Linguistic ignorance I never want to see again....

This isn't stuff I've seen anybody here say, just stuff I've read in books that made me scream: ( Most of this is unfair )

Oh, and don't forget. The Inuit do NOT have 100+ words for snow. Instead, they have a complex grammatical structure (is it called polysynthetic? I forget) where each "word" can contain a sentence's worth of information. They don't have many more roots that mean snow than we have words that mean snow.

I've been ranting a lot lately.

I'm going to try to pretend this isn't normal.

So. Um. Hey, I'm bored (as always), anybody want to introduce themselves to everybody else? Anybody who reads me but hasn't friended me want to explain why (I like to know how many people read this thing so I can brag to people who are far less obsessively geeky than I)?

Hm. Question. Why can you say "as always", but not "as often" or "as rarely"? I mean, you can express those concepts, but not with a handy idiom, you have to say "as I often am" or "as I rarely have been before" or something. Please do NOT post with quotes like "as often as I refill this, it still empties quickly" or something, that's not the same thing as saying "I am bored, as often".

OOH! It's Maori!

Apparently. Frankly, if I saw my cat doing this, I wouldn't just stay out of his way, I'd call the exorcist, but then again, I don't know any cats who can talk.

Oh...dear...GOD

I can't describe it. Just click.

*is still in shock*

Somebody needs to die.

Fast.

Though, on a completely unrelated note, there's many perfectly intelligent people who can read, do math, but can NOT tell time, at least not on a standard (nondigital) clock. Nothing to do with laziness or ignorance either. Or at least, very little.

*cracks up*

It's a false what?
Don't be using French words on me.
The french have no place in this discussion the socialist bastards.

Go laugh, but feed not the troll.

Oh, but the moon is gorgeous tonight.

I was walking down the hill, and right above the bridge (the verranzano) there was the full moon. Huge, maybe quarter-sized, and orange. Not yellow, orange, like a pumpkin, and big enough to be one. Absolutely stunning. I wish I had a camera with me.

Funny thing, I never see the moon waning. Every time I see it, it's either a full moon or a waxing crescent, but other than looking up a day after it's full, I never see it wane. And I don't try for this, it just happens.