Katye, forgot to add - LOL on the "mulsh". I guess we can call it mulsh when we have too mush to drink!
What expressions (or words) drive you nuts??
This thread is sooo funny.
How about when people add an extra letter in the word when saying it.
Like warsh, instead of wash?
Reallly?
hey I have a good one. How about when you call a business and the recording comes on (you expect that these days) but thennit tells you to listen to all the crap as the "menu has changed". I don't usually listen but must admit that the one time I skipped, the menu had changed and it took me right to the beginning. ugh
I would love to get just one that has NOT changed the menu!
If they are not selling food why is it a menu? You mean, you're not selling it with gravy anymore?
How about a weather one - '...but it's a dry heat'!!
hubbie hates it when he hears the "feels like" temp during weather report. He thinks hot is hot so what's the diff if 98 vs. 101? he gets cranky if I don't feed him on schedule (pronounced shedule, which BTW drives me nuts) lol
Ladies and Gents,
I think our lives are pretty darned good if these are the worst things we have to complain about
LOL, my grandmother always said warsh. I say it often to my kids, but on purpose - that and squarsh!
I spent a summer in Phoenix years ago, and that dry heat thing is a bunch of hooey. When it's 110 or whatever godforsaken temperature it was every single stinking day I was there, it's HOT. Dry or not.
I once made the mistake of going to check the mail (at the end of the asphalt driveway) with bare feet. Only made that mistake once!
How about the voice recognition that allows you speak your answers and numbers instaed of punch them in on the keypad. I always get " we did not get your last response" in other words ...please speak English, dude.
Ooh, I don't like those voice recognition things! I guess it wouldn't be so bad if the voice speaking to you wasn't trying to act like it was your best friend! I mean, you KNOW it's a machine, so why try to make the voice all friendly and conversational? Just too weird for me!
Have y'all heard of recording bullying? that is where you utter mean things to the voicemail, knowing full well they can't answer back. examples: if the recording says "sorry, we did not get your last response". Bullying: "what are you stupid? I said______"
great release, try it sometime.
Oh, we're onto wx. "Things change so quickly here". Alice
Thats funny vossner. Will give it a try!
warshington state
I agree with him, voss.
Yom ever notice that weathermen are the only ones who get a kick out of bad weather. They are in their element when storms hit. Almost masochistic.
Who's Yom, jada??! Hee hee.
Last year during hurricane Ike, I thought one of the weather men was just gonna break down in tears, right then and there. lol.
The other thing is one local weather guy actually said he added 10% chance of rain to give people some hope. Not predicting, just uttering wishful thinking. In my area I've noticed that weathermen are greatly concerned about losing popularity because of grim weather report so they sugar coat it. As if we didn't know better....
How about the guy on the Weather Channel that is always shown right in the middle of the worst hurricane, storm, hail, etc. I want to scream at the TV, DUDE, what are you doing? get to a shelter. Why does he think that makes him a better weather reporter? I can see out the window.
edited to say: in this case, you can use no other word but DUDE
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Ha! Yea, the guy swinging from a pole horizontal to the ground in the middle of the storm. Yipes!
edited to say: Dude, is it worth it??
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Yom, was a typo, but I kind of like it:-)
The r in warsh is a midwestern trick. I think I had to break myself of it. I have also lost most of my 'Milwaukeeisms' except that I make meals instead of cooking them.
Yes, I agree on those idiots in the hurricanes. And it's not just the Weather Channel. Every network now seems to think they have to have someone there getting blown all over. Hate to say it, but I'd love to see them go flying!
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Even better if one guy from one network gets blown into another while on live!
One that irks me is from baseball. A few years ago, someone decided that the proper plural form of RBI should be RBI, not RBIs, nor RBI's. The argument is that it's the word 'run' in RBI that is pluralized. Though there are many who claim this is grammatically correct, I say it's not. We have always treated abbreviations as if they are words. POWs, MIAs, FAQs, etc. More important, it's just annoying!
LOL!
The news here is so feeble they sensationalize everything, from the cat up the tree to a dusting of snow which gets turned into the Ice Age. Usually that guy in the storm is faking it.
RBL's makes more sense. The common kind.
What's worse is when 'professionals' misuse the language. I just emailed the AP the other day because they keep referring to Obama's 'eldest' daughter. There are only two!
Oh, don't even get me started on the newspapers! They should be embarrassed, especially when they have misused/misspelled words in the large headlines. I think a lot of it is laziness, and they must use spell-check, which is notoriously bad. But come on - "STORM WRECKS HAVOC..." ???? There it was, splashed across the front page in huge type. I hope the publisher cringed that morning over breakfast - and fired the copy editor and found someone who is familiar with the word "wreak"!
Hee hee. I used to have a file of all the corrections printed by the NYT that I reported. They were pretty bad. Errors of all types.
I won't talk about errors that sneak past the DG editorial staff. Rather, I will say that many of these pronunciation differences are class-related. In my family, my father came from upper-crust New England/New York and my mother's family came from Ohio. So he calls me Caaarrie and she calls me Carrie (rhymes with Kerry). When I introduced myself, I never knew how to pronounce my name.
And then when my father moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, he decided that a lot of his pronunciations were (quote alert) 'affected' so he changed them, consciously. He changed PECAHN to PECAN , bahth to bath, avocahdo to avocado, oh, I can't remember what else, but he still calls me Caaaarrie. I think Dave47 says my name that way too, and so does DH, so now I don't mind.
Hah! well, things that drive me nuts is the tendency for some New Englanders to add "r's" where they don't belong - like "idea er"
And it doesn't seem to matter how well educated you are - John Kerry says this as do lots of others.
When we moved to New England (from British Columbia) some people thought we were from Britain!
Obviously, I spell many things in the British manner - but not all. My favourite British word for unusual spelling is gaol for jail.
Also, traditionally the British spell the endings of words "ise" instead of "ize" But modern publishers often ask writers to use the American spelling if they wish to publish and sell to Americans.
Should be able to read both.
Seandor, you just brought back a wonderful memory. When I was about 10 or 11, I read (for the first of MANY times) "The Wind in the Willows". When Toad gets arrested, I could not figure out who the character of the "gaoler" was - I kept thinking "gay-o-ler". Then when they used the word gaol for prison, it hit me! I was immediately charmed and I'm surprised I had forgotten about that word until you just reminded me.
By the way, I just re-read TWITW (again!) last year! Great book!
Seander, that is how I was taught British English not American English, think I mentioned that before. In the first 4 grades our English teacher talked a quite a bit about the little princesses of GB, she was educated in England. She hardly ever talked German with us teaching conversational speech only, first using words that very exactly the same in either language then starting with Mother goose rhymes and here we go around the mulberry bush., along with the Farmer in the dell. Later years it became a lot more complicated, as our Prof. said, once you learn how to read the NY times and understand then you will speak English.
Funny how people here add an R when there is not one and omit the R when there is one as in my daughter's name Cynthia, most here say Cynthia(r), a car is a cah, sugar is sugah, arm is ahm, and so on. Living here for the last 62 years I am guilty of most of these pronunciations too.
Not sure Kerry is the right standard - he was a C student at Yale!
I agree, Dee - great book. I have a nice first edition.
wow - i could not even read must of these posts - communication is only meant ot get your point/meaning across - if you are within a horse shoe and folks understand back off - get a grip