It's always fun to figure out the age of the author by the verbs they choose.
My food is problematic.
River ,'The Message'
Natter 73: Chuck Norris only wishes he could Natter
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.
Connie Neil - Jan 12, 2015 12:26:00 pm PST #14338 of 30000
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-t - Jan 12, 2015 12:36:19 pm PST #14339 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
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.
-t - Jan 12, 2015 12:39:10 pm PST #14340 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
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.
amych - Jan 12, 2015 12:40:25 pm PST #14341 of 30000
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
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?)
shrift - Jan 12, 2015 12:43:33 pm PST #14342 of 30000
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
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.
-t - Jan 12, 2015 12:45:23 pm PST #14343 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Descriptivist unless it annoys me personally is a real thing, right?
Apparently, that would be me. Give it a pithy name!
Steph L. - Jan 12, 2015 1:00:28 pm PST #14344 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
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.)
Sheryl - Jan 12, 2015 1:01:02 pm PST #14345 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
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.)
Ginger - Jan 12, 2015 1:04:04 pm PST #14346 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Contact was still anathema in my youth.
I'm using up most of my grammar rage these days on people who hyphenate -ly words. They're adverbs, people. That means they modify the adjective. The hyphen is for words that do not already scream "I'm modifying! I'm modifying the fuck out of this!"
-t - Jan 12, 2015 1:18:01 pm PST #14347 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I cannot picture what you are talking about, Ginger, and now I'm worried that I do that.