Dean09 wrote: » I hate the way AH is practically a politics forum now. It's almost depressing with the amount of threads giving out about one thing or another.
lazygal wrote: » The usual suspects for me are when people ask for information that could easily be found on Google, like which bus goes where. Or people who post a really, really long he said, she said, I said, you said, we all said dramarama in PI and wonder why posters are confused.
Born to Die wrote: » Banish Biggins and Run to da hills to the politics forum. Immediate reduction of politically slanted threads in AH and they can both only have admiration for the proactive approach. They do like swift action. :pac:
Biggins wrote: » I llke words. I like the way they sound. I like their subtle shades of meaning, their power. and most particularly their anclent roots, their orlglns. For example. I recently became fascinated with the rather routine word miscellaneous! To begin with. lt really sounds great Miscellaneous I dare you to say it out loud and not smile. Plus, you can just forget its meaning and have fun with lt. 'Miscellaneous, miss a lot." Then consider lts long journey from the Latin ‘miscere' (to mix). to lts current form. How did miscere become miscellaneous? Whose idea was it to drop the ‘ere’ and add the ‘ellanecus?' And why? Were they drunk? Was lt some sort of strange speech impediment that caught on with the general populace? Or more llkely dld the French get hold of lt and declde to do what they do best - unnecessarily fancy lt up? Makes you think, right? And speaking of the paths words take to arrlve at thelr current form. how can anyone not be entranced by the roclgv road traveled by the old Germanlc word ‘flcken' (to move back and forth)? Was lt flrst used ln carpentry? ‘Grab the other end of this saw and we'll flcken lt across this log." Or 18 it the Teutonic ancestor of 'fickle'? "First you say we should sack Rome. then you say we shou1dn't. Boy. you are one flcken barbarlan." Of course. lt could very well be the root of another word that describes a back and forth motion. but if that were the case, this post would probably be censored. Chuck Lorre(For the record, the number of political threads I have started in the last full year on AH is less than eight, in fact probably less than five - but don't let fact come in the way of espousing fiction!)
Born to Die wrote: » It must be posts like this that made me assume it was more. Sometimes you say it best when you say nothing at all.
Biggins wrote: » "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing"Sergei Bondarchuk's Soviet film adaptation translation of Leo Tolstoy's book "War and Peace".
