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Date Posted: 16:18:02 02/20/03 Thu
Author: Tilly
Subject: Some LQ googling turns up another LOZ GAFF...which sounds a lot like LQ's!

I'm going to cut and paste this from my blog, just to make it easier on myself, but I did want to share this. It's funny, and finally, really strange.


Some funny LQ related stuff that I found today. While MSTing a story, I decided to google one of my favorite LQ malapropisms, "from the gecko." The first page I turned up was this one. Kind of cute, no? However, while I didn't look at all the pages listed in the search results, I found that no one that I'd seen had mistaken "from the get-go" for "from the gecko."


Then, we take LQ's "doggy dog world." This mix up is very slightly more common, however, as this page pointed up, it's really a childish mistake to make: "Financial writer Andrew Tobias recounts how he earnestly told a preschooler, "It's a dog-eat-dog world out there," only to have the child beam with delight as he repeated the words he though he heard: "It's a doggy-dog world!"

There was, of course, her "know you from atom," phrase, which had me absolutely rolling. I see here that five other people have made this mistake. Does that make LQ one of the 6 stupidest people on the 'net? ^_~

A google of the LQ word, "persiflaga" only turns up one page. ^_^

A favorite of mine, one that always made me spit my water out if I happened to think of it while drinking, was "you thoust have no religion." I googled "you thoust have," "you thoust," and even "thoust have," and only found a few pages misusing "thoust have." This is still abuse of the language, but slightly more understandable than "you thoust." (LQ never got that "you" and "thou" were the same thing.)

There was one page for "up the yanny," but I couldn't get the page. :/

But here was the really, really frigging oddball one. I googled her extraordinarily (or as LQ says, "just short of extortionary") error, "infatuated body," and came up with only two sites: my own MSTing of one of her chapters and (this is the freaky part,) another LOZ GAFF! WTF? "His mere face brought her back to health...." Actually... O_O;; god help us...this fic reads like an LQ fic. ...This...is LQ, isn't it??


(All of this googling also led me to this page, which just screamed "Jenna; Link's Queen.")

Hmmmm....

Tilly

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