Sorry Max
off for the weekend.
Yeah: I agree, there's a regional as well as a temporal thing to this
usage concept.
I would guess that my 'slang' is way back when now. I never used
'sweet,' that's for sure.... <g>
& you're leaving your office for much the same reason as I did...?
Doug
On 21-Oct-05, at 7:13 PM, cooee wrote:
> on 22/10/05 12:31 AM, Douglas Barbour at [log in to unmask]
> wrote:
>
>> sometimes I just fall into cliché, especially
>> in journal-mode. I do tend to use that word too much.
>
> oh cliché wasn't my word for it, Doug, these things are partly
> regional as
> well as 'period'. My students (whom I see the last of next week, having
> decided to vacate my old office and only haunt the university on rare
> occasions) laugh at my quaint old slang, and I puzzle over theirs...
>
> Max
> in Melbourne
> where cafés continue to colonise the footpaths, and our puppy attracts
> passersby while we lunch and look at the spring skies...
>
>
Douglas Barbour
11655 - 72 Avenue NW
Edmonton Ab T6G 0B9
(780) 436 3320
All day long the heart’s
dark bud unfurls
coils for its quick season
-- How could I forget
you, Heart?
Diana Hartog
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