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[apocalypsos]

Just out of curiosity, has anybody ever accidentally used a totally LJ-learned term in normal, everyday conversation? I came very close today to telling someone I wanted to Franklin Steve Watermelon them before I realized they wouldn't even know what the hell I was talking about.

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[mintwitch.livejournal.com]

It happens. I just refuse to acknowledge the strange looks, and if someone asks, I translate patiently, as if they are very stupid and I am infinitely superior in every way. Of course, I have no friends now, but that's okay. ;-)

[divabat.livejournal.com]

Franklin Steve Watermelon?

[xanphibian.livejournal.com]

From thebratqueen, here:

Getting back to one of the original questions raised in the first post - speaking as a bisexual woman while I agree that it would be "separate but equal" to give gay couples all the legal rights and priveledges of marriage but not call it marriage, to me the semantics are such a small issue. The real thing to worry about is the actual rights themselves. If society wants to call the legal union of two gay people "Franklin Steve Watermelonhood" I say go nuts. I'm not going to quibble about words when I can have rights.


*wants to Franklin Steve Watermelon TBQ*

[divabat.livejournal.com]

OOOOHHHH!!!!!

I thought the term sounded familiar; I just couldn't place why!

thanks :)

[marag.livejournal.com]

Oh good grief. Yes, I've done this more than a few times. My husband is accustomed to never knowing what in tarnation I'm saying.

The really embarrassing thing is when I start verbalizing those fun little things like ::pets book happily::.

[brazenbells.livejournal.com]

Lord. I do that.

[marag.livejournal.com]

Oh geez, isn't it awful? Last time, I did it at *work* of all places, when a friend there loaned me the new Harry Potter book. She looked at me *very* strangely and looked like she wanted to back slowly away from the madwoman. ::blush::

[brazenbells.livejournal.com]

::cackles:: She just doesn't understand. Life is narration! How is she to know what you're doing if you don't state it aloud?

:D

[marag.livejournal.com]

::firm nod:: Exactly. I'm glad *somebody* understands!

[brazenbells.livejournal.com]

It's the subtle nuances, really. I mean, you could have stroked the book, or patted it. How was she to know?

::giggles:: It's probably a bad sign that I'm still having this conversation. Ah, LJ, how you've warped my little mind.

[overloved.livejournal.com]

I tell people they've been unfriended all the time.

[thebratqueen.livejournal.com]

See now that's a term I can see using in real life too. It's quick, efficient, and covers that messy area where we've got no easy way to breakup with friends.

[voleuse.livejournal.com]

I've mostly used fandom things that I picked up over the years. I've used "slash" so much that everyone automatically knows what I'm talking about. I've also said "OTP" in casual conversation.

I've actually said "fandom wank" a couple of times, and I suppose that's LJ-specific.

[norabombay.livejournal.com]

I in the last week, used the following phrases:

Woot.
OTP
LJ
tag.
fucktard.
squick.

And more. It's when I found my self refering to people I know in real life as their live journal names that I got worried.

[anxietygrrl.livejournal.com]

I have taken to saying "Oh my god what the fuck barbecue?!" in times of great astonishment.

[deadspiders.livejournal.com]

I've had to mutter vague explanations for the word "squick" on more than one occasion, but I suppose that's more of a fandom thing than LJ-specific. :P

[purple-smurf.livejournal.com]

I use internet and fandom terms all the time... not so much LJ. But it's all confusing to the few people I converse with in RL