Sunday, February 21, 2010

Life is an Interrobang

They make a punctuation mark for what

I think I'm in love.

The interrobang is a combination of an exclamation point and a question mark that is used in situations where both would apply. The dull-witted fools of you who read this are no doubt wondering why we need a punctuation mark for that when one can use both the pretty stick point and the curvy huh point right after each other. Only idiots do that. It's poor form.

How can it be so beautiful

Oh. Like that.


In other news, Qupar has admitted to reading some of an Obi/Luke slash fic. Yes, slash.

What more? I write these things without any particular direction in mind.

Though a native English speaker, and a worshiper of that faith, I ask all my basic interrogatives in Spanish. For example, if you were to tell me that the French were likable people, I would reply with an incredulous "Que
‽" (Hah! Interrobang!) Periodically when I speak, I transition into the language. Why? I'll never know. It's neither as flawless as English (Heh. I made a funny.) nor as beautiful as Portuguese. It's not even arrogant like French.

Meh.

I realize there's no inverted interrobang in my cross-language question. I couldn't find one. Deal with it.

Was it rude to call French arrogant? I'd like to apologize to all the French people in the audience. Just because you hate the world and live in a country that smells of urine does not in any way mean you're arrogant. You may merely be delusional, or suffering from a rare form of extraordinarily severe chronic stupidity.


72 comments:

  1. EEEEWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!! Qupar was reading Obi/Luke slash fics?!? (I can't figure out how to do the interrobang. Sorry.) Ugh! That's almost worse than Elphaba/Glinda slash fics! *shudders*

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  2. There's Glinda/Elphie (Glinda goes first) slash‽

    Actually, that would probably be called femslash. Slash is usually male, and femslash is used to describe female slash. Wikipedia says so.

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  3. Yeah, there are Gelphie femslash fics out there. Ew.

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  4. I have a love-hate relationship with it. We love each other when it cooperates for me. However, when it doesn't, it apparently hates me, so I hate it back.

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  5. Okay, seriously, I told you not to put it out of context, and what do you do? Post it on the internet. I was unaware of what slash fiction was, it was an accident, the minute I realized Luke was hitting on Obi I stopped and never read slash fiction (or nonfiction, just for the record) again! I wish I would have checked this site sooner

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  6. Sure you stopped. I believe you.

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  7. Sorry about that, Qupar. Been there--I once read a Criminal Minds slashfic once between Hotch and Reid... ugh! Hotch is even MARRIED in the show (to a woman)! It wasn't labeled. Is that what happened to you?

    And Reogan, don't be patronizing/sarcastic to Qupar. I like Qupar.

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  8. For reasons that elude us all...

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  9. I really doubt reiteration will change my contrary attitude, thanks.

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  10. I suppose that's true as well.

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  11. :)



    (You did it. Do not even yell at me, or I'll kick your butt. I'm sick, so I'm allowed since I'm in the "throes of delirium" as well. Ha.)

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  12. I failed once. You've failed now. Anymore and you suffer.

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  13. "Anymore" is not a single word. (Yes, I pointed that out just to be annoying. Deal with it.)

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  14. Nuh-uh. (I have no argument, since I'm doing other stuff at this time, and have no time to Dictionary.com it and find out.)

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  15. Then you waste my valuable time by reiterating falsehoods.

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  16. Okay, according to Dictionary.com, the use of "anymore" as one word is mostly used in the South. As much as your disparaging remarks about the South bug me, they work in my favor here. If you don't like the South, why talk/write like a Southerner?

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  17. Be nice to the Southerners. Without them, we wouldn't have won the Revolutionary War. Plus the fact that I wouldn't be in existence.



    *waits for the inevitable mean remark about it being a good thing if Elphaba didn't exist*

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  18. So they're to blame for all the worlds evils?

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  19. Mark Twain was right! It isn't just a river in Egypt.

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  20. True. Hilarious is more accurate.

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  21. Fine, let me rephrase. Not humorous in any way, shape, or form.

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  22. Only if one is Southerner enough to fail to comprehend it.


    I meant to write stupid, but I thought the synonym would be more fitting.

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  23. It is hard to argue when the truth opposes you, isn't it?

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  24. No, it's hard to argue using logic when the other party wouldn't know logic if it came up and introduced itself.

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  25. True. You really should acquaint yourself with it sometime.

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  26. Reogan, talking to yourself is something that can be fixed. You know that, right?

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  27. Of course, but that has nothing to do with our discussion now.

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  28. It has everything to do with our discussion now, as you just spoke to yourself.

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  29. No. I spoke to you, as you deny even the most blatant logic.

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  30. Logic with a hard g, yes. As in, your special brand of logic.

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  31. You forgot a phrase. It should be, "the only kind that has Reogan's special brand of psychosis."

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  32. Wrong. Congrats on 50+ comments!

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  33. Absolutely, unequivocally, wrong! You're welcome.

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  34. See, that's where you're wrong.

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  35. No, that's where you're wrong.

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  36. That would be a good retort but for the fact that you, being wrong, fail to be correct.

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  37. Like I said, go ahead.






    This conversation is going to go in circles.

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  38. You could concede victory to me.

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  39. Yup. You could concede victory, too, though.

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  40. That goes against everything I stand for!

    Everything I stand for being arrogance.

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