I honestly don’t think I even noticed there wasn’t an explicit question. The previous two polls were “What’s you’re preferred mayo?” and “What’s you’re preferred Maya?”, so to me it seemed obvious that the implied question was “What’s you’re preferred civilization?”, continuing the pattern of the preceding polls, even if it wasn’t explicitly asked.
In fact I’ve pretty much always assumed when there’s no explicit question that the implied question is “Which is your favorite?” unless the choices make it obvious it’s something else.
She was a backup singer for Leonard Cohen on at least one tour, and I recently finished a bio of him where I learned that fact. Her version of Gloria is still not the one I think of first.
That would be very irritating to my ears, too. But I’ve discovered that I pronounce it in different ways depending on the audience. I’d blame it on the English ex, but the truth is that I have always tweaked my speech to aim it more precisely at my audience. Perils of being a writer with a marketing background.
There’s at least three “others” that I can think of, off the top of my head:
one, somebody might want to answer “I never say “worcestershire sauce”.”
two: “I don’t always say it the same way.”
And three: “I’m not at all sure that the way I say it when I’m thinking about how I say the r’s is the same way as the way that I say it when not thinking about it. And I don’t say it all that often – do I always say it the same way?”
Re: the birthday invitation, generally the invitee should check with the inviter before bringing any extra guests, so that’s what I voted.
But why would you not tell somebody where the party is being held? Does that have any bearing on the question (like somebody brought their 5-year-old to a strip club or something)? Was this scenario based on a real-life incident?
I’m only comparatively youthful to Methuselah, but the Branigan version is the only one I ever heard before. But I didn’t know the name Laura Branigan until you brought it up and I had a Google “aha!” moment.
Yeah. I didn’t vote in that one, because the answer is ‘it depends on the jeans. Some of them are comfortable, some of them aren’t.’
And how do you expect them to show up, if they don’t know where to show up?
– I suppose the invite could be ‘meet me at X, and we’ll go to the party from there’. But it’s still odd, because whether I could go might depend on how far it was.
It’s real a real situation, yes, but not a strip club.
Basically, someone I know has made a secret tearoom in a sort of Victorian/Edwardian/fantasy/Alice in Wonderland style. She went to extreme lengths with period furniture, decorations, antique cups and spoons, a library of books and board games, music, even smells and her real cat. The coolest thing is that it is in a completely anonymous house in a slightly forlorn suburb, so the effect of ringing and going through some literal wardrobe doors and seeing this completely different world there is really cool and I think my friends would really dig it. Telling them beforehand would really diminish the effect.
As for the kid, on the one hand, I think the magic effect would be even stronger for her (she about seven) and I would be happy to be able to give that to her, but on the other hand the place is empathically not Disney land and a lot of the stuff is fragile so she’d have to be minded carefully and might get a bit bored. Also, though I know and like her, I think adult parties and family parties are not the same, and so I think a “kid welcome too” assumption should not have been made. I wasn’t sure, though, if in hindsight that was just my assumption, hence the poll.
