So, today I (hopefully!) go see Serenity

And now, I have a question or two. First one goes "Why do we say "...aren't I?" when clearly the longer version is "am I not?" Is this just an illogical reaction to fears of using the dread word "ain't", despite the historical origins of the word? I can kinda agree that there's good reasons to say "No ain't in the third or second persons or plural!", but it does fill a nice gap where we don't have an amn't at the moment.

Secondly, so I'm on the bus, and a guy comes on and sees his friend. And they start chatting in Spanish, starting with a cheerful "Como sta!" and moving on from there.

Except that at one point the second guy says something, obviously reminding the first guy, and the first guy goes, in English, "Oh, right, right, right, right, right! Yeah!" After taking a moment to smugly think to myself "I know what that's called! Heee heee heeeeee!", I start to wonder: Does he know he said that in English? Why did he say that in English? I wonder, which is his first language?

But I didn't ask him. So I have one question you can answer, and a series of questions you can't. Such is life.

*covers eyes*

Oh god. I clicked on somebody's spoilers for Serenity, because I usually don't mind being spoiled for stuff - oh dear. Oh dear. Oh. Oh. *winces* I didn't want to know that! ( Read more... )

So, on Serenity....

Prior to the movie: They warned us to get there at least 45 minutes before 7. Now, that would've been good advice if they hadn't given it out wholesale. Instead, all they did was ensure that the people who would've gotten there at 7 got there at 6:15, and those who would've gotten there at 6:15 got there at 5:30, and so on.

Fortunately, I anticipated this, and planned to be there as early as humanly possible. Because of this, I got a decent seat. Not as good a seat as I would've liked, but as good as I could get given my refusal to sit next to *two* people I didn't know.

( The movie, with spoilers )

In short, quite a good movie.

And a question. You ever have that feeling like suddenly you get cold, and your skin from your scap downwards seems to tighten, and then you jumpshake and it's good? Like a sneeze? Because I get that, and today it was like a sneeze you don't sneeze, and then since it really was cold I spent the rest of the day feeling off-balance because of it. Tres annoying.