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Just thought I'd make a thread for anything Halloween related anyone wanted to discuss.
So, while you guys get to spend your Saturday being subjected to little kids kicking in your door, demanding candy, I thought I'd share some kooky fun. Enjoy.
Soteks Prophet wrote: I make it a point to punch people who call it Samhain and yet pronounce it 'sam-hain'.
This seems a totally reasonable response.
The scariest part of Halloween to me is that at midnight, NANOWRIMO begins and that dirge begins rattling through my head- you should be writing.
Klawz-Ramming is a subset of citrus fruit?
Gwar- "And everyone wants a bigger Spleen!"
Mercurial wrote:
I admire your aplomb and instate you as Baron of the Seas and Lord Marshall of Privateers.
Orkeosaurus wrote:Star Trek also said we'd have X-Wings by now. We all see how that prediction turned out.
Orkeosaurus, on homophobia, the nature of homosexuality, and the greatness of George Takei.
English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark alleyways and mugs them for loose grammar.
"Your mumblings are awakening the sleeping Dragon, be wary when meddling the affairs of Dragons, for thou art tasty and go good with either ketchup or chocolate. "
Dragons fear nothing, if it acts up, we breath magic fire that turns them into marshmallow peeps. We leaguers only cry rivets!
I'm going to go ahead an blame the victim in the finest Dakka tradition: if you don't like having your holiday's name mispronounced, try spelling it how it sounds. Would it kill them to transliterate it into Roma-Ji for us gaijin?
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I don't know.... the last time people tried to be welcoming about Samhuain it was stolen and transformed into All Hallow's Eve, then All Hallow's Evening, and then Halloween. Pagans don't really win when fighting about holidays. Keeping it so difficult to pronounce turns it into a sort of secret handshake.
Klawz-Ramming is a subset of citrus fruit?
Gwar- "And everyone wants a bigger Spleen!"
Mercurial wrote:
I admire your aplomb and instate you as Baron of the Seas and Lord Marshall of Privateers.
Orkeosaurus wrote:Star Trek also said we'd have X-Wings by now. We all see how that prediction turned out.
Orkeosaurus, on homophobia, the nature of homosexuality, and the greatness of George Takei.
English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark alleyways and mugs them for loose grammar.
The Irish and Welsh have always been big about using spelling that absolutely in no way matches the pronounced word. I think they just make it up, myself.
BobtheInquisitor wrote: I'm going to go ahead an blame the victim in the finest Dakka tradition: if you don't like having your holiday's name mispronounced, try spelling it how it sounds. Would it kill them to transliterate it into Roma-Ji for us gaijin?
And what other languages would you like to spell things more closely to how you believe the words should be pronounced?
BobtheInquisitor wrote: I'm going to go ahead an blame the victim in the finest Dakka tradition: if you don't like having your holiday's name mispronounced, try spelling it how it sounds. Would it kill them to transliterate it into Roma-Ji for us gaijin?
And what other languages would you like to spell things more closely to how you believe the words should be pronounced?
Yoddish. Would it kill them to pick a consistent transliterating style for English? They have one for the Hebrew alphabet, even if it is almost as crazy as writing Welsh in Latin letters.
Vietnamese. Actually, it's pretty straight forward. it's easier to learn the differences than to come up with a transliteration system with purely English letters and spelling.
Klingon. Worse than Welsh. Why even bother using Latin letters if you are going to change how each one is pronounced? It's easier to learn the language with the actual Klingon phonetic alphabet than the stupid transliterations used in most publications. Only a peta'Q would bother to invent an entire language and alphabet only to teach consumers some goofy pinyin-on-acid BS. Khesst, what a mess.
We left out a huge bowl of candy while we went trick or treating, and it was only 2/3rds empty when we came home. So, I refilled it and then went inside to help my wife with the boy's costume. 5 minutes later, the entire bowl was empty.
Despite the, what seems to be a recent explosion of, interest in Halloween over here in the last year or two, we received not one trick or treater. Probably for the best though as i didn't have any spice in for them, and i work nights so they would have woken me up and perhaps been more frightened by my grumpy self.
I am interested in opinions from my fellow country men, though. As a child i wasn't allowed out trick or treating. Me mum likened it to begging. The same goes for most of my childhood friends too.
Although, speaking to people at work just now, my fellow northerners echo what i said about not being allowed out, whilst the southerners amongst us were the opposite...
I am interested in opinions from my fellow country men, though. As a child i wasn't allowed out trick or treating. Me mum likened it to begging. The same goes for most of my childhood friends too.
Although, speaking to people at work just now, my fellow northerners echo what i said about not being allowed out, whilst the southerners amongst us were the opposite...
As someone who grew up in the south of England, not many people in my village went out on Halloween. The few that did dare to knock on our door were promptly yelled at by my Dad who told them to beg for sweets somewhere else or, if they were old enough, get a job and buy their own. Many people felt the same.
Personally I take no part in it, though I'm not opposed to the holiday in any way. It's definitely a much bigger thing here in the US though.
