endgame, chat logs
I watched Endgame (the play Lainie, the play), the ‘review’ is at moNSTerblog.
For many reasons, I am very self-conscious when writing such ‘reviews’. I am not a professional critic, and there’s a part of me that is always afraid that someone might blow my cover and berate me soundly for misspelling a name or twist a fact or something. I am always worried like that, mostly because I feel like a fraud myself.
That was why I was glad to have Lainie to chat with yesterday when I wrote the post. When it comes to plays and musicals and having to write a lot more (and better) than just ‘go watch it, kthxbai’, my writer’s block is just a block, full stop. Whenever I hit a dead end (which seemed like most of the time) I would kacau Lainie for inspiration.
lainie : copy and paste the synopsis should be quite a few words already
lainie: synopsis? sysnopsis?
suanie: jalan cerita
lainie: sysnosisp?
lainie: never actually know how to spell or even pronounce that word.
suanie: synopsis
suanie: i cant spell exxageerratte
lainie: hahhahaa
lainie: exaggerate?
lainie: exagerrate?
lainie: exxagerate?
suanie: something liddat hahaha i have NO idea
lainie: exaggerate feels righter.
suanie: ciggarette… took me 2 yrs to spell that properly
suanie: stupid letters
suanie: spaghetti… took me one comment from an anal commentor for me to get it right
lainie: it’s spelled that way ka?
suanie: if not i would have spelled it spagetthi
lainie: i’ve been spelling it cigarrete for ages.
lainie: but i tend to say ciggie.
suanie: holy crap
suanie: u are right
suanie: my god
lainie: hahahahahahahhHahahHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAhahahahhahaaaaaaaaa
suanie: i cant even spell cigarrette
suanie: however that’s spelt
suanie: jesus
*big big sweat drop* Help.
It is cigarette.
Download and install wordweb.
http://wordweb.info/
Otherwise let google “suggest” the correct spelling to you.
yah, wordweb is your friend.
Right click spell check extension for Firefox is teh pwn tbh.
heaheaheh. damn kiut.
it’s cigarette lah. looks like u need another 2 more years.
hahahha…i can’t spell many words correctly.
you should see my story drafts before I clean them up. wrong spellings everywhere salah grammar, even malay words in them when I can’tthink of the engish equivalent at the time.
and for a while I couldn’t spell tommmorrow tommorow… er… tomorrow properly.
It’s actually cigarette, 1 G 1 R and 2 Ts. Think “baby cigar” if you need to visualise the spelling.
Technically though, a baby cigar is a cigarillo.
Anal can be fun sometimes.
dun worry, you write good. besides, there’s always thesaurus. or google.
‘lainie: synopsis? sysnopsis?’
synapse? Sinopes? synopses? senopias?
Oh, wait, Sinuses! There, that’s it.
Cigarette is correctly spelt,
‘Cancer Stick’,
‘Death Stick’,
Shoot me in the head it’s quicker and less painful’ and
‘turn people off with smokers breath’
[Now, that's sure to get me a kick in da nuts from some smokers with no sense of humour!]
‘…berate me soundly for misspelling a name or twist a fact or something…’
Or worse, when someone points out that you misunderstood the intention of the play/movie etc and then berates you fro not seeing what they decided was obvious.
[I mention it, as I've done it to people, as well as being on the receiving end. One of the worst ones I got was when someone asked me what the meaning of a Midnight Oil song was and I went, 'Oh, it's obviously Anti-Nuclear' without giving much thought to my answer or the song ... only to have someone point out what it was really about. D'oh! Glad I wasn't writing a review ... but, I probably would have paid more attention to the question. But, some plays/novels/movies etc are very subtle in their mesages and it is often easy to miss what they're really about.]
I always let Google suggests me the correct spelling. No Google can die.
Then, you will love German:
Bundesverfassungsgericht
Elbogengesellschaft
Oberammergaueralpenkräuterdelikatessenfrühstückskäse
Fussballweltmeisterschaftsqualifikationsspiel
Vierwaldstaetterseedampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft
Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftsoberkapitän
Fussballweltmeisterschaftsqualifikationsspiel
Kinky Sex
Aw, speling is for sukers.
Haha suertes.
And it’s ‘ciggarette’ but not ‘ciggarillo’, but ‘cigarillo’. It’s ’synopsis’ but pronounced ’see-nopsis’, whereas ‘type’ is pronounced… ‘type’. And I teach this kid to read sometimes, and he always gets confused by when ‘i’ is pronounced ‘ee’ and when it’s pronounced ‘ai’.
HAHAHAHA…that anal commentor was ME! *beams* I’m so glad it’s stuck to your memory now. whoa…didn’t realize I made such an impact. *eg* Take care, Suanie. Happy spell-checking.
I have WordWeb. Just don’t use it sometimes, esp if I thought my spelling was correct.
eyeris: tomomorow?
tigggerjoee: hokayyyy…
Dabs: that’s the other thing as well … “oh it didn’t mean that”, “what do you mean, I watched it, I thought it meant that”, “you are not cultured enough” bla bla bla… skrew them all.
suertes: vandersexxxxxxxxxxxxxx
mad: inded
Laynie: English is damn anal. The language, not the people.
Miss Typo: oO you did a great thing there, thanks!
German’s notorious for borrowing English words (like BM) but the one that always comes to my mind is (kinky sex)..
Took me another anal commentor for me to learn that ‘writting’ has only one T.
I still insist on saying STUFFS LIKE THAT though.
Dabido: alternatively, they can also be called Coffin Nails.
Laynie: it’s cigarette not ciggarette!
[...] Seekarlui and I rush to line up too (but with a little more ‘dignity), as we are also ‘kiasu’ (but don’t want other people to think we are). By this time, the line resembles the Great Wall of China. I may be exaggerating (Suanie, I can spell) just a tad, but it is pretty damn long. [...]
For a moment I thought I had been spelling cigarette wrong all this time!
-waves fist at Suanie, who brings doubt to weak minds-