Mal ,'Heart Of Gold'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I don't understand the use of "call" for telephoning -- in my day, when you called on someone, you showed up at their door!
I think of "whoa" as a synonym for "stop," or at least, "not so fast." "Woah" is more "system overloaded; does not compute" -- as others have pointed out, what Keanu says.
That's just what I was going to say.
My grandmother (born 1913) used to say, "I'm going to look at television."
It's always fun to figure out the age of the author by the verbs they choose.
I think of "whoa" as a synonym for "stop," or at least, "not so fast." "Woah" is more "system overloaded; does not compute" -- as others have pointed out, what Keanu says.
Not seeing why "whoa" can't mean both. It always has to me. It was used an expression of amazement before Bill & Ted, y'all.
This is going to sound crazy, but to me the oa in the middle of the Keanu one do what his face does, a sort of dropped jaw, open mouth thing. Where whoa! is more abrupt and stopped.
That I can see. The h on the end does take me to a slack-jawed expression. However, I cannot agree with "whoa" necessarily being abrupt.
In the fine Buffista tradition of contrarian nitpicking, I'm'a go out on a limb and say that Keanu says "whoa", whereas "woah" is totally a Joey Lawrence thing. And is thus banninated.
(Descriptivist unless it annoys me personally is a real thing, right?)
I passed on reading it when it was being handed around the office at my last job, because I knew it would make me furious.
It probably will not surprise you that a coworker gave me the book to read, and I'm pretty sure I didn't finish because I reached a point where I told myself to put it down before I threw it at a wall.
Descriptivist unless it annoys me personally is a real thing, right?
Apparently, that would be me. Give it a pithy name!
I think of "whoa" as a synonym for "stop," or at least, "not so fast." "Woah" is more "system overloaded; does not compute" -- as others have pointed out, what Keanu says.
Not seeing why "whoa" can't mean both. It always has to me. It was used an expression of amazement before Bill & Ted, y'all.
Right there with you. I mean, isn't it basically another way of saying "Stop it!" in amazement? Which is a thing people say? (Or said.)
Timelies all!
Got back last night. Had to go to work in the rain, though the traffic wasn't bad at all.(Might have been the 2 hour delay available.)