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Tasting Notes
- Thread starter Joe Dressner
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Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
I should butt in and point out that in French, idiotisme simply means "idiomatic expression." So the real argument would seem to be who is making up spurious colloquialisms? I ask you.
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
I should butt in and point out that in French, idiotisme simply means "idiomatic expression." So the real argument would seem to be who is making up spurious colloquialisms? I ask you.
Wait, can colloquialisms be spurious? "Frivolous colloquialisms" I see. Spurious? Ok, wait, maybe you mean colloquialisms that no one has actually used? Say when someone purports to recount the tale of a jeebus and coins a word for use in their story and then attributes it to one of their characters in the "narrative account"?
Chris Coad
Chris Coad
originally posted by Bwood:
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
I should butt in and point out that in French, idiotisme simply means "idiomatic expression." So the real argument would seem to be who is making up spurious colloquialisms? I ask you.
Wait, can colloquialisms be spurious? "Frivolous colloquialisms" I see. Spurious? Ok, wait, maybe you mean colloquialisms that no one has actually used? Say when someone purports to recount the tale of a jeebus and coins a word for use in their story and then attributes it to one of their characters in the "narrative account"?
This is perfectly cromulent usage, even embiggening.
originally posted by Chris Coad:
This is perfectly cromulent usage, even embiggening.
I love it when you talk dirty, big guy.
Mark Lipton
originally posted by Chris Coad:
This is perfectly cromulent usage, even embiggening.
Ah, ye of the prosthetic silver tongue.
originally posted by Joe Perry:
I hate all of you.
Aw, c'mon. We don't believe you. Who doesn't like hang-gliding? You just hang out here over the cliffs and wait for an updraft of hot air that seems promising.
originally posted by Bwood:
originally posted by Joe Perry:
I hate all of you.
Aw, c'mon. We don't believe you. Who doesn't like hang-gliding? You just hang out here over the cliffs and wait for an updraft of hot air that seems promising.
We had an all-forum thread back on Therapy about CellarTracker. Eric LeVine, the CT creator, even registered and took questions. Lives were changed. People swore they would never forget, nor mock, CT.
Hence, I hate you all. If we were hang gliding I would tie little dead things to your hang gliders so eagles would attack.
originally posted by Joe Perry:
Hence, I hate you all. If we were hang gliding I would tie little dead things to your hang gliders so eagles would attack.
You would tie dead things to the hang glider of everyone in this thread? Everyone?
I disbelieve you. I think maybe you're currently just riding the Feigned Indignation and Hyperbole Thermal.
originally posted by Joe Perry:
Hence, I hate you all. If we were hang gliding I would tie little dead things to your hang gliders so eagles would attack.
Since I would sooner dive headfirst into a tub of steaming bat guano than willingly hang glide, I feel unscathed by your approbium. Carrion, please.
Feigning intelligence once again,
Mark Lipton
Steve Edmunds
Steve Edmunds
originally posted by MLipton:
originally posted by Joe Perry:
Hence, I hate you all. If we were hang gliding I would tie little dead things to your hang gliders so eagles would attack.
Since I would sooner dive headfirst into a tub of steaming bat guano than willingly hang glide, I feel unscathed by your approbium. Carrion, please.
Feigning intelligence once again,
Mark Lipton
Is there any other kind of guano?
Sharon Bowman
Sharon Bowman
Wow, I am getting some good mileage out of that hang gliding image!
steaming bat guano...
Is there any other kind of guano?
The dried crusty kind.
originally posted by Steve Edmunds:
Is there any other kind of guano?
Yup, there's bird guano, too. Cloacas abound, Steve.
Mark Lipton
Saina Nieminen
Saina Nieminen
originally posted by MLipton:
originally posted by Steve Edmunds:
Is there any other kind of guano?
Yup, there's bird guano, too.
I once took a course in Mayan Hieroglyphics when I was interested in writing systems and ergative languages. Our teacher was also a keen student of the Quechuan languages/dialects. If I remember correctly what he once said in one of his numerous endearing digressions from the topic was that wano, from whence Spanish guano, originally meant only the excrement and urine of sea birds. It was applied later to bat and seal waste also because of their similar properties as good fertilizers with little odour - which is why it is so strange one eminent critic wanted to describe a particularly smelly wine with the word "guano". (But I guess we should only expect snarky, off-the-point, vocabulary from him anyway...) ... btw ... sorry for raping the ellipsis.
Jeff Grossman
Jeff Grossman
I've been at the mouth of a bat cave. There's a strong smell of ammonia there.
Chris Coad
Chris Coad
originally posted by Jeff Grossman:
I've been at the mouth of a bat cave. There's a strong smell of ammonia there.
I believe that odor is merely the result of Bruce Wayne's cutting-edge scientific experiments.