I just remembered what that reminds me of - the tagline from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, "Det som göms i snö kommer fram vid tö," an old Swedish proverb meaning "what is hidden in snow is revealed at thaw," although obviously not in a morbid way. To me, "snowdrop" is rather... uncreative, as far as kennings go, and to use it as the title of the book seems... let's just say I'm never going to read it.
"And by prayer, I don't mean shouting, mumbling, and wallowing like a hog in religious sentiment. Prayer is only another name for good, clean, direct thinking. When you pray, think. Think well what you're saying. Make your thoughts into things that are solid. In that way, your prayer will have strength, and that strength will become a part of you, body, mind, and spirit."
Likely a network of mostly male individuals between the ages of 17-25 engaged in cyber-bullying under the false pretense of self-righteousness. They feel that they are privileged to watch, hack, and threaten, i.e. deliberately apply terror tactics, because of their hatrid towards certain particulars? Note: specific technical knowledge of networking, no breadth or depth, a lack of empathy, a lack of scruples, a lack of character, a lack of culture -> isolation, low self-esteem, frustration, possibly impoverished or weak family structure.
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plaid commented on the list breakfast-order
good catch bilb.
March 13, 2013
plaid commented on the word snowdrop
I just remembered what that reminds me of - the tagline from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, "Det som göms i snö kommer fram vid tö," an old Swedish proverb meaning "what is hidden in snow is revealed at thaw," although obviously not in a morbid way. To me, "snowdrop" is rather... uncreative, as far as kennings go, and to use it as the title of the book seems... let's just say I'm never going to read it.
March 12, 2013
plaid commented on the word paper town
Fictitious entry on a map intended to serve as a trap for identifying copyright infringement.
March 12, 2013
plaid commented on the word prayer
"And by prayer, I don't mean shouting, mumbling, and wallowing like a hog in religious sentiment. Prayer is only another name for good, clean, direct thinking. When you pray, think. Think well what you're saying. Make your thoughts into things that are solid. In that way, your prayer will have strength, and that strength will become a part of you, body, mind, and spirit."
How Green Was My Valley
March 11, 2013
plaid commented on the word algorave
Sounds wholly or predominantly characterised by the emission of a succession of repetitive conditionals.
March 10, 2013
plaid commented on the word mustard watch
http://iml.univ-mrs.fr/~girard/mustard/article.html
March 10, 2013
plaid commented on the list apathetic-apophenia
Likely a network of mostly male individuals between the ages of 17-25 engaged in cyber-bullying under the false pretense of self-righteousness. They feel that they are privileged to watch, hack, and threaten, i.e. deliberately apply terror tactics, because of their hatrid towards certain particulars? Note: specific technical knowledge of networking, no breadth or depth, a lack of empathy, a lack of scruples, a lack of character, a lack of culture -> isolation, low self-esteem, frustration, possibly impoverished or weak family structure.
March 9, 2013