You know...I thought I would LOVE this thread. I’m a word lover. I thought it would be great fun to hear all the different expressions people hear, use, dislike, etc.

To coin a bad phrase, never have so many people been so offended by so much—and so little. People yelling at others about what they posted and insisting on 1) their individual right to keep on saying whatever the other person didn’t like; 2) their right not to have to hear things they personally don’t like; 3) people who are sophisticated e-users, who know that you can’t always be accurate in interpreting the underlying connotations of messages, filling in the connotative blanks and getting offended by their own blank-filling-in. Ee-yow! Would it really have been that hard to just post your own words without arguing back about others’ posts?

I don’t THINK I’ve ever put a thread on “ignore” before, and I sure didn’t think I’d be doing it with this one. And with a lot of posters on this thread whom I really like and enjoy. Oh, well. I’ll still be glad to see you all, y'all, or all y'all, on other threads.