Mad kitty!

On 23 Oct 2004 04:36:08 GMT, CATherine
wrote:

I grew up in north Texas and we said couch; referring to the common
type of sitting furniture of people we knew. Plain, with 3 seat
cushions. A divan was a short armless 2-person settee and a davenport
was like a larger, more elaborate divan. sofa was a piece of furniture
for the rich. ;-D

Our large "couch" is/was always called a "sofa" (and we're *far*
from rich!). The 2-seater is/was called a "love seat."

Jeanne

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 09:13:41 GMT, wrote:

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:

What I find even weirder is the comparatively new "I could
care less", when what is so clearly meant is "I could NOT
care less"!

Here's another reversal I've noticed in the past decade or so. When
I was young, someone might say, "You were driving without your seatbelt?
How smart is that?" Meaning, how smart can you be, to do something so
stupid?

Nowadays, someone would say, "You were driving without your seatbelt?
How stupid is that?" Seems like an odd thing to put as a question.
*Very* stupid, obviously!

Joyce - actually, we didn't have seatbelts when I was young...

Around here (middle Tennessee) the saying is "If you don't care to
would you ..........?", meaning "If you don't mind would you
.............?".

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 09:13:41 GMT, wrote:

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:

What I find even weirder is the comparatively new "I could
care less", when what is so clearly meant is "I could NOT
care less"!

Here's another reversal I've noticed in the past decade or so. When
I was young, someone might say, "You were driving without your seatbelt?
How smart is that?" Meaning, how smart can you be, to do something so
stupid?

Nowadays, someone would say, "You were driving without your seatbelt?
How stupid is that?" Seems like an odd thing to put as a question.
*Very* stupid, obviously!

Joyce - actually, we didn't have seatbelts when I was young...

Around here (middle Tennessee) the saying is "If you don't care to
would you ..........?", meaning "If you don't mind would you
.............?".

On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 09:13:41 GMT, wrote:

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:

What I find even weirder is the comparatively new "I could
care less", when what is so clearly meant is "I could NOT
care less"!

Here's another reversal I've noticed in the past decade or so. When
I was young, someone might say, "You were driving without your seatbelt?
How smart is that?" Meaning, how smart can you be, to do something so
stupid?

Nowadays, someone would say, "You were driving without your seatbelt?
How stupid is that?" Seems like an odd thing to put as a question.
*Very* stupid, obviously!

Joyce - actually, we didn't have seatbelts when I was young...

Around here (middle Tennessee) the saying is "If you don't care to
would you ..........?", meaning "If you don't mind would you
.............?".

wrote:
Singh wrote:

We had this thingie when I was really little, that my parents
called a "Hollywood Bed." I never quite figured what that meant,
for as a small child I assumed we kept beds in bedrooms, not
living rooms. I was in my late twenties before I learned that it's
a daybed. I've never heard anyone outside my family call it a
Hollywood bed.

Well, I never knew until recently what a "daybed" was!

It's kind of amusing to me that we have so many words for "couch".
They say that a culture will have many words for the things that are
important in that culture. Hmm...

Joyce

I'm sitting on the settee enjoing this thread. I love the way on this
group, some of the longest threads are off topic.
--
Adrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera)
A house is not a home, without a cat.

wrote:
Singh wrote:

We had this thingie when I was really little, that my parents
called a "Hollywood Bed." I never quite figured what that meant,
for as a small child I assumed we kept beds in bedrooms, not
living rooms. I was in my late twenties before I learned that it's
a daybed. I've never heard anyone outside my family call it a
Hollywood bed.

Well, I never knew until recently what a "daybed" was!

It's kind of amusing to me that we have so many words for "couch".
They say that a culture will have many words for the things that are
important in that culture. Hmm...

Joyce

I'm sitting on the settee enjoing this thread. I love the way on this
group, some of the longest threads are off topic.
--
Adrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera)
A house is not a home, without a cat.

wrote:
Singh wrote:

We had this thingie when I was really little, that my parents
called a "Hollywood Bed." I never quite figured what that meant,
for as a small child I assumed we kept beds in bedrooms, not
living rooms. I was in my late twenties before I learned that it's
a daybed. I've never heard anyone outside my family call it a
Hollywood bed.

Well, I never knew until recently what a "daybed" was!

It's kind of amusing to me that we have so many words for "couch".
They say that a culture will have many words for the things that are
important in that culture. Hmm...

Joyce

I'm sitting on the settee enjoing this thread. I love the way on this
group, some of the longest threads are off topic.
--
Adrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera)
A house is not a home, without a cat.

CATherine had some very
interesting things to say about "go down cellar":

That is a slip of the finger on the keyboard. She meant "cyber" life.
;-) My backspace key is my most-used key!!

I touch-type backspace as well as I do any letter. :-)

--
"The universe is quite robust in design and appears to be
doing just fine on its own, incompetent support staff notwithstanding.
:-)" - the Dennis formerly known as (evil), MCFL

CATherine had some very
interesting things to say about "go down cellar":

That is a slip of the finger on the keyboard. She meant "cyber" life.
;-) My backspace key is my most-used key!!

I touch-type backspace as well as I do any letter. :-)

--
"The universe is quite robust in design and appears to be
doing just fine on its own, incompetent support staff notwithstanding.
:-)" - the Dennis formerly known as (evil), MCFL

CATherine had some very
interesting things to say about "go down cellar":

That is a slip of the finger on the keyboard. She meant "cyber" life.
;-) My backspace key is my most-used key!!

I touch-type backspace as well as I do any letter. :-)

--
"The universe is quite robust in design and appears to be
doing just fine on its own, incompetent support staff notwithstanding.
:-)" - the Dennis formerly known as (evil), MCFL