azurelunatic | Grammar Bitch wants to know:

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Grammar Bitch wants to know:

Two things, actually.

1) Where did "kitton" come from?

2) With the exception of a few carefully-supervised ironic usages, can we please return it, once we find out 1)?

Yes, Az-the-Elder, you're capable of supervising yourself very carefully. ;)

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Cordwainer Smith's story "Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons" is the source for my (ironic) usage thereof.

I'm not sure where some of the other people I've seen using it, who don't strike me as sf fans, get it.

Thanks! I was wondering if that was your source.

azurelunatic, you should go find a copy and read it. For that matter, find any Cordwainer Smith anthology and read it!

Cordwainer Smith and James Schmitz were my favourite authors as a child, which probably explains a lot about me.

Found. Read. It's my kind of twisted, only gorier.

Oh, my.

Somehow ... somehow I really, really doubt that any of the other people I've seen about using that meant it like that.

*evil grin*

"Uncle Voldie's Littul Kitton" is actually my personal nickname for Bellatrix.

<azzgrin teeth=+2> And she very much is, isn't she. </grin>

It sounds like an elementary particle of fuzzy.

Fuzzy like this?

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