Typos and Family Vocabulary
I love typos.
Through the years, as email has become the preferred way to contact people, I've been subject to, and propagated, more typos than I'd ever seen in the pre-email era. There was a pre-email era, right? (And if so it should be spelled premail.)
The quick and casual responses we all give to email usually spawn typos and some of them are unforgettable to me.
Goof Friday. For years now we've had a standing date at Doc and Deejay's house for prime rib on the Friday before Easter. One year as we firmed up our plans for dinner I typed: see you Goof Friday, and that was it -- a new holiday was born.
One of my all time favorite typos is lesbina. Love the sound of that word. Lesbina, as you might have guessed, is a typo for lesbian.
Apparently Doc has a great deal of trouble typing out the word lesbian and half the time it comes out "lesbina" so he started to prefer the word as in: gays and lesbinas are entitled to equal rights.
Lesbian...I don't know...not as euphonic as I'd like a word to be...sounds German.
But lesbina...it's a lovely word. It sounds Italian, sophisticated and better suits my dear lesbina friends. What do you think?
Another wonderful typo was when a friend wrote to me that her daughter had given up beast feeding. Oh I was so happy to hear that. I don't like beasts and don't think it's necessary for us to feed them at all.
Now Goof Friday, beast feeding and lesbina are all part of our family vocabulary and I include friends in the word family.
If you have any typo stories or odd family vocabulary stories I'd like to hear them.
I love typos.
Through the years, as email has become the preferred way to contact people, I've been subject to, and propagated, more typos than I'd ever seen in the pre-email era. There was a pre-email era, right? (And if so it should be spelled premail.)
The quick and casual responses we all give to email usually spawn typos and some of them are unforgettable to me.
Goof Friday. For years now we've had a standing date at Doc and Deejay's house for prime rib on the Friday before Easter. One year as we firmed up our plans for dinner I typed: see you Goof Friday, and that was it -- a new holiday was born.
One of my all time favorite typos is lesbina. Love the sound of that word. Lesbina, as you might have guessed, is a typo for lesbian.
Apparently Doc has a great deal of trouble typing out the word lesbian and half the time it comes out "lesbina" so he started to prefer the word as in: gays and lesbinas are entitled to equal rights.
Lesbian...I don't know...not as euphonic as I'd like a word to be...sounds German.
But lesbina...it's a lovely word. It sounds Italian, sophisticated and better suits my dear lesbina friends. What do you think?
Another wonderful typo was when a friend wrote to me that her daughter had given up beast feeding. Oh I was so happy to hear that. I don't like beasts and don't think it's necessary for us to feed them at all.
Now Goof Friday, beast feeding and lesbina are all part of our family vocabulary and I include friends in the word family.
If you have any typo stories or odd family vocabulary stories I'd like to hear them.
posted by mary bishop | 8:39 AM
5 Comments:
Prime Rib on Good Friday? I guess that may be some kind of protest. It's a Pesach shabbos to me, so meat is ok, but no leaven anymore.
In typing or writing a letter, I'd hope there are less typos as letters are not as quick or casual as email.
Lesbian is from a Greek island named Lesbos and their residents are also called Lesbians.
Thomas, hello! Glad to know you're not injured somewhere...aren't you almost done with your tour?
Good Friday's always been a joke when it comes to eating fish only. My parents always had lobsters ans shrimp...now is that some kind of sacrifice?
Well those Greeks should think about calling themselves lesbinos (m) or lesbinas (f) I say!
I'm out of the Army and in Queens. In NO, I remember a crawfish boil for Good Friday. Treyf!!
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