Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

Giovanni Schwartz wrote:Example: The Stanford Cardinal, which is apparently the meaning "The color red" and not the bird or the Catholic dude. Their mascot is a dancing Christmas tree.

Well, naturally.

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/75877/

I assumed Hobo was making a joke when he or she gave the pronunciation of "genres" as "gen-rays."

(In other news, I noticed a bunch of new names recently, so congrats to the new probies!)

Katya wrote:http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/75877/

I assumed Hobo was making a joke when he or she gave the pronunciation of "genres" as "gen-rays."

That's what I thought too...

But.... I don't get it. What's the joke about offering the wrong pronunciation for a word?

I think the joke is being overly pretentious but also wrong. It's funny because (s)he is trying to be so accurate but we all know that it is just not right. A kind of faux-hypercorrection, maybe.

Giovanni Schwartz wrote:Example: The Stanford Cardinal, which is apparently the meaning "The color red" and not the bird or the Catholic dude. Their mascot is a dancing Christmas tree.

Unofficial mascot, for what it's worth. We were the Indians until 1972 but haven't had an official mascot since.

A very solid slate of answers to my question on technology and education. I was hoping O'Malley would answer, although now I feel indescribably old.

I'm a boardboard lurker but I found this cool TED talk about technology integration that you might be interested in.

https://theboard.byu.edu/questions/75951/

Yep, they don't like each other now, but get her friends together and they'll end up falling in love and getting married and living happily ever after. Just like in the movies! Sorry Bummed, but it's destiny!

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/75884/

I have been so curious about this building because I pass by it almost every day. Thanks, yay!

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/75940/
There's a Wikipedia article for Elvish languages.
The External links section of the article has a link to Writing with Elvish fonts. Interesting.
Looking at that page, at the first example under the section Input methods and tools, with the word "quanta," or full, that one's writing system seems to use characters I would say are Gaelic-looking and vowelling that makes me think of Arabic.

The characters look like Old Gaelic. Modern uses the standard Roman alphabet. Less of a headache, but kind of a shame.

My follow up question for her is "Quenya or Sindarin?"

How has there been an alphabet change in Elvish, of all things??

Portia wrote:How has there been an alphabet change in Elvish, of all things??

She was referring to an alphabet change in Gaelic.

Also, I've looked into them both, but not enough to make a serious commitment. I did at one point print out an entire dictionary (it was only fifty pages though) and start trying to learn it.

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/76015/

First of all, good answer.

Second of all, in Taiwan (especially during the winter), we would go to peoples' houses, and they would serve us cups of boiling water. And some days when it was really cold and rainy, we would just sit with that cup of water in our little cold hands, basically burning them until the temperature of the water and our hands had equalized. They expected us to drink it, but we never did until it was all the way cooled down (to lukewarm, honestly. But better lukewarm than literally boiling hot.)

http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/76033/

Concorde wrote:If I walk into a brick wall there is going to be opposition and I'm obviously going to have a very hard time trying to ram myself through this wall. However, this doesn't mean that God is trying to tell me that it's my duty to defy Satan (and the laws of nature) and keep attempting to plow right on through that wall. It doesn't even mean that the opposition of the wall is Satan trying to ruin my life!

One of the things I love best about the Board is when its writers pick apart a bad idea with the power of LOGIC!

yessss

Me too. That was an awesome answer.

Really? You guys are too kind. I was pretty sure it made no sense. I was having trouble articulating my thoughts.