I say like and do you know what I mean constantly. Also “I’ve got it”

  • 🎨 Elaine Cortez 🇨🇦 @lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    “Oop, sorry”

    Can apply for a variety of situations such as someone accidentally bumping into me, me accidentally bumping into them, or making a little mistake on something. Sometimes I’ll even instinctively say it to inanimate objects that I knock over!

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    “Bro.” Started saying it ironically and accidentally rewired my brain.

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    “Upright and conscious” is my goto response to casual questions. I also preference almost every sentence with some modulation of “Yeah”, meaning everything from “Yeah, I agree wholeheartedly” to “Yeah, bro you sure you wanna do this?” to “yeahh so the cops are here and I told you so”"

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      “Alive and vertical” is my variation on that first one there. Sometimes I use “very low baseline” as an afterthought, because some folks seem confused by it.

      I also say “I know English wasn’t my first language, but I could have sworn this made sense. Maybe we’re speaking different English.” I speak English just fine, without any trace of accent (beyond Chicago), but that makes people take a step back and pay attention to what I said or wrote.

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    Just remembered a few more:

    When someone asks “how’s it going,” I’ll either respond “it goes” or “relentlessly,” depending on how relentlessly it goes.

    In response to a question in a field in which I have little expertise, I shall respond with “I’m not a botanist.”

    When multiple small things go wrong in quick succession, I may quip “Mondays, right?” only if the day is not Monday.

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      I tend to reply that I’m going “reasonable” mostly copying a dead friend who used to say it when asked. He died in his 90s of natural causes but was a really interesting fella. Homosexual, Jewish, Holocaust survivor, antiquities dealer.

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    • Thanks, sorry!

    • Right on!

    • Eeeeeee! Is pretty great for when I need to let people know I need them to make room for me but I’m too frazzled to speak properly.

    • Words are hard, I’ll go again any time I speak gibberish instead of English

    I am also forever yelling corner! I yell corner at the grocery store. I say corner when I am alone in my apartment. Yesterday I called out door! as I was opening the front door of my workplace into the empty parking lot.

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    “First of all…”

    I said it so many times while drunk once that my brother made a song mocking me. That was a wild night.