When discussing the state of being like a pea, beware of the suffix “-ness.”

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Poor lady.

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6 Responses

  1. 1
    Chelsea Bass says:

    That lady is the real Julie Powell, from Julie and Julia.

  2. 2
    Cassie says:

    That’s awesome…..and the other gals reaction is priceless!

  3. 3
    bekahcubed says:

    One of my sister-in-law’s early childhood education texts used “pea-ness” when talking about how children don’t innately have a sense of what makes something fit into a certain category. Debbie (my SIL) said she probably wouldn’t have noticed it except that my brother was reading her text out loud to her while she was driving on a long trip. As it is, that’s just a remarkably unfortunate choice of an example–wouldn’t it have been easier to talk about…broccoli-ness or cheese-ness or block-ness…or pretty much anything but pea-ness?

  4. 4
    charity says:

    been there. done that. but not in relation to a “pea”, but a “p” in the myers briggs.

  5. 5
    Roger Messner says:

    Ah…happiness.

  6. 6
    Megan S. says:

    Beavis and Butthead would have loved this.
    ”Huh huh…she said pea-ness…huh huh huh…”

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