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Originally Posted by alphagamzetagam
My dad corrected a server once, but he was a real jerk about it. She said "For youself?" and he said "Myself would like some..."
We were really wary of eating the food that day.
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Yeah, maybe I would mention it at the END of a meal, when they couldn't spit in my food anymore.
Oh, I was at a hockey game and they introduced a female Olympic gold medallist and they said that she was an "alumnus" of such and such university. Being that she was female, this annoyed me immensely. Then, being the nerd that I am, I looked here:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alumnus where it says:
" : a
person who has attended or has graduated from a particular school, college, or university " (i.e. it doesn't say anything about male or female).
I wonder if "alumnus" is going the same route as the term "actor"; that is, they have done away with the term "actress" and just call everyone "actors" now. Thoughts anyone?