I may watch too much television

[slemslempike]

[Poll #1084483]

I think the main thing that would make teaching immeasurably better is if the students didn't. to a woman, have much better skin than me. I demand a return to spotty eighteen year olds!

When I was younger and watching Fist of Fun on TV, I thought Stewart Lee was the most beautiful man who ever lived. Then a few years later, watching This Morning With Richard Not Judy, I still liked him (obviously) but decided that it must have been a childish infatuation and he was perfectly normal looking. In the last few weeks I watched the FoF live video, and I wasn't wrong, I wasn't. He was heavenly.

Comments

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to imply that it was wrong! It's just that I'd only ever come across it on Australian television (until wonderlanded said it quite recently), and wondered if it had passed me by entirely and it was used in other versions of English as well, or if it was in fact a very Australian construction. And so far it seems that it is very Australian. Interesting!

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, really? That is very interesting indeed! I love discovering funny little linguistic quirks of which I was previously unaware.

[wonderlanded.livejournal.com]

I was unaware, too! I can't think of a real synonym for it in that sense, either. Useful word, really.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

whatho's asked in the poll about "confrontational" and whether it's the same function. As I have only recently become aware of the word, I don't know. It feels slightly different, that confrontational might be about describing an encounter with another person, but confronting is maybe about how it makes you address things? I'm babbling now, but it's all very interesting.

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

To me, confrontational implies intention, where confronting doesn't. You can't be confrontational by accent, but you can be accidentally confronting.

[whatho.livejournal.com]

Ah, thanks for that. It was the only confrontation-related adjective I could think of offhand. That's an interesting distinction.