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| Author | Message |
| sue ellen mischke | Posted – 9/19/2007 12:30:43 PM | show profile "Dance schedule" as in: "Let's check to see if her dance schedule allows for a new project this week." |
| jjones | Posted – 9/19/2007 12:54:37 PM | show profile Should be "dance card" Shouldn't it? |
| catlondon | Posted – 9/19/2007 1:07:38 PM | show profile jjones: Yes, it's dance card. In the Victorian era, women had little cards on string or whatever attached to their wrists at dances and men signed up for various dances with them at the beginning. A woman who wanted to avoid a man could tell him that her "dance card was full" even if it wasn't. But that's not what the thread is about.... |
| sue ellen mischke | Posted – 9/19/2007 1:45:31 PM | show profile How neat! So, I get to correct this person next time he says it again... Yay! |
| catlondon | Posted – 9/19/2007 2:06:36 PM | show profile Being able to come up with arcane knowledge and ten-dollar words is about the only satisfying refuge of the graduate English major. I also enjoy saying things like, "She though it was he" and having people try to correct me. |
| jjones | Posted – 9/19/2007 3:03:36 PM | show profile I sort of hate ...just wanted to "give you a heads up" |
| Mag Girl | Posted – 9/19/2007 3:11:43 PM | show profile I hate the nouns-as-word phenomenon. "I want to dialogue with you." "We need to incentivize this." ANd if one more person says "low-hanging fruit", I will take a big basket of fruit and pelt his car. |
| sue ellen mischke | Posted – 9/19/2007 3:18:18 PM | show profile Low hanging fruit puts a hiccup in my day, too. One of these days, I'm gonna call a hiccup a burp in a meeting and then everyone will stop saying hiccup. |
| Mag Girl | Posted – 9/19/2007 3:21:30 PM | show profile ANd I, of course, meant nouns-as-verb, not nouns-as-word. Ha. I need caffeine. |
| Righter | Posted – 9/19/2007 4:22:50 PM | show profile I hate it when people pronounce the word "frustrated" like "fustrated." There's an R there! Say it! |
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| writesonwater | Posted – 9/19/2007 7:12:22 PM | show profile Jersey, love that. when I worked at the marketing department of a big co. some 10 years ago, I could hardly keep down my breakfast bagel for words like 'deliverable.' Jargon schmargon. |
| foto | Posted – 9/19/2007 7:57:15 PM | show profile Seems like the dance card is always full. |
