The Three Questions Meme

[omorka]

Stolen from memeslayer, among others:

I want everyone who reads this to ask me 3 questions, no more, no less.

Ask me anything you want.

Then I want you to go to your journal(if you have one), and copy and paste this allowing your friends (including myself) to ask you anything.

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Better late than never

[memeslayer.livejournal.com]

1. What is your favorite smell?

2. If you could learn any language in the world instantaneously, what would it be?

3. Why is it that when someones does something to a person that that person doesn't like, the same person turns around and does it to someone else the first chance they get?

Re: Better late than never

[omorka.livejournal.com]

1) In what context? I'm tempted to say "DM's hair," but that's very context-dependent. ;) If you mean "for decoration," then I'm very fond of wisteria. For food aromas, I'm enamored of garlic and vanilla, but not at the same time. My favorite perfumes all have patchouli as a base. There is a certain smell to the air in Houston in March that evokes some very pleasant memories of the early part of the Spouse's and my relationship . . .

If I have to give a summative answer, I guess it's the scent of wet earth and charged air just after a summer thunderstorm has started. But it's really very context-dependent for me.


2) Irish Gaelic. I'm very, very enamored of the idea of saving dead and dying languages. Also, it'd be a cool liturgical language other than Latin or Greek (which I both know barely enough to get by in).

Having said that, Sumerian would also be cool.


3) Because they're treating the act as if it were an object. Think about it: someone comes up to you and hands you something gross that you don't want. Your natural impulse is to hand it, in turn, to someone else. If you're the sort of person who doesn't hang on to things, passing an act on is almost as effective as passing an object at getting it out of their consciousness.

Now, it would be just as effective to metaphorically set it down, but it's very difficult for someone who thinks like that to repeat an act on an inanimate object. Even those of us who have sufficient abstraction to do it tend not to think of it in the heat of indignation. :(