I think I've got an idea...

[St. Jimmy]

...renaming "Games and Toys" to "Toys-R-Us" I just though of this today and I thought that it seemed neat, and it even goes with the board name and stuff. Just an idea.

[umop ap!sdn]

I agree, that does sound neat! :D

[Lance]

I agree too.

[Dragon Star]

I thought we did that already, close to when I joined? Perhaps I am mistaken.

Anyways, good idea Jimmy. :D

[St. Jimmy]

Yay! I had a good idea! Must savor this one of few moments....

[Enzo]

I like it. But to be legit, shouldn't the R be backwards? Can you do that in the title? Or is it only on a graphic you can reverse things? What about the "YA" character from the Cyrillic alphabet? That is the Russian backwards R? Or should I just go somewhere and shut up?

[Мастер]

I like it. But to be legit, shouldn't the R be backwards? Can you do that in the title? Or is it only on a graphic you can reverse things? What about the "YA" character from the Cyrillic alphabet? That is the Russian backwards R? Or should I just go somewhere and shut up?

This issue is discussed every August :P

http://www.illuminati-r-us.com/Forums/v ... php?p=5202

[Enzo]

Yes, but that is the banner at the top of this web page. To my admittedly ignorant eye that seems to be a graphic element rather than a line of print.

Can it be done in the sub-section title line now named Toys-R-Us?

[Мастер]

Yes, but that is the banner at the top of this web page. To my admittedly ignorant eye that seems to be a graphic element rather than a line of print.

Can it be done in the sub-section title line now named Toys-R-Us?

I would guess yes, it's just a matter of using the appropriate font. But I speak from ignorance here. Some of the letters are not Russian, so it wouldn't be possible to use an all Cyrillic font :P There might be some mismatch from a mixed Latin/Cyrillic font. But again, this is all idle speculation on my part. . .

[Enzo]

Well, if there is anything I know damn little about, it is computers.


and women

and career moves

and Hollywood spouses

and lawn care


and, and, and...

[Lance]

Voilà

[umop ap!sdn]

Yay, backwaяds chaяacteяs in foяum names! :D

[Мастер]

яy, backwards characters in forum names! :P

[hippietrekx]

яy, backwards characters in forum names! :P

LMAO! :D

[Enzo]

Hah! Good one KOS.

[Мастер]

Hah! Good one KOS.

:P

Ты говоришь по-русски?

[Enzo]

HET

I took a couple years of it in college, but that was 40 years ago. Now days, about all I can do is sound out words. DOn't recall much vocabulary at all. Still, it is fun to see a sign on the wall at the Moscow MacDOnalds on TV and realize it says "Beeg Meck."

I once bought a "fuzz-tone" for my guitar, and it was made in Russia. On the box in Cyrillic it says "Deestorshun." I like the box more than I like the fuzz-tone. Built like tank though.

[umop ap!sdn]

I once saw a movie that was set in Russia, so I learned a couple words that way.

They showed a major pizza chain with a big sign out front that read "Peetstsa Khat".

At one point in the story some guys were in a plane that was being chased by a "rokyeta". One of the guys asked another how to call someone a chicken, to which he responded "kureetsa".

One time on the TV show Seven Days they showed a stop sign that just had the word "stop" written in Cyrillic letters. I wonder if this is actually how a stop sign is written or if it was a prop for the show?

[Мастер]

HET

Apparently Het for me also, as I had a misspelling in my question

One time on the TV show Seven Days they showed a stop sign that just had the word "stop" written in Cyrillic letters. I wonder if this is actually how a stop sign is written or if it was a prop for the show?

It's been a while, but I think that's right. A lot of western European countries do the same thing, they just say "Stop" even if English isn't the local language. In at least some places in South America they say "Parre" and in Quebec they say "Arret," so I guess people become more militant about their native languages when they move to the Americas :P

[Enzo]

MAny years ago our drummer announced he knew the word for restaurant. She said it was pronounced "PECK-toe-PAH."

I had to tell her that it was really pronounced "RISS-toe-RAHN", it only looked like peck to pah to us.

Of course we don't expect much from drummers.

You know how to get a drummer off your front porch?


[spoiler]Pay him for the pizza.[/spoiler]


Mis-spelled? Like I would notice... WOuld it be the first letter should have been B instead of T?

[Мастер]

MAny years ago our drummer announced he knew the word for restaurant. She said it was pronounced "PECK-toe-PAH."

I had to tell her that it was really pronounced "RISS-toe-RAHN", it only looked like peck to pah to us.

Yep, that's one you can do in all Latin letters - Pectopah :P

Mis-spelled? Like I would notice... WOuld it be the first letter should have been B instead of T?

Well, if I am assuming an unwarranted familiarity, then my apologies. But if I changed that, I'd have to change the verb ending also :P I referred to the absence of the "ь" at the end of the verb, which I have now fixed. . .

[Enzo]

That is way beyond my meager remaining Russkie. Since you fixed it, we'll let it pass for now.


You can be as familiar as you like here, but face to face I prefer Thee and Thou, if that is OK with Usted.

[Мастер]

You can be as familiar as you like here, but face to face I prefer Thee and Thou, if that is OK with Usted.

Maybe I'm mistaken, but I though "thee" and "thou" were different forms of the English familiar form of address, not the polite form "you" :P This sounds like umop's department though. . .

[umop ap!sdn]

Someone called? :D

English used to have second person pronouns for the singular and plural which, like the first person, came in 3 different cases (4 if you count the posessive). I guess the plural form must have come to be considered polite (French is the same way, I think) and fallen into common use, then the nominative merged with the accusative.

In the first person we have I, me, mine, my - these are the nominative, accusative, genitive, and posessive. In the second person they were thou, thee, thine, thy. Then in the plural we have we, us, ours, our; these paralleled ye, you, yours, your.

A lot of people misuse the nominative pronoun in an attempt to be grammatically correct. I've heard people say (paraphrased) "they locked her and I outside." You can't do that to a nominative! :P Either "they locked me and her outside" or "she and I were locked outside."

So now that "you" has fallen into AFAIK universal usage as a second person singular, people are now making up words like "youse", "y'all", and "yinz". I'm all for there being a difference and have been known to use "youse" (heh, phonetic reduplication ) myself but it's realy kind of silly, like saying "themse".

[Enzo]

Et tu, Brute?

Oh well, I had in my mind that Thee and Thou were formal and you was familiar.

You was wasn't you?

Y'all is just you all, in other words "all of you." However it is also commonly applied to a single individual. I think in a vague sort of way that plural sort of usage is in a sense a variant on the "royal we."

Y'all want to shoot some pool, Jim Bob?

I cannot imagine myself saying the word "youse" without the quotes around it.

Although "Youse your fork, Luke," has a certain appeal.

Sort of a zen thing - I AM the fork.