In which I use "darn" and "shameful" twice

[oloriel]

Darn, XKCD kinda beat me to the syntactic Christmas tree joke. I've been meaning to draw that one for a couple of years and always failed because I'm really bad with tree diagrams, so bad I'm not even certain I could correctly analyse "Wishing you a merry Christmas and a happy New Year" or the like. I know, shameful.
Eh well, one less project.

In cryptic news, I hate keeping secrets. One week to go, that should not be so hard, but darn, I'm BURSTING.

In fannish news, the MEFAs are over (somehow it completely passed me by that voting ended on December 15th, I totally thought it was December 20th, so now I didn't even manage to review all the stories I nominated, let alone the rest - I wrote two reviews altogether, with 75 stories on my wishlist (after three rounds of pruning, you don't want to know how many there were before that). Shameful. More embarrassing because my Opus Magnum-in-progress won first place and that sort of thing always make me feel I should have given something back. Bad fangirl, no cookie.

In artistic news, you know, gals, if you don't tell me what you want me to draw, I can't draw it, yes?

In metereologic news, no news, still snowing. So pretty, but much work.
Which reminds me of a joke lainvess made recently; unfortunately (for the English-speaking crowd) it only works in Fandom German:

Was tun Fangirls im Winter?
Schnee shippen...

Comments

[satismagic.livejournal.com]

SECRETS????????????????????

*ist gespannt*

Und ROFLMAO re: der deutsche Fangirls-Joke. Easily amused, that's me.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

PULVERSCHNEE/PAPPSCHNEE OTP!

[chili-das-schaf.livejournal.com]

Does the secret have anything to do with your missed period during the exams? ;)


Schne shippen made me laugh.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Sherlock Chili at work, I see...

Yeah, me too. I'm so easily amused sometimes.

[chili-das-schaf.livejournal.com]

I'll just wait if I'm right ;) (if yes the "bursting" would be rather appropriate).

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Why am I having mental images of the Alien kind now? O.ó

[chili-das-schaf.livejournal.com]

There are whole books written about Alien and that kind of symbolism.

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

I'm not even surprised. XD

[barbardin.livejournal.com]

Woah! *wartet gespannt*

[independence1776]

Congratulations!

Hey-- with all you've been busy with, I think not reviewing and messing up the deadline is perfectly understandable. :)

[gaharr.livejournal.com]

"Schnee shippen..."

...

I guess they would...

[barbardin.livejournal.com]

Hey, ich hab gesagt, was ich gezeichnet haben mag! ^^

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

Ich dachte, du wolltest das vielleicht noch ein bisschen präzisieren ^^
Und die Anatomiewarnung gilt immer noch!

[arwensommer.livejournal.com]

I feel sort of stupid that I don't get the Christmas tree joke?

[oloriel.livejournal.com]

That style of structural diagram (in maths, linguistics, informatics, genealogy and probably a variety of other disciplines) is called a tree diagram. :)

A simple syntactic tree might look like this, for example:

[arwensommer.livejournal.com]

... Ah! Now I don't feel so stupid anymore :)