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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Facetious teachers're wankersand they often treat adults acquaintances outside school to their shining wit.
Try making polite convo with a teacher you've just met:
You: I'm a brain surgeon/sewage operative, what do you do?
Teacher: I'm a teacher
You; Oh how nice, what do you teach?
Teacher: (big clever grin) Kids!
- to which the correct answer, I've found, is 'I asked you WHAT you teach, not WHOM you teach'.
Heh.
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