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« Reply #75 on: April 23, 2010, 09:12:58 AM »
The author of the book I'm editing used the phrase "chthonic  forces."  I put in a note that the images this will invoke for his intended audience (Americans in their 20-30s) might not be what he was thinking of.  He's got too much classical greek background and not enough western cultural background.
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« Reply #76 on: April 23, 2010, 09:26:33 AM »
That would make quite a Hangman word, though.
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« Reply #77 on: April 23, 2010, 09:27:55 AM »
As would Zzyzx.
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« Reply #78 on: April 23, 2010, 09:30:27 AM »
Are proper nouns permitted?
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« Reply #79 on: April 23, 2010, 09:34:04 AM »
I know the rules of Scrabble, but Hangman?  Good question.  Probably whatever the big kid says they are.
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« Reply #80 on: April 23, 2010, 09:35:20 AM »
Yeah, guess so.  My son and I play GHOST.  He's a pretty good match for me, too.  Taught the boy everything I know!
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« Reply #81 on: April 23, 2010, 09:54:07 AM »
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As would Zzyzx.
I've you're playing the alphabet game in a car and driving southbound on I-15, Zzyzx can often be the end game.
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« Reply #82 on: April 23, 2010, 10:28:40 AM »
Southbound?  Who feels good enough to play that game on the return from Vegas?
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« Reply #83 on: April 23, 2010, 11:21:23 AM »
People who are religiously prohibited from imbibing. :P
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« Reply #84 on: April 23, 2010, 11:38:46 AM »
When I return from Vegas I am already North of Zzyzx.
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« Reply #85 on: April 23, 2010, 05:24:03 PM »
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The author of the book I'm editing used the phrase "chthonic  forces."  I put in a note that the images this will invoke for his intended audience (Americans in their 20-30s) might not be what he was thinking of.  He's got too much classical greek background and not enough western cultural background.
Maybe my classical Greek background is too strong. What images would it evoke for Americans in their 20s and 30s?
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« Reply #86 on: April 24, 2010, 02:46:38 PM »
Perhaps I am not giving American young adults enough credit, but I assume many would think of Lovecraft and his spin-offs before Greek mythology. And while he was using it as a negative, I don't think he intended to evoke tentacled creatures, or the lava-dwelling demon from Quake.  Also isn't there a Chthon who's a bad-guy in one of the comic-book universes?

Edit:  looked it up on wiki -- he's a god in the Marvel universe.
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« Reply #87 on: April 24, 2010, 03:19:02 PM »
In World of Warcraft there is an ancient God living under the ground commanding an insect kingdom named C'thun.  There's also another one laying imprisoned away beneath the temple of the Titans who has slowly broken through his shackles named Yogg Saron.  Both of them have lots of tentacles and beating them involves being devoured.
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« Reply #88 on: April 28, 2010, 03:12:08 PM »
I blame their spell check. But "professional or armature" is probably actually not what you meant . . .
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« Reply #89 on: April 28, 2010, 03:13:38 PM »
I guess, given those options, I'm going to have to go with "professional".
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« Reply #90 on: July 28, 2010, 05:20:03 PM »
"Homemade".  I'm figuring that this no longer means what I've always thought it means -- made at home.  The cafeteria at work has "homemade soups", the pizza restaurant has "homemade garlic knots".  These things are made in professional kitchens, not at home.

Does "homemade" now mean "from scratch"?  If so, that's kind of sad.
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« Reply #91 on: July 28, 2010, 06:28:10 PM »
Quote from: Tante Shvester on July 28, 2010, 05:20:03 PM
"Homemade".  I'm figuring that this no longer means what I've always thought it means -- made at home.  The cafeteria at work has "homemade soups", the pizza restaurant has "homemade garlic knots".  These things are made in professional kitchens, not at home.

Does "homemade" now mean "from scratch"?  If so, that's kind of sad.
I think restaurants are trying to cash in on the appeal of homemade foods by saying what matters is it's made from scratch here rather than any part of it being purchased premade.  I agree it's sad.
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« Reply #92 on: July 28, 2010, 08:48:09 PM »
If I nuke a TV dinner and serve it up at home, is it a "homemade TV dinner"?

Um, are they still calling those frozen dinners "TV dinners"?  I don't think so, but I can't think of what we call them now.
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« Reply #93 on: July 28, 2010, 09:45:31 PM »
They've become the norm. Now they're just "dinners".
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« Reply #94 on: July 29, 2010, 12:24:49 AM »
Don't people still watch TV while eating them?
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« Reply #95 on: July 29, 2010, 02:14:42 AM »
Nah, they're on the Internet.
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« Reply #96 on: July 29, 2010, 03:49:27 AM »
Quote from: Tante Shvester on July 29, 2010, 02:14:42 AM
Nah, they're on the Internet.
Well that's true, but with netflix streaming on my X-box 360, I almost always eat them in front of the television.  Currently, every current generation console offers netflix, or a movies/TV shows on demand service.  I think it will be a permanent addition to the console market and hence people will watch TV on their television via the internet.

I also suspect eventually a service like netflix will incorporate brand new movies and TV shows, bundled in one package with a monthly payment.  Lots of people will drop their cable/satellite plans.
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« Reply #97 on: July 29, 2010, 04:26:04 AM »
The Lovecraft character is Cthulhu, but I can see any word starting with Cth evoking that or ones like it.  I played a card game called "Illuminati" with one of my intended boyfriends once, and it was the first time I saw Cthulhu or something like it used outside of classical mythology.  One of the Illuminatist groups in the game was the knights of Cthulhu or something. 
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« Reply #98 on: July 29, 2010, 06:56:31 AM »
Cydonia?  Cumru?
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« Reply #99 on: July 29, 2010, 08:47:52 AM »
I eat TV dinners about once a year. If that.
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