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ippy

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Family oddities
« on: September 25, 2018, 07:52:33 PM »
We I suspect we're not the only ones capable of being very silly, someone in the family heard the pasta dish lasagne mispronounced as Laasaange, it has stuck that's its name now in our house.

I heard someone referring to the evenings drawing in, they said it's getting late a lot earlier now, love it, something else into the family repertoire.

Plus some of the more common silly expressions like someone fluent in two languages is bifocal, that is also useful when referring to a right and left handed in one potato peeler they are obviously bifocal too.

I dare say some of you out there are as deeply inventive with our language as wot we is? 

Only really silly contributions acceptable.

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Re: Family oddities
« Reply #1 on: September 25, 2018, 09:28:48 PM »
When I go into Starbucks I ask for a latte but get given a lar-tay. I know its not family but ...


I do recall that when we were furnishing our French house, my lovely, wonderful wife (taken from me 16 years ago now) told the sales assistant that she wanted to buy a matelot.
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Re: Family oddities
« Reply #2 on: September 26, 2018, 07:53:25 AM »
My family has its own language. It comes of a mix of closeness and the things we find funny, and having teens around means there's a big load of memes thrown in. It must be very odd to an outsider.

I'll just fingergun my way out of the room... (yes we do that too, ironically).
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Re: Family oddities
« Reply #3 on: September 26, 2018, 08:28:35 AM »
Quote from: Harrowby Hall on September 25, 2018, 09:28:48 PM
When I go into Starbucks I ask for a latte but get given a lar-tay. I know its not family but ...


I do recall that when we were furnishing our French house, my lovely, wonderful wife (taken from me 16 years ago now) told the sales assistant that she wanted to buy a matelot.

Talking of French faux pas I remember during one of our early holidays in France (when our kids were still kids) driving from Caen to the Vendee stopping at a small village and going into a local cafe. Mrs G, having a first go at trying to speak French to a native, ordered trieze crepes much of the amusement of everyone else in this tiny cafe, all of whom it seems were French. The waiter replied in impeccable English 'I think not, Madame' to more laughter and brought her three crepes instead - after that, and to our eternal shame, we resorted to grunts and sign language.

Were we better prepared to following year.
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Re: Family oddities
« Reply #4 on: September 26, 2018, 09:23:26 AM »
Not a family thing, but I remember watching the US 9-ball Open final 2007 or 8, whatever, and the righthanded Mika Immonen took a shot with his left hand and the commentator said "Look! He's amphibious!" Made me laugh, anyway.
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Re: Family oddities
« Reply #5 on: September 26, 2018, 10:05:16 AM »
Our family uses the very useful ploy of attempting to take things literally to diffuse occasional heated arguments between us. So, if somebody says 'Shut yer face', the person concerned  tries to do just that. Or if someone says 'You're talking through your backside' then the responsibility of the person accused is to try to do just that. Usually the farcical attempts to comply are enough to destroy any bad feeling between us. :)
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Re: Family oddities
« Reply #6 on: September 26, 2018, 10:57:07 AM »
In my family I am definitely the oddity. ;D
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Re: Family oddities
« Reply #7 on: September 26, 2018, 02:14:53 PM »
I just remembered, some time ago nearly 50 years back I was doing some work for a chap that was a Belgian he asked me to fit a replacement cock-spur on to his casement window for him, he said to me I'm not sure if this one is the right hand for the job, I then regressed back into the family use of bifocal, it just came out and I said to him "oh don't worry they're bifocal", Belgians, they're supposed to lack a sense of humour and unfortunately it was true in this case, he then spent time explaining to me that I didn't really mean bifocal and all of the rest, I couldn't say to much because of the size of the contract involved, the customer's right even when they're wrong philosophy clicked in 

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Re: Family oddities
« Reply #8 on: September 26, 2018, 05:39:37 PM »
Quote from: enki on September 26, 2018, 10:05:16 AM
Our family uses the very useful ploy of attempting to take things literally to diffuse occasional heated arguments between us. So, if somebody says 'Shut yer face', the person concerned  tries to do just that. Or if someone says 'You're talking through your backside' then the responsibility of the person accused is to try to do just that. Usually the farcical attempts to comply are enough to destroy any bad feeling between us. :)

My working partner and I had take things literally days it's surprising how difficult this can be in so many areas and the me no understandie looks.

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