made up words

ferret88 · 08-02-2006, 03:08 PM

My wife has a TERRIBLE habit of using nondescript, made-up words for things she cannot immediately remember the names of. Her terms-of-choice are "thingy-thing" and "fun stuff." For example, at a restaurant she will want to order some version of flavored iced tea and will ask if they have any reaspberry fun stuff.
(She also has pronoun trouble in that she starts conversations using pronouns for which she has provided no reference, but that's probably a different thread.)

The other, generally accepted, ones that bug me are "aks" for "ask" and "expresso" for "espresso."

08-02-2006, 03:08 PM	#21
ferret88 (This space left intentionally UN-blank.) Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Albuquerque Posts: 604	My wife has a TERRIBLE habit of using nondescript, made-up words for things she cannot immediately remember the names of. Her terms-of-choice are "thingy-thing" and "fun stuff." For example, at a restaurant she will want to order some version of flavored iced tea and will ask if they have any reaspberry fun stuff. (She also has pronoun trouble in that she starts conversations using pronouns for which she has provided no reference, but that's probably a different thread.) The other, generally accepted, ones that bug me are "aks" for "ask" and "expresso" for "espresso."

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