'War Stories'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Okay, you know phrases like, "Holy crap!" or "Holy cow!" or "OMG!"? Used in the sense of, "Holy crap, that was a great movie!" Or "Holy cow, that dog just spoke to me!" What is the term for those phrases? "Exclamation" isn't quite right.
Interjection, I think.
I am singing Schoolhouse Rock in my head as we speak. "Interjection! Excitement! And Emotion!"
Aww, yeah. I, too, went to my Favorite Schoolhouse! Schoolhouse Rock!
Interjection, I think.
Yeah. Or "Stuff Robin would say."
msbelle made me snort.
(But because so many of my coworkers are in their 50s or 60s, I'm still seen as young. Sigh)
Yeah, that's a problem in my field, too. The g.d. baby boomers refuse to retire.
In South Central Wisconsin in the '60s and '70s, "pop" was the usual word. I remember hearing "soda" sometimes, but it was definitely the minority word.
I tend to say "Coke," which I picked up during my time in North Carolina.
Ha! I like msbelle's answer. Took me a second... why is sending stuff to the moon blasphemous?
Also, question, why is it taking 3 1/2 months to get there? What's the advantage? I assume there is one. I am so lazy, I just skimmed and came back here with my questions rather than trying to figure it out. Pathetic.
Also, my hair dye is setting at the moment. I think... it may be scarily and ridiculously red. Oh well! I'll just have to fix it to something normal before I join the ship, if it turns out that outrageous. Although, really, as long as it is somewhere within the realm of natural hair color, I don't think they'd have a problem with it. I just think they don't want me to turn up with my hair dyed bright green or something.
"...or by a comma when the feelings not as strong..."
The g.d. baby boomers refuse to retire.
It's an issue, I think, because of the stock market crash. A lot of my olds can't afford to retire, and some really would like to. They're trying to get back what they lost. And it's unsettling in science/tech, because we do need young post-docs to come in. We sort of depend on the passing on of knowledge to new generations of scientists. It's worrisome.
The g.d. baby boomers refuse to retire.
Tell me about it. I'm the youngest professional woman in the office, if you don't count the contractors. And I so want My Nemesis to retire, but she won't until her daughter's out of college (and probably not then).