a favor

Could a few of you do me a favor and try to post in my guestbook then tell me whether it worked? I think I'm having some problems with it but it works fine when I try to post in it from here. Thanks!

ETA: Oh, it would help if I gave you a link, eh? my guestbook

well, shit

I was looking at the newly-discovered (to me) and awesome potterpuffs and I found this:
Snape's Worst Memory.

There is no way in a million years (with a million GMonkeys and a million copies of Photoshop) that I'll top that for hp_art_project.

Haha.

Nah, mine will be more serious. But that potterpuffs is wicked awesome.

spoilers, spoilers, spoilers!

( HBP spoilers )

I got a potterpuffs icon

potterpuffs is my new favorite thing in the whole world.

does nobody understand the difference between "imply" and "infer" any more?

The following grammar rant is free of spoilers.

I was reading Something Awful. Lowtax is fairly conservative but he's funny so I'll forgive him. I will not forgive him, however, for using "infer" where he should have used "imply." I've seen that crop up a lot lately. It's my new pet peeve now that people have stopped abusing "literally" so much. I don't have a catchy song like Strong Bad* but this is a good general rule:

If you're doing the talking, you're implying.
If you're doing the listening/reading, you're inferring.

Here's an example:
"That's a very nice wand you have there, Sevvie," said Divinity Raven Celestia.
Divinity was implying something inappropriate.
Snape inferred from her name that she was a Mary Sue and turned her into a radish.

Misused words make Snapeypuff sad.

Yeah, dictionary.com includes the word "imply" in the 4th definition of "infer" but "imply" is not a synonym of "infer" and I don't like it when people use it as such.


* I can't remember which Strong Bad E-mail it was so I'll just have to give you the lyrics:
Oh! If you want it to be possessive, it's just "i-t-s"
but if it's supposed to be a contraction then it's "i-t-apostrophe-s!"
Scalawag!