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!

HOLEY MACKAREL!

So, yesterday there was a big fight on the blenderized food list I'm on. One woman asked how to get her (government provided) health insurance to pay for the food and barring that, how to get the government flat out to pay for it. Her argument is that if she gave her daughter formula they would pay for it.

So it caused a tsuris and I basically said that arguing with docs that I should get official orders allowing me to feed her real food because a 3 year old would not still be on formula if she ate by mouth is in opposition to saying someone other than me should pay for the food. Someone disagreed and I clarified my position in another post.

One of the moderators was also participating and she was blunter than I. She basically said food is spendy and if you can't provide food for your kids don't have them. Immediately a member wanted to be removed from the list and the gnashing of teeth and rending of clothes ensued.This morning there was a ton of "Think of the CHILDREN!" "WHY CAN'T WE ALL GET ALONG" handwringing and thread-nannying.

One of the other moderators came by later in the day and DELETED THE WHOLE THREAD and told us to stop talking about it. Stat.

Then some guy wrote an entire paragraph in passive voice about offense was made and taken and stubborn set in and when people state their opinions too strongly it's confrontational. And people have not properly acknowledged their culpability in the dustup.

Wa-huh?

Dude, a vague accusation is no one's friend.

So I'm flabbergasted that people are such delicate flowers that this was so....tsuris-like. Moreover, I can't believe she deleted and entire thread.

It would be like someone here saying, "All of that Zoe stuff was terrible. Let's delete all of Bureaucracy!"

I say "anyhoodle" often,

I write it in some of my LJ posts. I should probably make an effort not to.

Even though I'm the one who started it all by saying I hate "anyhoo," I actually am amused by "anyhoodle." Go figure.

My brother mutters "God damn you" when people sneeze just to hear them say "thank you".

Chatty!co-worker has the weird (to me) habit of saying "You're welcome" after the Sneeze --> Bless You --> Thank You exchange. I know that in most situations, when someone says "thank you," the proper response is "you're welcome." But before I met him, I never ever heard anyone say "you're welcome" in response to the rote Sneeze --> Bless You --> Thank You exchange. It's just weird.

But then he has other weird, oddly literal verbal patterns that have made me wonder -- for years -- if he's just being weird for the sake of weird, or if he has Asperger's.

For somebody who writes for a living, I rely on junior high habits too much. Like "like" and "kinda" and "dude,"

Oh, man. In no way do I speak like someone who edits for a living (a job which presupposes some facility with the actual rules of the English language). It causes me a small amount of shame sometimes. But very small. And not for very long.