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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Erm, is that an unnecessary comma?Surely "I got it from John" would be mangled into "I got it off John".
Excuse my pedantry (or possibly point-missing idiocy) but "I got it off, John" sounds like an joyful exclamation from someone who has just managed to free a portion of their anatomy from the object in which it has been wedged, possibly for many years, and must make this new state of affairs known to John immediately.
Yes, I am fully aware I am thinking about how best to punctuate a grammatically incorrect sentence. Oh dear.
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That's some admirable pedantry there fella.If I could *click* you, I might.
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