Maybe they are, maybe they aren’t, share anyway.

  • otto_kartoffelsaft@slrpnk.net
    5·
    21 days ago

    I used to play a game with a small group of people called “non-colloquialism” where it was forbidden to use any contractions, abbreviations, slang, etc. There were some contentious rules like whether “fax” was acceptable, but “OK” definitely was not.

    • atro_city@fedia.ioOP
      3·
      21 days ago

      What would happen when you broke the rules? Did everyone get a “non-colloquialism jar” and had to put in 10c or something?

      • otto_kartoffelsaft@slrpnk.net
        3·
        20 days ago

        Not a massive penalty, it was just that everybody else would be really smug about how uncivilized you were. It could get annoying when you had 5 people doing a performative mockery of a late 19th century aristocratic stereotype in chorus. Lots of “Oh dear” and “I say” and miming of the adjusting of a monocle.