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9 years ago @ The Toast - "I saw writing from pe... · 3 replies · +157 points

The Toast: The only place on the Internets where you *always* read the comments. I'll miss you all.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Don't Let Anyone Tell ... · 7 replies · +71 points

Also, while I'm here, the idea that Appalachian English is pure pristine Elizabethan speech exactly the way Shakespeare knew it is the biggest load of balls I've heard today. Life does not work that way. It does, I'm sure preserve certain features from them that other American dialects don't, but then it'll also have innovated in directions where the others didn't. That's how humans do.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Don't Let Anyone Tell ... · 0 replies · +41 points

That sounds awesome.

I had no friends in school either.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Don't Let Anyone Tell ... · 0 replies · +30 points

See, it's quite possible to read it "untranslated" - if half the page is taken over by footnotes indicating every word that's changed meaning or no longer used. (Which is how I did it in college.) Without any help at all? Phfft fuck that.

9 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +12 points

That came up in a Gabriel Garcia Marquez story we read in one of my college literature classes. The translator had blithely rendered it as "Wednesday", and the professor, an elderly Finnish woman who likely knew less than nothing about Hispanophone swearing, gave us a complicated explanation involving the god Mercury and his role as psychopomp. The pieces didn't fall into place for me until well after I graduated.

9 years ago @ The Toast - The Wedding of Sir Gaw... · 2 replies · +74 points

The Bandyclef Cummerbund of the Arthurian milieu?

9 years ago @ The Toast - Guessing What French I... · 0 replies · +16 points

...But anyway, here's Wonderfrog.

9 years ago @ The Toast - The Pitch Meeting for ... · 0 replies · +10 points

Wacky is my new gender.

9 years ago @ The Toast - WHY YOU KEEP HAVING TH... · 0 replies · +5 points

"BECAUSE YOU CONSTANTLY PRETEND NOT TO WANT ANYTHING, EXCEPT IN MOMENTS OF EXTREME DISTRESS OR AGITATION, WHEN YOU CAN NO LONGER DENY THE FACT THAT YOU POSSESS PREFERENCES"

*sad little "IT MEEEEE" snuffle*

9 years ago @ The Toast - Two Medieval Monks Inv... · 0 replies · +16 points

Maybe the real treasure was the monks we made along the way.

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