I do not like to hear my language twisted, however slightly, when the sole motivation of the twister is to sound pretentiously authoritative. Example
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but, but, i'm more partial to tsar than czar. it gives it a little emmmph at the beginning when spoken, and makes me feel all warm and russiany inside. to tell you the truth, my ideal linguistic identity would be identical to the characters from ol' yeller or the yearling. i would replace "tobacco" with "tobakky", "maybe i will" with "i reckon", and refer to anything alive as "critter". i already have begun my transition. who's excited??
Re: Why Yer Daft!samschoiceusAugust 23 2003, 13:05:46 UTC
Lilliputian isn't very new.
[Mid-18th century. From the name of the imaginary country of Lilliput in Gulliver’s Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift, whose people were only 15 cm./6 in. high.]
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but, but, i'm more partial to tsar than czar. it gives it a little emmmph at the beginning when spoken, and makes me feel all warm and russiany inside.
to tell you the truth, my ideal linguistic identity would be identical to the characters from ol' yeller or the yearling. i would replace "tobacco" with "tobakky", "maybe i will" with "i reckon", and refer to anything alive as "critter". i already have begun my transition. who's excited??
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[Mid-18th century. From the name of the imaginary country of Lilliput in Gulliver’s Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift, whose people were only 15 cm./6 in. high.]
Or so says MSN's dictionary.
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