Is it too late for me to say I hate, hate, hate, everything about the Straight Dope Message Boards because I’m not the smartest, funniest, cleverest person here? I’m not even sure I’m in the top ten percent, and that’s a horrible, horrible feeling for me, given my experience in the real world up to this point.
[sub]I keep coming back because I’m a masochist.[/sub]
Nope. Just to end the suspense, 'punha is right, it’s Latin. Gaw-DAY-ray (alternately: MIHZ-haat-luveen-schweet-cheex-witha-siyd-ov-WOO-WOO, as Uke and SPOOFE have pointed out).
It woulda been, if I’d been on the mark even in terms of the right LANGUAGE !!! :mad:
Shit. Fucking dead languages. I let my Cuniform skill go to pot, and people throw around Latin like it’s the secret language of Hip-Hop. I sweah. I took French for three fuckin’ years, NEVER thought I’d need to know Latin.
Now, come to find out that SuaSponte would like me a lot more if A) I knew what his name meant, and B) I didn’t think he was a woman . Fucking Latin.
As far as my French, Coldy? I can hold my own. Remember, it’s not the linguinals, it’s the dipthongs that getcha… <cackle>
Yes, a shrimp. Can you believe the unmitigated gall? How about the mitigated gall?!
If it weren’t for the liter of 160 proof rum I helped drink later that day, I think I’d have more to rant and bitch about.
After all I’ve done for you, SPOOFE screws up and apologizes and all of a sudden you’re offering him shellfish for his drinks, while you’ve never offered me calamari for my chardonnay. Fine, see if I’ll buy you bay scallops for your bourbon again.