Quick post, might be expanded later: Amy just said that her MiniLÜK thing is called LÜK because you have to "look" at it. So presumably she's equating German [Y] with her English /U/... which matches the fact that her English /u/ appears to be fronted a bit, so it would make sense that /U/ is, too.
Still, interesting!
That’s twice so far today that I’ve encountered “continuously” used where “continually” is what I would expect. And it really irks me.
I suppose part of it is that my father drilled the difference into me when I was young.
On an unrelated note, whenever I see the term “crushed ice”, I have to think for a moment… because the misspelling “crashed ice” is common enough in Germany that I keep checking each occurrence of the term to see whether it’s right, and now even the correctly-spelled version looks wrong!
I’d like to (pre-)order Klingon Monopoly; however, they only ship to US addresses.
Could I use one of your addresses to send it to and you'd forward it to me? I’d reimburse you for postage, of course. (For example, by PayPal or by buying you an Amazon.com gift certificate.)
Contact me with your address by email (my username at livejournal dot com) if you would be willing to play reshipper for me.
Thank you! Satlho'!
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