That was some excellent eyebrow work, I've got to say. The reason I don't hate those jackasses (yet) is that I still feel like they are playing jackasses. Some pretty ridiculous shit comes out of my mouth, but it doesn't mean I really mean it.

I'm loving EW's take on last night's TAR, especially about Phil and his eyebrow:

heh heh. My boss and I were just talking about Browsie's reaction to the fratards.

the word "Home" (and in Hebrew, it's the same word for "house", so I like the English distinction between the two better),

The distinction is a fine one, often lost. For example, all those incredibly irritating real estate agents who suddenly in 1998 started calling townhouses "townhomes".

Wrong wrong wrong!! That would be like arbitrarily calling a windshield a "windaegis".

Or, calling a checkbook a "checkfolder".

Or, actually, this is kind of fun: inappropriate compound word substitutions! Everybody skate!

Can I go home with amych?

Forgive me, Filliam H Muffman, but I must hereby grant my tagline space to Browsie.

amych (and Dana): of course, relying on my timezones would mean coming here to play with me. It's soon Purim, so I can promise the best cookies of the year, as well as costumes. Wine, too, if you want some.

Quick poll:

If you overheard a colleague use the word "perchance" in everyday conversation, would you immediately suspect him of being a time traveller? I'm not saying he has a time machine on him right now, I just saying he's clearly unstuck in time.

Is that fair? Perchance I am too stuck in my ways?

If you overheard a colleague use the word "perchance" in everyday conversation, would you immediately suspect him of being a time traveller?

No, because we talk like that at my office. But we're weird editors like that.

Now, "perforce" -- that's a different story....

Toddson, I work for a legal publisher, and even though I couldn't find anything related to general changes to an employee handbook, I did find this relating to employment-at-will status changes (which possibly might also apply to other issues):

CCH-EXP, HRM-PERSONNEL ¶6011, IS THE EMPLOYEE HANDBOOK A CONTRACT? [T]he Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that unilateral changes of an existing handbook that creates job security in order to turn the employment relationship into an at-will relationship cannot be done without providing consideration to existing employees. Continued employment is not sufficient consideration, nor is awareness of or receipt of the new handbook. Employees must agree to the new terms. The court said they must be informed of any new term, aware of its impact on the pre-existing contract and affirmatively consent to it.

Other than that, in my initial search I only found recommendations for how to create and maintain a handbook (these recs include get employee signatures for updates to the handbook, but nothing legally binding, unfortunately).

I use both "perchance" and "persay" in everyday conversation, but I'm not unaware of their anachronisticicity. Also "mayhap."