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Re: Subject: Friday Fun: What Pet Peeve makes you puke?
Subject:Re: Subject: Friday Fun: What Pet Peeve makes you puke? From:wanda <wanda -dot- jane -at- gmail -dot- com> To:andrea frazier <alf_hatt -at- yahoo -dot- com> Date:Sat, 22 Apr 2006 16:24:24 -0700
ah bated breath... breath withheld in anticipation (as in abate), one of
my favourites (no sarcasm).
I have some pet peeves, but over the years I've had to admit that I'm a
fuddy if not a duddy, and language is like a virus, it spreads and
mutates as it is used.
irregardless still baffles me (the negation of the negative) but it
works because we take double negatives to mean the negative in
colloquial English (ain't nobody gonna tell me different).
I wish I had a recording of Kate Burridge's key note from the recent
conference.
Actually, all this comes at a time when I was faced with how *out of
date* I have become. I recently needed to replace my old bucket and
could not find one in the cleaning section of several stores. I did
finally find one at a hardware store. Buckets are no longer a common
tool for housecleaning.
Wanda
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Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.
Pierre Trudeau
Canadian politician (1919 - 2000)
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