Genuine plain.
written by Julie R. Neidlinger 3 comments link this post"I read what you wrote about being plain, and it bothered me. That's not what we meant...not plain," a friend said at church yesterday. "We meant...um, what's the word...genuine. That the way you are is they way you are, that you don't change how you are in any situation."
This is in reference to an earlier post, which was about learning second-hand that someone said they liked me because I was plain and simple which was, as I alluded, probably because of mis-picked words to describe instead of an intent to insult.
"Genuine, huh?" I said. We laughed about it; I know that that was what they were trying to say in a sense, though what I wrote in the post wasn't made-up, either, coming from experiences more than just the one on the plate in front of me.
Regardless, I had a little fun with this person about it.
"Look," I said, holding a cup of water during the fellowship dinner in the church basement after church. "I have a cup of genuine water."
"Look," I said, holding up the plain potato chips on my plate, "I have genuine chips."
I went about looking for ways to use the word "plain" and then substitute it with 'genuine."
It's not super funny to read about now, but I'm pretty genuine about goading. Between that and the "silence, I kill you!" joking around and then crying in front of the people from church (and I don't like to cry in front of people) during the intense meeting that followed the meal...yesterday was anything but plain. Genuine really is the word, in that case.
Labels: church life, my life, promotion
Copyright (c) Julie R. Neidlinger 7/21/2008 07:58:00 AM
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3 Comments:
For a moment, I thought the title read, "Genuine Pain."
How do folks pronounce the word "genuine" in your part of the country?
If I hear it pronounced "ge-new-WHINE" one more time...
Now that would be a genuine pain.
By 
David Cho, at
21/7/08 23:33
Up here, we pronounce it in a way that rhymes with the word "pancake."
Yes.
I swear.
By Julie R. Neidlinger, at
21/7/08 23:35
Gawd, that is awful. Even Koreans fresh off the plane aren't as bad.
By David Cho, at
22/7/08 16:01
