Gah! Eyes Exploding with Envy...
Some of you probably know deviantart.com but for those who don't... go there now.
It can be tedious sifting through the accumulated crap that people dump on the site, but some of the artists there are simply amazing. For example, see this gallery... or this; filled with amazing digital paintings. I didn't know photoshop could do all that!
And at the moment my grade is abuzz with Oxbridge admissions news (because, well, a whole bunch of people from my school apply each year... I got an offer from Cambridge, by the way, which is of course irrelevant now but it's comforting to know that my trip there -- attendant stressing out, frantic cramming and all -- was in some way appreciated and rewarded). Amidst this accumulated angst, euphoria, and disappointment, a friend thought that this gem of a gallery would be appropriate. It's a bunch of exceedingly pretty, dreamy shots of Cambridge. Enjoy.
Yes, Meredith, semi-straightened hair looks amazing on you, but the whole curly mane was also fantastically cool. I mean remember the time at the Kerrytown Concert Hall (is that the name? Can't remember) when I blurted out "what's it like to squeeze your hair?"
"c" is definitely a superfluous letter. Let's go to the serkus and harrass the klowns! Hey, is anybody else mildly unnerved by clowns? It's that giant grin... *shudder*
Jason
posted by Jason Chua at 7:04 AM
12 Comments:
The problem with replacing 'c' with 'k' in American usage is that it makes you sound like a member of the Klu Klux Klan. Quite a konundrum, no?
6:51 PM, January 04, 2006
but why do the artists keep referring to the pics as "their paintings?" from the texture of the pics it seems like they're originals.
7:07 PM, January 04, 2006
While we're at it, let's get rid of q.
Kwite simple, really. But mightn't the Kween of England objekt?
7:33 PM, January 04, 2006
Unkweshtionably... but we're forgetting that k is such an ugly, harsh consonant to begin with. Maybe it would be better to preserve q and c.
Um... I don't quite understand your question Samyu, but basically they refer to them as paintings because they're painted on Adobe Photoshop, using a graphics tablet (well, this is what the majority do).
5:24 AM, January 05, 2006
OR, since K is arguably cwite sinister, why don't we nix K and make C just the K- sound. No cilly counds like s- and ch-.
3:18 PM, January 05, 2006
wow--didn't realize I had started such a kakophony. I am of the opinion that c is fine so long as it is not used to form the ch sound without the h (ex. celeste) also definitely agree with Charles that replacing c with k makes you sound like a KKK member.
as for q. It is infinitely improved when it is used for the k sound instead of the kw as in Quebec
And this has definitely been the longest comment EVER. I will stop now
5:24 PM, January 05, 2006
I have to say, this letter debate is one of the funniest we've had, I think. And I didn't have to use a "c" to say that. So take that, letter "c"!
6:40 PM, January 05, 2006
I always wonder at alphabets with more than 26 letters: Hindi has over sixty. It makes that very hard to transliterate into English of course, but I wonder if it allows for a greater variety of expression. Slayton, any comments?
8:02 PM, January 05, 2006
No, save the "c"! Think of what would happen to our beloved "musicking".
Musikking.
Yeuch.
8:20 PM, January 05, 2006
Hmm. I'm assuming that you're using ch in yeuch to make a k- sound? Interesting proposal, but I thinc that would be even more confusing than the c cwagmire.
8:59 PM, January 05, 2006
Come on, people! Since when is English spelling supposed to make sense? Yes, probably up to half of our 26 letters are superfluous, as is a considerable fraction of vocabulary (e.g. coracle - you can just say boat), but that's no fun. What makes English interesting, poetic, and meaningful are words like musicking, which certainly don't fit the system. Check out George Orwell - he believed that making language simpler and more efficient would take away all its power. Hence his portrayal of Newspeak in 1984 . . .
3:12 AM, January 06, 2006
So true, read his essay "Politics and the English Language" sometime. It's really good. Actually, read Why I Write, the essay is included and there are some other good essays too. It's a little book, only published by Penguin, and it's in a series called Good Thoughts.
2:20 PM, January 06, 2006
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