meanwhile

[rm]

Off to work.
And, I HAVE ALL THE MOSQUITO BITES EVER. Ugh.

More pleasantly, Patty needs London advice here: http://wordsofastory.livejournal.com/304673.html

Comments

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Aw, that sucks. I kept getting bit on my fingers and toes, which is a terribly weird place, because, hello, is there even any blood there? It's bone directly beneath the skin. And they were really hard to itch because of that.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Ah, you use the itching for scratching thing! Hee.

And I've had that happen too although not this year yet.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Is that a thing? I thought everyone used them interchangeably!

[rm.livejournal.com]

No. Itching is how it feels, scratching is what you do!
But a lot of peopel do use them interchangeably, and it's always cute to me.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Heh. I do know better, but it's sort of like not ending sentences with a proposition- in general, I can't be bothered to make the effort to be sure I don't.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I only make sure I don't when I'm writing Snape or feeling excessively courtly.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

It's really fairly difficult! A lot of sentences in English just seem to lend themselves to ending with a proposition.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yes, I have to go back, slow down and reorder in ym head to be able to do it. Instinctually, it's very hard, and I can only do it if I've been writing in that mode for a few hours.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

*nods* I did read somewhere that it's a rule from Latin, and since English isn't really a Romance language (despite having stolen many, many words from them), it truly isn't well-suited to avoiding that order. But so many people follow the rule by now, after centuries of Latin being taught in school, that it does sound a bit unformal to not do it, even if technically it's not wrong.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Right, exactly. it isn't wrong. Technically in latin you also put the verb last, although it's not actually necessary, just good form, and we don't do that.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Well, good thing. English would get very confusing if we did, since we don't mark subject and object in any way except their position in the sentence.

[askeladden.livejournal.com]

Than fly to others that we know not of?

If it's good enough for Shakespeare, it's good enough for me.