Do they prescribe meds for her?
I promise, last time I’ll say this because I know no one cares but me, but I’m not talking about language acquisition (which we pick up naturally) but learning stuff that will help with READING which most kids need to be taught.
Okay, I’m done. 
Yo dawg I herd u don’t liek veggies so I put some grats in your veggies so you can get kudos while you get menudo.
[Boot to the head]
I never hated the word logistics until i started seeing that commercial played during every commercial break when i watch news.
It could be worse. People could call it “loggies”.
So where do I put this, in this thread or the Subway thread?
I go to Subway for lunch and order a sub. I tell the woman I want a 6-inch wheat with spinach, tomatoes, cucumber, onion, pickles, olives, and a little dressing. She makes the sandwich, looks me in the eye and asks me
"Is this a veggie sub?"
She has made this sandwich from beginning to end. She hasn’t cut the bread and passed it down for somebody else to put the fillings in it. Unless I somehow leapt over the counter, put some ham on it while she wasn’t looking, and leapt back over again, it’s a vegetable sub. I can’t answer yes, because *there is no such fucking word as “veggie.” *I can’t say “You made the damn thing; do you remember putting any bacon on it?” So I say “Just vegetables.”
I know she makes sandwiches six hours a day and she doesn’t care what’s on mine. I probably would zone out too if I had to make sandwiches six hours a day. But the sandwich was still there in her hands! She could see what was on it!
The one is hate is “dokey”(sp?). You know when someone is workng on thing and asks you for tht “dokey” and you secretly seethe and think you should say “Just as soon as you call it by its right name!”
I don’t think I’ve ever heard this term. What’s a “dokey”? Do you mean “doohickie”?
Okie-dokey!
I’ve never heard of anyone going into a Subway and ordering a sandwich by giving a list of ingredients like that. (I also didn’t know they had spinach.) Their name for a sandwich that is all fixings and no meat is the Veggie Delight. The counter person’s question was probably meant to establish that, since you didn’t order a specific item from the menu, she was going to charge you the price for a six-inch Veggie Delight.
Is a “fucking word” like a Killing word?
'Cause that would be awesome.
No, that was supposed to be funny. And if you’d had two hours of sleep out of 36, it would have been.
I ordered one of those once and was given some kind of patty made of compressed vegetable matter. That was a while back and things may have changed, but I never want that to happen again. :eek: The employee asks me what I want on my sandwich, and I ask for each topping as she’s making the sandwich. I don’t want any peppers, so saying “all fixings” might be dangerous. I have had to say “No peppers” more than once as she’s reaching in the pepper compartment. This is not a Subway I’d recommend – but I can’t go anywhere else for lunch. I have half an hour and it takes 15 minutes to walk to my car.
Prescriptivism ain’t ever gonna win! Descriptivism from the cradle to the grave baby.
Descriptivism for life.
I just have to ask. What is your definition of word that omits veggie? Veggie has meaning that’s mutually understood by most English speakers, in what sense is it not a word?
I’m really curious.
Oh it’s a word, all right. That’s the problem.
The real question is how much are we going to warp our consciousness by using it before we realize what we’re doing?
Do you think parents did this 100 years ago? 70?
I’m sure they did, but only now are we creating data collections like this, (MIT’s Deb Roy’s documentation of his own son’s language acquisition).