Lady Sunrope's Birthday!

[ismenin]

Just cos she likes him!


Today is LADY SUNROPE'S Birthday. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, my dear friend! May your life be full of good things and may you receive the righteous desires of your heart. Hugses. xxxxx

As you may know, LSR is my beta, and darn good she is at it, too. She owns a COZ - a Celestial Orb Zapper, which she uses to great effect if I forget myself and use a pleonasm, or perhaps, an unfamiliar word, in my stories.

So I dedicate this to her with a touch of schadenfreude, knowing she cannot get her hands on it and hammer it into submission, which she would dearly love to do, I know. Naturally it is not betaed. Rubs hands together with glee.





Words.


"He didn't, Lighe!"

"He fucking did, Dom. Believe it!"

"What a plonker he can be sometimes. What did you say?"

"Nothing. What the fuck could I say with two cameras and three microphones stuck in our faces? Animadvert, he said. Or more precisely, "do not animadvert upon the subject," Fuck; I thought he was auditioning for Jane Austen or something, not giving an interview."

"What did the bloke say? the interviewer, I mean?"

"Fuck all. He just nodded and wisely kept quiet. Then, he said, consanguineous. Con-fucking-sanguineous! The man is a twat, Dom."

"You don't have to tell me that, Gay Boy. I worked with him - remember?"

"But, but...Dom. That's not all - I was just about to hit him over the head with my IPod and tell him to shut the fuck up, when he came up with eleemosynary! By now the poor guy with the clipboard of questions was staring at him like a rabbit caught in the headlamps, or whatever the fuck you call them here."

"Headlights, Lighe. Move over a bit, will ya?"

"Better? So I thought I had better say something as the twat had been talking for ten minutes non-stop. So I said, "please don't take any notice of him, Dara" - or whatever his name was - "he swallowed Dr Johnson for breakfast!"

Well they all cracked up laughing, except him of course, and shit, if he didn't try to explain that I meant Dr Johnson's lexicon and not the man, which exacerbated the situation, so..."

"It what, Lighe?"

"Oh, god! I've caught it off of him! It's infectious! I'll cause a pandemic of gargantuan proportions, and the aggregated contiguous demesnes of Britain, and then the nations of the entire oblate spheroid will founder and disintegrate and devolve into utter nihilism and discord!"

"Well, fuck me, Lighe!"

"By the gods Tiarmat and Kingu of Ancient Babylon, Dom - it seems you have escaped the septicity of the virus."

"Perhaps I am immune to its deleterious corruption, my love. Oh, NO! Lighe, shoot me before I say... "pellucid orbs", for you are staring at me with such a bright cerulean gaze, your eyes lambent with adoration and disquietude, that I cannot contain the emotions which threaten to percolate through my every axon, neuron and dendrite!"

"Perhaps if we engage in a bout of taxing and formidable sexual congress, Dom, my adored one, it might dissipate with alacritous promptitude."

Half an hour later.....

"Did it work, Dom? Are we okay, now?"

"Thank fuck, yeah, Lighe. Now, kiss me, again, you bastard, before it comes back!"


Because she'd approve...

Glossary

OOPS! Forgot two!
Pleonasm - redundancy. Not needed. Like "tall skyscraper" or "wet rain". A tautology.
Schadenfreude - German. To find pleasure in other's misfortunes.
animadvert - criticise
consanguinous - nearly related, akin
eleemosynary - charitable
exacerbate - make worse, inflame
gargantuan - huge
aggregate - combined
contiguous - next door, joining, - like England and Wales
demesnes - lands
oblate spheroid - planet earth
nihilism - anarchy. destruction
deleterious - injurious to health

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/tweedle_/]

I'm not even getting out my dictionary for this one. :D You are a devil! Absolutely wonderful and quite perfect for the occasion. Hurrah for LSR on her birthday as well as her remarkable ability for keeping you under control. :D xxoo

[bellewood.livejournal.com]

Brilliant!! I SO love this..what a wonderful way to use all those words you've been banished from using!!You made my day and i'm sure LSR will love it :D

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Ladysunrope..Have a wondeful day!

[salwood.livejournal.com]

You had me giggling away there. Brilliant!

[http://users.livejournal.com/saura_/]

I needed my dictionary for some of these indeed! But it was so funny!!! Thank you Ru!! (I owe you read for the last chapter of Untamed, sorry! Will do soon!)

[sumisu78.livejournal.com]

This made me laugh. I didn't understand half of it. But maybe, just maybe, it was not because of my lacking english skills this time ;).
Also, look what I found and bought last week, thinking of you and Lizeh:
Inca Tea
:-)

[ourdramaqueen.livejournal.com]

ROTFLMAO!!!!! omg I was giggling throughout, even though I didn't understand the words in the first half of the story... *giggles madly*

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LADY SUNROPE!!! ♥

[mews1945.livejournal.com]

Ye're a ruffian, you are! All those tongue-twisting words in one ficlet, and it's funny too. I'm sure she'll love this.

[mother2012.livejournal.com]

I'd have liked to come back with some big words of my own, but sadly I find that I no longer remember them. When I was growing up, words such as 'consanguinous', 'gargantuan', and 'exacerbate' were simply part of our family's lexicon, but once I was out in the world I found that the use thereof was frowned upon as being too stuck up and full of yourself.

That's a round about way of saying I was delighted with this.

[http://users.livejournal.com/tweedle_/]

*looks about suspiciously* Was the glossary always there? I didn't even notice it my first read! So good I came back for seconds. :D

[forestrane.livejournal.com]

Wonderful!

I'm a little scared because I understood all but two of the words. Thanks for the glossary at the end. It saved me from having to hunt down the dictionary.

[laeliacatt.livejournal.com]

Brilliant!

But...but...I use "exacerbate" in every day language. EEEK! Does this mean I'm infected too? It's not like I can use (ahem) Lij or Dom as the cure. *frets*

Guess this means I need to pounce on the hubby. Be right back... ;)

[i-o-r-h-a-e-l.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. I know none of those words! *giggles* Thank you for the glossary.

[ismenin.livejournal.com]

No, my love - you are quite right. It wasn't there - but LSR always advises me that, although a lot of folks use the words I do, many readers do not have English as a first language - so here it is. Added two more to the list, too. Glad you liked it - it made me smile, anyway! 'D xxx

[ismenin.livejournal.com]

I hope she'll like it, Belle! I enjoyed writing it this morning. I really did! ;D xxx

[ismenin.livejournal.com]

Thanks, my dear. A smile a day, that's my motto! ;D xxx

[ismenin.livejournal.com]

There's a glossary at the end, now, my love for thise with English as a second (or third or fourth) language. Happy you found it amusing. ;D xxx

[ismenin.livejournal.com]

There's a Glossary at the end, now, my dear. Hope it makes it easier!

And the Inca tea sounds delicious. I must get some! Thanks for the linkie thing! ;D xxx

[ismenin.livejournal.com]

Grins. Yes, HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Her! ;D xxx

[ismenin.livejournal.com]

I do hope she will like it - she has a lively sense of humour! ;D xxx

[ismenin.livejournal.com]

I know. It seems it's thought pretentious by some to speak like this nowadays - but as LSR very correctly points out, many lj readers are not speaking or reading English as a first language, and we should remember that when writing. I try to remember, but sometimes I get caught out. :D

[ismenin.livejournal.com]

Ha! I must say I love words, but I do try not to use them if there's no need, and I am capable of adapting myself to my company. But writing? Well, I forget sometimes. So it's wonderful I have her to remind me! ;D xxx

[ismenin.livejournal.com]

Yup, I'm an exacerbate gal, myself. And *blushes* I do use a few of those words regularly.
It could be you may need to pounce a bit - it worked for da Domlijah, after all! ;D xxx

[ismenin.livejournal.com]

That's ok, my love. I don't even know the Tagalog for Hello! Some of us (me) are woefully inadequate when it comes to foreign languages. You, my love, are great at it! ;D xxx

[pattilovesviggo.livejournal.com]

Lovely! That made me smile :) Happy Birthday Lady Sunrope.

[ismenin.livejournal.com]

Happy it pleased you, my love! ;D xxx

[poplij.livejournal.com]

Wow, it's only when I clicked Dom's picture that I saw it's a drawing. Very pretty.
I didn't understand half of what the boys were saying but I have an excuse, I guess, I'm foreign ;D LOL

[ismenin.livejournal.com]

Yup, foreigners totally excused. Huggles. I'd never post that in the ordinary way, but it was for ladysunrope, so I did! ;D xxx

[ladysunrope.livejournal.com]

I laughed so much at this I got the hiccups!

and I didn't look it this with obiquity at all. ;) In fact my facial orifice was dumbfounded by the measure of your lexicological accomplishments. (translated and to be read in appropriate accent- I was liek reeelygobsmacked by all dem big werds, missus)

*awards you 1 million rice grains and runs to get COZ*

LAMBENT! PELLUCID! CERULEAN ORBS! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

*combusts*

[ismenin.livejournal.com]

Giggles mightily. I know - all the forbidden fruit is here. DON'T burst, my love.
I wish I could do a million grains in one day. I did 100k Sunday for Nick's birthday but I think a mill is beyond me! :D xxx

[janejanejane.livejournal.com]

LOL!!! This is priceless ;D I knew you were going to do something along these lines for Ladysunrope's birthday and you have excelled yourself, dearest Issi, if that's possible!

Thanks for the glossary. I'd certainly never come across "eleemosynary"!

Wishing the Lady herself the happiest of special days :)

XX

[ismenin.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Jane! I'm glad you like it. I do, too. :D xxx

[ladysunrope.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[ladysunrope.livejournal.com]

thank you, Pat -I do like that icon!