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kitesandtrainsandcats
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28 Mar 2021, 2:51 pm

As a child I was confused by the word boondoggle and how it was used - from my parents' wide vocabulary I knew that when a thing was a boon it was a good and helpful thing; and, doggle was obviously a cute way of saying dog; therefore given the way the English language works a boondoggle was obviously a cute and helpful dog.

Umm ...

No ...

I lost the war the very second I applied logic to the English language ...


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28 Mar 2021, 3:47 pm


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28 Mar 2021, 3:49 pm

I, a native born American (but an aspie), literally did not know how to respond to "What's up?" until ...middle age, and until a few months ago when I saw that ^ foreign stand up comic on TV explain it to me!