Why do Americans call the main course an entrée?

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JS80

Lifer
Oct 24, 2005
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LOL, I was just trying to pull a bunch of your posts together to ask you what the fuck you were taking about.

Edit: Whats a Morts dock?

hehe I was just flipping through looking for anything with "derog" next to it and throwing it out indiscriminately.

Morts Dock
A cock (penis)

Rocket, care to explain origin?
 

RocksteadyDotNet

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hehe I was just flipping through looking for anything with "derog" next to it and throwing it out indiscriminately.

Morts Dock
A cock (penis)

Rocket, care to explain origin?

Could be rhyming slang.

Like:

Six foot three - tea
trouble-and-strife - wife
 

AreaCode707

Lifer
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Quoted to perserve stupidity.

If my meal only has one course why do I need to procure a phrase from a foreign language?

Its just called my meal.


Look, trolltards, my point was that's how the language evolved to its currently accepted meaning in the US. You're clearly more interested in an artificial superiority than you are in any real interesting discussion about language, so I'm done now.
 

WelshBloke

Lifer
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Look, trolltards, my point was that's how the language evolved to its currently accepted meaning in the US. You're clearly more interested in an artificial superiority than you are in any real interesting discussion about language, so I'm done now.

No seriously. If my meal has only one course why would I need a foreign word for it?
 

RocksteadyDotNet

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Look, trolltards, my point was that's how the language evolved to its currently accepted meaning in the US. You're clearly more interested in an artificial superiority than you are in any real interesting discussion about language, so I'm done now.

Maybe you'd like to discuss why you guys drive on the wrong side of the fucking road?!
 

RapidSnail

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If certain people outside of the United States get into such a tizzy over cultural word usage, failing to realize that language is not an objective science, but a means of conveying thought, desire, intent in a form communicable and comprehensible by those with whom an individual most commonly interacts with, than I am satisfied with my, and my fellow American's, ability to implicitly understand and infer connotation and casual semantics without acting like a tight headed snob.

Touché.
 

WelshBloke

Lifer
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If certain people outside of the United States get into such a tizzy over cultural word usage, failing to realize that language is not an objective science, but a means of conveying thought, desire, intent in a form communicable and comprehensible by those with whom an individual most commonly interacts with, than I am satisfied with my, and my fellow American's, ability to implicitly understand and infer connotation and casual semantics without acting like a tight headed snob.

OK, you go on to start grunting at each other. As long as you guys know what you mean. Hey whats 1000's of years of context.