Conversational fragments
Feb. 27th, 2012 12:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolorosa_12M [to me, after I'd had yet another freak-out about the fact that my student visa will run out in early 2014]: Right! Let's get married! Tomorrow!
Me: I don't think it works that way.
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My sister Nell: Where are all the heroes? There are no heroes anymore. They're in the seaweed. Or dead.
(Sounds like she's nearly ready to start studying Old English elegies. Scroll down to 92a.)
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[There was a conference in our department last weekend. One of the speakers, L, is a friend of mine and was staying with us. Dr Thunderous Laughter had invited her to have brunch yesterday morning.]
Me [hearing the door slam]: Was that L going just now?
M [getting up to check out the window, stops what he's doing]
Both of us [hearing a loud voice outside]: Well, no need to get up now.
M: It's kind of disturbing to hear Dr Thunderous Laughter outside our front door on a Sunday morning.
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G [a friend of mine, and one of the speakers at the conference]: This isn't a complete translation. That ellipsis represents when my head hit the keyboard.
Me: I don't think it works that way.
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My sister Nell: Where are all the heroes? There are no heroes anymore. They're in the seaweed. Or dead.
(Sounds like she's nearly ready to start studying Old English elegies. Scroll down to 92a.)
~
[There was a conference in our department last weekend. One of the speakers, L, is a friend of mine and was staying with us. Dr Thunderous Laughter had invited her to have brunch yesterday morning.]
Me [hearing the door slam]: Was that L going just now?
M [getting up to check out the window, stops what he's doing]
Both of us [hearing a loud voice outside]: Well, no need to get up now.
M: It's kind of disturbing to hear Dr Thunderous Laughter outside our front door on a Sunday morning.
~
G [a friend of mine, and one of the speakers at the conference]: This isn't a complete translation. That ellipsis represents when my head hit the keyboard.
