reinstone
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Without a doubt... as soon as I hear it I question it's validity.
Dinner is for those who dine, supper is for those who eat.
Without a doubt... as soon as I hear it I question it's validity.
Whether it takes place at noon or in the evening is mostly a cultural thing. For instance, many people who grew up in the American South and/or on farms traditionally ate larger meals at noontime to give them the strength to keep working through the afternoon.
Agreed.
Hey since everyone loves to shorten things these days, why haven't they shortened Facebook. Two syllables is so 10 years ago. I nominate Fook as the official shortened term for Facebook.
So... People who use Facebook can now really be Fookers.
That reminds me that I saw in someones email signature line the other day a FB logo followed by the Youtube logo. It looked like they were colorfully saying F-Youtube. Made me laugh.
When someone disagrees with someone by saying, "I don't know about that." If you disagree with the person, just say so. Say it's B.S., whatever. Maybe offer some proof to support your argument. When you debate by saying something passive-aggressive like "Umm, I don't know about that," I'm tempted to reply, "You're right, you don't know about that!"
Well actually... Sometimes Lunch is called Dinner, and Dinner is called Supper. This is because supposedly Dinner is considered to be the "main" or largest meal of the day. Whether it takes place at noon or in the evening is mostly a cultural thing. For instance, many people who grew up in the American South and/or on farms traditionally ate larger meals at noontime to give them the strength to keep working through the afternoon.
Supper is more specifically a lighter evening meal. Rooted in the word "to sup", it comes, again, from farming traditions many farming families would have a pot of soup cooking throughout the day, and would eat it in the evening specifically, they would "sup" the soup.
Lunch is almost the midday equivalent of supper it's also a lighter and less formal meal than Dinner, but is used specifically when referring to a midday meal. So whether you use lunch/dinner or dinner/supper is heavily determined by when your culture traditionally has its largest meal.
I will admit I copy/pasted most of that from the internets (I hate when people pluralize that word)
^^^ What does that even mean? Is it a "maybe"?
couple-three? 6?
Not a word or a phrase per se, but "uptalkers," or "question talkers."
Typically young folks, particularly females. The pitch of their voice rises at the end of every sentence, so that they sound like everything they say is a question. Even though they're not actually asking a question, they're simply saying things. Makes them sound like children.
A period after single words for emphasis.
"My mother-in-law visits me every. single. day."
Stop it. It is stupid.
I think 'no problem' is a poor substitute for 'you're welcome.' No problem lacks grace - I didn't think that having the waitress serve me dinner was a problem, but I still thanked her. You're welcome acknowledges that I thanked her - thanks for the thanks. No problem also implies that I didn't need to thank her - that the whole politeness exchange was unnecessary.
No problem is fine if its a really serious matter. Say a friend calls and asks me to take him to the emergency room and is apologizing for having to ask, its appropriate to assure him that it was no problem, that your friendship is too important to worry about that.
But imho no problem is generally a poor (and annoying) substitute for you're welcome.
Not a word or a phrase per se, but "uptalkers," or "question talkers."
Typically young folks, particularly females. The pitch of their voice rises at the end of every sentence, so that they sound like everything they say is a question. Even though they're not actually asking a question, they're simply saying things. Makes them sound like children.
Not a word or a phrase per se, but "uptalkers," or "question talkers."
Typically young folks, particularly females. The pitch of their voice rises at the end of every sentence, so that they sound like everything they say is a question. Even though they're not actually asking a question, they're simply saying things. Makes them sound like children.
CreamyGoodness said:I'm very guilty of elipsis overuse. I'm trying to rehab myself.
I'm very guilty of elipsis overuse. I'm trying to rehab myself.
Yeah, I tend to use it when I need to jump to a non-sequential thought.
Don't make JAOM with a yeast other than bread-yeast... I wonder how red bell peppers would taste in place of orange.
I think that in the internet world the elipsis has morphed for its true use of showing that something has been left off of a sentence to more of a "raised eyebrow" or unfinished thought type of meaning at the end of a sentence.
I am ok with it being used in that context...
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