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?
(
chthonic, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:06)
« Go Back
Once upon a timeI had a discussion once, with one of those sparkly girly girls that you fully understand is actually quite bright, but hides that (like a sniper in a Ghillie suit) under a bushel made entirely of d'Agostino and Swarovski. A pink blancmange of a gal.
She told me that she believed firmly that people who swore were common.
I looked down my nose at her and told her to fuck off or I'd unleash a veritable shit-punnet of verbose, prolix hell upon her blonde, Gucci-wearing, Vitara-driving and glittery-stud-adorned ears the like of which she had never experienced. See, I love fucking swearing and I'm as sesquipedalian as the next man.
H'ever I'm still fucking common, it appears.
(, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 16:15, 1 reply)
Sesquipedalianis my favourite word. Partly for the irony.
Like how lisp has an "s" in it.
(, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 23:18, closed)
« Go Back