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I don't believe in horoscopes but...
Brigid
Veteran
I just finished responding to the "Love/Marriage" and "How close have you come to dying?" threads and then I went back to my homepage and read my horoscope for fun. Here's what it said:
Taurus
April 19 - May 19
You may be feeling the pressure of time right now, dear Taurus. At this point in your life you may be more aware than ever before of your limited time left on this planet. Perhaps you are also thinking more about love and romance and how much they mean to you. Consider the limitations of each, but don't dwell on them. The important thing is to embrace the now and make the most of the time and the love that you have at this very moment.
Hmmmm......
LOL!
Brigid
Taurus
April 19 - May 19
You may be feeling the pressure of time right now, dear Taurus. At this point in your life you may be more aware than ever before of your limited time left on this planet. Perhaps you are also thinking more about love and romance and how much they mean to you. Consider the limitations of each, but don't dwell on them. The important thing is to embrace the now and make the most of the time and the love that you have at this very moment.
Hmmmm......
LOL!
Brigid
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Taureans ROCK!
LOL!
-bf
Not sure how I feel about horoscopes, though I do enjoy the wisdom aspect of Tarot (and the likes) and consider it to a be a useful tool in self exploration. The e-mail/newspaper horoscopes simply don't take in nearly enough factors to be anywhere near reliable, imo, even if you do believe.
Horoscopes can be for fun and amusement (like wedgies) but, in my mind, that's about it.
-bf
LOL! Oh, stuff it, BS. I mean BF.
Brigid
Sometimes the horoscopes encourage one to look a little deeper into oneself-and I definitely agree with the tarot business(even if it is a buch of bullshit-Jim Morrison) I believe that any divination method (runes, tarot, I Ching etc.) have a place more in the realm of self-checking than in the fortune-telling arena.
and Brigid, About that romance thing? WTF is that all about? *wink wink*:wow:
kind regards,
Xrayman
(your secret admirer) teehee.:thumbsup:
p.s. we all know taureans rock!
I'm like the old Highland (Scottish) woman sitting outside her croft being interviewed by a folklorist who says in wonderment, "But surely you don't believe in fairies!".
"Oh, no!" she says. "But they're there just the same."
Brigid
LOL!
If you read my post in "Love/Marriage" you'll see that I was "thinking more about love and romance and how much they mean to you." Love, a lot. Romance.....not so much.
Brigid
My point is, I am no longer a romantic fool.
So, here's a nice long raspberry for you, Xray!
BRRRBBBLLRRLLBBRRBLLLBBLLLLRRBBBLLLL!!!! (How on earth do you spell that out?)
I think you'll find it's "phrrrrrphrph".
Hey! ....Xray!!!! (That rhymed) Here's one for you!!!
PHRRRRPHRPHRRRRRPHRRRRR !!!!
You know what bugs me? What really bugs me?
When people say -
"I heard this great quote".... or "here's a quote for you...."
It's not 'quote.'
It's 'Quotation.'
'Quote' is the conjugation.... To 'Quote.'
I quote, you quote, he/she quotes......
'Quotation' is the noun.
I told you it was stupid.
I'm having a bad day. :werr:
As for birthsigns- I'm Aquarius/Pisces cusp (Western calendar), Dragon (Chinese calendar) and Wolf (Native American calendar.) The Chinese birthsign is the most accurate personality type for me as far as these go...
Hey, I didn't think of that! Of course! (I just slapped my forehead.)
Thanks, Fede. I love this kind of thing. Popular improper usage. It's so fun! My father and I used to play this game all the time. I'd think of things I'd heard during the day that were incorrect and he'd do the same and we'd compare notes. One I used to hear a lot was "irregardless". And you know what? My spell check program didn't ding just now! That means that word is in it's dictionary. Wtf? Is it considered a word now? Or were the people who wrote my little spell check program illiterate? I have to go check.....
OMG! It's in Oxford! Wahhhh!!!
O.K. Now I'm having a bad day. I know that language is ever changing and that's beautiful and everything but what on earth was wrong with "regardless"??? I don't like this game anymore. And I'm not playing. What's the point if all the wrong usages are being accepted now? There goes another part of the foundation of intellectual elitism. Dammit!! Will somebody remind me why I went to university?
Brigid
My original story was going to be about how I had to stop playing the word game with my father because he became such a "language/grammar nazi" about it and I had to repeatedly remind him of the changing nature of language. (I'm my father's daughter, I know!)
I'll have to tell him what you said the next time he's on the verge of a coronary shouting at the TV.
Brigid
I wish I could use that on my father but he's a 75 year old Catholic with regrets and the last thing he wants to hear about is impermanence. LOL!
Brigid
I'm just glad I spotted it before Zenmonk did!
Hey Federica,
I'll let you in on a secret, Brigid is really good at English as well, she edited an article of mine.
She's real smart.
love you both.
regards,
Xray
:ausflag:
What really bugs me these days is the lack of the letter T in this country(UK)! Did we LOSE a bunch of t's somewhere??!!
What happened to the good old voice of the BBC?
Grrrrrrrrrr!!
I love regional accents but what's wrong with actually pronouncing words?!
*rant over*
Sas (stupid too!)
Even our daugh'er's reception teacher can' say her t's:-/ :wtf:
until next week, Good luck!
_/\_
metta
Don't Want To Have A Country Anymore.
When I went to The Onion, this was the headline.
GREAT site, Not1! Thank you soooo much!! Just what I needed.
Brigid
Thank you, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!
The opposite is happening in Sweden, people are pronouncing words more and more as they are spelled. We seem to think that it's more correct to pronounce words by the spelling when they have *never* been pronouned that way. (And the funny thing is that some people have to stop and think if they're asked if the written or spoken language existed first, and that a few will even say the written language, until they think about it a little more and realise that can't be.)
I think it's sad that we see the written language as better, more correct, more right, when it's only a pale, shallow imitation of the spoken language. (And I have to be very alone in wondering if the things we give up when we learn to read and write are actually worth trading for literacy.
In France, there is a specific mode of language (conjugation, particularly) for the written word, and the spoken word... There is terminology in literature that is simply incorrect to use in speaking... it's extremely difficult for one who is not in the know, and I would venture to suggest that the same may be said of the English language....
It's a question of standard....
I fully recognise the existence of regional accents and dialects, and peculiarities and colloqualisms found everywhere.
What I deplore is shoddyness.... laziness from those who frankly should know better (The BBC and the Body of education to name and shame but two) ....and it seeps down, through society, and through to our children, as being acceptable.
I still remember the rap on the knuckles I received from a Teacher when I corrected their grammar.
And my father's indignance when he had a shouting match with her in the car park after school.
He left her a gibbering trembling wreck. And all through pure use of polite but firm correct English, nothing more.
(And I know that there are differences between how Swedish has changed and evolved and how a lot of other European languages have, because in Sweden middle class got strong early and they were very worried about being seen as correct, so started using "bookish" language, while the upper class and working classes retained the old ways of speaking because they (the upper class) didn't have that urge to prove themselves and so didn't see the written language as more correct, they would've seen using that kind of language as pretentious.)
This idea of correctness in language brought back a lot of feelings from teacher's education and about everything that's wrong with the school system, and I didn't realise it until now. I'm sorry if I was unfair and directed that against any of you.
I absolutely agree. I'm no linguistic genius, even in my own language. And (starting a sentence with "and" - consider my knuckles rapped, Fede
I've also been known to drop my t's on occassion *gasp*- and it is just lazy! Hubby soon corrects me too!
Kizzie's reception teacher is the most dreadful speaker - what a great start to a 5 year old's education!
As an aside, thinking about our children's school: do you think a secular state primary school should be teaching and making children PRACTICE Christianity on a daily basis?! Daily prayers and hymns and even teaching the children that God makes the snow?! Oooooo I'm getting all worked up about this
Sas
I find myself agreeing with you and I think the Swedish perspective is absolutely fascinating. I tried to learn Swedish in university but my language skills are far too weak.
I like the more laid back approach to language. I like to enjoy the history of its evolution and it's changing nature.
Brigid
This is a whole new topic, and I've opened a new thread in the European and Australian Buddhists' section....
Don't encourage me
Sas