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English & Linguistics / I know it's correct

« on: August 27, 2005, 08:56:24 AM »

Brinestone, that is the most hilarious filler I've ever...read.  I can't even begin to fathom how one bandy that around willy-nilly in regular conversation, but the idea is pure comedy.

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English & Linguistics / I know it's correct

« on: August 25, 2005, 09:21:11 PM »

French helps me out with surprise.

This is almost completely off-topic, but this is why I now hate "alright":  I just started a cell biology course, and the professor has three words and syllables that he says without thinking.  "Alright" is one of those.  Today in class he said it about 125 times in 75 minutes.  He said "Okay" about 317 times, and "Um" or "Uh" was said about 175 times.  Tuesday was the first day of class, and it really started to annoy me that he kept saying these things for what seemed like every other word.  So today, I kept tally for half of the class period.

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English & Linguistics / You wanna' come with?

« on: August 13, 2005, 12:04:43 PM »

so i should probably read something about this forum mafia so i know how to play?  where do i do that?

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English & Linguistics / Words that you can never, ever say right

« on: August 13, 2005, 11:39:14 AM »

I hate trying to say the word, rural.

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English & Linguistics / You wanna' come with?

« on: August 13, 2005, 11:32:40 AM »

My real name is Carrie. Bop is a nick a friend gave me over a decade ago. I'm from Louisiana. I have a degree from the BYU in French/Linguistics. I lived and taught in France for a while after I graduated from BYU. I'm a pre-med student now. I'm a physics TA, which is weird because I'm really a physics novice...never had a course in it before this Summer. TheJerilyn told me to come check this place out, and Slash is one of my online heroes. I like to have fun. I like long walks on the beach with a slurpee in one hand and my dog's leash (with dog attached to the other end) in the other, except there is neither a beach nor a place to get slurpees (I know...ridiculous!) where I am. But if I had those things, I'd be doing that all the time. I'm sarcastic. Um...I have a younger sister. My dad's a dentist. My mom spends his money. My mom's side of the family is red-neckish/gangsta. My dad's side is non-existant. I'm a single, white female. That's me in the avatar feeling really sick on a river bank in Senegal. I like it because I think it makes me look tough.

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English & Linguistics / You wanna' come with?

« on: August 13, 2005, 08:45:26 AM »

This is old, but I am new.  I just wanted to add that the French do this very same thing, but it doesn't stop with "Do you want to come with?"  Let's say you have a packet of forms that you have to fill out.  They would remind you, "Staple a picture with when you bring the forms back."  The French want pictures with EVERYTHING.