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[kingandy]

Am finding it hard to work today. Between the heat and the post-LRP comedown my brain has seized up.

Am no longer sure how to spell "siezed". Figure doing it once each way is probably safe.

Random memory from the weekend: Managd to describe self in third person neutral. Blossom is getting more verbose and getting the hang of pronouns, but in distacted moments still backslides to "is [verb]". After meaning to for so very long, in one such moment I remembered to say "It" first (the context was something like "It is grateful"). At one point I was considering evolving his general speech pattern in that direction, just to mess with people's heads, but it didn't particularly make sense internally and anyway it was far too much effort. I am glad I managed to do it once though.

I get hung up on the most trivial parts of the character, really I do.

Comments

[mj-uk.livejournal.com]

I before E i think

[renniek.livejournal.com]

As a rule, yes, "I before e except after c and some other exceptions I can't remember", but in this case it's seized.

[kingandy]

The rhyme is completed "...When these letters rhyme with bee" which caters for things like neighbour and leisure (unless the speaker is a dirty american). I do now recall that "seizure" is internationally accepted as an exception to the rule though.

[kingandy]

Neither of them look particularly right to me at the moment.

Dictionary.com currently tells me that it is EI but they are american so who knows

[marlwolf.livejournal.com]

Definitely ei, Oxford dictionary is telling me so, and the ie version just looks wrong to me.