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Lo-text Monday* [message #22902]

Mon, 09 November 2009 19:16

b_twin_1
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Robin tries her hand at a lo-text Monday.

LOL

I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder

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Mon, 09 November 2009 19:25

jmeadows
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We're having unseasonably warm weather, too. It was 72 today! The rest of the week is looking slightly more reasonable for November, but I imagine all the plants are really confused. The light is right, and yet...

Smooshes!

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Mon, 09 November 2009 19:29

b_twin_1
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We're unseasonably warm too. 35C in Novemember! For a week! Blegh.

** And I have learnt how to footnote on Twitter.
That sounds like a mwhahahaha I heard there.... Wink

You are following me on Twitter, aren’t you?
Yes Ma'am!

I've got a plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel ~ Blackadder

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Mon, 09 November 2009 19:40

Robin
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Just checking. :)

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Mon, 09 November 2009 21:10

Laura
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Man, I loved Sunshine's slang. It just felt so natural. It's not often you see made-up slang that doesn't feel forced. I can only imagine how much of a pain in the ass it must be to invent it and then follow its rules...and obviously that applies to any fictional language.
I doff my hat to you, Robin, for doing it (and doing it well)

Known on both Ravelry and LibraryThing as thelorelei.

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Mon, 09 November 2009 21:38

skating librarian
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Maybe your devoted fans could pay you back in part for the wonderful blog entries, photos etc. by starting a "Sunshine slang thread"/glossary etc. Something a little like the OED with the sentence/context in which the word first appears as part of the entry.

It would give all of us an excuse (as if we needed one) to read it again. Actually I've begun to make a little index for my rapidly disintegrating copy to keep track of where various characters appear.

Being a professional librarian has it's own sorts of nutsy-ness, in my case an obsession with organizing information.

"Winning a war is like winning an earthquake" Jeanette Rankin

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Mon, 09 November 2009 21:50

Laura
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skating librarian wrote on Mon, 09 November 2009 21:38

Being a professional librarian has it's own sorts of nutsy-ness, in my case an obsession with organizing information.

Statements like this make me feel like maybe I was meant to go back to school to be a librarian, not a doctor (the latter of which I am currently doing). I am TOTAL list and info organization nut. Oh, well, too late! I'll just keep on as one of the reading masses and let you guardians of all things bookishness do your noble work. Smile

Known on both Ravelry and LibraryThing as thelorelei.

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Re: Lo-text Monday* [message #22947 is a reply to message #22902 ]

Mon, 09 November 2009 22:38

Kuro
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You are following me on Twitter, aren’t you?

*twiddles her thumb* Well, well you see..I have lots of homework currently. I'm actually in homework triage mode, I have a major test too, and I don't have time to learn how to use Twitter just now. Forgive me please, oh Hellgoddess? I promise I'll learn soon.

[Updated on: Tue, 10 November 2009 19:58]

This is goodnight and not goodbye.

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Mon, 09 November 2009 22:41

blondviolinist
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** And I have learnt how to footnote on Twitter.

I think you've invented Twitter footnoting. (What was it some forum regular called it? Tweetfeeting?)

"Purity of heart is to will one thing." Kirkegaard

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Mon, 09 November 2009 23:40

librarykat
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skating librarian wrote on Mon, 09 November 2009 20:38

I agree that we librarians have our own nutsy-ness, but mine is being willing to be silly in order to get the kids to pick up the books and read. It does work ...

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Mon, 09 November 2009 23:48

librarykat
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It's November, and we're facing Tropical Storm Ida later tonight and tomorrow. Yeah, yeah, we're still in hurricane season (doesn't end until Nov. 30), but hurricanes and tropical storms don't usually hit this late in the season. So school is cancelled tomorrow, I rescheduled my dental appointment, and I convinced hubby he can just work from home tomorrow.

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Tue, 10 November 2009 01:20

Kuro
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librarykat wrote on Mon, 09 November 2009 23:48

Good luck weathering the storm! And don't let your kids (pets?) be like college students. Though admittedly playing outside in the sunken gardens *was* probably the safest place for all of us....

[Updated on: Tue, 10 November 2009 04:03]

This is goodnight and not goodbye.

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Tue, 10 November 2009 02:36

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We had killing frosts and early cold in October and are now into a nice Indian summer, a good thing for me since I'm even more behind than usual this year. I don't know if it will get my grass seed to germinate--it may have been frozen to death last month--but the other day I saw what looked like new green buds on the stems of my Endless Summer hydrangea. NOT a good idea.

Anyone who isn’t a professional writer, let alone two professional writers, probably cannot appreciate the extent to which we are dominated by paper.

Who remembers when smart terminals and then PCs were supposed to bring us all to the Paperless Office? HA!

_{"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich}

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Tue, 10 November 2009 02:37

Diane in MN
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librarykat wrote on Mon, 09 November 2009 22:48

It's November, and we're facing Tropical Storm Ida later tonight and tomorrow.

I hope Ida has pretty well dissipated by the time it gets to your neck of the woods. Good luck!

_{"The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough . . . " Louise Erdrich}

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Tue, 10 November 2009 06:50

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b_twin_1 wrote on Mon, 09 November 2009 19:29

We're unseasonably warm too. 35C in Novemember! For a week! Blegh.

** And I have learnt how to footnote on Twitter.
That sounds like a mwhahahaha I heard there.... Wink

You are following me on Twitter, aren’t you?
Yes Ma'am!

i am too.

Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get

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Tue, 10 November 2009 07:04

Mrs Redboots
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holmes44 wrote on Tue, 10 November 2009 11:50

b_twin_1 wrote on Mon, 09 November 2009 19:29

We're unseasonably warm too. 35C in Novemember! For a week! Blegh.

** And I have learnt how to footnote on Twitter.
That sounds like a mwhahahaha I heard there.... Wink

You are following me on Twitter, aren’t you?
Yes Ma'am!

i am too.

So am I. Who's following me?!

Oh, and my geranium still has a flower, and my busy Lizzie (impatiens) is in bud, and my Christmas cactus is in bud, too! And it's Proper Parky, even here in London!

Mrs Redboots
I love my computer because my friends live in it!

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Tue, 10 November 2009 07:56

Lucy Coats
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blondviolinist wrote on Tue, 10 November 2009 03:41

** And I have learnt how to footnote on Twitter.

I think you've invented Twitter footnoting. (What was it some forum regular called it? Tweetfeeting?)

Yes--tweetfeeting. That was moi. I have a feeling that Robin's tweetfeet are going to become legendary Smile

As for Sunshine slang--am reading it again just now and enjoying the slangy bits all over again. Only trouble is that I had almost NO SLEEP last night, as I woke up sweating and trembling after a vampire nightmare. That'll teach me to watch 2 episodes of True Blood and then tackle Bo's lieutenants!

Lucy xx
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Tue, 10 November 2009 10:17

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Mrs Redboots wrote on Tue, 10 November 2009 07:04

So am I. Who's following me?!

I am! I am! (But you already knew that.)

"Purity of heart is to will one thing." Kirkegaard

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Tue, 10 November 2009 13:30

holmes44
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blondviolinist wrote on Tue, 10 November 2009 10:17

Mrs Redboots wrote on Tue, 10 November 2009 07:04

So am I. Who's following me?!

I am! I am! (But you already knew that.)

i will too as soon as i find you.lol

Bonnie Holmes the faster ahead I go, the more behind I get

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Tue, 10 November 2009 20:48

librarykat
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Luckily, Ida kind of fizzled out just before landfall. We had winds and rain last night, but by 9:00 am today things were pretty calm, at least where we are in the Panhandle. We had a good soaking rain rather than a deluge.

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