Y'know, I must admit that I use this contraction pretty regularly, though you swallow the second double-l so that it sounds more like yalla, as in: "Yalla never believe where I woke up this mornin'."
Whoo doggy. The last time I saw such prose I was a volunteer reader for a playwright competition. I read over 200 unpublished plays.
One gem was from Japan and appeared to be a word-for-word translation into English. The only line of dialogue I can really remember is "My life is an anthill of personas."
Hey, that is John Scalzi! He's one of my favorite authors and bloggers. If you are interested in Heinlein science fiction you should check out his latest book - "Old Man's War."
No one. I have nothing against bphd, or whoever the flies would be (I would be included, I presume). But it was once thought that flies were spontaneously generated from rotting meat, and it was a good line, so...
"Y'all'll!"
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 02- 1-05 3:48 PM
now i'm no literary critic, but that second paragraph was one sentence. one.
AWESOME.
Posted by d | Link to this comment | 02- 1-05 4:02 PM
::jaw drops::
That's worthy of a Bulwer-Lytton.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02- 1-05 4:19 PM
"Y'all'll!"
Y'know, I must admit that I use this contraction pretty regularly, though you swallow the second double-l so that it sounds more like yalla, as in: "Yalla never believe where I woke up this mornin'."
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 02- 1-05 4:30 PM
Yes, but how about "all y'all"? One of my favorite southernisms.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02- 1-05 6:15 PM
There was life before b.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 02- 1-05 9:29 PM
I can't believe no-one has commented on my favorite part
"Imagine if y'all had to take the emergency stares in your condition" he chuckled."
It took me a few seconds to parse that sentence and figure out what the heck was going on. The image of "emergency stares" is rather compelling.
Posted by Maynard Handley | Link to this comment | 02- 2-05 1:22 AM
Whoo doggy. The last time I saw such prose I was a volunteer reader for a playwright competition. I read over 200 unpublished plays.
One gem was from Japan and appeared to be a word-for-word translation into English. The only line of dialogue I can really remember is "My life is an anthill of personas."
Posted by Tripp | Link to this comment | 02- 2-05 8:38 AM
Hey, that is John Scalzi! He's one of my favorite authors and bloggers. If you are interested in Heinlein science fiction you should check out his latest book - "Old Man's War."
Posted by Tripp | Link to this comment | 02- 2-05 12:14 PM
What, all y'all didn't spontaneously generate from the blogosphere just because I happened on the scene? Say it ain't so.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02- 2-05 2:39 PM
Much as flies spontaneously generate from rotting meat, in fact.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 02- 2-05 2:56 PM
Yes, that was precisely the image I was going for.
Posted by bitchphd | Link to this comment | 02- 2-05 6:01 PM
Much as flies spontaneously generate from rotting meat, in fact.
Wow, that's vicious. But who are you insulting, exactly? Prof. Bitch?
Posted by Mithras | Link to this comment | 02- 3-05 1:10 PM
No one. I have nothing against bphd, or whoever the flies would be (I would be included, I presume). But it was once thought that flies were spontaneously generated from rotting meat, and it was a good line, so...
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 02- 3-05 1:24 PM