What is your favourite quote?
There are so many excellent quotes. I'm a quotomaniac. If that's a word. Well, it should be. My favourite quote is probably still Oscar Wilde's "Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast", though. Go figure...
Your favourite slang word?
Hmm. English or Norwegian? I don't really use a lot of slang, I don't think. Possibly, the kids' (not just my kids. Anyone's kids these days..) adoption of the English "rules", as in "Liverpool rules!". Which they do, of course, only in Norwegian ("Liverpool ruler!") it still sounds a little quaint, methinks...
What is your least favourite slang word?
Well, in keeping with what I just said, this could be the Norwegianisation of "sucks" (as in "ManU suger") which as an expression is already here to stay but which I personally find extremely offensive still. Ok, and funny. At least in this connection...
If you could have a book about your life, who would write it and why?
Good question. Great author urgently needed. There are a few bluddies around with the gift of the, erh, keyb? Anyway, I'd better write it myself, I think. Another writer would go insane from all my post-editing, whereas I do editing as a profession... And seriously, I don't think anyone else could be bothered.
- Oh yes, happy Valentine's day to anyone so inclined*!
*I originally wrote "to anyone so declined", but then I thought you might think that I thought that this was how the saying went, so I thought better of it. Very thoughtful...
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I grew up using "sucks" but as a parent find that it sounds very offensive from the mouths of my little ones...but I can't stop using it either. We've tried switching to "stinks" and it's marginally better. Sigh.
You sure are thoughtful :)
It's interesting how the words are absorbed into another language. 'rules' has been adopted to portuguese (sounds strange too) but not 'sucks', thank the Lord. ;)
Those things never occur to me, but when you mentioned that question, I knew that I had to have a spanish writer (Lucia Extebarria) to write the book of my life. Love her.
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