The Zen or the Zon?

What is the correct name of the place, in which Mystik Spiral performs their destructo-music?

The Zen? The Zon?

Or both?

[email] (Ace Trax) wrote in news:6bc1cade.0305080100.12629974 @posting.google.com:

I thought it ws the Zen, but I haven't been sure myself. I need to know, because I'm in the early stages of planning a fanfic set partly at the Z_n.

Steve Cross

Steve Cross wasted our time in alt.tv.daria on 08 May 2003 with:

I believe Zen.

On May 8th, "Gamer" promulgated the following:

How did he waste the group's time? The reply is not off-topic. Cross is one of the better regulars on this board. His posts are often lighthearted and amusing, which is more than can be said for some.

[email] (Al52228) wrote in news:20030511181602.20527.00000135@mb- m20.aol.com:

Thank you for your support.

<Tiffany> Yeah---like that commercial---with the wine. </Tiffany>

Steve Cross

[email] (Al52228) wrote in message news:...

(SNIP)

I don't think he was actually saying that Steven Cross wasted people's time. It sounds like just an automatically inserted line.

On 11 May 2003 22:16:02 GMT, [email] (Al52228) wrote:

Al, dude, buddy, amigo, I think you've fallen victim to the "automatically inserted message header line intended to be humorous." I can point you towards a support group, if you like. ;-)

Martin
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On Mon, 12 May 2003 20:04:45 +0000, Martin J. Pollard wrote: Dude, welcome back! We've been missing you in #Daria+...

-.\\<-H-

On Mon, 12 May 2003 18:07:01 -0700, "Michelle Klein-Hass" wrote:

^_^ Been spending most of my time with the GF these days, which is why my appearances have been sporadic (and mostly at the PPMB).

Say "yo!" to the gang for me. I'm only at home in the evenings about 2-3 days a week, nowadays; the rest of my time is spent with Janet. Not much like the old days, when I practically had my own apartment set up in #daria+. :-)

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"Ace Trax" wrote in message news:[email]...

Well, I've seen Zen more than Zon, but in the video game, Daria says, (and it's written on a ticket as) Zone (with a line over the o to indicate it's pronounced 'oh' rather than 'aw').

• THM

In article , [email] says...

That's how it is on the sign in "Ill", too.

Trivia: the line over the lerrer to indicate the "long" sound is called a "macron."

On Fri, 23 May 2003 15:16:43 -0400, Mr. Kurtz wrote:

And the 'short' symbol that looks like a little u over the letter is called a 'breve'.

Also, the upward-pointing caret that goes over some letters to indicate, among other things, a more rounded sound to a vowel ( � ) is a 'circumflex'. The little tail that goes on a French letter c to indicate that it's 'soft' ( � ) is a 'cedilla'. The two dots that go over some letters ( � ) is called an 'umlaut' when it indicates a more centralised vowel sound (as in some German words) and a 'diaeresis mark' when it's used to show that two vowels in a row are pronounced separately and not as a single sound (as in 'co�rdination'). An upside-down circumflex ( � ) is a 'caron', 'wedge', or 'hacek'. The wavy line that's used, for example, in Spanish to give an 'n' sound a palatalised nature ( � ) is a 'tilde'. The little circle over some letters in, for example, Scandinavian languages ( � ) is a 'kroucek' or 'over-ring'. A forward-pointing simple slanted line ( � ) is an 'acute accent mark', and a backward-pointing one ( � ) is a 'grave accent mark'. All of these marks used to modify letters, collectively, are called 'dialectical marks'.

*blink*

What? I'm allowed to show off, too!

You forgot the ogonek, a small hook added to Polish vowels to give them a nasal sound.

Aren't we all? :-)

M Man

On 25 May 2003 18:59:42 GMT, [email] (MMan37x) wrote:

Actually, I didn't forget it. I left it out because I didn't have a valid modified character that would show up in non-HTML format to demonstrate it with. ;)

I wrote:

D'oh! I knew that sounded wrong when I was typing it, but I was too high to figure out why.

I did, of course, mean *diacritical* marks. Dialectics is something else entirely. ;)

Sean Carroll wrote in news:[email]:

<Tiffany> Language Arts geeks --- are SO --- boring. </Tiffany>

<Sandi> Tiffany dear, you're lost. The Boys-R-Guys news group is this way. </Sandi>

Steve Cross

On Tue, 27 May 2003 00:24:00 GMT, Steve Cross wrote:

I am not a Language Arts geek! I'm a science/math geek who just happens to have a side interest in lingustics from a sociological and typographical point of view. So THERE!

<Staci> Hey, Boys-R-Guys? I have one of their albums! </Staci>

<Quinn> No, Staci! That's Boyz-II-... -Munch or something like that. </Quinn>

<Tiffany> Ohhhhhh. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. </Tiffany>