I always want to say "talken".

9/3/08 18:59
upsticks: (Back Alley English)
(  1. from adjs., as darken, deepen, harden, madden, moisten, widen. Most of the words of this type seem to have been formed in late ME. or early mod.Eng., on the analogy of a few verbs which came down from OE. or were adopted from ON.; e.g. fasten:{em}OE. fæstnian; ?brighten:{em}ONorthumb. berhtnia; harden:{em}ON. har{edh}na. In Teut. there are two classes of vbs. formed upon the ‘weak’ or lengthened stems of adjs. (suffix -on-): (a) the intransitive (or in sense pass.) vbs. which in Goth. make the inf. in -nan, and the pa. tense in -ôda; e.g. fullnan to be filled, f. fullan- full; gabignan to be rich, f. gabigan- rich; managnan to abound, f. managan- many; (b) the originally trans. vbs. in OTeut. (i)nôjan, e.g. OHG. festinôn to fasten, f. feston- (:{em}fastjon-) fast. In Eng. these two classes of vbs. can scarcely be discriminated with precision, but in most cases the intr. sense (as in deepen = ‘become deeper’) appears to be derived from the trans. sense (as in deepen = ‘make deeper’). )


In light of how many we've found so far, this suffix still confuses me.
Tags:

In the summertime, when the weather is fine, there's a girl holding a can of coke.

9/3/08 15:55
upsticks: (Default)
stolen (woken, spoken) from [livejournal.com profile] fearnot 

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first article title on the page is the name of your band.

2. http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.

3. http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4.Use your graphics program of choice to throw them together, and post it in your own journal.

Here's my poor attempt at putting it all together:

myband


ALSO, IS IT SUMMER YET? I WANT TO GO TO THE BEACH. I CANNOT EXPLAIN MY DESPERATION TO GO THERE ENOUGH. o__O
Tags: