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Oct. 23rd, 2003 11:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauralhI invented a new word and forgot to tell you guys. "Protarded." As in, professionally retarded. So retarded you get to stay home and collect govt. money. Metaphorically speaking.
This is a fun story about why I don't date older men. About a week before Nick and I broke up, I met a guy who was like 32 or 33 on the airplane. He was plenty attractive and interesting and after Nick and I broke up, I emailed him. He volunteered to take me out the day after my birthday for dinner. I wasn't exactly sure it was a date, and when he picked me up in his Lincoln Towncar with the leather seats and phat everything, I still wasn't sure. I was nervous enough for it to be one, but he wasn't.
He wasn't nervous. He was smooth and sophisticated and utterly sure of himself. He knew the end of the "date" would not be bed long before I did, he knew he wasn't having wine with dinner because he'd partied in his 20s and didn't Do That anymore. (I think he went to meetings for it, actually.) But everything he said or did made me very aware that I had just gotten out of a long-term relationship and wanted to party and sleep around and do drugs. Basically he made me feel inferior in every way, and I had just dumped a guy because of that.
So, I never saw him again. I like for both people to be a little nervous during first dates, and this may be twisted, but I like to have SOME upper hand somewhere. I don't want to date someone who's my superior in every way, dammit.
Poll time.
[Poll #195827]
This is a fun story about why I don't date older men. About a week before Nick and I broke up, I met a guy who was like 32 or 33 on the airplane. He was plenty attractive and interesting and after Nick and I broke up, I emailed him. He volunteered to take me out the day after my birthday for dinner. I wasn't exactly sure it was a date, and when he picked me up in his Lincoln Towncar with the leather seats and phat everything, I still wasn't sure. I was nervous enough for it to be one, but he wasn't.
He wasn't nervous. He was smooth and sophisticated and utterly sure of himself. He knew the end of the "date" would not be bed long before I did, he knew he wasn't having wine with dinner because he'd partied in his 20s and didn't Do That anymore. (I think he went to meetings for it, actually.) But everything he said or did made me very aware that I had just gotten out of a long-term relationship and wanted to party and sleep around and do drugs. Basically he made me feel inferior in every way, and I had just dumped a guy because of that.
So, I never saw him again. I like for both people to be a little nervous during first dates, and this may be twisted, but I like to have SOME upper hand somewhere. I don't want to date someone who's my superior in every way, dammit.
Poll time.
[Poll #195827]
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Date: 2003-10-24 10:02 am (UTC)Why does X stay with Y when X is miserable all the time and Y is clearly a loser/asshole/bitch/manipulator/evil monster?
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Date: 2003-10-24 11:01 am (UTC)Getting pedantic on your ass
Date: 2003-10-24 12:55 pm (UTC)If you use the term "pro" as a prefix, it signifies the thought of "before." For example, to proceed means to go before, the prologue is the introduction before the main piece, etc. So to say something is protarded, you are essentially saying something is "before the tarded."
In either case, you’d have to define the word "tarded."
I think your new word is proretarded.
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Date: 2003-10-24 01:40 pm (UTC)You should have left out his age, so we could have had a good laugh imagining some 65-to-dead guy driving up in his old-people land boat....
Re: Getting pedantic on your ass
Date: 2003-10-24 02:10 pm (UTC)Re: Getting pedantic on your ass
Date: 2003-10-24 03:40 pm (UTC)Re: Getting pedantic on your ass
Date: 2003-10-24 04:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-24 10:56 pm (UTC)That's what having a vagina is all about.
Re: Getting pedantic on your ass
Date: 2003-10-26 10:21 am (UTC)- Abbreviation – Saying names of first letters of major syllables – TV from television, CIA from Central Intelligence Agency,
- Acronym – Using the sound of the first letters/syllable of each word to make a new word – NATO, NASA, AWOL, SCUBA,
- Blend – creating a new word by combining parts of two existing words. – ginormous (gigantic + enormous), sitcom (situation + comedy), guesstimate, infomercial, etc.
- Clipping – Creating a word by shortening a pre-existing one. – ‘fridge, detox, perp,
- Compounding – creating a new word by combining two free morphemes – houseboat, mallrat, studmuffin, scarecrow
- Coinage – Creating a new word from scratch –
- Conversion – changing the category of a word.(VERBING) – funny (adj.) > (noun) I made a funny. Tattletale (n) > (v) He was tattletaling on me
- Backformation – Deleting an apparent suffix to create a new word. – To dissertate, from dissertation. Ush from usher.
Yeah, uhm, you suck.
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Date: 2003-10-26 03:27 pm (UTC)So yeah, uhm, carry on with your editorial defenses. You win the prize junior. Yay, you!
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Date: 2003-10-26 11:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-27 04:48 am (UTC)Had you just cut and pasted the information from your linguistics book without the added pugnatious tone, I would have interpreted your comment as a mere rebuttal to furthering the whole pedantic tenor of the post.
So, uhm, I like to suck.
Date: 2003-10-28 07:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-28 08:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-10-28 09:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-02 01:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-03 07:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-03 08:59 am (UTC)(huh huh huh)
Excellent.
Date: 2003-11-03 09:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-03 09:09 am (UTC)