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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Perkins, I just saw. All good thoughts to you.
I say... a lot of things y'all mentioned. Starting sentences with "dude." I use totes, sometimes totes magoats. Anyhoo and hoodle. Certain things I say in other languages without realizing, like poftim, davai, asha.
One thing that bugs me is that my coworker says "hadz" instead of "has." like, how is that tricky? It's three letters! She makes it more phonetically complicated! WTF?
smonster, maybe she's trying to talk like a lolcat?
I've used bitca in conversation. Not proud.
Hahaha!
I've had to hold myself back from saying "craxy".
For somebody who writes for a living, I rely on junior high habits too much. Like "like" and "kinda" and "dude,"(although Rachel Maddow does that one, too, so I feel better about it.) Or even "I'm all "As in, I'm all "What's his problem?" so I give him a look. So he's like "Whatever, bitch." My parents are so proud. But they like it better than cornerspeak.
I think I have different verbal and written tics. I try to make my posts sound like I would say them, but then I also go back and edit to make sure I don't sound like an illiterate jackass.
She wouldn't know a lolcat if it baked her a cookie and eated it. It's just the way she talks. Only person I've ever heard say it.
I love all the tics and the pet peeves! My pet peeve is "Where are you AT?" My ear always tweaks when I hear that "AT."
Elipsis are my precious.
Had Back to School night at CJ's school. In addition to the classroom presentations, today kicked off their big fund raiser, so we got lots of pitches regarding how the school would use the money. The one that got me was the need for new laptop carts since the ones they have are in bad shape. Not the laptops. The carts. WTF?
CJ's teachers are the same in 6 of his 7 classes. The teachers loop 7th and 8th grade, so that the 8th graders can hit the ground running. I could have skipped most of the classrooms except I wanted to meet his one new teacher - Tech Ed. MAN, the tech lab is amazing. And all the computers have full versions of current professional software.
She wouldn't know a lolcat if it baked her a cookie and eated it.
I was executing an involuntary swallow as I read this, smonster, and totally choked myself.
commed for posterity!