"Tacit, I hate gas, (aroma of evil), a nut, sleep, no meIons, drawers, bards, Eta Delta, ebon, a hare, macaroni, stone raps, id, a lass lion, apses, ore, lines, a loner, war oh, bait I hate! - jam, ugh; cabs, warts too, spas, Odin, roes. I revile dope, naps, a wagon add a sob - oh, damn it~(so do dodos, ahem) - lepers? mark up a love. sips, editors, tops, rime, denim, repose (alas, simoleons), loops, rats, gals, a tar bag and a maniac Cain, a mad nag, a brat , a sIag star, spooIs, Noel - 0 Miss Al Aesop, ermined emirs, pots, rot I despise; Volapuk, rams repel me (ha! so do dodos), tin, mad hobos, add a nog, a wasp, an epode, liver. I scorn "I do," sap, soot, straws, Bach, gum - a jet? ah, it I abhor a wren? 0 Ial senile roses, pan oils, salad; I spare not sin or a camera (ha! no BeatIe), dates, drabs, rewards, no lemon peels, tuna, live foam or a sage Tahiti cat."
Exactly! Kept running through options: Sita? Hanuman? Lakshman? But the quiz seemed pretty America-centric -- it assumed people would know "pop" and who the heck Dale Earnhardt is -- so I finally realized it wouldn't be asking something that "obscure" within the context. Got it quickly then.
Where do you live? It's the most common term for it in the American Midwest and northwest. Even if soda or coke are more common in other parts of the country, most people in the US would at least know what someone is referring to when they say pop. Not sure about the rest of the world, but someone else mentioned above that "fizzy pop" is common where they live.
I live in Australia we just call the soft drink by its brand name (ie. Coke) or common name (ie. Lemonade Aid) otherwise just 'soft drink'. Pop isn't used to all, at least I haven't heard it before in that context besides American TV/Movies.
I have heard pop and soda my entire life, but NEVER have heard someone refer to soft drinks in general as "coke." I mean, I know people apparently do this in some regions, but I can't imagine someone having a 7-Up and saying "This coke is refreshing!"
You are confusing the word "my" with the word "our." Getting a degree in gender studies at Evergreen State doesn't give you the authority to start changing the definitions of words and then insisting everyone else is wrong to keep using them in the same way they always have.
You are confusing the word "my" with the word "our." Refusing to accept the definitions coined by modern biology, sociology and psychology doesn't give you the authority to keep using them in the same way they always have and then insisting everyone else is wrong for changing the definitions of words.
Yes, agreed. "Madam" is nothing at all to do with "ill-regard" in its most common form. You seem to have used a highly irregular definition.
"Quizmaster" - maybe you spend a lot of time in seedy places, I don't know! But Madam is a term of pleasantry or politeness. You might hear a shopkeeper or a concierge.
"Eve."
Here's one
-kalbahamut
Just because an object is level does not mean it is flat and just because an object is flat does not mean its level.
Something being level is relative to the entire objects orientation to the earth.
Something that is flat is saying the surface of that object doesn't vary by more than a certain degree.
"Quizmaster" - maybe you spend a lot of time in seedy places, I don't know! But Madam is a term of pleasantry or politeness. You might hear a shopkeeper or a concierge.
Here's how I see this:
A level is used to indicate a horizontal plane relative to plumb.
I use a dial indicator to measure flatness.