Comments on: The Pareesian Life http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2006/01/07/the-pareesian-life/ Chemically-enhanced neural rewiring, on a semi-regular basis... Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:01:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Unknown girl http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2006/01/07/the-pareesian-life/comment-page-1/#comment-27471 Unknown girl Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:26:00 +0000 http://unknowngenius.com/blog/?p=1329#comment-27471 Right, I just discovered your blog today... and I must admit that it is one of the most interesting I've ever read... Go on, even in Paris! I'm sure, you'll find loads of interesting things to say... I mean not only things can be interesting but the writer himself as well! ;) C ya! xxx Right, I just discovered your blog today… and I must admit that it is one of the most interesting I’ve ever read… Go on, even in Paris! I’m sure, you’ll find loads of interesting things to say… I mean not only things can be interesting but the writer himself as well! ;) C ya! xxx

]]> By: Regular Singular Points - a web of history » Blog Archive » Fir and Mná http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2006/01/07/the-pareesian-life/comment-page-1/#comment-21584 Regular Singular Points - a web of history » Blog Archive » Fir and Mná Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:21:00 +0000 http://unknowngenius.com/blog/?p=1329#comment-21584 [...] I was reading a blog entry, from someone who recently moved to Paris, pointing out that the hot water taps in France are marked with the letter ‘C’ and it reminded me of a funny thing about the Irish language. [...] [...] I was reading a blog entry, from someone who recently moved to Paris, pointing out that the hot water taps in France are marked with the letter ‘C’ and it reminded me of a funny thing about the Irish language. [...]

]]> By: dr Dave http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2006/01/07/the-pareesian-life/comment-page-1/#comment-20872 dr Dave Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:01:00 +0000 http://unknowngenius.com/blog/?p=1329#comment-20872 <em>Xavier</em>, The original intent hadn't escaped my comprehension. It's just much less fun when you remove the mystery. But in the spirit of spreading the pedantry, let me point out that the word <i>cum</i> is also known across the channel (with a meaning closer to its Latin root and safe for children)... For example, talking about "a secretary <i>cum</i> personal assistant" has nothing to do with some x-rated movie plot, and is just a fancy way of replacing the ever so horrendous "slash" mark. This common usage is mostly UK afaik, but the more refined among our US readers wouldn't ignore it. Whatever you do, just make sure you know the proper use of this construction before you condone it, lest you end up like my darling Indian friend who once peppered her Birthday Invite email with little "<i>cum</i>" at the end of each line, thinking it gave it a lovely air of quaint Britishness (and prompting the recipients to wonder if the party in question involved more than a birthday cake and balloons)... <i>Michael</i> Fear not: there will be updates on life in this new and exotic country. Also considering a new phone some day (and accompanying camera/moblog opportunities), just reluctant to sign anything with the highway robber barons that pose as cellphone companies here... Regarding water and letters: "C" stands for "Chaud" (not "Cold", as my hazy morning brain tends to think way too often these days). I suppose if my apartment was a tad more up-to-date, it would feature taps designed by more international-minded people and make use of colors instead of damn letters. You should just see the network of pipes running in the hallway outside my door: Alien's spaceship's got nothing on my building. Xavier,

The original intent hadn’t escaped my comprehension. It’s just much less fun when you remove the mystery.

But in the spirit of spreading the pedantry, let me point out that the word cum is also known across the channel (with a meaning closer to its Latin root and safe for children)… For example, talking about “a secretary cum personal assistant” has nothing to do with some x-rated movie plot, and is just a fancy way of replacing the ever so horrendous “slash” mark.

This common usage is mostly UK afaik, but the more refined among our US readers wouldn’t ignore it. Whatever you do, just make sure you know the proper use of this construction before you condone it, lest you end up like my darling Indian friend who once peppered her Birthday Invite email with little “cum” at the end of each line, thinking it gave it a lovely air of quaint Britishness (and prompting the recipients to wonder if the party in question involved more than a birthday cake and balloons)…

Michael

Fear not: there will be updates on life in this new and exotic country. Also considering a new phone some day (and accompanying camera/moblog opportunities), just reluctant to sign anything with the highway robber barons that pose as cellphone companies here…
Regarding water and letters: “C” stands for “Chaud” (not “Cold”, as my hazy morning brain tends to think way too often these days). I suppose if my apartment was a tad more up-to-date, it would feature taps designed by more international-minded people and make use of colors instead of damn letters. You should just see the network of pipes running in the hallway outside my door: Alien’s spaceship’s got nothing on my building.

]]> By: Xavier http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2006/01/07/the-pareesian-life/comment-page-1/#comment-20865 Xavier Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:53:00 +0000 http://unknowngenius.com/blog/?p=1329#comment-20865 Oh, come on, Daaaave, you can't leave it at that ! How can you possibly pass the perfect opportunity to shower your readers with useless wisdom, while proving to the world that you know more than them ? In effect, don't mislead your poor non-Latin-centric friends by ridiculous banters about matchmaking services names : provide us with <i>la substantifque moelle</i> please ! Tell them, tell them that the Cum founders are not debilitating cumshot perverts (if that even exists), but in fact true intellectuals, going straight to the root of our dear, isolated language : Latin. Yes, flimsy monolanguage foreigners, you've been duped by the master of <i>céans</i>, Cum in that context means "with" or "together", which, unarguably, is a perfect match for a matchmaking service. Right ? Right ? Who's with me ? Oh, come on, Daaaave, you can’t leave it at that ! How can you possibly pass the perfect opportunity to shower your readers with useless wisdom, while proving to the world that you know more than them ? In effect, don’t mislead your poor non-Latin-centric friends by ridiculous banters about matchmaking services names : provide us with la substantifque moelle please ! Tell them, tell them that the Cum founders are not debilitating cumshot perverts (if that even exists), but in fact true intellectuals, going straight to the root of our dear, isolated language : Latin. Yes, flimsy monolanguage foreigners, you’ve been duped by the master of céans, Cum in that context means “with” or “together”, which, unarguably, is a perfect match for a matchmaking service. Right ? Right ? Who’s with me ?

]]> By: Michael Panda http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2006/01/07/the-pareesian-life/comment-page-1/#comment-20842 Michael Panda Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:25:00 +0000 http://unknowngenius.com/blog/?p=1329#comment-20842 Oh Doctar Dave, you know I shall be a faithful pandar reader for life! It's too bad you left Japan, but I have no doubt you will continue to post all sorts of interesting adventures for us to read! Don't they have pretty decent camera phones in Europe? I'm sure you can still keep the moblog flow going! For the record: I was not aware of that hot/cold initials reversal on french water taps. I shall file that away for future usage ;) As for people landing on your site searching for strange things, while a lot land on my site looking for "panda blog" or "cute pandas", I also get a lot (more, sad to say) who land searching for things like "Japanese girl" "massage" "japanese girl massage" and the like. *sigh* The strangest search string hit I ever got though was "Giant Ass Monkah Nose" I swear to you, typed *exactly* like that. Go ahead and try it! Who on earth is searching for that AND WHY!? Happy new year! あけまして、おめでとう！ Oh Doctar Dave, you know I shall be a faithful pandar reader for life! It’s too bad you left Japan, but I have no doubt you will continue to post all sorts of interesting adventures for us to read! Don’t they have pretty decent camera phones in Europe? I’m sure you can still keep the moblog flow going!

For the record: I was not aware of that hot/cold initials reversal on french water taps. I shall file that away for future usage ;)

As for people landing on your site searching for strange things, while a lot land on my site looking for “panda blog” or “cute pandas”, I also get a lot (more, sad to say) who land searching for things like “Japanese girl” “massage” “japanese girl massage” and the like. *sigh*

The strangest search string hit I ever got though was “Giant Ass Monkah Nose”

I swear to you, typed *exactly* like that. Go ahead and try it! Who on earth is searching for that AND WHY!?

Happy new year! あけまして、おめでとう！

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