Zalis's definitions

ke ke

A representation of laughter sometimes attributed to people of Asian origin. Sometimes includes more ke's.

kekekekekeke omg zergrush (credit to SomethingAwful Comedy Goldmine for this example)

by Zalis August 11, 2004

game over

The situation you are in if your dropship crashes and leaves you stranded on a planet full of nasty extra terrestrials.

I guess this is it, man, I guess we're pretty fucked, game over, man, game over!

by Zalis August 5, 2004

shall

A word which, like whom, has come to be thought of as overly formal and stuffy in American speech. In current use, it indicates a very strong intention or will to do something.

Traditionally, shall is used as an auxilliary to form the future tense for the first person: ("I" and "we")

I shall go
you will go
he/she/it will go
we shall go
they will go

Negative: shall not, contracted as shan't.

This service was atrocious! We shan't be coming back here again!

by Zalis August 3, 2004

American Spelling

Initiated by Noah Webster in the early 19th century, American Spelling is perhaps the most successful effort ever to make the English language more phonetically written, thus decreasing its unnecessary difficulties for people trying to learn it as a foreign language.

Come on, do people in England really pronounce "centre" as "sen-tray"?

by Zalis August 3, 2004

pronoun

1) A noun that has lost its amateur status.
2) A word that replaces a common or proper noun. Pronouns can fall into sub-categories: subject, object, relative, prepositional, interrogative, reflexive, and demonstrative.

This is a demonstrative pronoun.

by Zalis February 5, 2004

minuteman

Term for a volunteer soldier in the American Revolution, who were supposed to be ready to fight against the British at a minute's notice. These were often nothing more than farmers that happened to have a gun or two lying around.

Let us not confuse "minuteman," a man who quickly goes off to be a soldier, with minute man, a man whose soldier goes off too quickly.

by Zalis January 25, 2004

405

Heavily congested freeway that runs generally through the west-central part of Los Angeles, California.

(There are also interstate highways with this number in Washington & Oregon, but the California version is the most famous.)

The gridlock on the 405 is legendary throughout the country.

by Zalis December 8, 2003