by ast.riske » Wed Dec 28, 2011 10:57 pm
Meh. I've found that people who go around blatantly correcting others grammar and belittling them tend to ACT like they are better than others because they don't FEEL they are good enough. Typically when people behave as if they were better than those around them, they feel they have something to prove. Long story short, I tend to agree with Lindsay, nobody thinks they're better. ; )
Seriously, though, there are correct and incorrect terms for all kinds of things. It is all in how you present your side that makes the difference. My coworker asked "when did you start gauging your ears?" I responded "I started stretching them a while ago." She may or may not have gotten the correction, but it's not my job to be the grammar police. She can go around verbing nouns if she likes. See what I did there? ; )
But since the discussion has brought it up, I'll go on record:
Gauge: a US/Canadian measurement standard. (Don't expect people in the UK to know how big 0g is, for example, though they may. If you say 8mm it will mean more.)
Stretch: the act of expanding, pulling or extending a material.
Example of use: I just stretched my eyelid piercing today and put in my new 4 gauge plug. It rubs my eyeball something fierce, but it was totally worth it
Battle not with monsters lest ye become a monster; and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes into you.
-Fredrick Nietzsche
Pericings:
2g Lobes
6g Septum
Want:
Frenulum Linguae
Left inner conch
Right helix