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bloodyrosemccoyMeanwhile, while I was sick my meme backlog has piled up. I hereby must respond to the memes or my ego will be unsatisfied I will have failed the internet. So let’s see, in order that they were received:
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nobleplatypus demands my handwriting answer the following questions:
1. Write your username.
2. Write your 2 favourite bands/groups of the moment.
3. Write something you ♥, AKA lemme see your heart!
4. Write the name of your favourite person of all time.
5. Write the name of your recent favoured person.
6. Tag 6 people to do this meme.
She did not, however, stipulate that I had to answer with the truth.
That’s right, dudes, I have a LISA FRANK notebook. You are jealous.
bottledgoose had this meme:
1. Leave me a comment saying anything random, like your favorite lyric to your current favorite song.
2. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be asked, you will ask them five questions.
… and asked me these questions:
1) write a letter to me in one of your fun alien scripts!
2) tell me what it means, lol
Okay!
In the Roman alphabet:
Kwiryi Andee
Ka gwŕkarris mezhwubnug ashthekyu,
ishŕl mezhyak midzandghŕa Gherresa.
Lye ka sŕlash rrañif Rroerth tan ethlyi,
dher ki kipal ozkorris olye,
ish juvei esa ghesh frodha sŕyul olye kipal rrañirris ka.
Prat rroareafishŕl jeltsughazho.
Amelia
And it means:
Dear Andee,
I’m having a great time here on Thekyu, third planet of the Gherresa system. I can’t see Earth from here, but I’ll wave at you, and maybe in several hundred years you’ll see me. Use a powerful telescope. - Amelia
3) how did you first get into AG?
When I was eight Mom took me to the AG fashion show. It was the year Addy had come out, and I was torn between her and Molly—but Molly had glasses, so she won.
4) what's the weirdest thing you've ever done with your hair?
I don’t do weird things with my hair much, although I do tend to make it look pretty wild when it grows unchecked. The most interesting was my Padawan braid, which I’ve had on and off for years.
5) name three foods you will not touch under any circumstances.
-zucchini
-pretty much any invertebrate animal
-liver
Frombean_bunny, the list o’ words meme.
Dolls – To tell the truth, I think this is a warped iteration of the writer tendency to make up characters—something I also do pretty habitually. I think that’s why I’ve always balked at the idea that a girl is supposed to be her doll’s mother—it’s like saying Calvin is supposed to be Hobbes’s dad. Even as a kid I tended to play with dolls the same way you might play with, say, action figures—elaborate backstories and adventure themes.*
Anyway, so yeah, they’re like characters—but I can make things for them, and do comics even though my drawing skills are fail. What’s not to love?
Linguistics – A nerdly pursuit if ever there was one. Started with studying Spanish and discovering that it’s not just a cipher of English. As it became apparent that I could become endlessly fascinated with everything from syntactic structure (oh, ergative/absolutive languages, how I adore thee) to anthropological linguistics (the language we use on the internet really intrigues me), it seemed like the kind of thing I wouldn’t mind studying in college.
Africa – Kenya, to be specific, although I did drop by Zanzibar to meet the Zanzibarbarians. It was a four-month study-abroad program in which I was supposed to learn about the Swahili people through immersion and wound up doing a month-long study of how deaf Kenyans learn Kenyan Sign Language. Summing it up is … well, I have real difficulty doing that, which is why after two years I’m still not quite able to blog it very well. Generally I note that it was hot, then list the highlights: lost luggage, cats, Ramadhan and Idhi celebrations, tropical beaches out the wazoo, malaria, a night skinny-dipping in an ocean full of phosphorescent algae, WalkerTexasRanger lessons, malaria, meeting a starry-eyed artist couple, being halfway around the world when a friend got some very bad news, the juice-and-kitten bar,** Chinese food and live jazz, and that one unfortunate incident in the night club with a machete-wielding drunkard.
MST3k – So you take a bunch of dorks from the Midwest and give them some old movies, a box of junk from Goodwill, and access to local broadcasting and you wind up with one of the greatest TV shows ever made. Proves that viewers are not, in fact, morons—they will laugh at bad movies and use any weirdass reference to do it regardless of whether or not the audience gets it.
Writing – I wrote my first space opera in first grade. Hopefully I can make it into a career, but if not it’s definitely a lifestyle.
Also, it’s HARD. You’d be surprised.
*I do have yet to ever hear anyone ask a small boy if he is Optimus Prime’s daddy.
**No, it was not a bar that served kitten juice.
nobleplatypus demands my handwriting answer the following questions:1. Write your username.
2. Write your 2 favourite bands/groups of the moment.
3. Write something you ♥, AKA lemme see your heart!
4. Write the name of your favourite person of all time.
5. Write the name of your recent favoured person.
6. Tag 6 people to do this meme.
She did not, however, stipulate that I had to answer with the truth.
That’s right, dudes, I have a LISA FRANK notebook. You are jealous.
bottledgoose had this meme:1. Leave me a comment saying anything random, like your favorite lyric to your current favorite song.
2. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and offer to ask someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be asked, you will ask them five questions.
… and asked me these questions:
1) write a letter to me in one of your fun alien scripts!
2) tell me what it means, lol
Okay!
In the Roman alphabet:
Kwiryi Andee
Ka gwŕkarris mezhwubnug ashthekyu,
ishŕl mezhyak midzandghŕa Gherresa.
Lye ka sŕlash rrañif Rroerth tan ethlyi,
dher ki kipal ozkorris olye,
ish juvei esa ghesh frodha sŕyul olye kipal rrañirris ka.
Prat rroareafishŕl jeltsughazho.
Amelia
And it means:
Dear Andee,
I’m having a great time here on Thekyu, third planet of the Gherresa system. I can’t see Earth from here, but I’ll wave at you, and maybe in several hundred years you’ll see me. Use a powerful telescope. - Amelia
3) how did you first get into AG?
When I was eight Mom took me to the AG fashion show. It was the year Addy had come out, and I was torn between her and Molly—but Molly had glasses, so she won.
4) what's the weirdest thing you've ever done with your hair?
I don’t do weird things with my hair much, although I do tend to make it look pretty wild when it grows unchecked. The most interesting was my Padawan braid, which I’ve had on and off for years.
5) name three foods you will not touch under any circumstances.
-zucchini
-pretty much any invertebrate animal
-liver
From
bean_bunny, the list o’ words meme.Dolls – To tell the truth, I think this is a warped iteration of the writer tendency to make up characters—something I also do pretty habitually. I think that’s why I’ve always balked at the idea that a girl is supposed to be her doll’s mother—it’s like saying Calvin is supposed to be Hobbes’s dad. Even as a kid I tended to play with dolls the same way you might play with, say, action figures—elaborate backstories and adventure themes.*
Anyway, so yeah, they’re like characters—but I can make things for them, and do comics even though my drawing skills are fail. What’s not to love?
Linguistics – A nerdly pursuit if ever there was one. Started with studying Spanish and discovering that it’s not just a cipher of English. As it became apparent that I could become endlessly fascinated with everything from syntactic structure (oh, ergative/absolutive languages, how I adore thee) to anthropological linguistics (the language we use on the internet really intrigues me), it seemed like the kind of thing I wouldn’t mind studying in college.
Africa – Kenya, to be specific, although I did drop by Zanzibar to meet the Zanzibarbarians. It was a four-month study-abroad program in which I was supposed to learn about the Swahili people through immersion and wound up doing a month-long study of how deaf Kenyans learn Kenyan Sign Language. Summing it up is … well, I have real difficulty doing that, which is why after two years I’m still not quite able to blog it very well. Generally I note that it was hot, then list the highlights: lost luggage, cats, Ramadhan and Idhi celebrations, tropical beaches out the wazoo, malaria, a night skinny-dipping in an ocean full of phosphorescent algae, WalkerTexasRanger lessons, malaria, meeting a starry-eyed artist couple, being halfway around the world when a friend got some very bad news, the juice-and-kitten bar,** Chinese food and live jazz, and that one unfortunate incident in the night club with a machete-wielding drunkard.
MST3k – So you take a bunch of dorks from the Midwest and give them some old movies, a box of junk from Goodwill, and access to local broadcasting and you wind up with one of the greatest TV shows ever made. Proves that viewers are not, in fact, morons—they will laugh at bad movies and use any weirdass reference to do it regardless of whether or not the audience gets it.
Writing – I wrote my first space opera in first grade. Hopefully I can make it into a career, but if not it’s definitely a lifestyle.
Also, it’s HARD. You’d be surprised.
*I do have yet to ever hear anyone ask a small boy if he is Optimus Prime’s daddy.
**No, it was not a bar that served kitten juice.
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Date: 2009-09-21 12:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-22 05:32 am (UTC)Want questions?
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Date: 2009-09-22 01:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-21 08:39 pm (UTC)Also, LOVE your language! I'm a language geek, too (but you knew that...?).
Cool printing, too. I print in BLOCK CAPITALS.
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Date: 2009-09-22 05:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-23 05:24 am (UTC)I came upon this post of yours by one of those weird long twisty treks through this realm of the internet and (I hope you don't think this is terribly creepy) thus I read:
As it became apparent that I could become endlessly fascinated with everything from syntactic structure (oh, ergative/absolutive languages, how I adore thee) to anthropological linguistics (the language we use on the internet really intrigues me), it seemed like the kind of thing I wouldn’t mind studying in college. this, which - yes, in particular to the parentheses. That made me very happy, and your info makes me curious. :) Mind if I friend you?
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Date: 2009-09-25 07:36 pm (UTC)