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<blockquote data-quote="Afro_Samurai" data-source="post: 5259697" data-attributes="member: 29651"><p>I love James Ellroy, right? L.A. Confidential, all that jazz. </p><p></p><p>Item: An early morning snafu put the kibosh on breakfast.</p><p></p><p>Item: I had <em>two</em> eat 'n' greets in the afternoon within an hour of each other.</p><p></p><p>Item: I decided to call the first E'n'G <em>breakfast</em>.</p><p></p><p>"Call the first one breakfast". Today, I realised I use phrases like that a lot. "Call it a late lunch", "Call it payback for the other thing", "Call them a latter day Buddy Holly with distortion."</p><p></p><p>I have been using "Call it, them, etc." for the last fifteen years without realising where I'd picked it up.</p><p></p><p>That ever happened to you, that you'd picked up a phrase or even a mannerism from a book or a film or a tv show without really realising it?</p><p></p><p>For example: How many people do you know who say "<em>Anyway</em>..." or "<em>Okay</em>..." in a high pitch to denote incredulity? Those sayings, and I mean specifically the way they're spoken, didn't exist in Ireland before the tv show Friends.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Afro_Samurai, post: 5259697, member: 29651"] I love James Ellroy, right? L.A. Confidential, all that jazz. Item: An early morning snafu put the kibosh on breakfast. Item: I had [I]two[/I] eat 'n' greets in the afternoon within an hour of each other. Item: I decided to call the first E'n'G [I]breakfast[/I]. "Call the first one breakfast". Today, I realised I use phrases like that a lot. "Call it a late lunch", "Call it payback for the other thing", "Call them a latter day Buddy Holly with distortion." I have been using "Call it, them, etc." for the last fifteen years without realising where I'd picked it up. That ever happened to you, that you'd picked up a phrase or even a mannerism from a book or a film or a tv show without really realising it? For example: How many people do you know who say "[I]Anyway[/I]..." or "[I]Okay[/I]..." in a high pitch to denote incredulity? Those sayings, and I mean specifically the way they're spoken, didn't exist in Ireland before the tv show Friends. [/QUOTE]
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