Do you ever listen to the radio or watch an animated show and wonder what the voice actors look like? I do. If you're like me, you try to picture them in your mind. For some, you can form a really good, detailed image. Of course, the times I've managed to find a photo of a radio personality or an actor doing the voice for a certain TV character, I'm usually way off with my mental image. But it's fun to try to visualize them.
On some completely unrelated notes:
When did we (English speakers) start using "nor" without "neither?" I've seen it on some stuff lately -- like on a cloth shopping bag: "Paper nor plastic." I guess we use "or" all the time without "either," but dropping "neither" makes me feel like the phrase isn't set up properly.
And when did we start describing current health conditions with nouns? For example, a local radio spot starts off: "I have infertility." Shouldn't that be "I am infertile."? Seems to me that's like saying "I have sickness" instead of "I'm sick," or "my sinuses have congestion" instead of "my sinuses are congested." "My back muscles have soreness?"
I admit that I know little about this last topic, but since when is the Celsius scale considered Metric? Yes, I know it's a 10- (or 100-) based measuring system, but is it really considered part of the "Metric" system of measurements, lumped together with centimeters and grams and liters and all that? If so, I've been living under a rock known as the Imperial Measure System for too long.
Down with the empire! Infertility nor sickness! To the power of 10!
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along these lines, it has become fashionable in professional sports for announcers, when trying to communicate that a player is injured, to say "X is out with a [body part]." For instance, "Randy Foye is out with a knee," or "Tom Brady may be out with an ankle." No elaboration on the nature of the injury, but rather just a description of the body part afflicted. Or maybe just having a leg or an ankle is injury enough to warrant some time off.
I'm with you on Celsius. Also, why does it get two names? Centigrade and celsius are the same, right? No difference. enough complaining, I guess. love from MN, home of -40 Fahrvenheit
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