At a pharmacy, of course. Tell them you need a book on anaphylaxis. :rolleyes:
Nope. The CDC’s official definition of an epidemic is: “The occurrence of more cases of disease than expected in a given area or among a specific group of people over a particular period of time.”
Obesity is an epidemic. (And there’s some evidence that it is contagious, and possibly even viral or bacterial in origin, but it need not be so to be correctly called an epidemic.)
So a poppet moppet then?
It makes me cringe when people say “human being” instead of “human”. I just don’t get why “being” is necessary. It sounds so gratuitously pretentious.
And speaking of pretentiousness: “coup de grâhhhh”, without pronouncing the “ce”, just to show off your imagined fluency in French. It’s pronounced “coo de grahs”, god dammit! The “ce” is not silent!
Also terrible: when people introduce themselves as “My name is Mister such and such”. You have to either be a bag of hot air, or exceptionally clueless, if you refer to yourself as “Mr.” (or “Mrs.” for that matter).
A coup de grahhh is how you kill the goose before making its liver into paté.
That’s a city in Washington state.
No, a coop de grahhh is where you keep the geese until you are ready to kill them.
But I’m not the only one!
How does all this effect the affect?
I heard someone say ‘conversate’ the other day. As in “the people I conversate with.” Don’t know about you lot but I just talk to people.
I just wish people would stop using “diverse” when they should be using “divers”.
And a coup d’etat is when you don’t have to peel the potatoes.
Also, why is everyone so concerned with conserving our natural racehorses?
This clause is nonsensical:
Not sure what you mean. Seems to me there’s a pretty big difference between “average” and “exceptional.”
Dear lissener,
I’m English. My forebears stole the words that make up the English language, therefore it is our property. I resent an ex colonial (particularly one from a nation that has wantonly wasted tea and in now in thrall to the new fangled South American coffee bean) telling me how to speak my own language.
Button it, me ole China.
Thing is, you’re allowed to complain about how the hoi polloi mangle the Queen’s English. But to turn around and complain in the same breath about how they’re being pretentious, that, my friend, is a misdemeanor in all 50 states.
i have no idea what either of these is supposed to refer to, so I think I’m in the clear.
Oh, I see. As in “set foot in this house again.” It looks so weird just out there on its own, without any context.
Being pretentious and language-mangling aren’t mutually exclusive. That’s what the famous character of Mrs Malaprop is based on: there have always been people who try to use language in a way that will make them sound socially/intellectually/educationally superior, and make a total bollox of it.
Also, seeing as we’re in this thread: it’s just ‘hoi polloi’. Not ‘the hoi polloi’. 