Comments on: I say https://andrewchapman.info/i-say/ Editor, writer, book designer, publishing consultant, walker Mon, 18 Sep 2023 10:47:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.3 By: hatmandu https://andrewchapman.info/i-say/comment-page-1/#comment-59 Thu, 27 Apr 2006 07:32:54 +0000 http://awrc.info/2006/04/i-say/#comment-59 I think The Chap magazine did that rather adequately with its ‘trouser semaphore’ article!

]]> By: drcosmos https://andrewchapman.info/i-say/comment-page-1/#comment-58 Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:54:23 +0000 http://awrc.info/2006/04/i-say/#comment-58 !!! – Quite!

By the way, old man, have you thought about providing a translation for those emoticon thingies?

]]> By: sarahparah https://andrewchapman.info/i-say/comment-page-1/#comment-57 Wed, 26 Apr 2006 14:05:18 +0000 http://awrc.info/2006/04/i-say/#comment-57 People don’t really *say* “squee” do they? Oh good lord I hope not.

Can you please translate OMGWTFBBQ so I can communicate with my coworkers more effectively? I find myself needing to use that phrase quite frequently in the office.

]]> By: hatmandu https://andrewchapman.info/i-say/comment-page-1/#comment-56 Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:10:42 +0000 http://awrc.info/2006/04/i-say/#comment-56 Good lord, a tong! Hello. Yes, please do, if you don’t mind a small credit. OncoMouse sends his best

]]> By: kletus https://andrewchapman.info/i-say/comment-page-1/#comment-55 Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:55:49 +0000 http://awrc.info/2006/04/i-say/#comment-55 Similarly, may we put this on the tongs wiki?

]]> By: skorpionuk https://andrewchapman.info/i-say/comment-page-1/#comment-54 Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:55:18 +0000 http://awrc.info/2006/04/i-say/#comment-54 Thank you, kind Sir!

]]> By: hatmandu https://andrewchapman.info/i-say/comment-page-1/#comment-53 Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:20:06 +0000 http://awrc.info/2006/04/i-say/#comment-53 Good Lord! A Victor Victrola V! Rather!

Seems to work…

]]> By: hatmandu https://andrewchapman.info/i-say/comment-page-1/#comment-52 Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:13:25 +0000 http://awrc.info/2006/04/i-say/#comment-52 Ah yes, ‘Pah’ is good. There are lots of interpretations of ‘woot’ – see Wikipedia if you can be bothered.

I made you type ‘Squee’! I say!

]]> By: hatmandu https://andrewchapman.info/i-say/comment-page-1/#comment-51 Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:12:04 +0000 http://awrc.info/2006/04/i-say/#comment-51 🙂 Of course!

]]> By: anonymous https://andrewchapman.info/i-say/comment-page-1/#comment-50 Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:05:34 +0000 http://awrc.info/2006/04/i-say/#comment-50 A couple of emendations, if I may:
LOL – How droll.
Meh – Pah

Though of course I’m only a passive speaker of Livejournalese and may misunderstand the nuances of current idiom. Is “woot”, for example, not aphetic for IWOOT, “I want one of those”? That has been my interpretation in such typical exclamations as “OMG! 1T iPod! Woot!”

I find it hard to believe that anyone, cis- or trans-Atlantic, can actually utter “squee”; it is quite revolting enough to type.

HTFB

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