various. Very various.

[freckles_and_doubt]

BoingBoing points out that French also has the verb "to google" - googler. Je google, tu googles, il google, nous googlons, vous googlez, ils googlent. J'ai googlé. Nous googlerons. It is quite possible that my life is now complete.

My morning's post-first-period grind was considerably lightened by a farewell tea-drinking session with wytchfynder, who showered me with muffins, conversation and a random copy of Jon Courtenay Grimwood's redRobe*, before buggering off to the Evil Empire again on Saturday in pursuit of the Dread Phid. Cape Town, desert, you know, the usual. And we never even got in our planned evening of booze and bad superhero movies. Woe.

This blasted final encyclopedia entry has jumped all over me in hobnailed boots. Every time je google, I find another bunch of beastly fairy tale films I haven't included. I think they breed when I'm not looking, which I suppose would also explain some of the more unlikely crosses which keep turning up. Go on, tell me all about the obscure, weird fairy tale films you've ever watched, and see if you can poke more holes in my thin veneer of authoritativeness.

< waves tiny fist impotently at uncaring cultural universe >

On the upside, the copies of the Marvels and Tales edition containing my actual full-length paper arrived today. It looks pretty spiff. I feel all academic, like.

* I know nothing of this man. Anyone read? looks grimy, gritty, cyberpunkoid.

Comments

[khoi-boi.livejournal.com]

Do the Leprechaun slasherflics count ?

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

Aaargh! Actually, I had planned a paragraph on horror in fairy tale film, I suppose I could slide in a reference. Possibly while looking the other way, crossing my fingers and holding my nose.

[bumpycat.livejournal.com]

But doing that *summons* a leprechaun.

JC Grimwood

[rumint.livejournal.com]

I know little of him, having started RedRobe several times, but never getting into it. Very Cyberpunk I believe.

[ex-wytchfyn.livejournal.com]

Nous googlerons? Zut alors! Cabernet sauvignon. Le chat noir. Tojours l'attacque!

OMG! I can speak French! ;-)

Glad you enjoyed the muffin-leviathan. Come have one with me in the Evil Empire some time soon!

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

God, would so love to visit the Evil Empire for muffins. Will have to manufacture, in short order, a source of funding, a suitable conference and a kick-butt paper. Or teleportation, which is possibly only marginally more unlikely than the former solution. Sigh.

[pinkthulhu.livejournal.com]

In Spanish it would be (assuming it's regular):

Me googlo. Te googlas. Le googla. Nos googlamos. Os googlais. Les goolgan.

Which is pretty similar. :) What were your last two tenses? Preterite or something?

Also tried reading Redrobe and remember something about a sentient gun.

[extemporanea.livejournal.com]

J'ai googlé. Past tense: I have googled.
Nous googlerons. Future: we will google.

I do like the Spanish versions, too. I don't know why a ridiculous neologism should sound even more ridiculous in a foreign language, but it does ;>.

[pinkthulhu.livejournal.com]

Aah, thought so!

Me googlé
Nos googláremos

Yeah, it can sound very silly. :)