about the word "frape"??

[BunnyLeBOOwski]

Logged onto FB this morning and was subjected to no less than 3 posts including this odious word.

In a fit of pique I posted a status along the lines of "For the love of God people, please stop using the word "frape". It makes you look insensitive and uneducated".

I know, I know, FB is the work of the devil and I shouldn't care but these are otherwise vaguely intelligent people and it is a hateful word is it not??

Or is it a harmless word and I'm overreacting?

Disclaimer: I'm at best pre-menstrual, at worst preggo so I may just be a tad snippier than usual .

Yep, AF is always right.

Fast learner AF. :)

Anyway, this thread has given me food for thought. I've shuddered at "rape" being used to mean good and "my tutor will rape me if I don't do this essay" , to paraphrase FromEsme's comment about her colleague. So whilst my stance on there being more than one definition of rape isn't factually incorrect, I may well have been over looking how similar "frape" is to those other uses of the word rape I found so unpleasant.

Well at least I have never known her be wrong.

Sometimes "facts" can obscure something that you would normally otherwise feel

Using the word "frape" feels wrong. < shrug >

porto...it happened once, in 1989. There was a furore and a kerfuffle. The world stopped turning for a moment.

Barrister Porto? :)

Point taken about mentioning my job all the time by the way. As has been noted,I'm new,I'll learn that nobody cares quite quickly!

You are right, Alis, we don't really care, but we do notice

BTW, if I told you my job I would have to kill you.

True AF,very true. I'm not so stubborn I can't see now that I was missing the point being made earlier on in the thread...just slow to catch on sometimes.

I shan't mention it again,unless the thread actually asks a specific question about something to do with what I do.

We'll have to stop the pole dancing, AF, I reckon, if we stand any chance of being taken seriously on MN these days. It was OK when Cod was about....

I know porto...these nipple tassles are creasing me...

And my thong is rubbing on my CS scar.