>> God damnit we were bored stupid...
> 
> Same thing happens once you grow up too.  I notice lots of people using 
> "basically" and "at the end of the day" way too often...  Not to mention 
> the fact that me, my girlfriend, my sister, and her boyfriend all spoke 
> to each other like Borat for a few months after we saw the film.

Hmm, interesting.

Maybe I don't experience this quite so much because I don't have any 
friends and don't talk to anybody?

Oh, wait. You're all ham touchers...

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scott wrote:
>> One day, somebody discovered a word we'd never heard of called 
>> "blatent". The dictionary definition he looked up suggested that it 
>> basically means "lots". (Which I now comprehend is *not* exactly 
>> correct.) For the next 6 months or so, it was blatent-this and 
>> blatent-that. Like, "OMG, dude, that girl is *blatently* hot!"
>>
>> God damnit we were bored stupid...
> 
> Same thing happens once you grow up too.  I notice lots of people using 
> "basically" and "at the end of the day" way too often...  Not to mention 
> the fact that me, my girlfriend, my sister, and her boyfriend all spoke 
> to each other like Borat for a few months after we saw the film.

"Literally" is my pet hate in this regard. It's hardly ever used 
correctly in context, just as a general-purpose superlative. I'm 
literally going to kill the next person who does this in earshot. ;-D

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And lo on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:40:25 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did  
spake, saying:

> Phil Cook wrote:
>
>> Tcch I thought you read my blog :-P
>
> Yes. You've mentioned them several times, but I couldn't figure out who  
> you're actually referring to.

As below, but my family structure is essentially Pater and Mater; Pater's  
brother with his wife and their sons the Bratii; then Mater's sister with  
her husband and their son Artist with his wife and their daughter Devil  
Child. If I headed back another generation and spread out I'd need an A3  
sheet and patience; lots of Great Aunts and Uncles with lots of kids.

>> My cousins Bratus Minor (6) and Bratus Major (um 11/13?) not to mention  
>> Devil Child (2ish). Oh and before anyone points out my failure to  
>> recall my cousins' ages realise you're conversing with someone that has  
>> to do a quick calulation involving birth year and current year to  
>> determine his own.
>
> You know you're old when... ;-)

Which means I got old when I hit the end of my teens :-)

> Mind you, my *mum* has started asking me how old I am. :-| Like, WTF?

Yeah that is kinda worrying

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And lo on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:00:26 -0000, Gilles Tran  
<gil### [at] agroparistechfr> did spake, saying:


> 47cfca31$1@news.povray.org...
>> Yeh, I'd never heard of this game until I was in the car with my sister
>> and her boyfriend.  They were playing this game but for the new Mini,  
>> not
>> the bug.  I don't know where they got it from.
>
> I was recently surprised to hear small kids <5 year old) use certain
> "gross/funny" words that were already popular with small kids 40 years  
> ago.
> Since these words are only used by kids, you won't find them in books and
> parents/teachers are unlikely to use them. One can only guess that each
> generation of kids n pass them on to generation n+1. That's a 100% oral
> tradition, flying below the parental and academic radars and disconnected
> from the mainstream cultural environment. It's pretty amazing actually.

On the subject of games I have a vague recollection of someone writing a  
book about it. He travelled around schools and made a note of what was  
being played; I think he was surprised at the cross-pollination i.e. all  
the schools had some form of Tag or British Bulldog etc.

Heh just checked Wikipedia had British Bulldog - "characterised by its  
high level of violence and physicality, leading it to be banned from many  
schools", but that's why it was fun.

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> "Literally" is my pet hate in this regard. It's hardly ever used 
> correctly in context, just as a general-purpose superlative. I'm 
> literally going to kill the next person who does this in earshot. ;-D

I want to shoot every idiot who mixes up 'of' and 'have'. How the hell 
can you confuse those??? I mean in cases like "I could of done it". WTF

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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

>> "Literally" is my pet hate in this regard. It's hardly ever used 
>> correctly in context, just as a general-purpose superlative. I'm 
>> literally going to kill the next person who does this in earshot. ;-D
> 
> I want to shoot every idiot who mixes up 'of' and 'have'. How the hell 
> can you confuse those??? I mean in cases like "I could of done it". WTF

*nods sadly* Yup, all too common. Misused apostrophes get my goat too. 
I'd be willing to forgive non-native speakers, but they usually get it 
right more often than the natives...

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The plural of CD is CDs !!!
</rant>

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>> "Literally" is my pet hate in this regard. It's hardly ever used 
>> correctly in context, just as a general-purpose superlative. I'm 
>> literally going to kill the next person who does this in earshot. ;-D
>
> I want to shoot every idiot who mixes up 'of' and 'have'. How the hell can 
> you confuse those??? I mean in cases like "I could of done it". WTF

Because "have" is often shortened, especially in speech but even in writing 
"i could've gone home".  To the ear it sounds like "of" instead of "have". 
So it's not surprising it gets written this way sometimes.

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And lo on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 15:41:41 -0000, Bill Pragnell  
<bil### [at] hotmailcom> did spake, saying:

> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

>>> "Literally" is my pet hate in this regard. It's hardly ever used  
>>> correctly in context, just as a general-purpose superlative. I'm  
>>> literally going to kill the next person who does this in earshot. ;-D
>>  I want to shoot every idiot who mixes up 'of' and 'have'. How the hell  
>> can you confuse those??? I mean in cases like "I could of done it". WTF

Dialects - "I could have done it" being pronounced as "I cud uv done it"  
with a small hop to "I cud ov done it" and then well you can see what  
happens. It's literally very easy to do :-P

> *nods sadly* Yup, all too common. Misused apostrophes get my goat too.  
> I'd be willing to forgive non-native speakers, but they usually get it  
> right more often than the natives...

There taut too right proply.

> <rant>
> The plural of CD is CDs !!!
> </rant>

My CDs broken

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>>> "Literally" is my pet hate in this regard. It's hardly ever used 
>>> correctly in context, just as a general-purpose superlative. I'm 
>>> literally going to kill the next person who does this in earshot. ;-D
>>
>> I want to shoot every idiot who mixes up 'of' and 'have'. How the hell 
>> can you confuse those??? I mean in cases like "I could of done it". WTF
> 
> Because "have" is often shortened, especially in speech but even in 
> writing "i could've gone home".  To the ear it sounds like "of" instead 
> of "have". So it's not surprising it gets written this way sometimes.

Thanks. But knowing the reasons/excuses doesn't make me stop wanting to 
shoot them.

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On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 02:23:05 -0800, "Tim Attwood" <tim### [at] comcastnet> wrote:

>There's a local radio ad for Horizon Air with
>Patrick Warburton and Richard Kind that goes
>something like this...
>

LOL
My kind of game 
One where I win :)

>(wouldn't you rather be flying, etc) 
>
Hmm, no I hate flying it's always a white knuckle job. :(

Regards
	Stephen

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