1) A family friend posted a devotional on the Facebook page (she does daily). It started with how sometimes you have friends you have to kick out of your life. I can relate to that. I’ve had to kick friends out of my life. Mostly people who I thought were true friends. Then circumstances revealed it was really a one way friendship with nothing coming back. So yeah, fuck those people. They’re users. They only contact you when they need something or it’s convenient for them. Or maybe they somehow think they are really your friend and somehow justify that you’re too fat to be in their wedding but you’re still their best friend! Yeah fuck you.
Then the further in the devotional it turned out the friends were worry, doubt, and fear – not actual people. My bad. Sometimes people gotta go too though.
2) There’s this guy at work who has a weird accent “problem.” He’s from England but I think both of his parents were American. So he sounds normal American English, but every once in a while he throws in proper British English accented word. Sometimes he’ll say the exact same word a way an American would, but sometimes it falls out in more of a British pronunciation. Accents are usually nice – but not this. This is jarring. He sounds like he’s faking being fancy. Especially when he’s talking to you. Because it’s only a few random words it sounds like he’s trying to correct you on their pronunciation. It’s just really weird. He’s married too and I bet his wife loves it. But every time I hear him slip in a weirdly accented word, I cringe. I know in my brain that he’s not doing it on purpose but in my heart I feel like he’s faking and being pretentious.
I can only compare it to bilingual people. When they’re running along in perfect English but encounter a word in their native language and pronounce it correctly. Like Giatta (Food Network) talking about food and then really going hard on words like “mozzarella.” Or my Puerto Rican friend who has a dad from Wisconsin – so he sounds American but pronounces Puerto Rican or Latina dishes in their authentic way. These cases do not bother me. I find them nice, actually. Like I could learn from them.
But this guy flipping between two different English accents is really annoying. I want to CORRECT him. Like dude, no one says “task” like that. You’re killing me. It’s usually his “A” sounds. He’ll say it hard when it should be soft or soft when it should be hard. SAY IT RIGHT, THOMAS.
3) The pool is OPEN! It’s freezing cold though. Like below 70 degrees. So I haven’t been in yet. Just stood on the tanning ledge and let my feet go numb.
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K says:
Our Puerto Rican friend will be running along fine and then occasionally get hung up on a word, it always makes me giggle! I love when he pronounces things authentically though, it sounds lovely.
Can’t wait for the pool to warm up, though it’s probably even too cold for me right now 🤣 I find, now that I am getting a bit older, I don’t tolerate cold water quite like I used to haha When I was younger, if it wasn’t frozen, I was in it!
cursingcats says:
Yeah HE doesn’t bother me at all. Normally I love accents. But lord help Thomas makes me cringe so hard.
Yeah when we were much younger… Like 15ish, mom had a pool in the shade. That thing never hit above 82 and it didnt phase me a bit. When I was even younger, wasn’t nothing keeping me out of a pool! Now I’m like. Ehhhh, that’s a bit much.