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humbledude64 -> RE: Living lifestyle/married vanilla (2/7/2009 3:30:31 AM)
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Great question! Definitions are all very slippery. I was a vegan for years. Everyone pronounced it "vee-gan". Oh, it drove me crazy. Afterall, you're not a "vee-getarian", you don't eat "vee-getables". They just said it that way to be different, and it was stupid and I refused to pronounce it that way, and- damn it- didn't everyone try to correct me. Some one even had the gaul to tell me I wasn't a vegan if I didn't say it that way. Ay carumba! By the way, I see webster.com has four pronounciations of it on their website with "vee-gan" being first. I encourage you to define yourself; be happy, play safe and don't sweat the small stuff. There will always be somebody to take a contradictory stand on any issue. Reminds me of the classic Monty Python skit (sorry, don't remember it word for word anymore): "I'd like to buy an argument." "No, you don't" "Yes, I do." "No, you do not." "YES, I DO!" "No, you don't.... and that will be three pounds." "Oh, okay, so this is the argument." "No, it isn't." LOL...
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