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Re at Ford. People would CORRECT you that VIN already contained "number" in it, so you were being redundant if you said "vin number". Usually to embarrass or humiliate you, because it really didnt matter. |
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True that it doesn't matter if someone says VIN number. It's petty to say that to someone. __________________ Call me "owl" for short! Hmmm....looks like some good tips in here. "Okay, enough photos. I'm a very BUSY Business Kitty, so make an appointment next time." |
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like when a bank card is being used PIN number means Personal Identification Number, so having the word number on the end of it, means your saying personal identification number number not that i personally ever correct anyone about that |
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Or "hot water heater". It's water heater. If it's hot, it doesn't need to be heated. __________________ Call me "owl" for short! Hmmm....looks like some good tips in here. "Okay, enough photos. I'm a very BUSY Business Kitty, so make an appointment next time." |
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__________________ Call me "owl" for short! Hmmm....looks like some good tips in here. "Okay, enough photos. I'm a very BUSY Business Kitty, so make an appointment next time." |
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I'm there with you on all - except that I'm working on "like." I do believe it's a speech habit that is a result of having grown up in Calif. "I'm just, like, not really sure..." or "So, do you want to go to lunch, or, like...should we just meet later in the afternoon?" I'm also working on using the word "awesome" unless something truly IS awesome (breathtaking, stunning, astounding). "Soc" (sosh) - please, no. I cringe when I hear that term. I remember the first time I heard it; I was 14. I cringed then. My mom used to discourage me from saying "go." As in, "She said we had a fun time. So I go I didn't really think it was all that great." Not "go." Said. Commented. Replied. Disagreed. __________________ |
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Wait. Hang on. "Frig." Where and when I was growing up "frig" (hard "g") or "frigging" was a term for masturbating. As in, "Dude was late to class again! Maaan, he must be busy friggin' himself every day!"
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i always thought friggin was someone trying not to say f---ing ?
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Beth, thats what i am saying. Frig is NOT the shortened version of refrigerator. Fridge is. But non-boomers use frig, not fridge, online. And im sorry but i cant get used to it. "Okay, boomer!"
Eta - its the same problem with using narc for narcissist. Hard c in the abbr, soft c in the whole word. I think thats what happens when people dont talk? Like its because of texting. |
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With everything going on in the world now, I wonder if they'd still think it's so important. I know good communication is important, so I ask if I don't understand a word. Quote:
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What a thread! It's true that speaking, whether on the phone or in person, is not so common anymore. And that plays a role I bet. Everyone always wants to email or text me. Nobody wants to TALK to me. It's my favorite way of communicating, because when writing, a lot of non-verbal cues don't get through, like tone of voice. Not everyone uses emojis or they use the wrong one for their meaning. __________________ Call me "owl" for short! Hmmm....looks like some good tips in here. "Okay, enough photos. I'm a very BUSY Business Kitty, so make an appointment next time." |
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Im so glad i could finally get that friggin frig off my chest!
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Technically, I'm not a Boomer I'm a "Joneser" and quite close to Gen X. I have one foot in Boomer, the other foot in Gen X, my crotch in "Joneser." WHAT A MINUTE!!!! "Narc" for "narcissist" is pronouced with a soft "c" ??? As in "nars"? My entire freakin' world just flipped upside-down. What gives? __________________ |
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Oh! No, re narc - im just saying thats why its a bad abbr. I know english doesnt follow any rules, but this is ridic!
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Whew. Suddenly, I thought I had it entirely wrong! Although narc (narsss) would make more sense, considering it comes from "narcisssistic." I love language. Although how anyone whose first language is not English learns to speak it is beyond me! At least "toxic" sounds exactly like it's spelled __________________ |
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Hard C, soft C....I've forgotten all those rules. True "narsss", would sound better since it comes from narcissistic. I see it's "nark", a "hard" C? I read somewhere English is the hardest language in the world to learn. We have so many words that sound alike but are spelled differently with different meanings. (And there's a word for THAT which eludes me at this moment) "Red" and "read" (past tense of read, which is spelled the same---confusing to someone learning) are pronounced the same. But completely different meaning. "Two, too, to". "See, sea." I "saw" her there. But they bought a new "saw". I've also wondered how English SOUNDS to people who can't understand a word. But I don't have anyone who can tell me. For example I think Italian and Spanish sound very musical, it goes up and down. Mandarin too. Do we sound like that? I'll never know. I never even took a class on learning English, so in hindsight I don't know how I learned. Must be innate. Toxic does get pronounced as it looks, thankfully. And it's very accurate to describe a lot of things. Places (like a toxic waste dump) AND PEOPLE (toxic friend). __________________ Call me "owl" for short! Hmmm....looks like some good tips in here. "Okay, enough photos. I'm a very BUSY Business Kitty, so make an appointment next time." |
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I never heard of a Joneser. And I've given up on trying to keep up with the different generations: X, Y, Z. Supposedly Y is another term for millennials and the range of birth years isn't black and white. "Boomers" supposedly are born from 1946 to 1964, that boom after WW2. Z is supposedly born in 2000 or 2001 and after. In my post of yesterday, I meant to write FOMO for Fear of Missing Out. You folks probably already knew that. And I bet there's many more like that out there. I'd need a young person to decipher for me. RUT = ARE you there? Not "rut" as in someone is in a rut! And I hate how they use letters instead of the word. R = Are and U = You. I'm too old for this. Probably cause of my parents being so strict about not abbreviating and spelling out things. They'd hit the ceiling over that "R" thing. __________________ Call me "owl" for short! Hmmm....looks like some good tips in here. "Okay, enough photos. I'm a very BUSY Business Kitty, so make an appointment next time." |
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