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What they say - <span style="color: red;">day-tuh</span>I'm not deliberately trying to contradict you or anything, but I was
The real thing<span style="color: red;">:smile:
- <span style="color: limegreen;">dah-tuh
Many more to come....(my pet hate)</span></span>
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ReNo
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Madedog
omegaslayer
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Crono said:i know a lot of people take the game seriously, but getting an instructor
My old CS instructor said it whatever way the person asking a question said it. It was pretty funny.
You know what else pisses be off? Double negatives. My mom does it all the time. And if it weren't bad enough, she uses the word "ain't" as the first negative word, usually followed by "no", or "don't" or "nothing".i don't know nothing about double negatives pissing me off, not unless they aren't used right. :rolleyes:
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Underdog
fishy said:Considering that its stands for "Anti-lock Braking System" it is a bit annoying yeah.
wtf do these people think ABS stands for?
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Which reminds me so many people spell "a lot" as "alot"That's what's happening to all right - alright is horrible but it will be victorious in the end, like already.
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Cassius said:yeah, that's fine... if they don't care if thier style/tone is set to "idiotic."
How about this: the purpose of language is communication, and unless the speaker intends to achieve a certain style or tone, if you understand what he's saying, he can say it however he likes.
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Pvt.Scythe
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Dark Tree
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Cassius said:For good or ill, people judge you on the words/phrases you chose to employ. To a point I agree with you but, many people deliberately portray themselves as stupid and/or uneducated with their speech mannerisms. If they can live with that, more power to them but I am betting that given this bit of information they would rethink their choices.
How about this: the purpose of language is communication, and unless the speaker intends to achieve a certain style or tone, if you understand what he's saying, he can say it however he likes.
Myrk-
Yes, because this current generations of Americans removed theDoughnut, donut.
letter, and ALL letter differences from all other English words. It's a
diabolical plan to form our own language.
I don't know. But, you have to admit, going by spelling rules a lot of spelling practices shouldn't exist.
Underdog
Windows 98 said:Actually its more like "Ahh-ite"
All right is being turned into
iight
Here in the UK South West, a lot of people say Narely instead of nearly (pronounced like a horse mare). Crazyness I tells ya!That's just an accent, though, Myrk. Accents are wonderful and should be preserved. It's pronounced Nare-ly in Hull, too - in Bradford we say Nur-ly - In Burnley they say nurr-ly and in Liverpool it's nay-lee and we are all within a few miles of each other. It's great that you can tell where people come from by their vowel sounds, it allows for instant prejudice. :biggrin:
Oh and for the record- ALUMINIUM! YOU FOOLISH AMERICANS! Why remove a letter eh?! WHY!Well said, that man. A-LOO-min-um really jars on the ear. I think it's wilfulness on the part of the Americans, they stress the wrong syllables simply to annoy. :smile:
But, you have to admit, going by spelling rules a lot of spelling practices shouldn't exist.I think we should leave well alone and resist all attempts to reform spelling. Illogically spelled words account for only a minute fraction of one per-cent of the sum total. Mark Twain said it best.
A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling by Mark Twain
For example, in Year 1 that useless letter 'c' would be dropped to be replased either by 'k' or 's', and likewise 'x' would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which 'c' would be retained would be the 'ch' formation, which will be dealt with later.
Year 2 might reform 'w' spelling, so that 'which' and 'one' would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish 'y' replasing it with 'i' and Iear 4 might fiks the 'g/j' anomali wonse and for all.
Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants.
Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez 'c', 'y' and 'x' -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais 'ch', 'sh', and 'th' rispektivli.
Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.
Gollum
Gollum
Is that your own, Gollum? It's very good. You reminded me of "mispronounciation" which I hear all the time - it drives me insane.I made it up just a few minutes ago. I should, however, credit
fraggard
Gollumz0r, thanks a bunch... I've made this mistake so often, I think I have become nauseous. :o
- Conflation of superficially similar words. In extreme cases, this leads to the disease known as malapropism
which, though painful for the afflicted, provides much amusement to
ghoulish observers. For example, do not say "I feel nauseous"
unless you are sure that you have that effect on people. The word
you are gagging for is nauseated.</li>
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Gaara
Fjorn
I hatre when people say, or write, or use in their name "lil" justhow about the word 'lilly'...
because I can never pronounce it withought a T, and people always
correct me on how to say a slang word.
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