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Dittoburg;
It’s OK, you get a pass. Anyone who advocates for some decorum is OK in my books.
Seriously, I’m amazed to think how things have changed. I come from a working-class background,yet when I was a boy my parents always stressed the importance of trying to improve oneself, in all ways: language, dress, behaviour, learning, etc. When I look at the pcitures of my folks and their friends from years ago, they are better-dressed than the upper crust today. What happened?
Have a good weekend all!
Well, I must disclose that I haven’t got a moustache.
I agree, BRG. Who needs words.
I’ve spent entire evenings all the way through breakfast with guys in Thailand without any more than a few sentences of broken English.
“mopar – the issue of evolvoing language isn’t the issue here is it? Its what lexicon is appropriate for the situation. I think what we’re getting to here explains why so many parents in my local playground think its ok to say shit every other word in front of my children.”
Dittoburg;
Between this statement, and your dislike of baseball caps, I’m starting to think that you’re my kind of person!
Polly wanna glimmering cracker?
Cobblers – I’ve got a taks for you.
While we’re on the subject, let me lament dwindling vocabulary. Glint, glimmer, glisten, glow, all evoke different images in my head. If you just say “shine”, you’re not conveying much to me, just the bare minimum. Pretty soon I’ll be using just twenty different words. Like a pirate’s parrot.
Ciao O’ Great Master of Snark!
Aks me is one of my pet peeves. I want to shout ASK! Say ASK!