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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RepetitionI don't see the problem with the repetition thing. It seems like a perfectly reasonable response, if you're told that your interlocutor didn't catch something, to repeat it a little more slowly and forcefully. (Deafness has nothing to do with it, either - it seems to me to be a perfectly civil respose to anyone.)
I SAID: I DON'T SEE THE PROBLEM WITH THE REPETITION THING.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 10:06,
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I don`t mind repetion but the fact that repeating at 120db and speed of a snail in a little degrading and derogatory.
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Nope - I really don't see it.Naive and well-meaning seems more likely. Maybe people misjudge your needs - but that's hardly degrading or derogatory; they're still aiming to do the right thing. (It's not like they're adding "YOU DEAF TWAT" at the end of every statement.) You seem a little techy.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 22 Oct 2008, 10:34,
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what enzyme saidhas just made me cry a little bit and some tea come out of my nose. thanks for that.
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