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As you can see from my avatar, it is imperative that I keep my gnashers in tip-top condition, so that I can lunge at my helpless prey without fear of leaving a wobbly tooth behind in their sorry carcass.

So, yesterday I was at the dentists. My dentist is a mild-mannered, unassuming chap, a mop of sandy hair, no obvious tattoos...

He pushes some tray thing filled with horrible squidgy stuff into my gob and says - and I quote - "I wonder... are you familiar with the post-industrial gothic rap metal stylings of Teutonic rock-gods Rammstein?"

I decide not to embarrass him by pointing out that "post-industrial" is a term more frequently used to refer to an economic/societal model... and to pull him up on the "rap" comment would just be churlish. Instead I crease myself laughing, still with this contraption in my mouth.

He continues "That video for "Sonne" is one of the best of the MTV age, have you seen it? I've been to one of their concerts - absolutely amazing.

"A lot of homo-eroticism there, isn't there?" His assistant starts to laugh. "No really, there is! Very homo-erotic, very much so..."

Without realising it, Boudicca had entered...

The Orthodontist Zone!

Beyond weird.

that is why I haven't been to one for many years.
edit*
I don't like him to put any of his equipment into my mouth.
better?

It was beyond beyond wierd, Timothy.

He then started singing along to Enigma on the radio...!

christophe wrote:I'm so fùcking afraid of anything commin into my mouth

Make of THAT what you will!!

boudicca wrote:It was beyond beyond wierd, Timothy.

He then started singing along to Enigma on the radio...!

Grr. And it's weird. I before E except after C. Or something...

Christophe, might I direct your attention to the edit button? It IS your friend...

Good spelling is WHO I AM!

My ego lies in shreds.

There I was wondering about whether to put an apostrophe in "dentist's"?



(I was right to wasn't I?)

timsinister wrote: Christophe, might I direct your attention to the edit button? It IS your friend...

thx I'll try, but I'm afraid its to late to controll the damage, and what the hell... make of it what you wan't

I can never get weird/wierd straightened out either...

It's "dentist's" -- possessive.

As in "The dentist's surgery"

The apostrophe is in there to mark a contraction because in middle? old? English the formation would have been something like "the dentist his surgery"

</pointless grammatical exposition -- but then again I am a cunning linguist... and you did ask.>

I need to go back to the dentist's soon; the crown on my front tooth is starting to feel a little odd.

Mark, you need a beer and to chill out man! Walking English Lesson...

christophe wrote:what the hell... make of it what you wan't

That's the best damn attitude around here.

markfiend wrote:I can never get weird/wierd straightened out either...

It's "dentist's" -- possessive.

As in "The dentist's surgery"

As I thought. Genitive case... so they were teaching me Latin for a reason after all...

Horrible, horrible memories. Puella puellae puellam...

markfiend wrote: The apostrophe is in there to mark a contraction because in middle? old? English the formation would have been something like "the dentist his surgery"

You're a veritable mine of information Mr. Fiend.

You'll all be delighted to hear my fangs are absolutely fine.

timsinister wrote:Mark, you need a beer and to chill out man! Walking English Lesson...

Tell me about it Stuck here in a boiling hot office and still 25 minutes to home-time...

boudicca wrote:Puella puellae puellam...

"Puella Puella Puellam...", I think you'll find, Claire

1st declension feminine, I believe, and should be declined as follows:

Puella Puella Puellam Puellae Puellae Puella
Puellae Puellae Puellas Puellarum Puellis Puellis

(Nominative, Vocative, Accusative, Genitive, Dative, Ablative. First row singular, second row plural)

lazarus corporation wrote:
Puella Puella Puellam Puellae Puellae Puella
Puellae Puellae Puellas Puellarum Puellis Puellis

Oh god it all comes flooding back. Like so much sewer water.

I wish I had done Latin and I wish I had your dentist B! Mine calls me Liz - ew!
Speaking of which I have to go to the dentist on monday...

Brideoffrankenstein wrote:I wish I had done Latin and I wish I had your dentist B! Mine calls me Liz - ew!
Speaking of which I have to go to the dentist on monday...

wish i knew what you are all talking about?lunch time and home time were my only strong subject at school!

I liked Latin at school, but unfortunately, it was in the afternoon and we'd have a couple of joints at lunchtime and learning really wasn't top of the agenda by 2pm.

I remember very little.

With so many people having "done" Latin, I can't work out whether we're all posh, or just old...

boudicca wrote:With so many people having "done" Latin, I can't work out whether we're all posh, or just old...

I went to a girls grammar school (which I left 20 years ago) where I was told that if I wanted to go to university I had to have a Latin O'Level Pile of s**t ........


...........I'm old they were posh (or at least, liked to think they were )

markfiend wrote:I can never get weird/wierd straightened out either...

It's "dentist's" -- possessive.

As in "The dentist's surgery"

The apostrophe is in there to mark a contraction because in middle? old? English the formation would have been something like "the dentist his surgery"

</pointless grammatical exposition -- but then again I am a cunning linguist... and you did ask.>

I need to go back to the dentist's soon; the crown on my front tooth is starting to feel a little odd.

But what if there's a group of dentists in one practice?

Debaser wrote:

markfiend wrote:I can never get weird/wierd straightened out either...

It's "dentist's" -- possessive.

As in "The dentist's surgery"

The apostrophe is in there to mark a contraction because in middle? old? English the formation would have been something like "the dentist his surgery"

</pointless grammatical exposition -- but then again I am a cunning linguist... and you did ask.>

I need to go back to the dentist's soon; the crown on my front tooth is starting to feel a little odd.

But what if there's a group of dentists in one practice?

and you a teacher

dentists' it's easy really

*thought you would be rambling about top german band, not brushing up on your grammar

at a recent pop quiz, my operations manger got 'pretty vacant' after about two notes we've never been the same since

ach I thought we'd done away with that apostrophe years ago

It's hot and I'm bothered? LMAO

markfiend wrote:I am a cunning linguist

BLOODY OI! Get your own catchphrase.

boudicca wrote:It was beyond beyond wierd, Timothy.

He then started singing along to Enigma on the radio...!

You're lucky. The only thing I hear on the dentist is the sound of the drill drilling.
Doesn't mean there are no other sounds. But I cannot listen to anything else.
I don't remember one single conversation either. My mind is somewhere else in some place very scary.

Gosh, I hate the dentist.

My dentist likes The Cure.
He's also a damn good dentist... re-filled one tooth untill it was actually tooth-shaped and removed a tooth in a way that was actually a nice way to spend a morning. He gave me drugs and played cds and I walked away with a mouth that closes properly and a tooth in my pocket. FunFunFun.