Re: Affectation almost inherently reflects trying too hard, and imitation is unoriginal.
imlad Send a noteboard - 27/10/2012 04:24:26 AM
Thing is, I usually don't even realize I've said it. It'll be when my friends just stare at me or otherwise react that I realize I'd used "bloody" or something (but, I probably get that as much from WoT as anything else, since I've been reading the danged series for 20 years or so (half my life!).
And calling it a flat is so much easier and quicker than saying apartment. BLAH! I hate typing that word too. I think I actually started using flat in text messages and IMs before I was saying it.
Posh? I just like the word. I don't actually say it out loud often if at all, but it gets used by my stream of consciousness voice most of us have.
And calling it a flat is so much easier and quicker than saying apartment. BLAH! I hate typing that word too. I think I actually started using flat in text messages and IMs before I was saying it.
Posh? I just like the word. I don't actually say it out loud often if at all, but it gets used by my stream of consciousness voice most of us have.
Death to the Regressives of the GOP and the TeaParty. No mercy for Conservatives. Burn them all at the stake for the hateful satanists they are.
Do us Yanks use too many British terms?
- 24/10/2012 03:28:53 AM
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I use very few of those terms and thankfully, I'm not a "Yank" or "Yankee" 
- 24/10/2012 03:46:40 AM
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- 24/10/2012 03:46:40 AM
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Soccer terms and lack of subject-verb agreement are the worst that I notice.
- 24/10/2012 05:25:18 AM
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It' called football. You silly americans and your handegg! 
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- 24/10/2012 07:32:47 AM
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- 24/10/2012 07:32:47 AM
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There is no disputing that our use of the word football is total nonsense 
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- 24/10/2012 07:48:46 AM
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- 24/10/2012 07:48:46 AM
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I may be wrong, but I believe it's called a football because it's 12-inches long.
- 25/10/2012 07:15:28 PM
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Using a non-Metric system of measurement is total nonsense.
- 25/10/2012 07:51:27 PM
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I don't think so. Has to do with its historical origins in rugby football. *NM*
- 25/10/2012 09:17:20 PM
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Regulation balls are shorter than that, and "gridiron" is an unambiguous international term.
- 26/10/2012 11:41:18 PM
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Re: Soccer terms and lack of subject-verb agreement are the worst that I notice.
- 24/10/2012 08:22:37 AM
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Affectation almost inherently reflects trying too hard, and imitation is unoriginal.
- 27/10/2012 12:10:52 AM
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Re: Affectation almost inherently reflects trying too hard, and imitation is unoriginal.
- 27/10/2012 04:24:26 AM
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Try "apt."
- 27/10/2012 04:13:18 PM
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always hated the letters "pt" together in that order
- 28/10/2012 04:44:29 AM
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Having enough neuroses of my own, I will not be accountable for yours.
- 28/10/2012 01:55:44 PM
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- 28/10/2012 01:55:44 PM
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