If I were to invent my own language, the word for "roommate" would be strangely similar to the word for "someone or something that irritates you and/or gets in your way," to the point where it could be translated as pretty much the same word.
Let's say someone cuts you off in traffic, for example. The resulting exclamation would translate to something like this:
"What the fuck? Are you some kind of fucking roommate or something?"
Go on, ask me what's been getting on my nerves lately, other than my dead computer (or my not-quite-dead laptop, which is still being a bit of a roommate, if you know what I mean).
Posted by CD on July 17, 2010 09:04 PM | TrackBackuh... does this have to do with the centipedes?
Posted by: The Mulatto Maker at July 17, 2010 11:20 PMThis is about human roommates. The word for centipede would translate to something like "eldritch abomination that proves we live in an uncaring universe."
Incidentally, I've now killed 67 of them, and that number probably rises to well over 100 if you count pedelings. They're like the arthropod equivalent of the Persian Immortals.
Posted by: CD at July 18, 2010 07:42 PMMake that 69 now, plus three more pedelings. It never ends.
Posted by: CD at July 19, 2010 01:21 AMActually, make that five pedelings. Also, right after I finished that last comment, my PowerBook shut itself off again.
Wooooooo.
Posted by: CD at July 19, 2010 01:55 AMActually actually, make that 71 (along with another one that got away from me) and more pedelings than I can keep track of.
This is kind of annoying.
Posted by: CD at July 19, 2010 05:56 AM