Diablo III is here....start planning now. June 30th, 2008 / Binkley / Tags: diablo iii, video games, blizzard / Trackback / Comments

So when did Draco Malfoy from Harry Potter turn into a German soccer player?
Or maybe it's just me.
June 26th, 2008 / paladinz / Tags: soccer, euro 2008, sports, movies, harry potter / Trackback / Comments
I'm a horse - Kobe ratted me out
That's why I'm getting divorced
He said Shaq gave a bitch a mil
I don't do that 'cause my name's Shaquille
I love 'em, I don't leave 'em
I got a vasectomy, now I can't breed 'em
Merriam-Webster defines inhabitable as the adjective form of inhabit, which in turn is defined as:
1: to occupy as a place of settled residence or habitat : live in <inhabit a small house>
2: to be present in or occupy in any manner or form
So what's the deal with inhabitable? This has to be one of the most confusing words in the English language. Much like inflammable means the same thing as flammable, inhabitable is the same as habitable, which might be damn confusing considering the in prefix means "not".
Bartleby has an obscure reference to the etymology as follows:
Middle English enhabiten, from Old French enhabiter, from Latin inhabitre : in-, in; see in2 + habit
re, to dwell, frequentative of hab
re, to have; see ghabh- in Appendix I
Ah! Now we're getting somewhere! And what exactly is the second form of the prefix in-? Again, citing Bartleby:
1. In; into; within: inundation. Before l, in- is usually assimilated to il-; before r to ir-; and before b, m, and p to im-. 2. Variant of en1.
And that's the deal with inhabitable.
June 20th, 2008 / paladinz / Tags: etymology, english, grammar / Trackback / Comments
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June 18th, 2008 / Binkley / Tags: shortpacked!, anime, webcomic / Trackback / CommentsSocial Networking + Speed Trap reporting = Trapster.com
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