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Hmmm....
Growing up in Minnesota, I used to hate the two most common idioms there: "oh yah?" and "yah sure." As in:
"I hear the Olesons just had a lutefisk party."
"Oh yah?"
or,
"Cold enough for you?"
"Yah sure!"
When I moved to California, I started hanging with surfers 24/7, partly because I liked surf culture, and partly to help me lose my Minnesota accent. Mission accomplished, but I now have permanent surferisms in my speech that I know irritate some people.... I call all guys "dude," and I know I shouldn't....
Suburban white kids who use ghetto slang irritate the crap out of me....
I work sometimes with a guy who deliberately uses 1940s slang, and that also irritates the crap out of me....
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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