Comments | sushicaddy: I am a sucker...

sushicaddy

I am a sucker...

Nov 16, 2005 17:05

For eloquence. Give me someone who can turn a phrase, whether in writing or in person, and I will show you someone who will make me swoon. Give me your words and I will show you a boy with no defenses left. Your missive need not be verbose, nor poetic, the ability to turn a few words into magic is what I require. Though a vocabulary and the ( Read more... )

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sushicaddy November 17 2005, 06:19:58 UTC

wow. I <3 you. I want my modeling job to end NOW.

Eat Your 1600's Heart Out! starlyn_monster November 17 2005, 06:29:37 UTC

I had to look this up to better understand what it is you mean when you say "to turn a phrase" ...like turning or shaping an object{as on a lathe ( ... )

Re: Eat Your 1600's Heart Out! sushicaddy November 17 2005, 06:43:56 UTC

I have always heard "beyond the pale" as referring to the land of the dead or of where someone goes when they die. "She has gone beyond the pale". But apperently that is erroneus. Where did you find these definitions, I want more!

Re: Eat Your 1600's Heart Out! starlyn_monster November 17 2005, 08:23:03 UTC

http://www.phrases.org.uk/a-phrase-a-week/index.html

I wanted to join the phrase finder but its all kinds of bending over to register for that site. C'est la vive.

I was especially surprised by the explanation of beyond the pale as well, for I'd also thought that it meant beyond the grave. Perhaps it evolved that way... saying beyond that pale as in a place that is very horrible - you'd be better off dead - then beyond the pale... and it moved to meaning that instead? Perhaps.

Re: Eat Your 1600's Heart Out! skiomachy November 17 2005, 21:28:10 UTC

I had also heard (from a history + language buff from Dublin) that the British created a Pale in Ireland, and that one of the enforcements of culture there was the English language. Hence, said my dear Danny-Boy, some of the best English is spoken in Dublin, and anyone from "beyond the pale" was considered unacceptable in society for their rude, Irish speech.

"And the Great Gods made the Gaels mad,
For their battles are merry and their songs are sad!"
or something like that. Could have been Alexander Pope. Could have been an Eliot.

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Words mike_pett November 17 2005, 07:33:41 UTC

Shall try words then
On paper or from mouth
To eye or to ear
From a man to another
And speak at first timidly as never before
Of the grace and strength of (dare I say it?) HIM
I shall try words then
And touch so lightly
That none would know
In truth to me you are exceedingly beautiful
And I see that in you
And I see that in me
And it touches me deeply
Knowing you moves me
Caring about you pleases me
And yet I only call you 'friend'
And seem to only feel love in your embrace
Gazing at your lovelyness I wonder
Why not more
Why not desire
Your beauty is clear
In my beholding eye
And your passions shared
And I weep that lust finds no purchase in me

Hows that?

Re: Words ruespieler November 17 2005, 19:07:59 UTC

awesome mike

Re: Words mike_pett November 18 2005, 11:39:32 UTC

Thanks. I like writing.

M

Re: Words sushicaddy November 17 2005, 23:16:38 UTC

wow. that was amazing. I'm such a sucker for this.

hot.

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blood_thunder November 17 2005, 10:34:10 UTC

*sigh*

I confused the word "salubrious" with the word "lugubrious" today when talking to my advisor.

The shame has made me not even want to SPEAK. ;)

sushicaddy November 17 2005, 23:17:38 UTC

It's ok, I confused "foot" with "pelvis" yesterday in my class.

It's amazing I have any clients left.

blood_thunder November 17 2005, 23:40:17 UTC

HA!

ruespieler November 17 2005, 19:12:00 UTC

I cannot bring myself to worship a god who's engendering and birthing is but a pale mockery of our own; a god that cannot create something greater than itself, or who fears to, and must content itself with mud golemns endlesly enacting a tragic farce scripted in the inexorable fall of matter.