posted on March 09, 2003 @ 2:19 pm
"stupify," disturbed
"open your eyes," goldfinger
"everything girl," mustard plug
Reine des Pixies: i was tempted to buy an album before i left, but i've decided not to. i'll just download it.
Chemistrysmygirl: what album
Chemistrysmygirl: huh
Reine des Pixies: sing sing death house by the distillers
Chemistrysmygirl: ok
Chemistrysmygirl: good story
Reine des Pixies: fuck you
Chemistrysmygirl: haha
Reine des Pixies: cat gives me that shit all the time. 'a story is supposed to have a beginning, middle and end. yours just have beginnings.'
Chemistrysmygirl: hahaha
i forgot to add the funniness about my sears trip. ok, so i'm standing there in purple cords that (for whatever reason) refuse to stay up nowadays, red flip-flops with white polka dots, a ratty t-shirt and red hoodie (whose white stripes are now more grey-brown). i'm digging through racks of clothes that are half off (making them normal wal-mart prices), and surrounding me are grandmothers and mothers, one lady with a two-year-old kid. i almost talked to her about sarah, that i knew her pain of dealing with a toddler who's awake during her naptime. i decided not to, though. then, in the middle of this awkward scene, "i love you more today than yesterday" started playing, and naturally i get all excited (goldfinger did a very rad cover, so i love that song now). it took all it had within me not to sing along with spiral staircase and scare these women further.
in case you have ever wondered about the word woman or why the plural of woman is women, let me give you this half-assed (and quite incomplete) etymology. okie. woman comes from old english wifmann, wimman. in this time, wif meant "female," mann meant "human being of either sex" (which is why people today talk of "man" meaning "humans," duh). so, stick them together and you have :drumroll: "female person"! pretty obvious, no? as far as the plural, -en is a plural marker only surviving in the words women, oxen, and children. would you like to say womanen? isn't women much simpler? just like in cladistics, the simplest answer is most likely the best answer. that's why languages seem to always be deteriorating. (good thing we make up new stuff to replace grammatical death, otherwise, like my middle english prof said, we'd be grunting and pointing soon.)