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Iatroeco-oxyglossophilia  Part 5
           "Anybody notice you know who's been in a slightly better mood than usual this past couple of days?" said Cameron.
           "Good, I thought i was the only one who noticed, " replied Chase.
           "It makes a nice change, why question it?" Foreman said.
           Cameron said, "Well, he goes to that one hysterectomy patient's room and hangs out there on his breaks all the time.  I assigned Nurse Wang to go clean up while he was in there and she told me they're not having sex or anything, they just talk."
           Foreman rolled his eyes. "Maybe that's none of your business."
           Chase snorted.  "She's not at all attractive anyway."
           Foreman said, "Did a fat person kill your mom or something?"
           Chase snapped, "No, but she overheard me say that and started singing ' Dude Looks Like a Lady'-- what are you laughing at?"
           House walked in just as Foreman said,  "I'm laughing at a joke I can't remember right now."
           House commented, "Yeah, right. I told you everybody lies. Now, the patient has pain in his knees and eats a lot of ceviche, so that rules out...."

Comments

[bkwmkiwi.livejournal.com]

Wow. Iatroeco-oxyglossophilia. Please to be telling me a) what it means and b) how to pronounce it. I would like to use it in every day conversation. :)

vocab

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

Manias, phobias and philias (as in love or sexual attraction) are usually based in Greek root words.
Iatros=doctor, medical
eco= house, home
oxy=sharp, acid
glosso=tongue
Therefore, Iatroeco-oxyglossophilia; Love of Sharp -tongued Dr. House. ;) I invented this word.

Re: vocab

[bkwmkiwi.livejournal.com]

Ahaha! That's great! I think we should more about roots of words in English instead of learning how to rip apart perfectly good novels.

Re: vocab

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

did you get my message re my cookie recipe? American to British translation: all purpose flour= plain flour, baking soda= bicarb, I think maybe the Brit equivalent of molasses is treacle. Didn't realize you were from Hughland, hehe

[siobahn-daemian.livejournal.com]

I love this. Right to the point, but very in character.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

thanks, although in retrospect I think Foreman would have been able to come up with something more convincing than "I'm laughing at a joke I can't remember right now." Notice House didn't fall for that for a second.

[damigella-314.livejournal.com]

I feel I'm the only underweight middle aged lady in the house_wilson community :-). And being underweight is less healthy than overweight, if easier to hide.

Kudos to you for cheering House up, and for choosing a non-anglo-saxon name for the nurse.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

A lot of American hospital staff members are Asian, especially in or near big cities.

[damigella-314.livejournal.com]

Yes, but too many authors write fics without one Asian (or Latino, for that matter) name in them ever. Maybe they live in the countryside, and there almost everybody has English-sounding surnames.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

as far as I'm concerned one of the things that makes California a great state is its ethnic diversity. i have lots of friends from a lot of different backgrounds. :)