long-skirted Latin speakers from the planet Zurg

[deird1]

Conversations that make me feel like an alien:

1)
Coworker: "What did you do this weekend?"
Me: "I went to a wedding."
Coworker: "Ooh, did you get drunk?"*

2)
The whole skirt thing.**

3)
Me: "Yeah, I'm teaching myself Latin."
Coworker: "...why?"***

4)
Random Acquaintance: "Anyone else hungry?"
Me: "Yes! Very!"
R.A.: "Great! Let's have Devonshire tea!"****

5)
*Coworker inspects my window ledge of fictional space things, including Serenity, Starbug, a DRD, and a Skutter*
"Are they... planes or something?"*****

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* Seriously, why???
** I have finally tracked some long skirts down, and now have a spiffy winter wardrobe.
*** I keep feeling like staring at them blankly and asking "Why wouldn't I?"
**** Scones with jam and cream. I seem to be the only Aussie in existence who doesn't like this.
***** Yes, these are all different coworkers. They all think I'm very strange.

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Comments

[curiouswombat]

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<iEnglish-style scones I assume, and not real scones.</i>

You mean someone, somewhere, uses the word for something that isn't actually a scone? Which, of course, is a Scottish word, not an English one...

You'll just have to imagine either my 'Grandma from the Perishers' icon, or my 'Domestic Goddess' one - oh - or my 'afternoon tea' one - as I don't have them here - but we bump into each other enough for you to use you imagination!! :~P

[owenthurman]

Real scones, of course, are a light, fluffy, soft pastry deep fried until golden brown. They are an ideal base or serving beans, stew, or ice cream. Also, they are delicious to eat plain or with a touch of honey. They were invented by Native Americans in the western states a century ago. Sometimes they are called frybread, especially by the Native Americans.

The English (Scotch?) kind are perfectly adequate for tea, but they bear little resemblance to real scones other than being made from wheat.

Icons successfully imagined.

[curiouswombat]

Ah - you mean this is another word that left home a couple of centuries ago and eventually got misused by the dominions? Like pasty...

PS - 'Scotch' is a type of alcoholic spirit and is never used to refer to the people or the language - it is a sad sign of a poor upbringing to not understand these fine points of linguistics I feel :~P :~P :~P

(I really must import some icons over here...!!)

[owenthurman]

Pasties like the buttery, flaky empanadas? Or like the nipple covers you wear exotic dancing?

>>'Scotch' is a type of alcoholic spirit

Yeah, but I was getting tired of all the tea with my scones.

[curiouswombat]

Pasties like the buttery, flaky empanadas? Or like the nipple covers you wear exotic dancing?

Exactly. Although the original is a very solid and indigestible hunk of pastry with meat at one end and jam at the other to be lowered on a string down a mine. The current version is slightly lighter...

I was getting tired of all the tea with my scones.

Seems fair enough to me.