Language centre? What language center?

[dianec42]

I think all of this living in different places has seriously messef with my head.

I just told the cat, "Dude! Sod off!" Not for the first time, either.

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[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

And did the cat look at you in a puzzled manner? Or did it just ignore you? Either way, was that because it doesn't understand

a) English?
b) British English?
c) American English?

:)

[asimovberlioz.livejournal.com]

Did you ever try to talk Thai to a Siamese cat?

[anneb.livejournal.com]

The scary thing is that in my head, I can hear you saying that very clearly. It is not out of the realm of imagination, by a long stretch.

[nosebeepbear.livejournal.com]

Ack! Cognitive dissonance!

[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

"Tout je veux dire est off-the-record."
-- Valery Giscard d'Estaing, on France's "purity of language" law

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

The cat ignored me, of course, because he is a cat. [He may have looked at me in a puzzled manner and then ignored me, because (a) the world puzzles him, and (b) why on earth should he sod off? Those shoelaces are HIS toy...]

[scooterbird.livejournal.com]

Scary thing is that my similar rejoinder is "Oi! Cat!" And I've never been to Britain. And now my kids have picked up on it as well...!