Comments on: Suffixaholic

By: trashee

trashee — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:52:55 +0000

From trashee in Paris!
How about “…meter”?
Stressometer, angermeter, annoyancemeter, laughometer…
I can’t stand that!

By: XUP

XUP — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:17:54 +0000

Leah – As luck would have it, I did an entire post of the wearing of socks with sandals with a bonus feature photograph of my very own feet wearing socks and sandals. Have a look at Are You Into S & S?
Lola- It would be an amazing story, I’m sure and you’re right — a sad one too.

CP – Cyberspace – ha ha. It’s like one of those 1960s sci-fi movies where aliens try to take over the world. I’m kidding. I think it’s still used, but it’s more wide-ranging than just the blogosphere; though of course bloggers really ARE the internet.

By: The Casual Perfectionist

The Casual Perfectionist — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:10:47 +0000

I just use the word “cyberspace,” which is so late 1900s of me. It probably fits into one of your little columns on your list, too!

By: Lola

Lola — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:58:32 +0000

I’m so glad to hear that Tipper is safe. I wish she could tell us her stories, but maybe not…they might make us cry.

I had a comment to make about your interesting post but I’ve forgotten it after reading all of the other comments and then I I read about Leah wearing socks with sandals and that was the end of lucid thought.

By: leah

leah — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:06:38 +0000

xup: of course!! it would be my pleasure. ‘cept i think you have far more wisdom than i, perhaps our combined wisdom we could take over the world.

unrelated, i heard a rumor that canadians wear sock with sandals, from a person who lives in maine. i personally have to wear socks b/c i cannot stand for my feet to get sweaty. is this true about canadians in general?

By: XUP

XUP — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:25:40 +0000

Jobthingy – Does anyone know what you’re talking about when you say blogland? It sounds like a theme park. But it would be a really fun theme park.

Lesley – The great thing about the English language is that you CAN do stuff like this. One of the reasons that English is more or less THE universal language is that it’s so malleable. There are snooty old languages that haven’t changed their official dictionary in hundreds of years. English language dictionaries change almost daily English: the language that begs you to play with it!! So, you go girl.

TEG – See my comment to Lesley -although there is a line between playing with language and just being too butt ignorant to know how to communicate effectively

Geewits – Yes, prefixes are next; then we’ll move on to conjunctions and interjections. Soon almost everything will begin to remind you of me!! Mwah-ha-ha (Womenomics??? seriously?? I guess it’s not worse than Reganomics)

By: geewits

geewits — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:36:12 +0000

You know, about 20 minutes after I read this yesterday, a woman was being introduced on TV for writing a book called “Womenomics.” I immediately thought of you. Is that going to happen for the rest of my life? Everytime someone uses a xupfix?

By: thatemgirl

thatemgirl — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:42:26 +0000

I’m with you on this one! The “aholic” is particularly annoying.
I’m getting increasingly bothered by the Twitter-related words. I refuse to use them. It’s moronic.

By: lesleykim

lesleykim — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:50:07 +0000

Seriously: When I read a post like this one, I give you Major Props for still hanging around my blog so faithfully, being that it’s pretty much nothing but one big never-ending bastardization of the English language.

WOOT! Yay for Tipper!!!

By: Jobthingy

Jobthingy — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:13:27 +0000

i use blogland. cause im different like that

im so glad tipper was found!