"Sugar Daddy Potential"
- My friend Heather used this phrase while talking about a guy she met at a required conference for work. He was 47, single, and unmarried, so his "sugar daddy potential" was kinda high. In a joking sense of course. Kinda. But no, really.
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"If they know you can do it, they'll ask you to do it."
-This also came up during my conversation with Heather. We were talking about how managers and bosses will ask you to do a new task constantly the minute they find out you can do it. When I worked at books-a-million, anyone that made it through cafe training found themselves stuck over there 3 to 4 times a week.
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"'Pissed off' isn't a bad word; I do it every day."
-A student of mine said this on Tuesday when trying to defend his language and not get in trouble. Since he pisses every day, he doesn't think "pissed off" should count as bad language.
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"School you"
-While a student was trying to figure out if "to school" was an infinitive, I started wondering about the use of language in this form. I tried to think of other nouns that function as verbs, with the noun adopting the action that takes place in the physical place. The only place I could come up with is "church." This use of language reminds me of synecdoche.
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"Half 'n Half"
"Nacker"
-Sadly my class used the above two terms to reference a "mixed" girl in the class. She didn't seem outwardly bothered by the terms, but I couldn't imagine her not taking them to heart at all.
- My friend Heather used this phrase while talking about a guy she met at a required conference for work. He was 47, single, and unmarried, so his "sugar daddy potential" was kinda high. In a joking sense of course. Kinda. But no, really.
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"If they know you can do it, they'll ask you to do it."
-This also came up during my conversation with Heather. We were talking about how managers and bosses will ask you to do a new task constantly the minute they find out you can do it. When I worked at books-a-million, anyone that made it through cafe training found themselves stuck over there 3 to 4 times a week.
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"'Pissed off' isn't a bad word; I do it every day."
-A student of mine said this on Tuesday when trying to defend his language and not get in trouble. Since he pisses every day, he doesn't think "pissed off" should count as bad language.
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"School you"
-While a student was trying to figure out if "to school" was an infinitive, I started wondering about the use of language in this form. I tried to think of other nouns that function as verbs, with the noun adopting the action that takes place in the physical place. The only place I could come up with is "church." This use of language reminds me of synecdoche.
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"Half 'n Half"
"Nacker"
-Sadly my class used the above two terms to reference a "mixed" girl in the class. She didn't seem outwardly bothered by the terms, but I couldn't imagine her not taking them to heart at all.
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