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galen  ·  3789 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Is It Time To Lower Your Standards?

    Call them “expectancy spectacles” if you’d like

What about "expectacles"? Is that acceptable?





user-inactivated  ·  3789 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This is more than acceptable.

mitvit  ·  3789 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  

Some would say... acspextacle.

mknod  ·  3787 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't think my tongue can make that noise that word wants me to make.

galen  ·  3788 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I laughed out loud. Twice.

galen  ·  3789 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Good. I will strive to use it in the conversations I will inevitably have with friends and strangers about this article.