Fictating Again!
Do you talk to people/characters on tv as if they could actually hear you?
I do!
And for all the good it does - that silly woman still walked away from the man of her dreams even though I was practically screaming at her not to!!
[Wait a minute! Maybe he could be the man of my dreams now!
-Or not! ] (HaHaHa!)
Fictate comes from two roots: dictate and fiction - ergo, to dictate to a fictional character (or someone not actually present like on tv) as if s/he can hear you is called fictating.
Like telling the weatherman it is raining outside your window while he's telling you it should be sunny and warm.
Or yelling at the quarterback to throw the ball.
[Yeah, there's a winner even when he does hear you!]
There will be much fictating this weekend as throngs gather round their tvs to watch the SuperBowl. For some of you (and you know who you are!) it's a good thing the referee is oblivious to your critiques of his calls!
So how about you...do you fictate?
Shirley
Do you talk to people/characters on tv as if they could actually hear you?
I do!
And for all the good it does - that silly woman still walked away from the man of her dreams even though I was practically screaming at her not to!!
[Wait a minute! Maybe he could be the man of my dreams now!
-Or not! ] (HaHaHa!)
Fictate comes from two roots: dictate and fiction - ergo, to dictate to a fictional character (or someone not actually present like on tv) as if s/he can hear you is called fictating.
Like telling the weatherman it is raining outside your window while he's telling you it should be sunny and warm.
Or yelling at the quarterback to throw the ball.
[Yeah, there's a winner even when he does hear you!]
There will be much fictating this weekend as throngs gather round their tvs to watch the SuperBowl. For some of you (and you know who you are!) it's a good thing the referee is oblivious to your critiques of his calls!
So how about you...do you fictate?
Shirley
posted by Shirley @ 11:07 AM
3 Comments:
At 12:57 PM,
Anonymous said…
for some of us . . this can qualify as "quality conversation"! :)
At 12:21 PM,
Anonymous said…
I do fictate! Especially at scary movies... I am always yelling at the girl not to go look for that sound etc... never go see what the sound is, just run stupid.
I talk to the TV all the time. what does that say about me?
At 9:28 AM,
Anonymous said…
lol. i agree with tammy. i so do not have a life.
yea....so, umm. we watched some indianna jones at l-den, and it was funny because this one leader (don't remember her name) was all like "is he married?" it was really funny. and we all fictated a lot. lol.
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