What if the banshee is alive and should come back to haunt me?

[sovay]

My mother has the Mongolian Death Flu. I was hoping to negotiate immunity, but I just blew my nose while talking to Eric and scared him. This is a bad sign.

The constraints of word order in non-inflected languages are really starting to annoy me.

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[will-shakspere.livejournal.com]

Thy mother hath got , as I take it, an ague--alas, I know no
wise remedy how to avoid it.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to hear. I hope you can avoid it, still, but if that hope's not to be fulfilled, then I hope it's not a full-bore case of it.

The constraints of word order in non-inflected languages are really starting to annoy me.

Am I correct in thinking that's one of your frequent frustrations, much as the Great Vowel Shift is one of mine?

[spectre-general.livejournal.com]

Get well soon you lot. In consolation, I hear the name "Mongolian Death Flu" is really all jut spin.

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

With whom does one negotiate the jurisdiction of the Mongolian Death Flue?

[sovay]

With whom does one negotiate the jurisdiction of the Mongolian Death Flue?

I am tempted to respond: the Mongolian Death Chimney Sweep (whose job description sounds worse than it is . . .), but in fact I was just hoping to reach an agreement with the flu itself. Unfortunately, my sinuses are collaborators.

[r-bradstreet.livejournal.com]

The constraints of word order in non-inflected languages are really starting to annoy me.

*grins* That would make a great t-shirt. Common annoyances in the life of a poet?

Are you writing something or is this work-related?

[sovay]

That would make a great t-shirt.

Or an xkcd cartoon.

Are you writing something or is this work-related?

I am writing several things. None of them are going as fast as I need them to. The incipient Death Flu isn't helping.

[shirei-shibolim.livejournal.com]

It's a pretty awesome Onion article.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

I hope your mother is well soon. Can one propitiate her by offering some sheaves, or something?

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

Pour an offering of yogurt on the ground? That sounds more Mongolian...

Anyway, best of luck not getting it/recovering.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Good luck to all of you in avoiding worse than you've already got.

[shirei-shibolim.livejournal.com]

Hope everyone feels better soon.

And this is why we should all speak Esperanto.