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[tigira]

I'm tired. Sleepy. Drowsing at my desk.
I didn't eat a good lunch. Now I'm paying for it.

But...

I got my new coffee maker!!!! Yippee! The Krups Caffe il Bistro with all the neato attachments and features.
Espresso anyone? ;)

Of course, this also means...

I have more boxes! Just what I, um needed?

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Tangentially on topic

[roy-batty.livejournal.com]

So, one of my pet peeves has for sometime been the oft mis-pronouncing of espresso as eXpresso (taken even to the point of becoming the name of some shitty car). Much to my chagrin, someone very near and dear to me has been a constant and repeat offender. I couldn't simply call them on it, this called for subtlety and tact, so I started readying my materials, making my case . . .

Lo and behold (again, to my chagrin) expresso IS a valid variant, indeed is the older and truer version of the word. In retrospect I should have seen this all along given the benefit of even my rudimentary recollection of high school Latin, but alas, I did not.

No I am left with an ear that still hears the "x version” as it would the screech of fingernails on a chalkboard, but a tongue that can't rightfully comment anymore.

*sigh*

I'll have to redouble my pedantic efforts on the proper pronunciation of "forte".

Re: Tangentially on topic

[tigira.livejournal.com]

*soothe*
I pronounce it "eSpresso."
No X in the word, so I don't pronounce one. Some things, though, are regional variations, so I don't jump on them. I did not know about this one until now.

Thank you for educating me.

Now not only will we ask for apres din-din cafe....

[ravenstorm27.livejournal.com]

WE SHALL DEMAND IT!! :-]

Espresso -- liquid coffee consciousness that makes the sleepy alert and the alert, manic.

Don't leave the house without it.