[Dragaera] Fwd: On a lighter note...

[Mark Mandel]

Sir, I salute your insistence on the correct spelling and pronunciation
([ˈkθʊlˌhu]).

Mark A. Mandel
aka Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoëpist, and Philological
Busybody


On Sun, Oct 5, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Jerry Friedman <jerry_friedman at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Or "G is for Gory, the best kind of scene."
>
> (Or "Gorey".)
>
> By the way, it's "Cthulhu" with no apostrophe.  And
> I don't care what anyone says--it's two syllables.
>
> Somehow I'd prefer "consolidated" to "regional".  It
> suggests unnatural textures, inexplicably resembling
> the curiously /gelatinous/ consistency of the
> shoggoths that shamble the corridors of elder Night.
>
>
> Jerry Friedman apologizes to Mark for the duplicate
> post (or approximate duplicate).
>