crap, i'm awake.
May. 13th, 2005 12:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7I was all ready to wind down and go to bed and now suddenly I'm all, awake. bleurgh.
Overheard on the bus today:
"They've got these generically engineered chickens now."
Generically engineered.
He was talking about how they're all Frankenchicken and are bad for you.
Generically engineered.
...
It was almost funny. But it frustrates me, the way some people just don't even care about language and just sort of mush sounds out of their mouths until the other person gets their general idea. I mean, why bother with words? Just point and grunt. It's good enough.
Grumble. Sometimes I take my wordsmithing too seriously.
Related note: People hear/see precisely what they want/expect to.
At work, the Labatt Blue tap is right next to the Miller Lite tap. Dozens of people daily mush the two together with their eyes and ask me for Blue Light.
The taps don't even resemble one another. They're different colors of blue. And Miller Lite is a pretty well-known trademark logo, with a different font and layout than Blue Light. But people want me to have Blue Light, and often will insist that I have it, even though one would assume I'd know. (There are only four taps. It's not like we're the Wall O Beers.)
Overheard on the bus today:
"They've got these generically engineered chickens now."
Generically engineered.
He was talking about how they're all Frankenchicken and are bad for you.
Generically engineered.
...
It was almost funny. But it frustrates me, the way some people just don't even care about language and just sort of mush sounds out of their mouths until the other person gets their general idea. I mean, why bother with words? Just point and grunt. It's good enough.
Grumble. Sometimes I take my wordsmithing too seriously.
Related note: People hear/see precisely what they want/expect to.
At work, the Labatt Blue tap is right next to the Miller Lite tap. Dozens of people daily mush the two together with their eyes and ask me for Blue Light.
The taps don't even resemble one another. They're different colors of blue. And Miller Lite is a pretty well-known trademark logo, with a different font and layout than Blue Light. But people want me to have Blue Light, and often will insist that I have it, even though one would assume I'd know. (There are only four taps. It's not like we're the Wall O Beers.)
