Emily’s NEW positivity and being nice to each other thread

[Kelliezgirl]

I know. I’ve seen it. Just rather wish I hadn’t.

Em

Yeah, don't we all... 2 hours of my life I'll never get back. How do you waste George Carlin!

 

[Bramblethorn]

Luckily second person singular and plural use the same pronoun...

ooh, them's fighting words!

(for 17th-century Quakers, at least)

 

[MrPixel]

Australian car culture is pretty awesome.

The 'roo plows guards do it for me.

 

[Rustyoznail]

The 'roo plows guards do it for me.

Bull bars, mate.

 

[TxRad]

A friend in NZ sent me some pictures of his dirt race car. The front bumper looked something like those.

 

[Rustyoznail]

A friend in NZ sent me some pictures of his dirt race car. The front bumper looked something like those.

Yeah, running into a kiwi will really ruin your night.

 

[StillStunned]

Yeah, running into a kiwi will really ruin your night.

Come on, the ones that don't care about rugby are lovely people.

All three of them.

 

[onehitwanda]

Come on, the ones that don't care about rugby are lovely people.

All three of them.

Two of them. The third one is three Kākāpō in an All Blacks jersey.

 

[Rustyoznail]

Doing some research for my Pink Orchid story, and came up with this gem from 1940.

What Dame Rumour said:

"that it is a certainty that a girl with the right kinds of pins will never have to do needlework for a living."

 

[TxRad]

Yeah, running into a kiwi will really ruin your night.

He sent me some clips from a race or two. Their roundy round racing looks more like a circular demolition derby.

 

[onehitwanda]

He sent me some clips from a race or two. Their roundy round racing looks more like a circular demolition derby.

Antipodean men have their own religion - it's called "Death or Glory". As one friend put it to me: "Pain is temporary, chicks dig scars, and glory is forever."

This chick does not dig scars at all, so I find the entire belief system bizarre. Typical places you would find Kiwi, Aussie, Saffer or Zimbabwean males:

They are commonly found:

1. swimming with crocodiles
2. cow-tipping (imported by the English)
3. swimming with sharks
4. going 1v1 vs elephant
5. hunting leopard
6. trying to cross the great sandy desert with only what they can carry
7. trying to murder one-another at rugby or waterpolo or, because neither is violent enough, underwater rugby.

Honestly, I'm surprised there are any people left in any of the four territories.

@TxRad If you *really* want to wind your friend up, though, ask him where in Australia he's from.

 

[TxRad]

Having spent some time in NZ I know better than to ask that question.

 

[lil_jenni]

I had to take History of English and Structure of English when I was working on my primary education degree. I loved both. One thing I learned, which is relevant to the second person pronoun discussion, is that English 'you' is descended from vous, which was borrowed from Norman French during the Middle English period. When vous was borrowed into English, the plural was not borrowed. At first, vous/'you' was used as an honorific (addressing superiors) and the native 'thou' and 'thee' were used in everyday English (this is very common in Early Modern English, e.g., Shakespeare, King James Edition of the Bible, etc.). But as the honorific generalized and the native second person pronouns became less frequently used, 'you' took on plural usages as well as its original singular usage.

This process leaves a gap in the declension of the English second person pronoun. Speakers try to fill that gap with periphrastic plural pronouns, such as 'you all', 'you ones', and 'you guys'. The first two have contracted forms, 'y'all' and 'you'ns', which in some dialects, becomes pronounced /yunz/ or /yInz/.

Today, because we find 'thou' and 'thee' and 'ye' (which is the second person plural nominative form in Early Modern English and likr a dummy I forgot to mention it here ) in old, venerated works, many people tend to think of them as being more formal whereas they, in their time, were common.

By the way, it is an odd thing for a language to borrow a pronoun from another language, but there is a different set of English pronouns that, like 'you', were borrowed from another language. Anyone know or want to guess which ones?

Edited because I'm a dumbass and forgot to mention 'ye' above.

 

[Bazzle]

Just thought I would say @EmilyMiller is amazing.
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[EmilyMiller]

Just thought I would say @EmilyMiller is amazing.
(This message was NOT sponsored by the Emily Miller Fan Club)

Thanks - that cheered me up!

I had a fall on the ice this morning and hurt myself.

Then I got eviscerated in Story Feedback.

So nice to hear something positive .

Em

 

[Bazzle]

Thanks - that cheered me up!

I had a fall on the ice this morning and hurt myself.

Then I got eviscerated in Story Fedback.

So nice to hear something positive .

Em

That's exactly why I thought I'd say something. I saw the brutal review.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

Thanks - that cheered me up!

I had a fall on the ice this morning and hurt myself.

Then I got eviscerated in Story Fedback.

So nice to hear something positive .

Em

Which story? I'll go post a rebuttal

 

[EmilyMiller]

Which story? I'll go post a rebuttal

Don’t waste your time. It’s so not worth it.

Em

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

@DJMac

Don’t waste your time. It’s so not worth it.

Em

I hit send too soon. The rest of that was supposed to be an offer to defend your honor. Pistols at dawn, all that kind of stuff.
Still, I'm sorry you are having to put up with that kind of crap.

 

[EmilyMiller]

@DJMac

I hit send too soon. The rest of that was supposed to be an offer to defend your honor. Pistols at dawn, all that kind of stuff.
Still, I'm sorry you are having to put up with that kind of crap.

I asked for the review. My mistake for expecting an actual review. Well now I know better.

Em

 

[djrip]

I asked for the review. My mistake for expecting an actual review. Well now I know better.

Em

I've been tempted to ask for a review there. But reading several of their reviews, I've been put off. Not by the harshness, which would be fine with me, but by fairly consistent differences of opinion I've had with their reviews of other stories, as far back as offbuttons' dog house series, which was about a guy getting progressively more dehumanized with dubious consent, and the complaint was he was getting treated poorly and wouldn't put up with it. IRL probably not, but that was a story for people who wanted to see a guy submit to that, not for the people who want to read about a guy going, "hm, this isn't for me, guess I'll put a stop to it." Or Djmac's story of alien abductees figuring out what's going on and coming to terms with their situation and beginning to understand some of the aliens' purpose, reduced to "You wanted to write about an older guy getting a younger woman pregnant." It's like they don't review how well a story does what it set out to do, but rather, how well it does what they think stories should do. Which is fine; it's their thing. But I feel like if one of mine got reviewed, I'd be doing a lot of "Well yeah, I wasn't trying to do that... But did it work at far as what it was trying to do?" Like if I put Wrong Twin Rubdown up there, I fear the review would complain that it's not realistic for twins to have sex.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I was stupid. I think the best of people way too often. It’s my fault. Not a lot else to say.

Em

 

[HordHolm]

I was stupid. I think the best of people way too often. It’s my fault. Not a lot else to say.

Em

Here, have a picture...

 

[samhasstories]

I was stupid. I think the best of people way too often. It’s my fault. Not a lot else to say.

Em

Here, I... found this for you.

 

[forgotmyantidepressants]

I was stupid. I think the best of people way too often. It’s my fault. Not a lot else to say.

Em

Hang in there. Some people get off on being critical.