• Coelacanth
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    719 days ago

    Fine then. I guess I will.

    (Also I love me some Dorothy Parker).

  • @[email protected]
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    319 days ago

    Gonna grab me a helium tank, a heavy duty garbage bag, and some gorilla tape when I finally can’t take it anymore

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    19 days ago

    i admit it. im stuck on ‘pain’ as a verb, it just doesnt work. hurt is right there, and its not interrupting the syllable count or rhyme scheme.

    edit: I’ll be goddamned. Apparently “pain” can be a verb. I guess I have heard “it pains me to say” now I think of it.

    • Rayquetzalcoatl
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      19 days ago

      It didn’t stick out to me as unusual at all - is it another British English vs other forms of English thing? Parker was American so I’d be surprised

      • Skua
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        319 days ago

        British English is my first language and it didn’t stick out to me as too unusual. Maybe if there’s a difference in the usage of it today, it’s one that has developed since Parker’s death?

      • @[email protected]
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        119 days ago

        American here. We definitely use it as a verb, most commonly as “it pains me to say…” It isn’t too common an expression, though, which might have been the oddity for the GP.