stymied; browser crash

[fflo]

I guess the computer gods didn't want me doing another old movie post again tonight---I was a good way's* into it when I was hit by Mozilla freeze-up and sudden closure. Maybe I'll tell you about it tomorrow, though. In the meantime...

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[aabassplayer.livejournal.com]

Just like Eric Clapton says:

Further on up the road someone's gonna hurt you like you hurt me.
Further on up the road someone's gonna hurt you like you hurt me.
Further on up the road, baby, just you wait and see.

You gotta reap just what you sow; that old saying is true.
You gotta reap just what you sow; that old saying is true.
Just like you mistreat someone, someone's gonna mistreat you.

You been laughing, pretty baby, someday you're gonna be crying.
You been laughing, pretty baby, someday you're gonna be crying.
Further on up the road you'll find out I wasn't lying.

Further on up the road someone's gonna hurt you like you hurt me.
Further on up the road someone's gonna hurt you like you hurt me.
Further on up the road, baby, just you wait and see.




Actually, I can't decide how I'd say it...I'm a dictionary/wikipedia kind of guy for reference like that...

didn't find anything in either, but there is a book "Up the Road a Ways"...first link if you google it. I think colloquilalisms are fun to debate how one might represent them in text form.

[aabassplayer.livejournal.com]

and did I mention that I get firefox to crash about twice a day these days at work? Of course, I've got 5 windows open, switching between them all constantly, and browsing/clicking in three of them at any one time. I'm very non-plused by firefox...unfortunately, it's the best available option for Solaris.

[queerbychoice.livejournal.com]

What I would actually say is "a way down the road."

However, if I did add an s for some reason, I would spell it "ways."

[andystardust.livejournal.com]

I would say "a way's down the road" if I was determined to use the phrase, although since this is me we're talking about, I would be more likely to cop out and say "down the road some distance." The road is a way, and the distance down that road is that way's distance. Therefore I would say "a way's" down the road. Yeah. La la la.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

We're all Firefoxy at work, running networky Windows, and seem to do pretty well with the variation. (Some of our Systems fellas favor Linux, but I seriously doubt we'll go that way any time soon.) I have dial-up on the Mac at home, though, and it takes me forever to download something like a browser. It does seem to be when I ask a lot of the application that it tosses up its microchippial hands and gives up the ghost.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Thanks for sharing your rationale! That's pretty much my thinking---like "a good way's down the road" means "a good way's distance down the road," which is the distance of a good way down the road. I mean, my gut tells me there's some genitiveness in there somewhere (genitivity?), though the expression seems to be represented generally without an apostrophe.

And, yeah, of course my point is to figure out how to represent the colloquialism in writing, as aabassplayer dug, not to advocate for its use by those who feel some compulsion to stick to "proper" language.

[aabassplayer.livejournal.com]

microchippial...I like that :-)

Ah, the joys of technology advancing slower than the marketing guys can sell it...

[fflo.livejournal.com]

... yet faster than my finances can keep up with it ...

[madush69.livejournal.com]

I'd say, go past the White Castle, and you'll see it in about a quarter mile on the right.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Is that directions to your radio station?

[madush69.livejournal.com]

*smiles* Yep.