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A question for cunning linguists - do we use an A or an a?

Started by Nicky, December 17, 2008, 02:47:23 PM

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Nicky

Does anyone with the appropriate equipment not have a partner yet? Kaelin needs someone.

If we can't find someone you will just have to team up with another pair.
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Alyssa M.

Quote from: Nicky on December 17, 2008, 02:50:49 PM
Good point, we need to form our own country.

After all the lesbians had Lesbos, and the gays have France....so there is some sort of tenuous precedent here don't ya think?   :D

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andros

(but there's no Gynos, afaik.)

In French, gay="grec" -- but they don't capitalize nationalities (except as a noun -- "Il est grec; elle est une Grecque.")
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

   - Anatole France
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Shana A

Quote from: Nicky on December 17, 2008, 02:50:49 PM
Good point, we need to form our own country.

After all the lesbians had Lesbos, and the gays have France....so there is some sort of tenuous precedent here don't ya think?   :D

Yes, we should definitely have our own country... and don't forget, Ms Z is the already the keening quing of AAAAAAAAAAndroland  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Z
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde


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Pica Pica

'For the circle may be squared with rising and swelling.' Kit Smart
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tekla

FIGHT APATHY!, or don't...
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Lisbeth

I would think the first act of the government would be to change the name of the country. "andronia?" Pulease! It should be androgena.
"Anyone who attempts to play the 'real transsexual' card should be summarily dismissed, as they are merely engaging in name calling rather than serious debate."
--Julia Serano

http://juliaserano.blogspot.com/2011/09/transsexual-versus-transgender.html
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Nicky

How about we have a small string of islands, each named various things? Mine is going to be called Candy Mountain!
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Shana A

Quote from: tekla on December 18, 2008, 09:54:11 PM
The Andro Islands, I think we need lots of beaches.
Quote from: Lisbeth on December 19, 2008, 09:12:05 AM
I would think the first act of the government would be to change the name of the country. "andronia?" Pulease! It should be androgena.

How about Androgena Islands?

Quote from: Nicky on December 20, 2008, 03:06:02 AM
How about we have a small string of islands, each named various things? Mine is going to be called Candy Mountain!

LOL.... wanders through the forest humming the Androgena Islands national anthem  ;)

Z
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde


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Lisbeth

Quote from: Zythyra on December 20, 2008, 07:11:52 AM
Quote from: Nicky on December 20, 2008, 03:06:02 AM
How about we have a small string of islands, each named various things? Mine is going to be called Candy Mountain!
LOL.... wanders through the forest humming the Androgena Islands national anthem  ;)

Z

"I've got to be meeeee.
I've GOT to be me..."


One thinks there must be a place named Honey Cavern.
"Anyone who attempts to play the 'real transsexual' card should be summarily dismissed, as they are merely engaging in name calling rather than serious debate."
--Julia Serano

http://juliaserano.blogspot.com/2011/09/transsexual-versus-transgender.html
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RebeccaFog

Quote from: Nicky on December 20, 2008, 03:06:02 AM
How about we have a small string of islands, each named various things? Mine is going to be called Candy Mountain!

Mine will be called 'sunshine'
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Pneumonica

Being someone who's studied linguistics, who's been described as cunning, and who's practices cunning linguistics (  :D  ), I felt I had to put my two cents in.  How about the Abstractine Islands?  And can I have a shallow reef called the Obscure Depths?  I'll put a dock on stilts and all the buildings will be boats.

Strangely, I'm an aquaphobe...   ???
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6thsomatic

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Jaimey

wow.  where have i been for the past few days...

I'll name my little hill "muwahahahaha" and you can enter at your own risk.  >:-)
If curiosity really killed the cat, I'd already be dead. :laugh:

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these." GWC
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Pica Pica

Pneumonica, why don't you have an island surrounded by sand then?
'For the circle may be squared with rising and swelling.' Kit Smart
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tekla

I'm thinking more like we take over a mall, a la Dawn of the Dead, after all, its just an island in a sea of parking.
FIGHT APATHY!, or don't...
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RebeccaFog

works for me. 


At least, with the mannequins, I'll finally be able to make out with someone with no consequences.
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tekla

I should send you the number of my ex wife, she was pretty close to that, at least with everyone else.
FIGHT APATHY!, or don't...
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Pneumonica

Quote from: Rebis on December 22, 2008, 05:38:14 PM
At least, with the mannequins, I'll finally be able to make out with someone with no consequences.

Stop demeaning that department store dummy!   :P >:-)

Nah, overcoming phobia, at least conceptually, is important for me because I'm OCD.  Overcoming a phobia is like overcoming any other unwanted thought or behavior - it's why I used to go indoor rock climbing (I'm acrophobic as well).

Although that "sand surrounded by an island" definitely stirs up some Peter Pan imagery, there...   :D
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RebeccaFog

I'm sorry. I keep forgetting mannequins have feelings. 
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