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Exhausted as I am, this is too good not to take the time to share.

Diving home, tuning the dial, some NPR station, I think.

Host says he had two guests for his show tonight.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2014 May 4
Subjects: coincidence, language

what was I, about sixth or eighth to note the woman beating phrasing thing?

Oot! Oot! Eet! Eet!

Read all… Subjects: added on 2014 Apr 28
Subjects: language

« Woman Beating Obama Donor Gets Fired »

Before I click .. guessing,

Alas, this is not about a woman putting a beat-down on an Obama donor, is it?

¤

Read all… Subjects: added on 2014 Apr 28
Subjects: language

I've known lots of Clive Bundys. Good, hardworking people who are not uneducated, but are unsophisticated by some measures, so they speak the blunt, direct language of an earlier age.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2014 Apr 25
Subjects: culture, language, race

» Edam cheese?... wax...

Made me laugh.

But.. yellow cheese.. wouldn't that be, um, AmerIndian on the outside, Asian on the... I de louse myself.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2014 Apr 22
Subjects: language, Oklahoma

Puting Interested In Finland?

Possibilities:

Puting - poo-ting - digestive distress

Read all… Subjects: added on 2014 Mar 31
Subjects: fail, language, Vlad Putin

Wow. Yesterday I'm up & at'em at 4. Today I'm groggy at the 6am alarm. Sudden onset of Spring Fever?

Read all… Subjects: added on 2014 Mar 31
Subjects: AoSHQ, language, Spring

how can you work in a shoe store ... WITH an old machine in it ... and still not know...

transmission of culture.. how does it work?!

Read all… Subjects: added on 2014 Mar 26
Subjects: culture, language, nostalgia

I am so out of fashion!

Read all… Subjects: added on 2014 Mar 25
Subjects: fashion, language

Not to be... okay, to BE name-ist... what kind of name is Rinsed Priapus anyway? If that was your name, wouldn't you change it to, like, John Wayne, or something?

Read all… Subjects: added on 2014 Mar 19
Subjects: language, online communication

I had just been thinking, considering I'm a useless old PITB, preternaturally shy, even self-loathing, why do I keep tossing comments out as if I think anybody wanted to read mine?

Read all… Subjects: added on 2014 Mar 9
Subjects: language

I submit Captain Hate's #153 as evidence that truly devastating insult can be ("turd" excepted) potty-mouth free. I'm not objecting to "bad language," per se.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2014 Mar 4
Subjects: language

"...inventor of the telephone was not banned Alexander...."

"named" not "banned" of course. thank you, whatyoumeanttosay function.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2014 Mar 3
Subjects: fail, language

If George Pullman had been named Pushman, trains would have had engines at the back and cabooses in the front. (Which would've had a big impact on language.)

Read all… Subjects: added on 2014 Mar 3
Subjects: language

A rhyme is what I really want.
But Webster says these two lines can't.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2014 Mar 2
Subjects: language

"lingua franca" is Latin for "I would just say 'common language,' but using Latin makes me seem oh so much smarter."

Read all… Subjects: added on 2014 Feb 28
Subjects: language

Five o'clock. Sure, brain, I'll get up. Why not! It's close to Six. Sorta.

Thoughts that drive me from my bed:

Read all… Subjects: added on 2014 Feb 28
Subjects: language

"I think a strongly worded letter should be hand delivered… on a flaming spear."
Posted by: J.J. Sefton

When "flame wars" move from virtual to literal.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2014 Feb 27
Subjects: language

Good evening, and wercome to the Chicago Tokyo Hoter. No extla chalge fol freas. Arr freas ale flee!

autoselfdenounce

Read all… Subjects: added on 2014 Feb 24
Subjects: Chicago, language

"Oi, that's my schtick!"
-Humpty Dumpty
Posted by: MWR

Yessss, I stand crawl connected.

As soon as I hit post, I thought, "wait..."

Read all… Subjects: added on 2014 Feb 21
Subjects: language

Remember when words meant things? —HR

Whatever I want them to mean.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2014 Feb 21
Subjects: language

um, Fen?

spreading warmth... message written in snow...

want to hit the Rephrase key?

Ach! Petzfeedin time. AFK

Read all… Subjects: added on 2014 Feb 15
Subjects: language

"I was not ordered to stand down. I was ordered to remain in place...."

Sure glad we got that question all cleared up!

Read all… Subjects: added on 2014 Feb 11
Subjects: Benghazi, language, military

Trois ! Trois ! Très bon!

Read all… Subjects: added on 2014 Feb 6
Subjects: language

"I doubt that anybody would miss the stupid mewling catamites." -Captain Hate

Ah, a dose of Capt Hate is like a bracing mug of fresh hot coffee.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2014 Feb 6
Subjects: AoSHQ, language

Sven " claims he posts cryptically and confusingly on purpose." -DangerGirl

That was just code for what he really meant.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2014 Feb 5
Subjects: language, online communication

"No I don't think objecting to the Coke Ad is silly. It's fuckin America: SPEAK ENGLISH. NOTHING DIVIDES A COUNTRY FASTER THAN RELIGION AND LACK OF A COMMON LANGUAGE!"

Read all… Subjects: added on 2014 Feb 4
Subjects: Chicago, citizenship, education, language, politics

"...because I literally blew through these in a rush."
Posted by: Vic

Literally literally or Joe Biden literally?

Read all… Subjects: added on 2014 Feb 4
Subjects: language

Not only are all people from Chad known as Chad, either individually or collectively, but everyone is named Chad. No other name. Just Chad.

Read all… Subjects: added on 2014 Feb 3
Subjects: humor, language

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