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DARKJESTER

Saturday, June 25, 2005 12:48 PM

SimonWho wrote:

Quote:
Acceptable - something that is allowed, appropriate.
Exceptable - not a word.

Exceptable: Capable of making, or being used to make, an exception.

Example: "I only wear sneakers." That means that my dress shoes are an exception to that rule, and are therefore exceptable.

OK, ok, I know it's not a word. But it should be!

MAL "You only gotta scare him."
JAYNE "Pain is scary..."

BIKISDAD

Saturday, June 25, 2005 2:20 PM

You're right, it should be. Things can be both accepted and excepted, so why shouldn't they be both acceptable and exceptable. But wait, there is the word "exceptionable", which basically carries the same intended meaning - just one of the mysteries of the English language, I guess.

Apathy on the Rise. No One Cares.

SIMONWHO

Saturday, June 25, 2005 3:09 PM

But accepted and excepted mean two different things so surely exceptable would mean "something that can be excluded"?

Isn't English fun!

BIKISDAD

Saturday, June 25, 2005 3:55 PM

You'd think so, wouldn't you? It's no wonder that foreigners have so much trouble learning this language. It has so many inconsistencies.

Apathy on the Rise. No One Cares.

RETRO

Saturday, June 25, 2005 11:38 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by SimonWho:
But accepted and excepted mean two different things so surely exceptable would mean "something that can be excluded"?

Isn't English fun!

Let's not be excluding people. That would be rude.

"Just because I choose to wander, it doesn't mean that I am lost..."

SIMONWHO

Saturday, June 25, 2005 11:43 PM

What if we acclude them instead?

KNIBBLET

Saturday, June 25, 2005 11:57 PM

I wondered if you'd catch it.
Anal retentives unite!
Dyslexics untie!

Quote:
Originally posted by SimonWho:
Acceptable - something that is allowed, appropriate.
Exceptable - not a word.

http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/MN-Firefly/

CALCULATRIX

Sunday, June 26, 2005 5:17 AM

I liked Mr. Universe too, but I had one big problem with him. At the very end, I thought it was disrespectful to more important people's memories to have him suggested to be on the same level as certain more important people. Did that bug anyone else?

FREMDFIRMA

Sunday, June 26, 2005 8:42 AM

I dislike the plot itself - expected better of Joss, to be honest.

I suspect his execution of it will be stellar, but instead of polishing a rusty bucket, might have been better to start with a fresh one.

Still firefly, still gonna kick butt, and still gonna pack the house, but we're spoiled I guess - having seen what Joss is capable of, some of us get pouty with less than that.

As for english? erhm, imma side with Jayne on that one, hell, I speak it badly enough, and I LIVE here, heh.

-F

EMBERS

Sunday, June 26, 2005 10:53 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Calculatrix:
At the very end, I thought it was disrespectful to more important people's memories to have him suggested to be on the same level as certain more important people. Did that bug anyone else?

I felt that maybe Joss felt it would be more disrespectful to have the BDHs ignore Mr. U's sacrifice & death....
and leave us with the feeling that there may be some huge backstory (a history of the Serenity crew working with Mr. U in the past, so they've been friends for a long time even though we never got to see any of it). A backstory we might be told someday in comics...wood cuts or interpretive dance.

And Fremdfirma personally I thought the story kicked @ss!
I totally loved the explanation of the creation of the Reavers (one of the plots from Firefly that most needed explaining IMO).
WARNING - HUGE SPOILERS:

Select to view spoiler:

I loved that it was an attempt by the Gov't to alter the people into sinless perfect people.
Which seemed to me to be a commentary, a very subtle commentary, on attempts today to govern morality.
Plus the whole 'can't stop the signal' theme was full of metaphor:
for the way 'Firefly' couldn't be stopped because people spread the word, and the importance of free speech and a free internet.

Frankly I felt the plot was as good or better than any of the 'Firefly' episodes.
My only complaint?
I would have liked to have seen our BDHs sitting around the dinner table talking and laughing...
in fact I would have been happy if the whole two hours would have been just that.
Maybe Universal Pictures wouldn't have been so happy, but I would have.

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