Quote: zooo @ January 19 2010, 6:43 PM GMTWoooooooooooooooooooooooo!
That was almost the last sound she heard 
What are you reading right now? Page 94
Did she definitely die? Didn't just lose a couple of legs?...
Quote: zooo @ January 19 2010, 6:46 PM GMT
Did she definitely die? Didn't just lose a couple of legs?...
Where is the stroking chin avatar??? Cos there's an idea!! Ellie got to be a murdered prostitute so maybe I can bring Laura back for the next one. WHEELS OF STEEL. 
Yayyy!
Rising like a phoenix.
Quote: zooo @ January 19 2010, 6:59 PM GMTYayyy!
Rising like a phoenix.
I didn't know the original was writen in shorthand, until saw it the other night on something.
Quote: zooo @ January 19 2010, 6:39 PM GMTWhat's all that then?
Two words put together which signify or define another word, but which give a new way of thinking of the one word.
Like, in Beowulf, "whale-road" means "sea", and "bone-house" means "body".
Yes, I am very geeky.
I'm reading Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe for my course at the moment and I don't think I've enjoyed a book this much since I read One Hundred Years of Solitude a couple of years ago. Excellent.
I'm having to re-read Jane Eyre for Classical Biblical, and am finding it difficult to have enough hours in the day to do so. I'm also reading a really interesting critque of Romeo and Juliet to do with gender performativity in private and public spheres.
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ January 28 2010, 9:16 AM GMTgender performativity in private and public spheres.
WTF??? 
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ January 21 2010, 8:52 AM GMTTwo words put together which signify or define another word, but which give a new way of thinking of the one word.
Like, in Beowulf, "whale-road" means "sea", and "bone-house" means "body".
As part of my degree I chose to write my own piece in the style in Old Icelandic skaldic poetry and had to invent my own kennings.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ January 28 2010, 10:03 AM GMTAs part of my degree I chose to write my own piece in the style in Old Icelandic skaldic poetry and had to invent my own kennings.
Examples, please!
Quote: Scatterbrained Floozy @ January 21 2010, 8:52 AM GMTTwo words put together which signify or define another word, but which give a new way of thinking of the one word.
Like, in Beowulf, "whale-road" means "sea", and "bone-house" means "body".
I like that a lot. Can we just make up kennings? Or are there set kennings we have to use?
Quote: Rob H @ January 28 2010, 10:07 AM GMTExamples, please!
It was 15 years ago! I have it somewhere in the loft, but it was pretty crap. Got a good mark for it though, as I was about the only person to attempt it. It was based on a scene from Njal's Saga.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ January 28 2010, 10:16 AM GMTIt was 15 years ago!
I don't believe you did a degree when you were six, Dolly! 