Probably the latter, I doubt that "why do you live there?" was a feature of mid-century French censi, but I confess something of a dearth of research on that particular matter.

>This saying has come up a decent amount recently, even just on the
>forums. Is this becoming a running joke, or just one of those times
>the human brain sees patterns because it wants to?

I believe you are experiencing the Baader-Meinhof effect.

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...did Meiling suddenly become ultra Scottish? Also, is there a translation for "YER DIVEN'T LIKE IT UP'N, DO THA!"? Can't quite parse that bit.

	-={(Astynax)}=- "Meiling with a f-huge axe is both awesome and terrifying though, gotta agree there."

Also, "YER DIVEN'T LIKE IT UP'N, DO THA!" may be translated as "Your fighting spirit and martial prowess is questionable even at the best of times, but as soon as you come across an opponent of real skill and power, you tremble and quiver like an affrighted country maid at her London society debut! You bring nought but shame and dishonour to your house, and I laugh at its heritage and history if all it may muster in this age is the likes of you! Pah, I say! Pah, and thrice pah!"

I hope that helped. =]

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"She's old, she's lame, she's barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." -- Garnet Rogers, Small Victory

FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards.

I am more educated on the topic than I was, so I'd classify it as helpful. Also that's an amazing compression ratio in that statement.

	-={(Astynax)}=- "The translation sounds a bit like a Victorian Klingon."

indeed. i would now like to see a scene with Scottish Meiling and Fuu Hououji, in full Funkotroni form, heckling a giant robot match... i have no idea why this would happen, or when, or why... but i imagine it would be hilarious and require a lot of footnotes for translation

-Z

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Or, Meiling and Lynette Bishop could attend a football match in Britannia. Somehow I like the idea of Witch Football Hooligans. And of Lynn being like Fuu and losing her cool during an exciting match. ;)

Also, somewhat appropriate meme:

That ought to be an experience. =]

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"She's old, she's lame, she's barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." -- Garnet Rogers, Small Victory

FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards.

It's like that language in Return of the Jedi where "Eii. Ya'to." means "Tell your sack-of-shit boss he'll have to do better than that, chromedick, or they'll be fishing bits of him out of their soup all the fuck over to Toschii Station, 'cause this here's a motherfucking thermal detonator, yo."

--G.
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Whenever I see an English regional accent rendered phonetically like that, I always think of that one Dalziel & Pascoe novel where the author tries valiantly to render Dalziel's Yorkshire dialect, in a scene where he goes much deeper into it than he normally does at work in order to remonstrate with a neighbor about the neighbor's penchant for domestic violence. It's so incomprehensible to any outsider, he has to explain afterward to Pascoe that what he said was, "My friend, you've got to stop beating your wife. If it's a fight you want, there's no shortage of men around here who will be willing to give it to you."

Also:

"The cold steel. The Decepticons don't like it up 'em. They do not like it up 'em."

--G.
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Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

Also, for those who didn't catch the reference to Britain's greatest (and most elderly) hero, allow me to introduce you to Sid Ridley. He underwent a similar process to Steve Rogers to become Captain Midlands - but unlike his American counterpart, he actually lived through the intervening decades, his ageing slowed but not halted entirely. Thus, he is now Britain's hardest pensioner, who took the bus to the headquarters of his superhero team and collects decorative spoons. And his catchphrase is:-

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"She's old, she's lame, she's barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." -- Garnet Rogers, Small Victory

FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards.

"You're the only superhero I've ever heard complain about their piles" -- Pete Wisdom on Sid.