Networking - Natalie
Dec. 20th, 2004 05:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackOK, I know most people don't care about my sorting entries into types, but it still amuses me. Hmm, I should probably put the categorization in mood instead. Anyway, I decdied "stupid coincidences showing cambridge is too small" should have its own category. Soon maybe "stupid coincidences in the carlton" will, and meeting someone who wrote a program I use doesn't count unless it's obscure :)
D: I don't think you've met my other half.
Me: Wait...
???: You do look familiar.
Me: Did you used to dance?
???: Yes.
Me: Did you used to have long hair?
???: Yes.
Me: Natalie?
???: Yes! Jack? How are you, it's been so long.
Me: In the dining room with the dagger?1
Apparently I even met them together about two years ago, and forgot all about it till (gr?)2 now.
Other coincidences include meeting my best friend in London with no prior arrangement; another friend meeting half of his coursemates on a field trip in london, with no prior arrangement; forwarding an email forward from mum to a mailing list, and having someone respond "I know who started that"; and stumbling into a school friend's ex in a Newnham corridor.
What are your favorite stories?
[1] Punchline altered to protect the conversation from being too boring. No girlfriends were harmed in the creation of this post.
[2] I adopt the convention of (sp?) representing an unknown spelling I can't check easily, and (gr?) an unknown point of grammar :)
D: I don't think you've met my other half.
Me: Wait...
???: You do look familiar.
Me: Did you used to dance?
???: Yes.
Me: Did you used to have long hair?
???: Yes.
Me: Natalie?
???: Yes! Jack? How are you, it's been so long.
Me: In the dining room with the dagger?1
Apparently I even met them together about two years ago, and forgot all about it till (gr?)2 now.
Other coincidences include meeting my best friend in London with no prior arrangement; another friend meeting half of his coursemates on a field trip in london, with no prior arrangement; forwarding an email forward from mum to a mailing list, and having someone respond "I know who started that"; and stumbling into a school friend's ex in a Newnham corridor.
What are your favorite stories?
[1] Punchline altered to protect the conversation from being too boring. No girlfriends were harmed in the creation of this post.
[2] I adopt the convention of (sp?) representing an unknown spelling I can't check easily, and (gr?) an unknown point of grammar :)
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Date: 2004-12-20 06:23 pm (UTC)It's in the OED. The first usage in the sense of "up to the time of (an event)" was eight hundred and fifty years ago, marginally predating 'until'.
http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/entry/50252760?query_type=word&queryword=till&first=1&max_to_show=10&sort_type=alpha&search_id=KlGI-iR9nMh-4457&result_place=3 Unfortunately, you won't be able to read the link until you're back at college, pay for a subscription, or set up an http tunnel.
Unfortunately, I'm not very good at reading complicated dictionary entries, so I'm not sure when they're synonymous and when not, and have probably misrepresented it a bit. But it's good for getting a discussion going :)
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Date: 2004-12-20 06:42 pm (UTC)Knew I was setting myself up for a fall by saying what I did :)
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Date: 2004-12-20 06:54 pm (UTC)Me too. But then no-one thinks I can spell anyway1 :)
I don't know the etymology for certain. OTOH I wasn't just making all that up2. For instance, 'till' might be archaic, in which case "'til" would make more sense. Or I should use "'til" in formal situations, because it avoids an argument when I can't defend myself.
[1] A-N-Y-W-A-Y
[2] I didn't make it up. I read it on the internet somewhere.