Two morning things

[mrissa]

1. I have misjudged the opening time of the massage place. It opens at 9:00, not 8:00. Ah well. One will get by for another hour, drinking the last of the white cranberry peach juice and perhaps reading a bit more of Moonwise.

2. I got lefse spam in my inbox this morning. Lefse spam. From Colorado. Let's think about that, shall we? I own a lefse roller and a lefse turner. I live in the Promised Land. And I should order lefse from Colorado? Um, no. No, and also no.

Still, lefse spam. It was kind of neat.

Unlike spam lefse, which is horrible beyond anything I want to contemplate.

Comments

[wilfulcait.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear that the relief of a good massage has been delayed.

"My dad would argue that lefse doesn't come in units of fewer than three pieces." My husband makes a similar argument to explain why Canadians believe that the collective noun for beer is beers. I would say, "bring in three beers," meaning "three bottles or cans of beer" but "we drank some beer." He says "we drank some beers," and explains that in the quantities beer is consumed in Canada, the "s" is necessary. Although sometimes he grounds his argument in higher alcohol content (of Canadian beer, not Canadians.)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. I'm apparently with your husband on everything but the pronoun (the proper formulation is "they drank some beers" or possibly "you drank some beers," "she..." etc.).

"Some beer," in my head, is part but not all of a unit. Halfway through dinner, markgritter and Ceej have sometimes had some beer, but then they usually finish their bottles by the end of the meal. If you have a pitcher, you can offer somebody, "Ya want some beer?" because they presumably are not exhausting the beer-unit in question (the pitcher).

[songwind.livejournal.com]

Ah, but from a philosophical standpoint, any episode of drinking beer is only part of the ultimate beer unit, All Of It. Thus, "some beer" is almost always correct.

Of course, I use all three plurals depending on my mood.

[scottjames.livejournal.com]

The Great ComplicaTOR strikes again!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

The Great ComplicaTOR always gets caught, because she can't just shout, "Muwahahaha!" and run off into the night. She has to muwaha with footnotes.

This is why my other superhero names are better.

[scottjames.livejournal.com]

This is why my other superhero names are better.

So stop making things so complicated, then.