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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 04:45am on 2005-01-13

If the 't' disappears from "tsunami", I might not notice, especially if you're saying it on the radio. But if you leave out the 's', I'll start wondering whether the disaster victims are two-dimensional, or whether you're referring to an animated drawing of a wave. So if you're going to say "toonami", make sure it's in a live segment that I'll only hear once, not a recorded blurb that gets played a couple of times an hour.


I had left the light on in the front room on the third floor, so when I came home and got out of the car, it was easy to see Perrine perched in the window, watching me unload. I found that sweet. And of course she was downstairs by the time I got the front door open, asking to be petted (and, of course, wanting food). She's curled up next to me on the bed now, after sleeping perched on my thigh for a while earlier.


I'm amused when I find myself driving in completely clear air for half a mile or so while the oncoming lanes and part of the median, and most of te landscape on the right, are blanketed in fog. I saw that effect twice tonight. I like fog, even though it means I have drive more slowly. But the "fog everywhere but where I am" effect looks kind of lokie someone screwed up the special-effects in a movie.

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posted by [personal profile] gingicat at 01:26pm on 2005-01-13
Toonami is the name Cartoon Network gives to its anime blocks, so I'd definitely be confused hearing it on the radio.
 
posted by [identity profile] filkerdave.livejournal.com at 01:55pm on 2005-01-13
Toonami being a show on Cartoon Network
 
posted by [identity profile] keith-m043.livejournal.com at 02:00pm on 2005-01-13
There is an "improved version" of japanese written in english, where the 's' in 'tsu' is dropped and readers are expected to remember that 'tu' is pronounced 'tsu' (and 'si' is pronounced 'shi' and so on). This probably won't filter back to english/american dictionaries cuz of how long ago the word was inducted into our common parlance. I can see typoes happening where the 's' is lost from 'tsunami' I also suspect there are some people who can't pronounce 'tsu' no matter how hard they try just like some people can't make the Vulcan Salute.
 
posted by [identity profile] hunterkirk.livejournal.com at 02:25pm on 2005-01-13
My favorate effect is when the sun is completely out and it is raining. ANother one I like alot was showers so light that you could feel them and see them but you never got wet while it was still as sunny as before the showers showed up.

Others are fog coming off a lake. Steam vapors coming off a hot human body (in this case warmed by a bon fire) in moderate rain shower. Or, "Rays" of light coming through holes in the cloads.

THese are a few of my favorate things...
 
posted by [identity profile] scarlettj9.livejournal.com at 03:59pm on 2005-01-13
Isnt it wonderful how she adores you, waits for you patiently, twines herself around your legs as you struggle to bring in that heavy load from the car and trip and fall and bang your head on the table and curse and scream in pain. Isnt it wonderful.

All kidding aside...having Michi to come home too makes it easier to want to be home alone with her. Do you often wonder how you got along with our Perrine? Id go nuts with out my Michi. She makes life berable when Im feeling down.

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