And so, after a bit of an absence, we see how Cassandra is feeling these days: not so great! Easy to see why, I’d say, not that such an observation comforts anybody, so why bring it up, I don’t know it’s just the first thing that came to mind thank you very much and how are we all doing this evening yes I’ll just have the fish please.
I think perhaps that the ruins at Troy as depicted in this comic are entirely too tidy and could use a lot more rubble scattered about. C’est la vie! Or, as the French say: mangez un œuf, mon petit chapeau, tandis que je chante la chanson des tempêtes. Croissant.
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I’m surprised Roy said, “utterly decimated.”
(After consulting the dictionary) Ah. Well.
Now I feel stupid.
Those French! They have a word for everything!
Yeah, I think the same thing when it’s used that way, but it is the normal usage now. I think I learned the original definition from a Dinosaur Comic a year or two ago. The old definition, incidentally, has been completely decimated.
If you consulted the dictionary, didn’t you see this?
“4b. rhetorically or loosely. To destroy or remove a large proportion of; to subject to severe loss, slaughter, or mortality.”
But Joe makes a good point: Roy clearly has prescriptivist leanings. Perhaps we can forgive him for this little slip, an odd lacuna?
Roy certainly knows how to cheer her up–NOT! Perhaps he should take her to Disneyland instead?
Could also take her to a movie. There have been a few which described the Trojan Wars, and it would give her the opportunity to critique any misperceptions that currently exist about the parties to the conflict.