Poor English
 

Okay, if it isnt your first language, i can understand people having a hard time with english. However, i work with way too many people who can't make a proper sentance to save their life, mispronounce words, make up words, and use words that they know are incorrect. examples:

A couple of people in this office say "de-select". Not a word. the word in "unselect". Shit, it's even easier to say..

Some mispronouciations that are rampant:
Expecially
Pacific (specific)
Libary
Nucular


One of my favorites: Irregardless... No matter how many times i tell these people its not a fucking word, they still use it....

Oh, and i love people who use acronyms and dont knwo what they mean. here are a few that drive me nuts:

Our resident moreon pc tech Jim always calls an ethernet card a "NIC Card". Nic means Network Interface Card. So he needs a network interface card card.

Or "PIN Number". This one is all over the place. PIN means "Personal Identification Number". You get the idea.

Some regional things that bug the shit out of me... No offense to newb if this is a Pan-New #England thing, but i hate the way people around here shorten everything. it's like a full word with morre than 2 syllables would overload their brain. So there are no caffeterias, its a "caff". No Mezzanine, it's a "Mez".

Is ground beef "Hamburger"? Nope, Hamburg! That one psisses me off to no end. Dont ask me why. On some level it represents laziness and stupidity (to me anyway) too deep to fathom... It seriously infuriates me.

And then there is the American tendancy to shorten or make an acronym out of everything.

KFC
BK
Micky D's
DQ


Why isnt Wendy's "W"
Subway should be "SW"

fucking ignorant bastards. Full words are just to hard these days i guess. Who knew words liek "Kentucky" and "Fried" (not to mention "chicken"... What an unusual and esoteric word that is...) could be so hard to say...


Last and certainly not least is the acceptability of slang in advertising now. McDonalds is the absolute worst...

"I'm Lovin' It"
"Get a fruit Buzz"
"Yeah, we take 'em"

Jesus... It's liek the marketing companies are hring lazy teenagers to come up with their slogans....

using and promoting KFC was a deliberate marketing strategy to eliminate the word 'fried' which isnt very popular with the (supposedly) more health concious population.


i was always bugged by people calling Phantom of the opera = phantom ..

and enraged by calling Les Miserable = les miz.
Victor Hugo must be rolling in his grave .. trivializing one of the greatest classical works of all time with Les Miz.



the ghetto bullshit drives me crazy too...

boyz
cutz

etc ..

Hi, i'm so damn proud of my inherited illiteracy i want everyone to know about it..

Skillz

Mad Skillz

Dawg

Gangsta

J-Lo

P Diddy

Puff Daddy

Hip

Jessica Simpson

Yo dogz....chill.....aint no thang.

R.I. is know for its poor language skills.
i.e.
Yard=yad

park=pak

we don't like to pronounce our Rs.

The hamburg one I say all the time.

The "r" thing is forgiveable, that is an accent rather than anything else. (although menus saying "chowdah" have long since lost their camp value and are just fucking annoying now).

But hamburg? How could you?....
:)

if it makes you feel better, after 12 years of living in New England, i have never once uttered the word "wicked" instead of "really" or "extremely". I still catch shit about that...

I found some more

trote — throat

* blinka — blinker

* pawh — pour

* lodge — large

* guvamit — government

* fiya — fire

* pacific — specific

* canadate — candidate

* idear — idea

* feecha — feature

* distrik — district

* Richet — Richard

* potty — party

* innerduce — introduce

* wid — with

* hospil — hospital

* grinda — grinder

* ba il — bottle

* sangwich — sandwich

* excape — escape

Soemthing else that drive sme batshit....

Mindless idiots who use catch phrases from tv as a form of communication.

When i went to mardi gras, i had to lsited to 300,000 frat boys shout "Wazzuup!"

Or fuckhead jim saying to everyone on the phone "Can you hear me now?", like every time he says it he is some sort of comedic genius...


Or when advertizers universally adopt a buzzword and it shows up everywhere....

"Extreme" is the absolute epitomy... "Neon" was one for a while. i fucking hate when people have such a limited vocabulary that their only way to describe something as being different is to describe it as something else "on acid".

Those fucking "Bratz" toys are personally offensive to me. it's like stupidity has become it's own subculture. If they try teaching ebonics again, i bet it will pass this time....

fo shnizzle Vod. You da bomb.

A lot of people are mindless sheep. Waiting for the next "catch phrase" or hair style or what kind of bottled water they should drink.
I personally [ to the dismay of my wife ] dress the way I want and pretty much go against the norm in most aspects.
I guess I let my freak flag fly.





shit.....was that a catch phrase?

Nope, i dont think so. Werd.


I dont know if she actually talks that way, but the way gren types, i can see her getting a little offended :D

My grammatical skills are by no means impeccable. However, I think they're good enough to allow me escape into the world of dialects every now and again.

i NEVER EVER use any kind of catch phrases .. never did even as a kid ..

i hear them and they wince.

'you go girl' being the one that made my eyes bleed.

repeating worn catch phrases is like a pathetic attempt at cheaply gained credibility..

I just said all them out loud to myself, and with my english accent mixed in I sound australian lol

Here's one from Philadelphia for you Vod:

"Jeet yet?"

"No, jew?"

Translation:
"Did you eat yet?"

"No, did you?"

I have to copy some of her posts into google translator to understand :D ;)

Made me think of Jeff Foxworthy's southern words.

Wichadidja
"You didnt bring the shovel, Wichadidja?"

how about "oncare"
"I Dont Care"

Re: Poor English
 

afraid I'm going to have to disapoint or annoy you Vod, irregardless is in the English language... :p ;)

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/defi...3149&dict=CALD

4 out of 5 dictionaries define it but state that it is incorrect, much like "ain't". :p

Damn Cambridge....

:D ;)


there's a word that pisses me right off, when I'm watching sport on Tv, if it's the second from last race etc, the commentator says 'penultimate' that word is so annoying.

I think that goes along with "Extreme".

Advertising people saw the popularity of extreme sports and decided to capitalize on it. Honestly, do we need "Extreme" color for fucking potato chips?


Another couple of phrases thatdrive me nuts are "low-carb" and "carb-concious". No one gave a shit 5 years ago, now people wont eat food if it has carbohydrates (which is horribly unhealthy, btw). Can you beleive they have low card pasta? what is the fucking point? that's like dehydrated water...

this low carb thing has taken off here aswell... most supermarkets now have an isle devoted to all this fuddy-duddy low carb diet stuff. I don't blame the shops, since they'll make a killing on it, it's the shoppers that demand it, after going on these 'new wave' diets.

I thinks the whole atkins thing has turned into this era's light and low fat, it's going nowhere.

of course, in a few years when skinny people are dying of heart attacks because they dont eat bread, but they eat cheese-covered deep fryed bacon 3 meals a day, they may re-evaluate the situation.

mmmmmm.......... cheese-covered deep fryed bacon.
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I know, it really does sound good, doesnt it?

Especially if it is deep fried in butter.

i still say 'decadant' is worse.

decadant is gorging yourself on food and wine at a roman orgy while having sex with men, women and children all at the same time..

not a chocolate chip cookie.

mmmmm...chocolate chip cookie

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By any chance are you hungry, newb?

btw, I'm bummed about Bo! I wanted him to win!

Kind of reminds me of my porn surfing days a few years ago.

"Busty Women"

90% of them were chicks with fake c-cups, and the rest were simply pear shaped overweight women.

Anyway.....

a couple of phrases that always bug the shit out of me, because the people who use them dont seem to come close to understanding what they are trying to say:

Same Difference.


Godammit... there is an annoying phrase like that that an ex used to say all the time and it always annoyed the shit out of me....I cant think of it....

i hate : 'blah blah blah .... and whatnot'


as soon as you add 'and whatnot' to your sentance your IQ lowers about 50 points

6 of one, half dozen of the other?

I agree.. i have been giving my wife shit about that....

I dont even know what the fuck that is supposed to mean. It's similar to people using the word "like" when they are not attempting to use a similie..

Especially if they start a sentance with "Like"....

"Like, he was totally, like, looking at me."

Okay... so he wasnt looking at you, but doing something similar to that.....

when i was a kid ... i always heard it in my head as :



six of one half ...........dozen of the other.

i never understood it till i was about 20

I had never even heard that one until i was about 22.


One that drives my dad insane is "No Brainer". Im not sure why, but he absolutely hates it.

One that i am not sure if it is just a New England thing, but people saying "Jeezum Crow" rather than Jesus Christ. So what if it's Blasphemous? I seriously doubt god is worried about a little blasphemy when his servants are fucking little kids and then covering it up.

i guess if someone saw your dad struggling with something for hours and along comes someone who mentions it as being a 'no brainer' that might be apt cause to hate the phrase :)

Actually, i think he would just tell them to eat shit.

Someother things i hate:
People using the word "Dude" too often. i can handle some dude, but someone who calls everyone, including women, dude, needs to be shot.

Not anymore......I just had some greasy assed pizza for lunch.






Me too, but I guessed Carrie was gonna win.

GAHH!!

I just heard the two geniuses i work with say "PIN Number" several times in a row.... Fucking ignorant new hampshire redneck assholes.....

i've never said dude.


i do say baby every now and then..

"My Bad":mad: :mad: :mad:


fucking hate it.


"Baby" does kind of bug me. Ive never used that one. My sister in law uses that with her boyfreinds like it's their name.

i've never used it to a girl ...

more like in ,,,


'you'd better believe it baby'

(in a rat-pack kind of way)

like the way 'brother' was used in the 40's .. before it became a thing black guys would say ..