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Seen on a shirt at Aki-Con manga convention …

Comment posted on Happy Hour Appearance by Evan Owen

Seen on a shirt at Aki-Con manga convention in Everett, WA:

“English doesn’t borrow from other languages. English follows them down dark alleys, knocks them down and ransacks their pockets for spare vocabulary.”

[manga]
[anime]
Kore wa, nan desu ka?

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Marina went to Cannes, about 40 km from there.
Извините, “того в тюрьму” не понимаю. Что это?
Nerd Word:
[lexadaisical]

“Being lackadaisical with your lexicon. Will Ferrell played a particularly lexadaisical President Bush when he used the word “strategery”. — Urban Dictionary
Och aye, laddie, ye’ve asked the recht lassie, Lady Marina Orlova of Lochaber, d’ye ken?
Ask pedanticKarl. He might give you his two-pfennig worth!

Recent comments by Evan Owen

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I can hike into the Cascades and see the empty valleys where the glaciers have retreated. I would have to be blind or deny the evidence of my senses to say climate change isn’t real.
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Will anything move forward WITH the politicians?
On a completely different topic, CJ, have you heard the phrase [Jesus Christ Made Seattle Under Protest]? Do you know what it refers to?

(Hint for anyone else who wants to have a go: it’s a [mnemonic] used by Seattle bus drivers.)
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@Capman,
And when you get to MY age, she’s adorable!

I think the climate of this discussion page is changing!
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Marina — word requests:
[pentangle]
[pentacle]
Are they synonyms? Do they both come from the Greek for “five”?

Hi Bob,
Here’s a piece of “irony” for you (though Marina says I’m misusing the term):

The US military will not allow the use of the pentacle on the gravestones of Wiccan soldiers — but they put the symbol all over our military equipment!

Oh by the way — the Pentacle song is in 5/4 time!
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I can’t improve on pK’s excellent response, so I’ll just add that one man’s Mede is another man’s Persian.