100 Questions

[Ryrin]

Well, I can't eat pork but if I could it would be chorizo.... so I eat turkey.

 

Favorite time of day?

[F Horn of Valere]

On days off: after I have woken up and am actually awake, not trying to wake up.

On days with work or school: Whatever point I can sit down and relax.

 

 

What foreign languages have you ever spent time learning?

[Ryrin]

Spanish, German and Hebrew.

 

Favorite ice cream flavor?

[Guest]

vanila is best, cant evre go wrong wth it.

 

What do yuo think is th best-sunding languge (this is a right or wrng question )?

[F Horn of Valere]

Elfish. LotR was created around it, and when hearing it spoken, it is not hard to see why!

 

J.J. Abrams is directing Star Wars... what do you think about it?

[Ryrin]

Well, I like Gaelic and Hebrew, Aramaic too.

[Guest]

(corrct answer was gaeilge :P)

 

I dont liek star wars so cant much comment

 

Where do yuo most wish t visit?

[U4ea]

That's a hard question. I want to see Rome, Paris, London, get lost in Ireland, see the Pyramids of Giza, The Great Wall of China, Tokyo, The Wailing Wall, New York, the Hollywood sign... *smiles* that's not even close to the whole list...

 

 

What's your favorite sport to watch?

[Ryrin]

Since I've been to Israel, I would love to go to Ireland.

 

Favorite sport: to watch-football; to play-baseball.

 

What is your favorite characteristic about yourself?

[Panchi]

I can be very stubborn

 

If you could change three things about yourself, what would they be?

[Ryrin]

I am extremely stubborn.

I have a temper.

I need to think things through.

 

Who is your favorite Disney Character?

[F Horn of Valere]

Depends... Yoda is technically a Disney character now!

 

As far as Disney animated features-- I'd have to go with Genie from Aladdin. 

 

 

What book are you reading right now?

[Wren of the Brown]

It would better to ask what books I am not reading right now.  I just started a book called "Plain English: A Wealth of Words" by Bryan Evans and published by Anglo-Saxon Books UK.  This is an entry in a long list of "plain language" writing guides but it's a unique spin on English.  Rather than instruct the reader in straightforward writing, Evans is attempting to show how English would have evolved without the Norman French influence. Additionally, instead of borrowing new words, he provides some methods for word production that are native to English.  The first fifty or so pages are a crash course in philology and a brief history of the English language and the remaing three hundred pages is a word list that provides Englishy alternatives as well as a word list that identifies Norman or foreign words.  The work overall is interesting and he manages to do all of this without falling into either the linguistic purist camp (ie, all foreign words are unsightly and shouldn't be used - he actually points out that many borrowed words jive nicely in this model) or the ethnic English argument (ie, all English speakers are inheritors of Anglo-Saxon culture and we should remodel society along those lines - no thanks.)  Instead, it's a thoughtful work that I'm having a lot of fun with.
 
The best way to describe what I'm talking about here would be read Poul Anderson's Uncleftish Beholding, which is a scientific treatise describing atomic matter but written in an Old English manner.

The firststuffs have their being as motes called unclefts. These are mighty small: one seedweight of waterstuff holds a tale of them like unto two followed by twenty-two naughts. Most unclefts link together to make what are called bulkbits. Thus, the waterstuff bulkbit bestands of two waterstuff unclefts, the sourstuff bulkbit of two sourstuff unclefts, and so on. (Some kinds, such as sunstuff, keep alone; others, such as iron, cling together in chills when in the fast standing; and there are yet more yokeways.) When unlike unclefts link in a bulkbit, they make bindings. Thus, water is a binding of two waterstuff unclefts with one sourstuff uncleft, while a bulkbit of one of the forestuffs making up flesh may have a thousand or more unclefts of these two firststuffs together with coalstuff and chokestuff.

Rest of Uncleftish Beholding here

What did you do that was worthwhile today?

[Ryrin]

I like to think that everyday I do something worthwhile.  I am a social worker.

 

 

Robert Jordan planned to write 3 pre-quels.  We got "A New Spring."

 

I've heard one was to be about Tam and the other about Lan and Moiraine's 20 year journey to find Rand.

 

Which one would you have preferred to read?

[F Horn of Valere]

I believe the 3rd one was not a sequel to New Spring, but about Mat and Tuon reclaiming Seanchan. I would prefer this one over Tam's story. Tam's story is very intriguing and I want to know more, but Mat's story would interest me even more. It is a choice between an entirely new story with interesting dynamics (Mat's place in Seanchan society), vs. something in a world we just spent 14 books in, that covers an event that is alluded to quite frequently. Mat and Tuon's story be be more gripping because there would be more to reveal.

 

Cheetos.... the large puffy kind, or the smaller crunchy kind?

[Ryrin]

I believe the 3rd one was not a sequel to New Spring, but about Mat and Tuon reclaiming Seanchan. I would prefer this one over Tam's story. Tam's story is very intriguing and I want to know more, but Mat's story would interest me even more. It is a choice between an entirely new story with interesting dynamics (Mat's place in Seanchan society), vs. something in a world we just spent 14 books in, that covers an event that is alluded to quite frequently. Mat and Tuon's story be be more gripping because there would be more to reveal.

 

Cheetos.... the large puffy kind, or the smaller crunchy kind?

 

That would be an outrigger..... after the last book, not a pre-quel before EoTW.  I would have loved to read about the 20 year search for Rand.

 

Neither.  :-)

 

Guacamole or salsa?

[Wren of the Brown]

Salsa. I am ethically opposed to any green food paste that resembles baby by-products.

 

Cheddar or provolone on a burger?

[F Horn of Valere]

Cheddar for most, but provolone on some specialty burgers.

 

Coffee, Tea, or Soda?

[Ryrin]

Tea.

 

Sunlight or moonlight?

[Ryrin]

I'm going to try again. Sweet or sour?

[Wren of the Brown]

Depends on the sour and the sweet.  A 600 calorie cupcake?  No thanks.  I like all kinds but nothing in excess.

 

Except for chili.  The best chili makes your sinuses run and your tongue quiver.

Red chili or green?

[Ryrin]

Depends on the sour and the sweet.  A 600 calorie cupcake?  No thanks.  I like all kinds but nothing in excess.

 

Except for chili.  The best chili makes your sinuses run and your tongue quiver.

 

Red chili or green?

 

Both.  Can't choose.

 

Baked or grilled?

[U4ea]

Depends on what we're talking about. Usually grilled if we're talking meat or veggies, so I'll go with that! ;) 

 

 

Which would you plant? Flowers or veggies? 

[Ryrin]

Meat, although I love veggies on the grill.

 

Veggies.

 

 

Movies or videos at home?

[U4ea]

I like going to the movies!

 

 

If you had ten minutes of peace before a flood of children came in, what would you do with it?