A Language Question For The Linguists

[Dr. Medulla]

Okay, the answer:

A booter mainly happens in spring, but sometimes winter, when you're wearing rubber boots and end up soaking your feet. It's mainly little kids, maybe walking on thin ice, falling thru into a puddle, and the water overflows. It was sometimes a good tactic to get sent home. Get a booter during recess, have to go home for dry socks. I still use the term even when wearing shoes and I step into a puddle.

To really get a sense of its usage, think about any of the yokels from Fargo saying it. Ya, I was walking to Lindgren's and got a booter when I stepped off the curb.

Funny, it really sounds like something the Limeys would come up with.

Then it would involve biscuits and colonialism.

Yeah but there biscuits are cookies and crumpets are biscuits. And colonialism is divine.

That's a real booter of a comeback, mate!

[101Walterton]

Okay, the answer:

A booter mainly happens in spring, but sometimes winter, when you're wearing rubber boots and end up soaking your feet. It's mainly little kids, maybe walking on thin ice, falling thru into a puddle, and the water overflows. It was sometimes a good tactic to get sent home. Get a booter during recess, have to go home for dry socks. I still use the term even when wearing shoes and I step into a puddle.

To really get a sense of its usage, think about any of the yokels from Fargo saying it. Ya, I was walking to Lindgren's and got a booter when I stepped off the curb.

Funny, it really sounds like something the Limeys would come up with.

Limeys have their own special term for it it is called a ‘wet sock’.
Don’t ever recall having to go home and change my socks.

[Dr. Medulla]

Okay, the answer:

A booter mainly happens in spring, but sometimes winter, when you're wearing rubber boots and end up soaking your feet. It's mainly little kids, maybe walking on thin ice, falling thru into a puddle, and the water overflows. It was sometimes a good tactic to get sent home. Get a booter during recess, have to go home for dry socks. I still use the term even when wearing shoes and I step into a puddle.

To really get a sense of its usage, think about any of the yokels from Fargo saying it. Ya, I was walking to Lindgren's and got a booter when I stepped off the curb.

Funny, it really sounds like something the Limeys would come up with.

Limeys have their own special term for it it is called a ‘wet sock’.
Don’t ever recall having to go home and change my socks.

New World civilization.

[revbob]

Okay, the answer:

A booter mainly happens in spring, but sometimes winter, when you're wearing rubber boots and end up soaking your feet. It's mainly little kids, maybe walking on thin ice, falling thru into a puddle, and the water overflows. It was sometimes a good tactic to get sent home. Get a booter during recess, have to go home for dry socks. I still use the term even when wearing shoes and I step into a puddle.

To really get a sense of its usage, think about any of the yokels from Fargo saying it. Ya, I was walking to Lindgren's and got a booter when I stepped off the curb.

Funny, it really sounds like something the Limeys would come up with.

Limeys have their own special term for it it is called a ‘wet sock’.
Don’t ever recall having to go home and change my socks.

Because it wasn't really fucking cold where you lived.

I remember getting snow on my wrists really sucking. Your gloves covered your hands but if your sleeves weren't long enough that icy cold on your wrists when you fell in the snow was a bitch.

[Dr. Medulla]

I remember getting snow on my wrists really sucking. Your gloves covered your hands but if your sleeves weren't long enough that icy cold on your wrists when you fell in the snow was a bitch.

That was nasty. When I was a kid, it never seemed like my sleeves were long enough, so, yeah, coming in from recess with red wrists and forearms. My mother also knit my mittens, and she used some cheap-ass polyester material that kept out neither the cold nor water. They only sort of worked as long as I kept my hands in my pockets.

[101Walterton]

Okay, the answer:

A booter mainly happens in spring, but sometimes winter, when you're wearing rubber boots and end up soaking your feet. It's mainly little kids, maybe walking on thin ice, falling thru into a puddle, and the water overflows. It was sometimes a good tactic to get sent home. Get a booter during recess, have to go home for dry socks. I still use the term even when wearing shoes and I step into a puddle.

To really get a sense of its usage, think about any of the yokels from Fargo saying it. Ya, I was walking to Lindgren's and got a booter when I stepped off the curb.

Funny, it really sounds like something the Limeys would come up with.

Limeys have their own special term for it it is called a ‘wet sock’.
Don’t ever recall having to go home and change my socks.

Because it wasn't really fucking cold where you lived.

I remember getting snow on my wrists really sucking. Your gloves covered your hands but if your sleeves weren't long enough that icy cold on your wrists when you fell in the snow was a bitch.

Surely water freezes at the same temperature everywhere?

[revbob]

Okay, the answer:

A booter mainly happens in spring, but sometimes winter, when you're wearing rubber boots and end up soaking your feet. It's mainly little kids, maybe walking on thin ice, falling thru into a puddle, and the water overflows. It was sometimes a good tactic to get sent home. Get a booter during recess, have to go home for dry socks. I still use the term even when wearing shoes and I step into a puddle.

To really get a sense of its usage, think about any of the yokels from Fargo saying it. Ya, I was walking to Lindgren's and got a booter when I stepped off the curb.

Funny, it really sounds like something the Limeys would come up with.

Limeys have their own special term for it it is called a ‘wet sock’.
Don’t ever recall having to go home and change my socks.

Because it wasn't really fucking cold where you lived.

I remember getting snow on my wrists really sucking. Your gloves covered your hands but if your sleeves weren't long enough that icy cold on your wrists when you fell in the snow was a bitch.

Surely water freezes at the same temperature everywhere?

Generally speaking yes but it continues to get much colder than 32/0 in some places.

[Dr. Medulla]

Funny, it really sounds like something the Limeys would come up with.

Limeys have their own special term for it it is called a ‘wet sock’.
Don’t ever recall having to go home and change my socks.

Because it wasn't really fucking cold where you lived.

I remember getting snow on my wrists really sucking. Your gloves covered your hands but if your sleeves weren't long enough that icy cold on your wrists when you fell in the snow was a bitch.

Surely water freezes at the same temperature everywhere?

Generally speaking yes but it continues to get much colder than 32/0 in some places.

If you don't know the experience of having your snot freeze when outside and then melt and start running inside, you don't know cold.

[revbob]

Limeys have their own special term for it it is called a ‘wet sock’.
Don’t ever recall having to go home and change my socks.

Because it wasn't really fucking cold where you lived.

I remember getting snow on my wrists really sucking. Your gloves covered your hands but if your sleeves weren't long enough that icy cold on your wrists when you fell in the snow was a bitch.

Surely water freezes at the same temperature everywhere?

Generally speaking yes but it continues to get much colder than 32/0 in some places.

If you don't know the experience of having your snot freeze when outside and then melt and start running inside, you don't know cold.

-40 F, (not with wind chill) is the coldest I've knowingly experienced. Just brutal, you don't want wet socks with that.

[Dr. Medulla]

Because it wasn't really fucking cold where you lived.

I remember getting snow on my wrists really sucking. Your gloves covered your hands but if your sleeves weren't long enough that icy cold on your wrists when you fell in the snow was a bitch.

Surely water freezes at the same temperature everywhere?

Generally speaking yes but it continues to get much colder than 32/0 in some places.

If you don't know the experience of having your snot freeze when outside and then melt and start running inside, you don't know cold.

-40 F, (not with wind chill) is the coldest I've knowingly experienced. Just brutal, you don't want wet socks with that.

I've walked to school or work when it's -40C or worse. Most winters you can expect a few days of that. I tend to do fairly well in it because I have a solid pulse and once you get walking the blood moves around (which works against me in summer). It ain't fun, but It's much easier to take than +40C.

[Dr. Medulla]

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[Flex]

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lmao

[Wolter]

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I love semicolons; this is indeed true, though.

[Dr. Medulla]

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I love semicolons; this is indeed true, though.

An old prof once told me, "Save that semi-colon. You never know when you'll need one." I've come to use them more often in my own writing, but when editing for others I usually take them out. Which probably reflects an unconscious arrogance on my part that *I* know when they're appropriate or justified.

[Flex]

An old prof once told me, "Save that semi-colon. You never know when you'll need one." I've come to use them more often in my own writing, but when editing for others I usually take them out. Which probably reflects an unconscious arrogance on my part that *I* know when they're appropriate or justified.

Samesies-ish. I like it for casual writing (like message boards and such) when it works well enough to just let me keep writing as I think, but I tend to remove them from more professional writing I have to do.