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    i think i better start using spell check on this forum. sorry i'm REALLY bad at spelling. i'm more of a numbers sort of girl.

    and you mean zoomability isn't really a word? its my favorite made up word.

    (sorry, i'm sure i have at least one word that is spelled wrong in this post.)
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    Quote Originally Posted by chickwhorips
    and you mean zoomability isn't really a word? its my favorite made up word.
    Today I caught myself calling something "gi-normous." Kill me now!

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    those who "threaten you" and never come through.... (you know who you are, and notice the ... that i added just for you.)
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    Quote Originally Posted by chickwhorips
    those who "threaten you" and never come through.... (you know who you are, and notice the ... that i added just for you.)
    Oh aren't we impatient? I do things on my own time... so sometime a couple years from now, you'll have TOTALLY forgotten about ALL of this, and for whatever reason, I'll have vacation time in AK, so I'll go and come through on all these threats. It works best with the element of surprise.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kitsune06
    Oh aren't we impatient? I do things on my own time... so sometime a couple years from now, you'll have TOTALLY forgotten about ALL of this, and for whatever reason, I'll have vacation time in AK, so I'll go and come through on all these threats. It works best with the element of surprise.
    see what i have to put up with.

    i will wait for you my pretty... and i'm like an elephant! i never forgit!
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    you never spell check, either!
    How do we ever tolerate each other?!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kitsune06
    you never spell check, either!
    How do we ever tolerate each other?!
    i warned everyone on here i can't spell for the life of me. (good thing for me)
    i have no idea how we tolerate each other.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kitsune06
    Oh aren't we impatient? I do things on my own time... so sometime a couple years from now, you'll have TOTALLY forgotten about ALL of this, and for whatever reason, I'll have vacation time in AK, so I'll go and come through on all these threats. It works best with the element of surprise.

    Hee hee, Kit -- this reminds me: we're still waiting for the "other shoe to drop" from the Christmas present EArl gave my brother one year! It was a frozen deer-head he found on the side of the road on his way to work one morning. Steve took it home with him, and we keep wondering when it's going to resurface! (this is maybe 15 years now...)

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    Honestly - I go on holiday for 5 days and all you've been doing is moaning and complaining...

    Misused apostrophes are my pet hate. I recently saw an advert on a block of retirement flats (over-priced, serviced appartments) which read:

    "We'll take care of your loved one's". .....Presumably the words 'hard-earned cash' had been missed off the strap line.


    Oh, and I wish you Amercans would learn to say 'aluminium' properly
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bruno28
    Oh, and I wish you Amercans would learn to say 'aluminium' properly
    So does my DH. He is a Professor of Chemistry and it drives him crazy when it is pronounced incorrectly.
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    Here's another peeve, which I fortunately haven't encountered in a while... People who see my obviously Asian ancestry and regardless of the fact that I was born and raised in California, assume I don't speak English. And the other ethnic stereotypes, too.
    The most common ones I hear:

    "Where are you from? Pasadena? No, I meant originally... where are you from? Pasadena? No, I meant before that..."

    "My, you speak English very well!"

    "pokjfijwfmwjfo???" (I have no idea what they're saying, but they're speaking to me in a foreign language, assuming I am from their country)

    "Do you know what 'yellow fever' is?"

    The best one was in Lexington, Kentucky. I was there on business, driving in from Louisville and had stopped by a local diner. The waitress came up to me, opened up the menu in my face, pointed to pictures of the various items and then said slowly and loudly, "What... food... do... you... like?" She said this making an eating motion with her hand.
    I ordered my meal with the few Spanish words in my repertoire.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bluetree
    The best one was in Lexington, Kentucky. I was there on business, driving in from Louisville and had stopped by a local diner. The waitress came up to me, opened up the menu in my face, pointed to pictures of the various items and then said slowly and loudly, "What... food... do... you... like?" She said this making an eating motion with her hand.
    I ordered my meal with the few Spanish words in my repertoire.
    Whew! That's a good one! I think I'll be chuckling to myself all day every time I think: "What... food... do... you... like?" Oh, man. That's funny. Answered in Spanish. heh heh heh, good one!

    My sister (now 42) and I still tell the story of being in Kentucky with our grandparents (we're all from Illinois...well, our ancestors are from Sweden and Scotland and Denmark...oh, you get the point. We're northerners). My sister was 10. The waitress asked her what she wanted to order. When she hesitated a second too long, my grandmother said, "She doesn't understand you, dear. It's your accent, you know."

    I confuse the heck out of some people when I speak my fluent Spanish at work. I walk in all Swedish looking, open my mouth, and out comes good Spanish. I've been asked if I was maybe...Cuban? Usually they say, "Where are you from?" Here. "Where are your parents from?" Here. "Are you married to a Latino?" No. Finally they break down and ask, "Why do you speak Spanish so well?" I practice!
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    But I like the word gi-normous!

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    are you saying ga-zillion isn't an actual number?
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    I think the correct word is actually "bazillion". See, this is how language gets corrupted...

    Actually, I think its living river-like qualities make language beautiful to watch as it grows and changes.

 

 

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