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Jim's Cafe - Sunday, August 3, 2025

Inastorm

Inastorm

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Hello All, I thought I'd open the Cafe this morning.

The question for today:

Do you have any favourite saying or words and is there any saying or words you don't like?

One of my favourite words is a Scottish word 'Dreich' - Dreich originally meant ‘enduring’ or ‘slow, tedious’ but over time these meanings gave way to ‘dreary, hard to bear’ and from there to ‘dull, gloomy’. I love the way the word sounds and I use it to describe a gloomy day.

One of my most hated sayings is 'back in the day'. I understand what it means, but it will mean different time zones to different people, but people tend to think they are using it for the same point in time, like the 1980's, or is it the 1990's and so on. It also makes the now seem crap, like your saying 'everything was great back in the day'.

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Lisa the Goatgirl

Lisa the Goatgirl

I'm all things, and so are you
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Thanks to @Inastorm for opening and tagging me. *hug

Inastorm said:
Do you have any favourite saying or words and is there any saying or words you don't like?
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My favourite word has to be hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. I didn't choose that word because it lets me show off, but because it's the name for the fear of long words. I love whichever mad bastard came up with that. :D

I really don't like the jokey retort when you say "I'm trying" and someone responds "Yes, you can be." What a mean thing to say in response to someone telling you they're doing their best. It's witty, but imo it kinda crosses a line given the sort of situations where an opportunity to use it presents itself. Usually whoever's saying "i'm trying" is already feeling embarrassed and overwhelmed. They need support and patience in that moment, not snarky remarks about their character.
 
SillyOldBear

SillyOldBear

Teddy Bears Rule! 🐻
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I used to say 'greeting and hallucinations' a lot. Just a phrase I invented that tended to surprise people because it is a bit strange. Also had a 90+ year old friend who would say 'on the right side of the grass' when you asked him how he was doing.

One I really don't like is 'when I was your age'.
 
JanisSPK

JanisSPK

Well-Known Member
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Inastorm said:
Hello All, I thought I'd open the Cafe this morning.

The question for today:

Do you have any favourite saying or words and is there any saying or words you don't like?

One of my favourite words is a Scottish word 'Dreich' - Dreich originally meant ‘enduring’ or ‘slow, tedious’ but over time these meanings gave way to ‘dreary, hard to bear’ and from there to ‘dull, gloomy’. I love the way the word sounds and I use it to describe a gloomy day.

One of my most hated sayings is 'back in the day'. I understand what it means, but it will mean different time zones to different people, but people tend to think they are using it for the same point in time, like the 1980's, or is it the 1990's and so on. It also makes the now seem crap, like your saying 'everything was great back in.

🌹Just pull yourself up by your own bootstraps is an old and uncared for saying since childhood…it is an extreme statement to me indicating one is always alone in too many ways. I have a happy number of positive ones..”Sleep on it first before you make a decision” is a good one for me. I’ll write more later….Thank you for the tag @Inastorm 🦋
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bubblebear

bubblebear

Princess
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I like the words pokala, mokala, bobala, coolala, boolala, splat, snackoo, bamboozled*yes4 . All the "la" words I made up myself after I got diagnosed autistic because I thought that's what autistic people did, but now that I've made them up, I quite like them! I say them in SF chat a lot .*halo
 
Licorice

Licorice

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I've always loved, "You have to eat a peck of dirt before you die."

There are four that currently make my hackles rise:
1. "reach out" for contact. "Thank you for reaching out to us regarding the parcel that failed arrive...." Reaching out means seeking to create some kind of emotional connection. I don't want your kindness and sympathy! I just want my money back.
2. "live rent free in my head" - I'm just tired of it
3. "journey", for any kind of difficult or demanding thing a person has to go through in life - my educational journey, my identity journey, my cancer journey... I'm sick of this one too.
4. "beyond" whatever - e.g. That's beyond awesome! I was beyond angry! What emotions exactly lie beyond awe, anger, etc...? Use the word!
 
Kiwi2016

Kiwi2016

🦩 Now a flamingo, not a kiwi 🦩
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Fbr27

Fbr27

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Do you have any favourite saying or words and is there any saying or words you don't like?

My grandfather used to have many "sayings" that my uncles and my mother would repeat all the time.

"The best spice is hunger"

"People that never died are dying"

"Hungry people eat even stones"

Probably I'll repeat those sayings somewhere in my life. My grandfather was a wise men from what everybody say.
 
seabird

seabird

meandering home
SF Supporter
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Hello cafè. I hope everyone is okay or better today.
Thank you for opening this morning and the tag @Inastorm . My favourite word is the word which communicates most fully the idea I'm hoping to express. There's a little hit of pleasure when I am searching and then the word drops into my mind.
My apologies to @Licorice because once in a while, I use the word journey. Now that you mention it, it is one of those over-used words which seem to try to put epic feeling into a topic without substance.

A phrase I dislike is:
It's such a nice day you wouldn't want to be dead for a million dollars.
A word (response) I dislike is:
Perfect.
 
Fbr27

Fbr27

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One expression that I used to say a lot until I realized it was a expression was something like "let's spur our mule" (vamo picar a mula) when I want to leave some place. Have no idea where I learned that.

About words I was reading lists of adjectives the other day. There is a lot of unique adjectives about minerals and substances.

Murine (refering to something related/made of rats).

Cupric (something made out of copper).

Exsanguinated (a body without blood).

Lots of pretty words out there.
 
DowntheRabbitHole

DowntheRabbitHole

SF Supporter
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Thanks for the tag @Inastorm
As a lover on words and grammar I tend to try and use an extended vocabulary. When I was in school my classmates thought I was doing it to appear better than them. I did it because in my house it was expected and that indoctrination is hard to let go of.

One of my favorite sayings is, "What fresh hell is this?". Probably quite overused lol. Lately I've been using it quite a lot as life seems to think I'm capable of bearing innumerable setbacks.

One saying that prickles me is "Sorry, not sorry."
 
JMG

JMG

Pink Sponge Summer Queen 💖🧽🦉👑
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Tysm for opening a cafe today and tagging me @Inastorm :) Love the theme too.

I’m not nearly focused enough right now to really answer this properly, will try to come back and reply about it later if that’s ok. For now I will simply say - there’s lots of awesome words and phrases that I love, and some I really do not like at all :p
 
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