Words you dislike? Or really like?

[camion]

I've had it with the "room." Every time somebody talks about a staff or a team or a unit of people, especially with respect to a sports team, they talk about "the room." What's going on in "the quarterback room" or tension in "the receivers room" etc. I don't know for sure, but other than perhaps the quarterbacks, are these other position groups really meeting in their own room, with just them, on any kind of regular basis? I doubt it. Using the terminology is some kind of attempt to seem like an insider or someone in the know, I guess, but I'm not impressed when I hear it and I'm pretty sick of hearing it at all.

I guess you're not in the insider room.

[wilson]

I've had it with the "room." Every time somebody talks about a staff or a team or a unit of people, especially with respect to a sports team, they talk about "the room." What's going on in "the quarterback room" or tension in "the receivers room" etc. I don't know for sure, but other than perhaps the quarterbacks, are these other position groups really meeting in their own room, with just them, on any kind of regular basis? I doubt it. Using the terminology is some kind of attempt to seem like an insider or someone in the know, I guess, but I'm not impressed when I hear it and I'm pretty sick of hearing it at all.

I guess you're not in the insider room.

Rooms are for peasants anyway. We glamorous teachers have lounges.

[Mtn.Devil.91.92.01.10.15]

Wow. Those Brits make no sense at all.

They act like they invented the language or something.

[Furniture]

Wow. Those Brits make no sense at all.

Just about perfect sense to me...

[-jk]

Rooms are for peasants anyway. We glamorous teachers have lounges.

Do they come with Leisure Suits, too?

-jk

[OldPhiKap]

I've had it with the "room." Every time somebody talks about a staff or a team or a unit of people, especially with respect to a sports team, they talk about "the room." What's going on in "the quarterback room" or tension in "the receivers room" etc. I don't know for sure, but other than perhaps the quarterbacks, are these other position groups really meeting in their own room, with just them, on any kind of regular basis? I doubt it. Using the terminology is some kind of attempt to seem like an insider or someone in the know, I guess, but I'm not impressed when I hear it and I'm pretty sick of hearing it at all.

Maybe they’re just not saying it correctly:

[wilson]

Do they come with Leisure Suits, too?

-jk

I'm sorry, but I'm not at liberty to disclose any such trade secrets.

[gumbomoop]

I'm somewhere between bothered, bemused, and amused over the equation in colloquial speech of the words sex and gender. I think -- but could perhaps be reeducated by others in this thread -- that sex is a biological term, whereas gender is a socially constructed term.

A baby's sex, female or male, is commonly assigned at birth based on biological and physiological characteristics (chromosomes, genitalia). As female and male children grow, they are then commonly assigned -- according to socially constructed perceptions of norms, roles, self-expression, behavior -- the gender labels girl/boy, then woman/man.

I don't propose that we drop a joyous phrase such as "It's a girl!" But my sense is that our sexually explicit modern world is in polite conversation uncomfortable with the word sex, and so happily substitutes the word gender, often inaccurately.

[Rich]

This is a long thread, so maybe discussed before, but when did "myself" become appropriate to use instead of "me" as the object of a sentence? As in, "Please send that document to Jane and myself."

It seems people have become so used to incorrectly substituting "I" for "me" as the object (as in "Please come to the movie with Jane and I") that now they're afraid to use "me" in any context so they incorrectly use "myself" instead.

[OldPhiKap]

This is a long thread, so maybe discussed before, but when did "myself" become appropriate to use instead of "me" as the object of a sentence? As in, "Please send that document to Jane and myself."

It seems people have become so used to incorrectly substituting "I" for "me" as the object (as in "Please come to the movie with Jane and I") that now they're afraid to use "me" in any context so they incorrectly use "myself" instead.

OPK just refers to OPK in the third person to avoid the problem.

[dudog84]

OPK just refers to OPK in the third person to avoid the problem.

Yeah, so many cool people do that.

[OldPhiKap]

Yeah, so many cool people do that.

When OPK gets really mad, OPK refers to OPK in the fourth person. Then, heads roll.

[dudog84]

When OPK gets really mad, OPK refers to OPK in the fourth person. Then, heads roll.

You're making me need a fifth.

[CrazyNotCrazie]

When OPK gets really mad, OPK refers to OPK in the fourth person. Then, heads roll.

When do you start being like tOSU and referring to yourself as "the OPK"?

[Rich]

When do you start being like tOSU and referring to yourself as "the OPK"?

I already have

[OldPhiKap]

When do you start being like tOSU and referring to yourself as "the OPK"?

I like the way you think.

[Rich]

I like the way you think.

I like the cut of your jib

[OldPhiKap]

I like the cut of your jib

The OPK abides.

[ClemmonsDevil]

When do you start being like tOSU and referring to yourself as "the OPK"?

tOPK and I are on a first name basis. He allows me to call him "The".

[OldPhiKap]

tOPK

This really cracked me up. Must be the egg nog.