Terminalcoffee discussion

Like, you know, anyway it is what it is. Whatever.
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Hm. I don't mind "whatever". But "really" gets on my nerves now.

Really?

took less than a minute...:)

Hmmm, after due consideration of our RA, I must say really? whatever.

Whatever.

Really, Gus?

"Really?" is the most annoying word in my book... and I can't abide "hate" - it's beyond the realm of annoying for me.

So you don't really hate whatever?

I'm not particularly fond. I don't like. I abhor... I don't "h."

Dislike with the intensity of a polar bear attack?

Heidi, if you don't "H", then your name should be "Iedi."

You mean "Eidi," Gus.

Isn't it odd how the name Heidi and the word weird bust up the I before E except after C?

There's no room for H (hate) in my name.

Okay Eidi

That's how a working class Englishman would say it.

I get "Patty" on occasion.

Really? Why is that?

It goes with cake.

I didn't ask you.

I know you are, what am I?

Larry wrote: "Really? Why is that?"

I have no idea. Sometimes when I answer the phone at work, that's what people say to me and I don't use a lazy "I" sound ("ah"). My guess would be it's just because they hear the last part of my name and not the first part of it.

Larry wrote: "I didn't ask you."

::stifles giggle::

Ah. I heard of a guy named Howard Ewlin who, everytime he would introduce himself, would get the response, "Not bad, how about you?"

True story.

Heidi wrote: "Larry wrote: "I didn't ask you."

::stifles giggle::

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Larry wrote: "Ah. I heard of a guy named Howard Ewlin who, everytime he would introduce himself, would get the response, "Not bad, how about you?"

True story."


:) Hilarious. It's funny because it's true.

Larry wrote: "Ah. I heard of a guy named Howard Ewlin who, everytime he would introduce himself, would get the response, "Not bad, how about you?"

True story."

I had to laugh at that one, poor fella.

That's almost as funny as Jack Mehoff

I had the ballpark wish my niece, Emerson Biggins, a very happy birthday on the scoreboard a long time ago (I don't really have a niece with that name).

I love that name.

I started using a fake name at work because no one - no one - can understand "Natalie" over the bloody phone for some reason. I got sick of repeating my name three and four times, so now I'm Jane.

Over the phone people always think my name is Dolly.

Glad to meet you Dolly and Jane.

Enunciation?

Stephen wrote: "Enunciation?"

No. I say my name correctly. I may be Southern, but I know how to speak. My great-grandmother would tell us, from before the time I was born, "You MUST articulate and enunciate." Having that drilled into one's brain definitely leaves a mark, albeit a healthy one.

No, I think the problem is they don't listen.

People outside of my immediate circle at my organization sometimes call me "Corey" because they know there are two guys in our department but don't know which guy is which. They remember one guy in the department is "Anthony" and the other is "Corey" but don't know the difference between us. Corey reports that people often call him "Anthony".

Corey is African-American.

I agree with Heidi. People don't listen. At least I think that's what she said.

I'm sorry, you said something? I wasn't listening. :-)

Mike Hunt.

Heidi's right. People don't listen. That, and the fact that I speak to a lot of old people whose hearing isn't in the best of shape, and I also speak to a lot of people in varying regions of the country who don't understand my perfectly enunciated born-in-the-Midwest vocal inflections. Usually these people are in uppermost New England or the very rural South. I don't really understand them either. :)

This thread has a real "Tower of Babel" quality to it.

This thread has a real "Tower of Babel" quality to it.

It's really amazing... we've heard all our lives that we're one nation indivisible, and depending on where you are in the country, no one can understand you. It's still very much North vs. South too, and Stephen and I were discussing one day that Hoosiers tell Kentucky jokes and vice versa. Everyone hates each other based on their birthplace, even in America! :)

It's an Us and Others thing, I guess. Very old and primal.

'Cause you know how they are.

I get a lot of "Andy" on the phone. There was a situation with a friend's mother where I was blessed to have been mis-heard.

I don't have a difficult last name to spell, either, but everyone always confuses it or has to ask how to spell it.

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This is my German friend Kay's impersonation of an American girl saying "Whatever."

That reminds me of a story my ex-babysitter told me. She went to college in Atlanta, and became friendly with all these Southern girl types who had that big debutante ball because their mothers made them. One night Lindsey slept over at a friend's house who was having a small dinner party, and the parental crowd were VERY unfriendly to her. She heard someone mutter Yankee under her breath. So at the next opportunity Lindsey mentioned that she was born and bred in Seattle, which wasn't even a state at the time of the Civil War. At which point everyone became utterly charming to her!

I knew you would. Since you're one of us.