to wonder if anyone in real life actually talks like this?

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I am having a lazy t'internet morning! When browsing various forums (fora sounds a bit daft to me even if it is 'correct') it has occured to me that people seem to type things that I have never heard anyone say.

I have never heard a real person say 'one' when chatting. As in 'what does one do in these situations?' or 'one wonders if it is necessary' etc etc.

or gosh, gracious (as an exclamation), fora etc. lots of things really.

Is this because people use words or terms online that they don't in real life or is it because I and all my friends are terribly common?

I could never type fora, it seems a very poncey word.

Ah but apparently it is the term one should use. If you want to sound like a twat of course.

One would say forums ,and make someone on MN teeth itch

They seem to have itchy teeth a lot on MN.

I say gosh.
I also swear like a trooper when there's no little ears about.

I say 'gosh' too. And things like blimey and crikey.

I say "gosh, gracious (goodness, gracious me!) and I also say one.

I thought lots of people said these words, far better than in certain situations than swearing or using common slang.

My grandma uses "one" and "gosh" but I don't think she writes on forums, it's there a nansnet?

I dont think my teeth have ever itched well maybe If i have had a really sweet cake but i never seen anybody anywhere scratching their itchy teeth

I use 'gosh' and 'one' and 'jolly' as in 'jolly good'

I good, I'm not the only gosh user! :)

I use a lot of common slang, I type how I talk. It is a chat forum after all.

Sorry, I should have previewed that post.

*I say "gosh, gracious (goodness, gracious me!)" and I also say "one".

I had thought lots of people use these words, it's far better in certain situations than swearing or using common slang.*

Sorry about that.

I am common so the language and words I type will be common,

honeytea, there is Gransnet if that's any use?

I say gosh and golly occasionally. Swear quite a lot as well, though! Fora is just pretentious - everyday conversation is not a Latin exam (and I'm a self-confessed pedant and an editor IRL). Always amusing when someone tries to be clever and gets it wrong, such as saying 'octopi' - it's Greek, not Latin, so if you want to be really pedantic it should be octopodes. But only a twat would say that.

I say gosh now. I never used to, i used to have a potty mouth and had to find something to replace all the swearing with once I had children, so gosh it was!

I thought fora meant they had forgotten a space like for a what does it mean

And the only person who says "one" is the queen.

plural of forum if you want to sound like a twat.

Octopodes is a great word, I might try and use that in a post to show off

So how should I say "more than one octopus"?

Mrsmango I will point her in that direction thankyou! ;)

what forums are you on where people say 'one', btw? Genteelanddesperatetoproveit. com?

I say 'gracious' and also 'glorious' which my ILs mock me for.

No reason, they are just the right word, to me, to use in certain situations.

I do swear, but I just also use words like the above too.

I never say 'what would one do?' and cannot STAND people referring to themselves in the third person.

octopuses. Octopi is wrong and octopodes is incredibly pretentious unless you are correcting a pretentious person who says octopi.