IMing with my sister
me: uh, perhaps that would be inadvisable?
sister: wtf
sister: SPEAK FKING ENGLISH
me: that was english
sister: jeesh
sister: speak my level of english
sister: u weirdo
sister: ‘
sister: friken linguistisions
me: uh, perhaps that would be inadvisable?
sister: wtf
sister: SPEAK FKING ENGLISH
me: that was english
sister: jeesh
sister: speak my level of english
sister: u weirdo
sister: ‘
sister: friken linguistisions
March 3rd, 2007 at 6:39 pm
:)
Geekman got teased mercilessly the other night when we were visiting friends and he asked “What’s the E.T.A. on dinner?” Apparently that isn’t *normal* either.
And I was known all through high-school as “interchangeable girl” because I asked in a third form German class whether two words we were given for the one concept were “interchangeable”, and apparently that isn’t normal English when you’re 13.
Sometimes I hate people.
March 3rd, 2007 at 7:34 pm
Is she complaining because you didn’t capitalize your sentence?
March 3rd, 2007 at 8:06 pm
FUCK OFF, SHEEPISH. See, capital letters. Better?
Actually, she has a fine vocabulary, most of the time, but she likes to pretend otherwise. Maybe she doesn’t know the word inadvisable, but generally she knows the weird words that our family is wont to use.
She is, in fact, 13.
March 3rd, 2007 at 8:42 pm
It is hard to imagine that the same family environment that produced you would produce someone with an infinitesimal vocabulary.
And that cracked me up; thanks for the laugh.
March 3rd, 2007 at 8:46 pm
Well, my *other* sister — actually, I think she knows the words, too, but pretends otherwise. This sister I think is in the “pretend to be stupid/ignorant in order to be cool” phase.
Bear in mind, though, that we do not share biological backgrounds, and I alone of my siblings am a bookworm.
March 4th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Well, what should you have said?
“Um, like, um, that would be, like, so totally blonde. Hello?”
Or maybe …
“Oh my god! Have you changed the air in your head lately? Oh my god!”
Or maybe …
“Riiiiiiiiight. Which bus do you ride? The regular bus, or the short bus?”