[Magdalen] Invites

Sibyl Smirl polycarpa3 at ckt.net
Tue Mar 15 20:50:10 UTC 2016


On 3/14/16 8:57 AM, Jim Guthrie wrote:
>  >Saying "I feel" when one means I think is beginning to drive me
> nuts.... And I do think it is having
>
> So -- will members of this list jump on listsibs when confusing "eager"
> and "anxious"  ??  I see it all the time here. Maybe we should all jump
> on the miscreants?

How about "I'm excited that..."?  There are lots of kinds of excitement, 
many of which are pretty negative, the opposite of what the younger 
generation (including my daughter) mean when they say that, which is 
approximately "eager".


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Sibyl Smirl
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