>>>>>>>>>>>Which brings the question of why the need to repeat the value, a zero-one tie is kind of impossible, right?
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>>>>>>>>>>Good question. This is why in tennis the score is "15 All". Maybe they should adapt it to other sports :)
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>>>>>>>>>Although, watching the Wimbledon tournament, I've heard them say "15 each". And considering the odd scoring used in Tennis, I doubt anybody wants to use tennis as a role model. Why doesn't tennis just count 0, 1, 2, 3 like normal humans instead of love, 15, 30, 40? There's probably a historical story to it, but there is also such a thing as evolution.
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>>>>>>>>Speaking of eaches... I'm still amused by "each" as a unit of measure. When the price is "$5/ea", how do I say "give me two eaches of..."? There's such a word in German, "St[u umlaut]ck", we say "komad" (a piece), but in English I have no clue, have to manage with "two of those". I don't know what to say when the unit of measure is a unit of one.
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>>>>>>>You simply say, "Give me two." Or, better yet, "I'd like two please." Politeness counts.
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>>>>>>I thought it was always "Can I get ... ?" (barf). This is creeping in over here - I hear it at the sandwich shop amongst he younger cutomers.
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>>>>>Yeah. I'm still waiting for a waiter or waitress to say, "No."
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>>>>Or "I don't know what your abilities at obtaining are".
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>>>I was in a restaurant with a friend and the waiter asked if I wanted more coffee. I said, "I'm fine". He said, "I don't care how you are. You want more coffee?" and he was grinning when he said it. I gave him a very good tip.
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>>Family members have developed a nice habit if you start saying something with "Can I just say" of replying "No!" at that point.
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>My two bugbears about BBC Radio 4 are:
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>Someone is asked a yes/no question and they reply with the middle-class word for "yes" - "Absolutely"
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>A cognisciento is asked to join in the discussion and begins his spiel with "I mean ...". He hasn't even said anything yet to qualify with an explanation!

"I mean" always makes me think of "The Alice's Restaurant Massacree in Four Part Harmony".

I went over to the sargent, said, "Sargeant, you got a lot a damn gall to
ask me if I've rehabilitated myself, I mean, I mean, I mean that just, I'm
sittin' here on the bench, I mean I'm sittin here on the Group W bench
'cause you want to know if I'm moral enough join the army, burn women,
kids, houses and villages after bein' a litterbug."