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11-24-2007, 03:42 PM
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Shady She-Penguin
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A few more examples of the "seeing 'downers -phenomenon":
My little sister was studying geography and reading her geography textbook aloud. I really wasn't listening to her, but one word did catch my attention. Me: "What?! Did you say "runemuodostelma"? Sister: "Silly. I said "reunamuodostuma"." Good for me. Even though I must say I'm a master of mishearing words. Maybe that I managed to hear "muodostuma" as "muodostelma" gives some idea of it. (Muodostuma and muodostelma both mean "formation" in Finnish, "muodostuma" is just something that has formed by itself and "muodostelma" is something shaped/formed by humans. And the proper English translation of the term "reunamuodostelma" is "ice marginal formation" or something like that, in case anyone was wondering.  )Also, my sister read that her toothbrush said "Legate" when it really said "Colgate". When I laughed at her and told her she seems to be addicted to the BD she replied something like: "No, I'm not. That was all your fault, because you always speak of the Barrow-Downs and Barrow-Downs people." I leave it for you to judge which one of us is to blame. Lastly, I couldn't help laughing when studying irregular Swedish and found "to burn": brinna, brinner, brann, brunnit. Sounded all too much like Brinn(iel) to me...  
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11-24-2007, 03:48 PM
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But still it seems to me that your sister could write to this thread herself. And whatever the case, I am very amused by this. (Actually, I happen to have a Colgate toothpaste...)Quote:
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11-25-2007, 05:58 AM
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EDIT: Wow, 10th post!!!
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11-25-2007, 10:07 AM
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Shady She-Penguin
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I really can't say if it's fun or horrible to have someone in your life that can analyse to you about which BD-related topics and which BDers you talk the most about. Maybe I should ask Little Green to make me some sort of a report or diagram and post it here... 
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11-25-2007, 10:09 AM
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*envious cringe*
Nilpaurion Felagund, where in the real world are you!!!
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11-25-2007, 10:19 AM
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11-26-2007, 12:55 AM
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Shady She-Penguin
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I wonder if it's a sign of addiction that it really bothers me more that I haven't written the final narration for my late ww-game yet than that I have several unwritten texts for my creative writing lessons...
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11-26-2007, 05:12 AM
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I think that we are talking of an addiction to WW, which I would argue is not the same as an addiciotn to The Downs.
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11-26-2007, 02:56 PM
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Shady She-Penguin
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Well, Rune, if that's not good enough for you, how about making 107 posts in the past 15 days...?
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