Alyosha has far too much time on her hands, really she does. Actually, she should be writing a story segment right now, but Will is not being terribly inspirational.
So instead, I will quit talking in the third person because it feels weird even if it sounds right, and demonstrate another of my obsessions. No, not an obsession, but a hobby of which I am extremely fond. Personality types! Huzzah!
Here are quick (very quick) descriptions of the different Myers-Briggs types.
These are my guesses for No Safe Home:
Lucy: INFP (weak I), Phleg-Chlor
Maria: ISFJ, Phleg-Mel
Will: ISTP, Mel-Chlor (equal amounts of each)
Georgie: ENFP, San-Chlor
Bessie: ISFJ, Mel-Phleg
Ann: ISFJ, Mel-Chlor
Freddie: ESTP, Chlor-San
Robert: He doesn't seem to have too much of a personality, or maybe I'm just too dimwitted to figure him out (probably the latter). E...STJ? Eh.
Layla: Hard to tell, perhaps was an ExFP originally, and has become more of an IxTP.
Liz: ESFP, San-Chlor
Allen: ESTP. Phleg-San
Mask: IxFJ (not sure about the second letter), Mel-Chlor
Major Bell: ISTJ, Chlor-Mel
Harold: JERK. Definitely some Choleric though.
(or at any rate, that used in the Narnia books.)
Exclamations
Great Scott
By Jove
I say
Hullo/Hallo/Hello (as in, "Hullo! What's that?")
By Gum
Why!
Bother
Golly
Look sharp! ("...All catch hands and keep together. This is Magic...")
Look here/See here
Hush
Drat
Hang it/Hang it all
Confound it
Rather!: an expression of agreement
Buck up: Come on, pull yourself together
Dry up: Be quiet
Shut up
Hurrah
Nouns
washout ("This is a pretty good wash-out! Not much good coming here.")
rubbish, rot ("That's all rot...")
jaw: talk ("So we could all have a good jaw about Narnia...")
ass: fool ("You were only an ass, but I was a traitor.")
brick: a decent person
pig: a selfish person
a row: a fight or argument
kid: derogatory term for a child
swank: pride
prig: more or less, a person who is good and shows off about it
brute, beast
bloke, chap
old dear
thingummy
Verbs
funk: To be afraid, or be a coward ("He's in a worse funk/"If you funk this, you'll funk every battle all your life.")
muff: To mess up, make a mistake of ("We've muffed the first Sign.")
bag: steal ("No one could say you had bagged a coat as long as...")
wash out: Forget about
grouse: complain
blub: cry
jaw: talk
sulk
Other
bally ("Where's this bally Rush got to?"/"Like the bally idiots we are.")
jolly ("Don't be so jolly clever."/"...jolly nearly murdered me."/"I should jolly well think he was.")
curious ("What a curious place!")
perished ("Won't the string be perished, Su?")
cross: grouchy or querulous
rum: strange
batty, mad: crazy
decent: good
blasted
horrid
frightful(ly)
dreadful(ly)
beastly
confounded
mayn't, shan't, daren't, oughtn't
Phrases and Expressions
played the fool: did something stupid, was foolishly tricked
sucking up to/buttering up: Trying to impress someone with your goodness etc
We've fallen on our feet: have been lucky
...and no mistake.: definately
for nuts: at all, worth anything ("I know I can't swim for nuts at home...")
Make it Pax: make peace, make up
I'm game
rough luck ("It's a bit rough luck on them, isn't it?")
Sharp's the word: approx. Come on, hurry
Please, [insert question here]?
Oh, do let's
such a very ("And she is such a very Narnian ship.")
ever so
When it comes to the point,
I'm come (instead of "I've come")
I've an idea that
he might just do it: might manage
thanks awfully
taking some dreadful knocks
Fire ahead: go ahead [and talk]
precious little ("Is there any chance now?" "Precious little.")
glorious fun
Follow it up, quick!
in the right/in the wrong
you pack of _______
a perfect _______
poor old _______
Of all the _______
[this is] pretty poor sport
it
would ("Of course it
would be raining.")
Why the dickens...?
I'm jiggered
Looks as if
wet blanket
blithering little idiot
poisonous little beast
those trippers (<
