CommonFreddy Woo writes, "My wife thinks calling the front room a lounge is common. Worse, a friend of hers recently admonished her daughter for calling a toilet, a toilet. Lavatory darling. It's lavatory."
My own mother refused to let me use the word 'oblong' instead of 'rectangle'. Which is just odd, to be honest.
What stuff do you think is common?
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chthonic, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:06)
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The university I was a student atis one of the country's oldest, with the some of the highest academic standards around, but nobody was afraid to call a spade a spade.
My first job was at a different university - this time a former Polytechnic. The amount of sheer bullshitting I saw and heard there in an attempt to make themselves sound academic was unreal. The lecturers didn't teach. They undertook 'pedagogical exercises'.
Needless to say, one of my most-used phrases that year was 'could I have that again, but in English please?'.
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rubberduck should only be used after consulting with your GP, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 17:33,
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"Pedagogical exercises?"They want to be careful. If the place is common as you say, there'll be a howling mob outside the door wanting to "lynch the kiddie-fiddlers."
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