world are you!!!
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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...
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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.
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Well, Rune, if that's not good enough for you, how about making 107 posts in the past 15 days...?
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