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Xeno-x
Thanks for reading, Xeno
posted by
Darson
on November 3, 2009 at 12:52 PM
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yeah, I know
posted by
Xeno-x
on November 3, 2009 at 10:46 AM
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muley12
Oh GREAT, I sound exactly like everyone's FIRST wife!!! Well my (second, incidentally!) husband says 'chipol-tay' instead of 'chipotle', and that's just fine with me! I think I felt the need to get after Big Sis because she was always so superior and condescending-acting. What she may have learned in the extra eighteen months she was on this earth, and I was not is beyond me...perhaps to eat solid food and walk without assistance, I don't know! Other people get more of a break from me...Lauren does not. Even when she's dead wrong with a word, she'll never acknowledge it...so really, it's pointless...although it's great material for a blog post! Thanks, Muley!
posted by
Darson
on October 24, 2009 at 10:02 AM
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My first wife was very anal about correct pronunciation.
She drove me nutty about break-fast, instead of bref-fast; and sand-wich instead of san-wich. Anyway instead of anyways was another big one for her. I admit I speak better now, and I notice when others speak like I used to. lol
posted by
muley12
on October 24, 2009 at 9:37 AM
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sam444
THANK you! I am not alone!!!
posted by
Darson
on October 21, 2009 at 9:13 PM
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FormerStudentIntern
I understand that...when we moved from Pennsylvania to a Western State, no one understood us for about six months or longer. They all wanted us to say 'leg' and 'egg' and 'bag'...supposedly it was different than their way of doing it...?
posted by
Darson
on October 21, 2009 at 9:12 PM
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Nautikos
...so, I'm just wondering...did anyone get the part at the end, where Lauren told me to 'presume'? (I think she meant 'resume'...!) Thanks for reading, Nautikos!
posted by
Darson
on October 21, 2009 at 9:11 PM
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D
Great fun, and I can fully understand your obsession, since I share it to a certain extent. Though with me it's less a matter of insisting on 'correct' pronunciation (I accept that pronunciation can vary widely from region to region, as well as over time; we'd have quite a problem hearing Chaucer
speak, even more so than reading him), but rather on correct grammar and the correct use of words...
posted by
Nautikos
on October 21, 2009 at 7:35 PM
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I pretty much let "word transgressions" side. There are a zillion accents in Maryland.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on October 21, 2009 at 6:41 PM
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This was very entertaining! I am a lover of words and it pains me so when they are blatantly misused! sam
posted by
sam444
on October 21, 2009 at 5:45 PM
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northsage 45
Things I haven't considered, but once presented to me, yes, they bug me. How about Italian dressing (pronounced 'eye'talian...also pronounced 'I can't speak'), spaghetti (spusgetti), ambulance (ambliance), and NUCULAR drives me nuts. The word, my friends, is new-clee-er. Sheesh. More? Herbal with the 'h' pronounced, and human without the 'h'. i.e., "I'm only you-man." I don't think it's o.c.d., per se....it's the love of our first language, which others are slaughtering. Stop the insanity!!! Thanks, northsage 45!
posted by
Darson
on October 21, 2009 at 3:20 PM
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Regarding language, RULES IS RULES!
Darson,
Like you, I cringe over things like, ""Illinoise, Frisco, San Q, chimbley, liberry, etc. but the one thing that really loosens my teeth, is the automatic "an," which people put in front of any word beginning with, the letter "h." I was taught that unless the "h" was silent, it was proper to precede it with "a," as in, "a historic event." Talking heads on television, always drop the "h," and pronounce it "an 'istoric event." My other main pet peeve, is these same professional speakers say, "decimate" when they really mean "devastate." "Nucular?!!!" I'd like to just slap them.
Maybe we both are distantly related to Adrian Monk. Whadaya think?
Guy
posted by
northsage_45
on October 21, 2009 at 2:07 PM
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