HUMOUR (Linguistic): War On Said - say what?

Post by **Kvetch** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 2:43 pm

"yayness!" Kvetch grinned

grated
snarled
wittered
yawned
argued

Post by **laurie** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 2:58 pm

Brad wrote:"But how do you use it in a sentence ? I just can't see it." fretted Kvetch.

"Here's a referral" gimaced Dr. Darby, writing a chit. "Doctor Ingacious is colleague of mine, and he's a top flight literary opthamologist. If he can't help you with your linguistic stigmatism, then you'll just have to learn to live with it."

grimaced

opthalmologist

astigmatism

/me throws hammer at Brad in disgust. "You are an atavistic orthographer," me grumbles.

Post by **Kvetch** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 3:01 pm

grumbled is new.

ChoChiyo · Post by **ChoChiyo** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 3:18 pm

"Hurray!" Cho rejoiced, "I won the Nanowrimo!"

"Come on, Cho," Kvetch coaxed, "I can't possibly sleep until I read another thousand words!"

"Shhh," Cho shushed.

"Don't you tell me what to do!" Kvetch lectured. "I am the Nano Enforcer!"

"Yes, you are," Cho agreed, then stuck her tongue out at him as he looked away.

"Kvetch! Cho just..." narked Darby.

"Sssss," hushed Cho. "Big mouth."

"You're in trouble now," breathed Darby, smirking.

"Okay, okay," Cho consented. "I'm off to write--right now!"

And she ducked the *whap* and fled from the forum.

Post by **Darb** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 3:18 pm

"You are an atavistic orthographer," me grumbles

"I'm also the pooh-bah around here, missy." shrilled the mischevious assistant administrator, in a pique of feigned egotism.

Post by **laurie** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 3:25 pm

Brad wrote:
"You are an atavistic orthographer," me grumbles
"I'm also the pooh-bah around here, missy." shrilled the mischevious and egotistical assistant administrator.

mischievious

"HAH !" she snorted, "Not when you can't spell your own descriptive adjective."

jweb · Post by **jweb** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 3:31 pm

"I probably shouldn't get involved" he subvocalized, for fear of getting berated.

ChoChiyo · Post by **ChoChiyo** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 3:51 pm

"I thought of several more," Cho gloated.

"Why aren't you writing?" Kvetch badgered.

"I'm only taking a couple minutes away from it," Cho equivocated.

"You're wasting writing time," Kvetch maintained stubbornly.

"Yes!" the ECM and Kahrey hectored in unison.

ECM expanded on their comment, "We want our characters to get into the story soon!"

"Your characters will be arriving soon," Cho divulged.

"Hurray!" they whooped.

"And their scene will be very dramatic," Cho revealed.

"We'll never see it if you don't get busy and write it," emphasized Kvetch.

"It's not that awful if I take a moment," Cho minimized.

"Do not put off till later what you can do right now," Kvetch misquoted.

"Oh, it will be well worth waiting for," Cho vaunted.

Post by **Darb** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 3:54 pm

mischievious

"I tell ya, I get no respect" piffled Brad, in his best Rodney Dangerfield tone of voice, while futilely trying to straighten his disheveled & sweat-stained collar.

Post by **Kvetch** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 3:57 pm

"not if we die of old age before you write it" Kvetch riposted

EDIT: double post. possibly due to the lenth of time I spent looking up the spelling of the damn word

Post by **Kvetch** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 4:03 pm

chanted
declaimed
uttered

"I no longer know if I am duplicating", lamented Kvetch.
"will anyone collate them again" he requested

ChoChiyo · Post by **ChoChiyo** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 4:19 pm

"Will you please," Cho harangued, "punctuate your quotations correctly? The end punctuation always goes inside the quotation marks."

Post by **Kvetch** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 4:25 pm

"Actually, I think it is a matter of style, like whether you put a comma before the 'and' before the last item in a list" observed Kvetch

ChoChiyo · Post by **ChoChiyo** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 4:27 pm

"Absolutely ridiculous," Cho disagreed violently. "Check your copy of Websters, my lad!"

Post by **Darb** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 4:28 pm

"I say we let Ghost coallate and re-sort it again" fobbed Brad, already floundering in a pile of other tasks.

Post by **Kvetch** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 4:36 pm

"*whap*" deadpanned Kvetch (I know that is stretching the idea is about eight different directiond, but you need to get back to work Cho

)

"(Merriam-)Webster's is a colonial abomination" scowled Kvetch

(actually, I'm no longer sure about the rights and wrongs...)

Post by **laurie** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 4:36 pm

Brad wrote:"I say we let Ghost coallate and re-sort it again" fobbed Brad, already floundering in a pile of other tasks.

"Jeepers creepers," Laurie b*tched, "I step away for 5 minutes and he's back at it again."

collate

Post by **Kvetch** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 4:41 pm

"do you think he is doing it deliberately?" enquired Kvetch. "if so, he deserves a *whap*ing" he enjoined

ChoChiyo · Post by **ChoChiyo** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 4:45 pm

"GAH!" lamented Cho, who had just placed a few hundred words up in the Nano. "That really hurt!"

"By the way," she snarked, "is it enquired or inquired?"

Post by **laurie** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 4:49 pm

Kvetch wrote:"do you think he is doing it deliberately?" enquired Kvetch. "if so, he deserves a *whap*ing" he enjoined

"It's hard to tell with Brad," returned Laurie. "He's a prankster of the first order, " she complained.

Post by **Kvetch** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 4:55 pm

Cho: "my Usage and Abusage prefers inquire" he allowed.

intoned
declaimed
expectorated

Post by **Darb** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 5:05 pm

"It's hard to tell with Brad," returned Laurie. "He's a prankster of the first order, " she complained.

"Don't you know it's rude to talk about someone in the 3rd person when they are, in fact, present ?" rambled Brad, who subsequently belabored the point by concluding that "People have no manners anymore."

Post by **Ghost** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 5:26 pm

War Against Said: 246 to 1

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yawned
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yowled

/me added two new ones

ChoChiyo · Post by **ChoChiyo** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 5:29 pm

"Wow," Cho acknowledged, "this list is quite impressive."

"We must be a clever lot," concluded Kvetch.

felonius · Post by **felonius** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 5:36 pm

"YES! YES!" crowed Felon. "This is what it's all about, people!"

"Isn't it just wonderful," he elaborated, "how many variations there are?"

"Well done, everybody!" he expressed.

"By the way, there's still some moisture in the washcloth - keep squeezing!" he communicated.