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[dreamerjules]

I'm working on my ficathon assignment - yay me! - and needed a word in Czech. Don't ask. Sent a distress e-mail to a fic list I'm on and someone recommended the following site.

http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=multilingual

In the Memories section there is a list of languages and people who will help you with those languages. We'll see how well it works.

Posing a question as long as I'm typing: What is it, and I'm thinking it's a Southern thing, with calling people you don't know hon or honey? I'm pretty immune to men saying darling or babe or such 'cause obviously they're idiots. A week or so ago, I was in Bookstop when a lady asked me where the bathroom was. I gave her directions and she said, "Thanks, hon." Now I think I look younger than I am, but still. Earlier this week, a lady called to speak to my boss and started off with, "Hi, honey, can I speak to {boss's name}?" AT WORK!!! The office I work at is very small and casual, but she was calling in. I know, in the grand scheme of things, this is nothing. I have no objections to terms of endearment, but shouldn't you save them for people who are dear to you?

And on a note that will only entertain people who know me - all one of you - the outdoor cat at work made herself very much at home in the office today for a little while. Boss and I are trying to convince her that being an indoor kitty is a good thing and we wouldn't make her stay in all the time. We like cats.

Comments

[perspicax.livejournal.com]

Am I allowed to use the royal "we" in saying "we are amused?" :-)

One of my coworkers, jayson (with a "y"), calls everyone "hun," too. I don't like jayson (with a "y"), so the first (and thus far, only) time he called me hun, I told him in no uncertain terms that he could call me Travis, Mr. Kelley, or sir, but not "hun." If someone I like calls me hun, it wouldn't bother me. From anyone else, they run a risk of mild bodily harm.

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[perspicax.livejournal.com]

One of my residents, Mrs. Smith, consistently calls me "darlin'," to everyone's amusement. She's from Atlanta, too, and I usually don't even think about it when she says it, but this post popped into my mind when she said it this afternoon. :-)

Re: addendum

[dreamerjules.livejournal.com]

"Darlin'" is definitely a Southernism. I'm sure she pretty much means it though. At least she knows you in some sense.