I'm at lunch and I overheard someone use the word 'pram'. She didn't have a British accent. Do Americans use that word or is it just a UK thing?
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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.
tommyrot - Sep 08, 2010 9:59:03 am PDT #22789 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Spidra Webster - Sep 08, 2010 10:01:31 am PDT #22790 of 30001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Timelies!
I've got a quorum of parents here and that means good things and bad. RSI pain is still high, dammit. Bday is tomorrow so I'll probably do some food planning even though it is a perishingly small gathering. I was planning on baking the cake in the solar oven but this overcast weather will not allow that.
In other news, OK Cupid has blogged another of its data crunching things - this time about keywords/phrases used by people of the same (self-selected) race. [link]
Spidra Webster - Sep 08, 2010 10:02:11 am PDT #22791 of 30001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
tommyrot, it's generally a British thing but individual Americans can be Anglophiles and pick up and use Britishisms at will.
Jessica - Sep 08, 2010 10:02:19 am PDT #22792 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I would use pram if I were talking about one of these:
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It's a subset of stroller, not a synonym.
Nora Deirdre - Sep 08, 2010 10:09:17 am PDT #22793 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
I am not looking forward at all to the torturous school placement process of the SFUSD.
OMG, I remember when you were in the midst of that with Emmett. AND NOW HE IS IN HIGH SCHOOL.
Jesse - Sep 08, 2010 10:10:25 am PDT #22794 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Unrelated to anything, I'm reading a newish Laura Lippman, with a pretty unflattering depiction of the people involved with a tv shoot, which I think is kind of funny, given that she's married to David Simon. t /random
msbelle - Sep 08, 2010 10:11:19 am PDT #22795 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I love Laura Lippman. that is all.
Jesse - Sep 08, 2010 10:14:42 am PDT #22796 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
You should have seen me in the library, trying to remember her name. I know it was the same initial twice... Finally I went to a computer, and still didn't have enough to search for her, until I remembered keywords! I think Baltimore + mystery did it.
lisah - Sep 08, 2010 10:18:06 am PDT #22797 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
I love Laura Lippman. that is all.
Yes! Love her! I need to get the new one.
§ ita § - Sep 08, 2010 10:22:31 am PDT #22798 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I called a guy out recently on repeatedly using queue as a verb. It was really weird coming from someone with an American accent. He said he'd lived in Amsterdam for a couple months. Which explained...nothing.