Looking forward to the weekend

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1296792]

Comments

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

So when someone asks you what you did at the weekend do you tell them about Saturday and the Sunday that came before it?

[chuma.livejournal.com]

And if someone asks you what you did at the weekend do you include friday night or not?

Point is moot.

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

Generally, no, actually.

But it's "the" weekend, not two different ends of separate weeks, and to some degree it's a whole separate entity. Everyone knows that "week days" refers to Mon-Fri, so it seems odd to say the "week" starts on a day that is none of them.

[chuma.livejournal.com]

Common Usage doesn't mean something becomes correct because everyone says it is so.

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

I think you'll find that given enough time it absolutely does when you're talking about language.

[chuma.livejournal.com]

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[hawkida.livejournal.com]

If you're claiming that leetspeak is now, or is likely to become, "common useage" then I can see we're going to disagree on a hell of a lot more than what a weekend is.

[chuma.livejournal.com]

I was being flippant and making a straw man argument for comic effect. Sadly it was lost on the humourless. At this point I can't be bothered arguing with you further. I guess we couldn't even agree on the correct spelling of usage. Ho hum.

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

SPELLING flames? Not only spelling flames, but spelling flames you deliberately come back to edit your comment to include?

Yeah, I'm the humourless one.

[chuma.livejournal.com]

Given you used quote marks, it appeared to be you deliberately trying to make something of the word usage, which given it was in the context of common usage, looked like a attack.

P.S. the edit was initially for a typo from "los ton" to "lost on" but I noticed your quoted section on review. I guess you just are after an argument now, huh? And you brought a friend too.. how precious.

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

I used quote marks because I was quoting you. I made a spelling mistake. I haven't brought a friend along at all, I just went to bed. I have never encountered interactiveleaf in my life.

[red-phil.livejournal.com]

Have you always been and asshole, or do you do some sort of training?

[chuma.livejournal.com]

I didn't spark this argument, I'm just better at it. Up until her response to my leetspeak joke, it was merely a conversation. Throw in a couple of misunderstandings and you have a standard argument on the internet - irrelevent and quickly forgotten.

I must confess that I don't really care what you think of me, not just because you are someone random on the internet, but because your view is made on limited imformation. However that you would make such a snap judgement and call someone an asshole probably says more about you than me.

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

Sadly it was lost on the humourless.

No, it just wasn't very funny.