The geek in me is crying
Lego corp, that evil capitalist monstrosity, has released for sale a lego version of the second Death Star:
Those bastards couldn't make all these wonderful toys back when Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back were around, could they? Noooo, not when I was a kid. My two favorite toys when I was a lad were legos and star wars action figures. But the two sets of toys were mostly incompatible. How I yearned for Star Wars Legos. I wrote them a letter. Bastards! Now I'm too old and my son's too young. Crap!
@#!?%!
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... that's no toy...
... that's no toy...
heh.
heh.
Did you see that it's got the
Did you see that it's got the little laser beams coming out? Lego also has a three foot long model of a star destroyer - over 3000 pieces and 300 samoleons. How do you spell samoleon? I've only ever heard the word spoken, in movies from the thirties and forties.
I know the word. I usually
I know the word. I usually write it "simoleon," to ensure a short vowel sound in the first syllable. However, there's no good way to signal the last syllable should be "yun" instead of "yawn" aside from spelling it simoleyun, which is cumbersome and obviously wrong.
I think about these things far too much. If I devoted half the time I devote to grammar and spelling of nonstandard English to constructive matters, we'd have flying cars and world peace by now.
23-skiddoo.
I used the 'a' because it
I used the 'a' because it always sounded like an 'uh' sound there at the beginning. In my head, I actually hear two syllables at the end - a voice like Squiggy's stretching the word out Brooklyn style.
Though I have heard it pronounced Appalachian style, too.
The 'a' is another choice,
The 'a' is another choice, but then you run the risk of someone saying it with a long vowel sound, and since the phoneme goes by so quickly, I figure it's better to have the 'uh' sound we want flatten to an 'ih' sound rather than lengthen to a long 'a.'
Appalachian style? Like "sa-MO-lee-YUNS"?
Exactly. Like Drew would say
Exactly. Like Drew would say that, or "y'uns."
I wonder if there are any film noir, choose-your-own-adventure books with zombies and giant fighting robots playing D&D and saying, "samoleons?"
With a lego star destroyer on the cover.