RE: RE: Justice to J.D.


Subject: RE: RE: Justice to J.D.
From: zazie (zazie@raketnet.nl)
Date: Wed Jun 13 2001 - 06:57:08 GMT


This proves to me my theory about my English: I speak it, understand it,
but i don't FEEL it, especially with synonyms or near-synonyms like that.
Have any of you a similar experience? I realize that, you all being
Englishers, with little or no incentive to speak another language,
certainly not the life-long exposure that the small-country-Europeans have,
this question might be in vain.
"Fancy" is British colloquial speech i guess.
Cognotively it means to me, 'like in a love-sex-agape-eros way,
whereas i would use 'like' equally in regard to apples, movies and people
of the opposite sex.

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Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 02:53:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: joyce morrison <incurablejoyce@excite.com>
To: bananafish@roughdraft.org
Subject: RE: Justice to J.D.

"fancy" comes to me as, well, a superficial term. sounds witty, compared to
the overratedness of "like", but still superficial. "like" is more
honest--unless, ofcourse, you really mean the opposite.

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On Mon, 11 Jun 2001 12:41:38 -0400, bananafish@roughdraft.org wrote:

> Boy am *I* out of the loop on this one.
>
> Does anyone else like it when people say "fancy" instead of "like" or
> whatever else may apply?
>
> Pete the Amateur.

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