1. 16:50 14th Jan 2012

    Notes: 2

    Athwart the Grammariam and Philologist (or, perhaps: Words With Filthy Friends?)

    1. P: I've got a preposition for you.
    2. G: Okay, shoot.
    3. P: 'Notwithstanding.'
    4. G: Ooh, NICE! That can also be a postposition.
    5. P: Let me tell you--have I got a postposition for you.
    6. G: Under? Atop? Between? Inside? Or, more accurately, outside?
    7. P: Hoho, good effort, but some of those you'd have to be a little bit acrobatic to make POSTpositions.
    8. G: And these are the sort of shenanigans up with which you will not put?
    9. P: Mmm. [Much longer than usual pause] Mmm.
    10. G: The Latin for the prepositional 'with'?
    11. P: That's still one of the few words you're uncomfortable with, eh?
    12. G: Oddly, I can totally say it if it is immediately followed with "-dumpster" or "-catcher", but otherwise it still kind of gets my hackles up.
    13. P: You're such a weird and terrible bitch.
    14. G: Hackles aren't exclusive to dogs.
    15. P: Because clearly that was the implication?
    16. G: Touché.
     
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