I've started school as a sophomore, and I have approximately 6.32 gargillion liters of homework every night. Also, I have a teacher who really likes the phrase "so-called". He slaps this on so many words and phrases that the phrase has completely lost meaning for me. Did it ever really mean anything?
Mirriam-Webster.com says it means "commonly named" or "falsely or improperly so named". Mr. [not naming names] usually says it with a tone of voice indicating the latter. Now how does this apply in the phrase "out of so-called time"?! Yup, that word "time" there sure has so many synonyms and interpretations. Really, we should refer to it as "ticky-tockies" instead. MISTER ______, WE'RE OUT OF TICKY-TOCKIES! I HAVE TO GET TO CALC! See also: "so we don't have to so-called go back to our seats." I think he means that when he talks about us going back to our seats, he really is talking about us learning our family history so that we can know more about from whence we came. The class will get so much more interesting now I know that when he says "so-called", the next thing he says is a misnomer, or maybe a common term for something. "Staggering your so-called coming up here". Yeah, I sometimes refer to "going up there" as "struttin' the loaf", but I suppose that term is the usual one.
I'd better get back to my work.
Keep struttin' the loaf, blaggers.
You're so-called blag is still funny.
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