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[meorae]

Article about Yaoi

Carol wanted the link.

The spanish test was both yesterday and today. I think I did fine on it, but it was annoying how much of the test she didn't teach us and how long it was. Most of it was easy, besides translating the questions from spanish. But then there were questions that she never taught us the answers to. Last night, I searched online for the answers to the questions I couldn't get, so I hope the information I found was what she wanted.

Scoliosis test today. Better than gym. We (as in the people in my gym class) sat around for half the class talking, spent two seconds having Kate look at our back and posture and then we spent the rest of class in the red gym, talking again.

All of my projects are done, but the teachers seem to all think that means we're free to do busywork. Why do I care about the Weimer Republic or Power Theorems or whether I agree or disagree with different poets or that it took three arrows for the foreigner to pierce the pumpkin-like clouds and cause it to rain?

Oh and communistic is a word. Although I don't understand the difference between communistic and communist. It's probably something subtle like the difference between analysis and analyzation. According to my paper dictionary, communistic is the adjective and communist is the noun. I've always heard communist used as both. And the first time I ever heard communistic used was in Spanish a while ago and then again today in English.

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[arrowwhiskers.livejournal.com]

*laughs* My dad showed me that article today. ^^ They left out shounen-ai in the table of definitions. :\

[acern.livejournal.com]

Meh. I don't like the article all that much. I mean, it got into the Globe, which is amazing, but it seems so... like she has no clue at all what she's talking about. I agree with the complaint about there always being an uke and a seme, though. That's sorta depressing. ._.

[meorae.livejournal.com]

Ya. I didn't like it either. But you mentioned it, so I looked for it and found it.

[arrowwhiskers.livejournal.com]

No idea what talking about at alllll. Did you see how they said was pronounced 'ya-oy'? It probably is, technically. But nobody actually pronounces it like that. Author probably never visited ff.net, either.

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[(Anonymous)]

What is the difference between 'analysis' and 'analyzation'?

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[meorae.livejournal.com]

An analyzation is the act of analyzing something. An analysis is what you get after you analyze something. So they're just subtley different. So your analysis is what you get after your analyzation. This is the difference Elisabeth (arsinyk) was able to figure out. It might not be correct. But it sounds right.

[cbizkit.livejournal.com]

"ya-oy". yeah right. :P wait, why ISN'T it yow-ee?

And I'm depressed that they didn't include fanfics for things other than manga in the article. Although I guess if it's not manga it's not really yaoi.

Is there always a seme and an uke? I hadn't noticed.

[cbizkit.livejournal.com]

And is it "is there always a seme and an uke" or "are there always a seme and an uke"?

[meorae.livejournal.com]

That's how everyone does pronounce it. But it might be pronounced ya-oy... I think that the author just doesn't know what she's talking about.

It seems like there always is.

And I'm not sure about your question below. But I think it should be are. As if you rearrange the words "are a seme and a uke always there" that sounds correct while if you replace that are with an is, it doesn't sound right. And the subject is plural. So I assume it would be are. Although neither of those actually look right.

[arsinyk.livejournal.com]

She might be right, but if she is then everyone I've ever heard and all the sites I've ever seen with a pronunciation guide are wrong. Which seems unlikely.

With yaoi, yes. Appallingly so. Slash seems less rigid about that, though there's still often a 'Dom!Soandso', or at least one character who's more "masculine"/always top.

And "is" sounds better to me, but I think Katherine's right....