Oh my god. They've done it. This takes all rights away. - by Outlooker
Gingerbread Man on 3/10/2006 at 04:09
No, the word is onomatopoeia. And onomatopoetic words do have to at least be spelled so that they sound like the noise they're supposed to represent.
Briareos H on 3/10/2006 at 04:17
Also, it's diarrhea, mr. I'm too drunk to type :D
Lightfall on 3/10/2006 at 04:24
Spelling issues aside, I don't think "huzzah" counts as onomatopoeia anymore than it's counterpart "hurrah."
Renegen on 3/10/2006 at 12:48
Quote Posted by Gingerbread Man
No, the word is
onomatopoeia. And onomatopoetic words
do have to at least be spelled so that they sound like the noise they're supposed to represent.
Tell it to the japanese.
Rogue Keeper on 3/10/2006 at 12:58
Quote Posted by Convict
I think the Anglosphere is safe from America so I don't see any benefit from moving here apart in this context.
You won't bomb Slovakia back to Stone Age, will you Convict? :erm:
Our former gvt has been
licking ass a reliable ally of US government for some time.
Convict on 3/10/2006 at 14:05
Slovakia sounds cool and hardcore like Borat's Khazakstan so of course not! :D
I'm Australian anyway so we really don't have any military muscle. Except compared to New Zealand.
Rogue Keeper on 3/10/2006 at 14:14
Right, why do I always confuse you for an American. :tsktsk:
Convict on 3/10/2006 at 14:46
Damn liberals! :mad:
Rogue Keeper on 3/10/2006 at 14:53
Somewhere I've heard
"Australians are kinda like Americans, but without the attitude." :D
demagogue on 3/10/2006 at 15:03
Quote Posted by Briareos H
Also, it's
diarrhea, mr. I'm too drunk to type :D
Ok, let's get this out of the way: onomatopoeia, diarrhea, Japanese, bellwether, camouflage, cantaloupe, conscientious, daiquiri, exhilarate, guarantee, hierarchy, indispensable, license, medieval, mischievous, nauseous, pigeon, pronunciation, questionnaire, rhythm, schedule, sovereignty, twelfth, vacuum.
/*deep breath*/
I'm not sure why the spelling-police felt so giddy picking out those words but not "hthis". They're all the computer's fault; I swear!
Man, that browser was fubar'd for this page. The text was typing out first as tiny gibberish and then as entirely blank spaces, and then no cursor movement at all ... so I was typing blind, not even sure when I'd typed a letter or not; harder to do than you'd think. (It was on a Mac using Oracle; is there some kind of problem with that?)
I thought at first I could get away with it by "previewing" the post, spellchecking, and counting back characters, but after the letters disappeared altogether I couldn't even do that.
Why I submitted anyway probably has to do with the fact that it wasn't clear which button was "submit" and which "preview".
(That and it's another reason why I know I post on TTLG too often: I won't let a fubar'd browser stop me!)
What the hell were we talking about?
You know, Australia doesn't entirely have its hands clean in this business, either. It has its own arbitrary detention camps, and I have my inside source on some of the dodgy stuff that goes on in them (one thing, plea bargaining detainees into life sentences without even having to produce evidence, much less let the detainee see it ... but that can happen in the US, too).
