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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You have a good pointWhile a lot of teenagers DO use obnoxious spellings and text-speak, the spellings on the page are so ridiculous that they could have easily been made by an older person trying too hard to sound like a teenager.
*Dons internet detective cap*
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KersaI Missive Free Michael Shields! with Monday's Liverpool Echo, Tue 21 Oct 2008, 20:02,
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ButThe messages from her friends are all like that.
My theory is that the human race is diverging into 2 distinct species. Hopefully it won't be long before we can class the one species as animals and then either keep them as pets or eat them.
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stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 8:45,
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