Cato's Grammar Grumble

[jochanaan]

Heh-heh!  I once saw the phrase "final death" which, I suppose, could work for vampires...

Or cats.  Or gaming characters.

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

That is a book which I need to re-read.

Gesualdo fan?  I re-read it while I'm reading it (most paragraphs twice as he phrases even the simplest concepts complexly).  Would have put it down except that 1.) author has done his homework; 2.) has valuable things to say; and 3.) was on the ground floor of the Gesualdo revival.

[Karl Henning]

Gesualdo fan?  I re-read it while I'm reading it (most paragraphs twice as he phrases even the simplest concepts complexly).  Would have put it down except that 1.) author has done his homework; 2.) has valuable things to say; and 3.) was on the ground floor of the Gesualdo revival.

Much more a Stravinsky fan, and via that path, an admirer of Gesualdo.

[jochanaan]

Much more a Stravinsky fan, and via that path, an admirer of Gesualdo.

The musician who literally got away with murder?!  Heavens!  What will the morality police say?  They've already banned Tchaikovsky and Britten, I hear.

[Karl Henning]

How did they have ingenuity for that sort of thing before there were automatic rifles?   

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

Much more a Stravinsky fan, and via that path, an admirer of Gesualdo.

Ach, the Stravinsky Connex to the Gesualdo Hex! I shoulda guessed! 

[Florestan]

The musician who literally got away with murder?! 

Having a company of men-at-arms and owning a well-guarded castle certainly helped. 

[Cato]

If I told you that I had a "vitrified ceramic entertainment center,"    what do you think would be in my possession?   

Yesterday we were in a large store full of trinkets and decorations from other countries, and we saw a box which had this very odd phrase on it to describe the contents.

Vitrified Ceramic Entertainment Center: the first two words were more accurate than the last two.

Because...





...this is what the box contained:










(...it did not look quite like this, but close enough...)





























"Are you not entertained?"     That's right: a salt and pepper set with creamers or oil pitchers. 

[Karl Henning]

Verbatim:

Nerdgasm

Derives from the word orgasm.

When someone has experienced just too much nerdiness at one time, they are saidto have a nerdgasm. The person usually goes into a state of shock and can't speak for up to 1 hour. Never distured a someone who as recently nerdgasmed because the person is prone to just spurt out random nerdy things that regular people could never comprehend.

Person one: Dude, the PS3 is going to use blu-ray discs, imagine the texture file quality!!!

Person two:*nergasm*!!!

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nerdgasm

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

If I told you that I had a "vitrified ceramic entertainment center,"    what do you think would be in my possession?   

Hey, you vilified the vitrified!

[Cato]

Verbatim:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nerdgasm

Wow!  I wonder if this word will catch on!  I suppose our society has generated personalities which this word describes: "comic book conventions" for adults did not exist in the good old days.  There were 10-year old boys who might have debated the merits of The Phantom against those of The Lone Ranger, but...

Hey, you vilified the vitrified!

My apologies!  I suspect the phrase came from a Chinese to English Google Translator.  0:)

[Karl Henning]

Don't go changing . . . found on FB:

I'd worship at that alter.

[Ken B]

Hey, you vilified the vitrified!

He stained the glassed!

[jochanaan]

If I told you that I had a "vitrified ceramic entertainment center,"    what do you think would be in my possession?   

My first thought was: A mirror?

[Karl Henning]

Hah!

[jochanaan]

Now, Karl, is that a grammatically correct "Hah"?

[Cato]

My first thought was: A mirror?

Excellent guess!   

Speaking of odd phrases: a friend of mine saw a sign in Kentucky that almost made him wreck the car.

"Used Cows for Sale."

Exactly how had they been used?  Inquire at the house!

[Karl Henning]

Gently Used Cows?

[Ken B]

Excellent guess!   

Speaking of odd phrases: a friend of mine saw a sign in Kentucky that almost made him wreck the car.

"Used Cows for Sale."

Exactly how had they been used?  Inquire at the house!

My guess is that Cato has misidentified a drollery.

[Cato]

My guess is that Cato has misidentified a drollery.

Instead of a dairy?     Well, my friend was in Kentucky at the time: as any Buckeye will tell you, they think "diffrunt" in "Kaintucky." 

Some websites are a trollery: does that count as a drollery?  0:)