A rant and an appreciative post on the same subject...

The rant comes from this:

Sometimes, people complain about the spelling "wymyn". To be perfectly fair, I think it's a stupid spelling. The pronunciation of the word doesn't change, and it violates normal English spelling rules. However, I don't care enough to mention it to anyone because, really, I understand why people do that (even if I know the etymology of the word, they often do too) and it's just not a big deal.

However, I *do* get pissed at those who try to correct/defend this practice by bringing up the word "huMAN". *deep sigh* Woman and man come from the word "man/mon" in old english. It's a germanic word. I'm told (though I really don't care to do the research myself and could easily be wrong) that for a while "man" just meant something like "person" and sex was distinguished using "werman" and "wifman". Wifman became woman (and wif became wife), the wer from werman only survives in werewolf. Human, on the other hand, comes from humanus, related to homo (not homo like homosexual, homo like homo sapiens), which is a LATIN word. They both are. Human and man/woman aren't related, they just sound alike because of coincidence.

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Appreciative post:

In a response to my faceblind post over at asperger, I used the phrase "sandblind, not stoneblind". Sandblind means "half-blind", stoneblind means "blind", pebbleblind is in between. Sandblind is, according to my dictionary, the original word, the others were formed in the same pattern. However, sandblind has nothing to do with sand. It comes from sam-blind, where sam means, according to my recollection of the etymology (always shaky) half. But once it became "sand", pebble and stone were quick to follow. I always thought that was cute/funny and love having a chance to use the words.


The first person to see the connection between the two points gets a gold star. If you manage to CORRECTLY correct me, with the appropriate reference, you get a smiley face sticker too. How I loved those smiley face stickers....

Thank you, Xiggy!

Comments from our Glorious Leader^TM.

Ah, it'd be funnier if it weren't so very, very true.

Stolen from feminist_rage

http://www.jsonline.com/news/state/feb04/207287.asp

( The entire article is in here )

Some choice quotes:

If we don't have the institution of marriage, then anything goes

( My reply )

...comments on subjects ranging from the church's role in recognizing same-sex marriage

( My reply )

"The Ten Commandments say to honor your father and mother," Kerry Drake of Plymouth told the committee. "That's impossible to do in a gay marriage."

( My reply )

"The courts used that opportunity to rewrite their laws to include marriage of persons of the same sex and not just of the opposite sex," Gundrum told the committee. "Liberal attorneys in black robes struck down 200 years of common law and tradition in that state in brazen fashion."

( My reply )

Melissa Wolfgram of Butler said that as a business owner who doesn't agree with homosexuality, she wouldn't want to be required to give benefits to an employee who happens to be part of a same-sex marriage.

( My reply )

"If we allow homosexuals to marry, business and the economy will be affected," Wolfgram said. "What's going to happen when Christians like my husband and I decide to leave Wisconsin?"

*( My reply )

It should be depressing, but the sillies are so very, very stupid in their comments. If they can't even come up with a decent argument....

Oh, and thanks go to xmorningxrosex for the post!

Gah, we get so many fucking hang-ups here...

As in, people call, and either through trolliness or wrongnumberness just hang up when you answer the phone. Hatehatehate!

So, after the third such phone call in two hours, I just did *69. If it's the same person, next time they call I can confirm it. Apparently (according to google) it's somebody living on 19th Avenue in Brooklyn. Which is nice and coinkydinkal, I used to live on 18th Avenue.