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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Don't worry about it.Nobody has to "learn" manners - just do what feels naturally right and courteous to your fellow humans. It's saying "thanks" or "ta" or "cheers" which matters, not which one you use.
If you have to learn it it's not manners, it's etiquette, and that's - to use the technical term - a steaming puddle of dogwank.
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