When I am Queen of the World

[electricland]

everyone will be forced to use "disinterested" and "uninterested" correctly.

Likewise "comprised" and "composed".

I realize that I have high expectations, which is why I'm warning you now.

On the off chance that Queen of the World turns out to be a rotating post, what will your edicts be?

Comments

[calebbullen.livejournal.com]

Well if it's being King of the Word, I'd demand proper use of nausated vs. nauseous.

But if I were King of the World, I'd institute nap time and recess for adults, complete with grownup sized playground equipment. I think we'd all be a lot more productive if we could have a little quiet time and a little rowdy time in our work days.

That and people who waste energy (especially with suvs etc) have to pay that energy back by running on a treadmill/turbine to create the energy they squandered.

[mrs-cake.livejournal.com]

Um ... Your Majesty ... "Nausated"?

Hehehe, sorry. That was just too good to let pass :)

[calebbullen.livejournal.com]

Yes. Nausated. When you've had your fill of nausses. If you have more than what you need to be nausated, you become nauseous and nauseate others.

[mrs-cake.livejournal.com]

Ah ... yes, yes, I see. Many thanks for clarifying :)

[electricland.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh, nap time.

Yes indeed. So very much. Possibly with hammocks.

[kernezelda]

If I am ever Queen of the World, not only will people be expected to know what they're saying means, they'll be able to spell it properly. Being able to compose on-the-spot doggerel would be plus, as would the ability to hold entire conversations in rhyme or song. There would be rap or jazz permitted within my palace.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

I see yours will be a reign of terror. I'd better brush up on my doggerel skills -- they used to be quite good.

[raithen.livejournal.com]

As Queen of the World I would demand ethical treatment of all equines. Tout simple.

[raithen.livejournal.com]

but I recognize that I am terribly uninteresting in this response, though I suspect few are actually disinterested in the subject. *snerk*

The other thing I would do as Queen of the World is demand that if one KNOWS that a new product version is starting beta testing, and that a list of new features will be needed before the product comes into general release, that one could provide the communications person with more than a day to prepare said list of features. Since the product has been in beta for over a month....

[electricland.livejournal.com]

All decisions as Queen of the World are valid. Except the murder and pillage ones, that is. I think yours are excellent!

[mrs-cake.livejournal.com]

As Queen of the World I would have people explain to me the difference between 'disinterested' and 'uninterested'. I would also have scientists invent a Good Spelling Pill so I wouldn't have to look everything up.

Oh, and I'd have Oxford, Collins, and Merriam Webster draw pistols at dawn and decide on ONE. SPELLING. ONLY.

The world will be a happy place.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

Disinterested = impartial, without a stake in the outcome. (Kinda like "dispassionate" really.)

Uninterested = just plain not interested.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

also, while your one-spelling-only plan is ambitious and laudable and I love it, the Canadians will never go for it.

[mrs-cake.livejournal.com]

Hm. Really? How come? They like to alternate, I gather?

Plus, when I'm Queen of the World, I can make them. After all, I'm Queen, right? That'll learn them :)

[erbie.livejournal.com]

Politicians and their families have to live by the laws they make.

Polluters (and their families!) have to live in the communities they pollute.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

Very neat and, and, what's the word I'm looking for? Not reflexive. Something like that. The biter bit. Petards may come into it.

[erbie.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that word. The one I can't think of either!

[lilactime.livejournal.com]

anyways vs. anyway. it's not a plural!!! perpetrators will be forced to read 'elements of editing' and must pass a test to be permitted back into society.

[electricland.livejournal.com]

You are so right. I will uphold this law when it's my turn.

[pacotelic.livejournal.com]

Queen of the world is a Rotisserie chicken?

[electricland.livejournal.com]

Thpbbt.

[jaanquidam.livejournal.com]

Also? When you're queen of the world? Can I have a job? Or at least an income? Because that would be tré cool.

[raithen.livejournal.com]

pish posh. :). Incomes are highly overrated.

is the uni making you slave away for free again?

[jaanquidam.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm taking at least a semester off from working so as to be writing. Hence, no income.

Incomes are overrated? Jobs definitely are, but incomes, well, I still like 'em. ;)

[raithen.livejournal.com]

ah, the "I will be poor and get this thing written" approach. I know it well.

And you are right, of course, regarding incomes....

Best of luck!! How goes it all?

[jaanquidam.livejournal.com]

Mmm...it goes. Not particularly well...I'm very burned out. I'd probably be a lot happier if I didn't have to go to any more conferences. Actually, it's not so much the going, but the writing and presenting...I'm just sick of that. Aren't you glad you got out?

[raithen.livejournal.com]

Hell ya!

Actually, a CFP crossed my desk this week, and I am still debating an 11th hour submission. It would be an excuse to go to Toronto next spring. But....

And why must you do so many conferences? Couldn't you stop doing so many and focus on da diss?

{{anti-burn-out juice for JQ}}

[jaanquidam.livejournal.com]

You should go to Toronto next spring. I'll meet you there! No, really. I need to get up there soon, so, hey, if you're going to be there, I'll try to work it so I can, too. Then again, we could probably do that even without the excuse of a conference...because who needs excuses to visit TO!

I do conferences because I learn. And I get lines on my CV. And I network. And the job market sucks, so I need to keep networking and stuff. I do find them helpful, but shit, I'm just so tired. I think my last comp damaged my brain.

[raithen.livejournal.com]

mmk. I'll throw in a paper proposal for CATTW at the Congress for SHRCC. You'd probably find an association to present with, too, because it's HUGE. All the main research associations meet the same week.... Next year, its at York. CATTW, my association, is meeting May 28-30....

[jaanquidam.livejournal.com]

Ack! That doesn't work. I have a conference that weekend. It's the Slayage thing, which I don't really want to go to, but my advisor says I should. Blah.

[raithen.livejournal.com]

well hrmmph...

[jaanquidam.livejournal.com]

Maybe when I get my act together and make a plan for TO, I'll run it by you so we can both descend on the Casa de Melly....

[raithen.livejournal.com]

THIS is a good plan....

[electricland.livejournal.com]

I expect we can work something out. I'll need some viziers and things.

[jaanquidam.livejournal.com]

Viziers. Check. Things. Check. Anything else, your Queenliship?

[boywhocantsayno.livejournal.com]

You mean I'm not already Queen of the World? ;)

Okay, let's see... first off, the day wouldn't start until noon.

Second, the phrase "that's hot" would be banished from the English language, except in those cases where a waiter or waitress was warning someone not to touch the plate that had just been set in front of them.

Third, anyone criticizing someone else's spelling while using the non-word "grammer" would be publicly flogged. But not until noon.