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I'm a little conflicted about the commercial which has the various female family members playing Scrabble, where the mother says, "I have failed you as a parent." Cause on the one hand, funny! And also, yeah, ROTFL is not a word! And on the other, this is an ad for cell phones which will let you text a lot.
Edited because the commercial wouldn't really make sense if they were playing Tetris. Wish I could get my students to stop playing it, though.
The laugh isn't because they consider themselves such wags, but because it's a nervous habit, or possibly ingrained self-denigration.
This is actually something we worked extensively in the first level of the (intense, full contact) self defense class I took. It's a problem for a lot of women.
The other verbal tic I don't understand is when someone always finishes your sentence with you. And if you've never experienced it, I don't know if I can really convey what it's like.
It's just -- no matter what you say, they'll chime in on the last word (or last syllable) of your sentence. EVERY sentence. I know a woman who does this, and I don't see her often (mostly b/c I avoid her husband, who is a jerkface), but even when I *do* see her, I hate having a conversation with her, because it's like there's an echo in the room. Or like she's trying to one-up me by showing me she knows what I'm going to say.
Like --
Me: "So I figured, I'd just buy both!"
Her, a nanosecond behind me: "...oth!" (LOL!)
Every. Single. Sentence.
And the thing is, I'm sure it's a verbal tic, not an attempt to one-up me or be an extremely annoying echo, but, again, it drives me bugfuck.
I'm, er, not extremely tolerant of others' verbal tics. Bad Teppy!
Ok, so add in shoutouts to somebody's niggaz
Shoutout to my homie erika, yo yo yo yo whazzzzzup my homeslice???
(Okay, that hurt me to type.)
right up there with calling your spouse "Mother", Tep.
Except they're not kidding. And we used to get concern trolls, you know...How David Simon Exploits The Black Community.
Or maybe it was fighting with Balmer's Lone Neocon.
oh, honey...would that there were only the one.
I'm sure it's a verbal tic, not an attempt to one-up me or be an extremely annoying echo, but, again, it drives me bugfuck.
echolalia! it's a thing that some autistic people (probably amongst others) do.
Her, a nanosecond behind me: "...oth!"
I know a couple people with that verbal tic. Sometimes it bugs me, but I generally get used to it. My therapist will try to finish sentences for me, but not in an obnoxious way, but more in a empathetic way. It REALLY bugged me at first but I've just not been noticing it lately.
The other verbal tic I don't understand is when someone always finishes your sentence with you. And if you've never experienced it, I don't know if I can really convey what it's like.Oh, we had a Stage Manager that did that. Yes. Very annoying. But eerily accurate. Like some strange pyschic. I started thinking/using bigger unusual words to throw her off. NSM. FREAKY and annoying.
As for the lol. I wonder if some folks use that instead of ::grin:: It is less typing, all one hand, and for those hunt/peck folk like my uncle, the letters are right next to each other. Once again, laziness prevails. Just a working theory.
OK, I really should get back to reading scripts. The damn things keep putting me to sleep. Ya. Not a good sign. Not hopeful for high single ticket sales for the rest of the season. :: sigh ::
The other verbal tic I don't understand is when someone always finishes your sentence with you. And if you've never experienced it, I don't know if I can really convey what it's like.
My ex did this. I pointed it out to him once, and he had no idea he was doing it. I think it's an involuntary physical expression of paying attention, if that makes sense -- like, they're imprinting what you're saying into their consciousness, and it accidentally comes out their mouth as well. For some reason, I feel really sympathetic toward it, like it's the kind of tic I could see myself developing very easily. It's still kind of annoying, though. I really don't think people are even aware of doing it.
I did an experiment on a friend of ours once. I noticed that when I started to talk, he started talking about something else on top of me. So at a gathering I would let silences fall, wait a few seconds for anyone else to say anything, start to speak, and 100% of the time the friend would begin to say something else. He's an older guy, and I suspect he has unacceptable views of men being more important than women. Hubby didn't believe me till I ran the experiment again with him paying attention, then Hubby just said, "He can't help it." Hubby sometimes has odd views too.