Attn: The Two Blonde Cherry Creek Lebensborn in Güzel recently.
You will not "do some chai latté". It is not an activity, nor is it thing you can have sex with.
You will "have a chai latté".
Sorry, but having to listen to your whiney pseudo-Californian voices saying "I'll do some chai" is the grammatical equivalent of someone scraping their nails down a blackboard, or playing "New Country" music to me.
Job-hunting is depressing enough, without the floor show. Knock it off.
OK. I admit it. I'm so tired of looking at job adverts, I'll let anything distract me.
Posted by Max at April 15, 2003 02:06 PM | TrackbackJoin the club. I am so sick of looking through the classifieds that whenever I open them up, the words just blur together.
You "do chai" thing reminds me of high school when this girl I despised would call a popular amusement park "Busch" instead of its proper name "Busch Gardens", and she also called Virginia Beach "Vaaa Beach"
*shudder*
Posted by: Connie Vandelay on April 15, 2003 05:33 PM"Chai" is enough to make me shudder.
Posted by: Jodi on April 15, 2003 06:48 PM"Connie" I hear your pain. My memo was only the tip of the wank-speak iceberg. I decided to keep the piece short and snappy, but there's a plethora of things that the poseurati of Cherry Creek and much of Metro Denver say that annoys the piss out of me.
I'm not talking about the fact that they're speaking American English. That's fine. But a lot of people have no grasp of grammar, and some are just plain ignorant about the English language. I'm talking about euro-wannabe caucasians here, not ethnic minorities.
Jodi, I quite agree. I've tried chai a few times, and it tastes something like apple juice with a blend of curry spices in it - at best.
Posted by: Max on April 15, 2003 09:01 PMOh, and Re: Busch when it's Busch Gardens, there's a DJ on a local station here (not the one I appear on) that besides having an annoying nasal want-to-sound-like-Bob-Dylan voice, has a habit of using unnecessary and over-familiar abbreviation of pop stars name, as if he's their best buddy.
For example, he'll say, "We have a new CD from Gabriel", when he means Peter Gabriel. He also calls Van Morrison, "Morrison".
It strikes me there could be confusion here. Does he mean The Arch-Angel Gabriel? Jim Morrison?
Git.
Posted by: Max on April 15, 2003 09:08 PMI hate that too, Max! I've been waiting for someone else to bring the "over-familiar abbreviation of pop stars name" up!
I've been meaning to post in my blog about this weekend dee-jay (DJ?) who says the time kind of odd. For example:
"It's 32 past three on this Saturday afternoon"
Just say "it's 3:32 on this Saturday afternoon"
I think the worst thing about the use of "do" as a universal verb is that the people who misuse it most are doing it deliberately in a pathetic attempt to sound more dynamic and aggressive (they would call it "proactive"). It follows that most of them never get involved in any activity that directly creates value. This is the sort of thing that makes me mentally compromise my pacifist ideals when in meetings with people whose job titles start with "M".
Posted by: John in Brizzle on April 17, 2003 04:02 AM