Malapropisms, Bad English and shit

[idigTexas 2289]

15 hours ago, clapclapclap said:

So three types.

Edit edit:  And 4. And this ashtray.  5.  And this lamp.  6. And this paddle game....

So you no longer need the thermos?  Cool.  I'll take it.

[South Austin 52551]

My father-in-law and other East Texans pronounce "shrimp" as a two-syllable word.  Shree-ump.  I find it amusing more than annoying.

[TrashMaster G 17583]

7 hours ago, workswithseed said:

Fuck off, I'll pronounce the l in salmon all I want.

I get it.  Some people are perfectly comfortable sounding like a dumbass.

[TwiceHorn 31519]

21 hours ago, crash_davis said:

what effect does it have on you?  why do you let it affect you so much?

And what is your affect while you are bananas?

[dcbc 14506]

I haven't read the entire thread yet.

Misuse of "less" and "fewer" bugs me.

"Whether or not" instead of just "whether" is fairly irritating to me.

More recently, I am bothered by split infinitives, mostly when reading rather than listening.  Example:  "I have always been an asshole" versus "I always have been an asshole."

[You don't know me 1161]

17 hours ago, deadshank said:

I'm going to go over the list with a fine tooth and comb

salmon said SAL-mun rather than sam-un

subtracting numbers and saying "I'm going to minus 8 from 17" or multiply by "timesing" one number by another. 

Where do you stand on ahmonds/almonds?

[deadshank 24653]

All-munds.

They were also a fantastic band.

[Pato del Muerto 52554]

 

Edited June 28, 2018 by Pato del Muerto

[MaybeACoordinator 8349]

6 hours ago, ulukinatme said:

About 10 years ago we were playing Rockband, playing Tom Sawyer by Rush.  My buddy's girlfriend at the time was on vocals.  At the end of the second verse she belts out "Joan Rivers!"  We failed the song, laughing our asses off.

My ex is English and she thought Gin & Juice went like this: "Rollin' down the street smokin' and / or sippin' on gin and juice."

[RollLeft 5045]

On 6/27/2018 at 10:21 AM, You don't know me said:

It's horse dovers.  Good grief.

c'mon man, it's whores divorse.  

[RDCanecutter 26462]

Not English, but fuck it, cover me-- I'm going in.

Pale bespectacled Electrical Engineer by weekday, Lord Sir Conan Mac Hurghuhurguhur of the SCA by weekend? And you, double-dessert cat-lady High Priestess of Morrigan when not working the circulation desk?

I know you are nice people. You have fed me when I was hungry. I liked the mead. Just do one thing:

Quit trying to say anything in Gaelic. No, I don't know Gaelic either. But I know you are doing it wrong. You always say the words wrong. Screamingly wrong. Like, "Irish peasants in the 1840s would stop fighting over a potato to kick your ass" wrong. If they knew that it was Gaelic you were so creatively torturing. So you're probably safe.

Edited June 28, 2018 by RDCanecutter

[Ojo Rojo 1967]

On 6/27/2018 at 8:11 AM, BurntEyes said:

Frequent misuse of the word literally. 

 

 

 

A lot of people bitch about this, but I don't think it's actually incorrect.  They are using the word "literally" to emphasize the truth of the statement.  It's really the same as saying "actually."  Like, "That ACTUALLY happened."  "Actually" is superfluous, other than to add emphasis.  Intentional misuse of "literally" does the same thing.  Though it's true that most people probably don't realize they are misusing the word.  Now it's just an accepted saying.

[Trey3216 15351]

2 hours ago, dcbc said:

I haven't read the entire thread yet.

Misuse of "less" and "fewer" bugs me.

"Whether or not" instead of just "whether" is fairly irritating to me.

More recently, I am bothered by split infinitives, mostly when reading rather than listening.  Example:  "I have always been an asshole" versus "I always have been an asshole."

It's even worse when they say 'rather or not' rather than whether.  

[SHOOTER12 8819]

On 6/27/2018 at 10:09 AM, Liquor and Poker said:

Horse Divvers for appetizers.

 

On 6/27/2018 at 10:21 AM, You don't know me said:

It's horse dovers.  Good grief.

Horse Doovers dammit, get it wright

[Walden Ponderer 12639]

30 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

Not English, but fuck it, cover me-- I'm going in.

Pale bespectacled Electrical Engineer by weekday, Lord Sir Conan Mac Hurghuhurguhur of the SCA by weekend? And you, double-dessert cat-lady High Priestess of Morrigan when not working the circulation desk?

I know you are nice people. You have fed me when I was hungry. I liked the mead. Just do one thing:

Quit trying to say anything in Gaelic. No, I don't know Gaelic either. But I know you are doing it wrong. You always say the words wrong. Screamingly wrong. Like, "Irish peasants in the 1840s would stop fighting over a potato to kick your ass" wrong. If they knew that it was Gaelic you were so creatively torturing. So you're probably safe.

 

Is dòcha gu bheil thu ceart, ach a bheil e gu math cudromach?

[SHOOTER12 8819]

22 hours ago, ROFL BOX said:

Here's a Sweater God.  Does this count?

I think that's more of a sweater goddess imo.

[RDCanecutter 26462]

14 minutes ago, Walden Ponderer said:

 

Is dòcha gu bheil thu ceart, ach a bheil e gu math cudromach?

Important? This thread?

[South Austin 52551]

22 hours ago, ROFL BOX said:

Here's a Sweater God.  Does this count?

Thank you Based Sweater God.

[SuingToGetAMessageBoard? 3861]

People bitching on message boards don’t know the difference between bias and biased.  It wears me out.  10 out of 10 will froth “THESE REFS ARE TOTALLY BIAS!!!”

[RDCanecutter 26462]

Hey, anybody who changes their pronunciation of "latino" from English to Spanish in the middle of an English sentence. EG "Well when I was speaking with my latino friends..."

Thanks for doing that. I now know that you have a Frida tshirt. But when you do that, why is it you use that higher-pitched voice on that one word, like an old baby doll with a pull-string on the back?

I look forward to hearing about your vacation to la FRRRahnce where you visited Pah-RRReee.

[Walden Ponderer 12639]

17 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

Hey, anybody who changes their pronunciation of "latino" from English to Spanish in the middle of an English sentence. EG "Well when I was speaking with my latino friends..."

Thanks for doing that. I now know that you have a Frida tshirt. But when you do that, why is it you use that higher-pitched voice on that one word, like an old baby doll with a pull-string on the back?

I look forward to hearing about your vacation to la FRRRahnce where you visited Pah-RRReee.

[El Diablo 4232]

20 hours ago, deadshank said:

salmon said SAL-mun rather than sam-un

My entire extended family does this. I keep my mouth shut, they were all dirt poor and have done well for the most part. They just grew up ignernt.

[MaybeACoordinator 8349]

1 hour ago, RDCanecutter said:

Not English, but fuck it, cover me-- I'm going in.

Pale bespectacled Electrical Engineer by weekday, Lord Sir Conan Mac Hurghuhurguhur of the SCA by weekend? And you, double-dessert cat-lady High Priestess of Morrigan when not working the circulation desk?

I know you are nice people. You have fed me when I was hungry. I liked the mead. Just do one thing:

Quit trying to say anything in Gaelic. No, I don't know Gaelic either. But I know you are doing it wrong. You always say the words wrong. Screamingly wrong. Like, "Irish peasants in the 1840s would stop fighting over a potato to kick your ass" wrong. If they knew that it was Gaelic you were so creatively torturing. So you're probably safe.

They are just making up shit here. 

 

[MaybeACoordinator 8349]

43 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

Hey, anybody who changes their pronunciation of "latino" from English to Spanish in the middle of an English sentence. EG "Well when I was speaking with my latino friends..."

Thanks for doing that. I now know that you have a Frida tshirt. But when you do that, why is it you use that higher-pitched voice on that one word, like an old baby doll with a pull-string on the back?

I look forward to hearing about your vacation to la FRRRahnce where you visited Pah-RRReee.

Friend of mine had a punk band that did one big national tour and the lone Mexican American member would purposely annoy them all in the van with ludicrous overly Spanish enunciations of everything he could, from "taco" on up. 

[Jimbaround 975]

On 6/27/2018 at 10:13 AM, Jerry Callo said:

Pronouncing double Ls in a Spanish word as Ls as opposed to Y.    Quesadilla, tortilla, etc. 

I was in Argentina last week and I corrected a co-worked who pronounced pollo with the L sound.  Shit if the Argentines don't pronounce the LL as a "ch" sound: Pocho.  Serves me right for trying.

 

However, I'll add "hal-uh-peen-oh" to this list.

Edited June 28, 2018 by Jimbaround

[MaybeACoordinator 8349]

25 minutes ago, Jimbaround said:

I was in Argentina last week and I corrected a co-worked who pronounced pollo with the L sound.  Shit if the Argentines don't pronounce the LL as a "ch" sound: Pocho.  Serves me right for trying.

 

However, I'll add "hal-uh-peen-oh" to this list.

Went on a date of sorts in HS (1980s) with a chick from Detroit who said kweeze-a-dillahs

[Jerry Callo 8715]

45 minutes ago, Jimbaround said:

I was in Argentina last week and I corrected a co-worked who pronounced pollo with the L sound.  Shit if the Argentines don't pronounce the LL as a "ch" sound: Pocho.  Serves me right for trying.

 

However, I'll add "hal-uh-peen-oh" to this list.

When I took Spanish 1, for the second time, my professor was from Argentina.  Many students finished the class with an Argentinian accent.

[MoJames 8244]

So the girls all got much more attractive as the class progressed?

[jimmyjazz 46038]

Expresso

[pokeNbeans 203]

Looser instead of Loser.

[RDCanecutter 26462]

1 hour ago, MoJames said:

So the girls all got much more attractive as the class progressed?

Spanish class = beer?

[Ojo Rojo 1967]

1 hour ago, BurntEyes said:

I don't give a fuck what you "think".

Grammatically, it is incorrect, literally.

And while you make AXCept it, I sure as fuck do not. 

It is grammatically incorrect, which is precisely why people are doing it - for effect.  Grammatical rules are broken all the time for effect.

[GringoSalado 1651]

4 hours ago, Jimbaround said:

I was in Argentina last week and I corrected a co-worked who pronounced pollo with the L sound.  Shit if the Argentines don't pronounce the LL as a "ch" sound: Pocho.  Serves me right for trying.

 

However, I'll add "hal-uh-peen-oh" to this list.

Ever been to Coopers BBQ? 

 

 

 

 

 

The one in Llano?

[bamachine 1231]

10 hours ago, South Austin said:

My father-in-law and other East Texans pronounce "shrimp" as a two-syllable word.  Shree-ump.  I find it amusing more than annoying.

I just call them Shh-crimp.

[GringoSalado 1651]

Sea-roaches.

[Rimbo 26035]

4 hours ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

Went on a date of sorts in HS (1980s) with a chick from Detroit who said kweeze-a-dillahs

well shit, if we're going on that kick, both ways we pronounce "Amarillo, Texas" are wrong as fuck

as is the town itself

[Walden Ponderer 12639]

3 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

Spanish class = beer?

Technically, cerveza.

[elfenix 34331]

well shit, if we're going on that kick, both ways we pronounce "Amarillo, Texas" are wrong as fuck
as is the town itself

The Pedernales River, Guadalupe street, and San Felipe street say hi

[Walden Ponderer 12639]

12 minutes ago, elfenix said:

1 hour ago, Rimbo said:

well shit, if we're going on that kick, both ways we pronounce "Amarillo, Texas" are wrong as fuck
as is the town itself

The Pedernales River, Guadalupe street, and San Felipe street say hi

Koenig Lane and Boerne, Texas would like to stipulate that this isn't limited to Spanish language malapropisms. 

[RDCanecutter 26462]

Hell, nobody's pronounced Texas right since the 1500s. Old Spanish X stood for Sh.

[RDCanecutter 26462]

6 hours ago, MaybeACoordinator said:

They are just making up shit here. 

 

Gaelic has 40 words for "it will be cold and it will rain."

 

[MaybeACoordinator 8349]

8 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

Gaelic has 40 words for "it will be cold and it will rain."

 

They have words for some weird shit. And names, like Delahanty and variant spellings. They all descend from a "plaintive satirist." Which means they have to be my kin. https://www.libraryireland.com/names/od/o-dulchaointigh.php

[HornsOverIthaca 2335]

16 hours ago, ulukinatme said:

About 10 years ago we were playing Rockband, playing Tom Sawyer by Rush.  My buddy's girlfriend at the time was on vocals.  At the end of the second verse she belts out "Joan Rivers!"  We failed the song, laughing our asses off.

That the best thing I’ve ever read.

[workswithseed 2109]

12 hours ago, TrashMaster G said:

I get it.  Some people are perfectly comfortable sounding like a dumbass.

I'm fine with that, I also get shit for call picante salsa "hot sauce". I also get shit for call a carbonated beverage a "coke". Some things I'm willing to take shit for.

[Jerry Callo 8715]

13 hours ago, GringoSalado said:

The one in Llano?

Llano Estacado - northwest of Llano.  I guess the importance is knowing when to pronounce words with double Ls and when to pronounce as Y.  If you get it wrong, you're either not from here or annoying af.

[SHOOTER12 8819]

13 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

Hell, nobody's pronounced Texas right since the 1500s. Old Spanish X stood for Sh.

Fuck my old Spanish ex.

[SHOOTER12 8819]

delete: dbl post

Edited June 29, 2018 by SHOOTER12

[AM Wood 335]

28 minutes ago, SHOOTER12 said:

Fuck my old Spanish ex.

i did. thanks for the chlamydia.

[BearMace 2206]

Saw this place by Fair Park and thought of this thread.

[El Diablo 4232]

11 hours ago, RDCanecutter said:

Hell, nobody's pronounced Texas right since the 1500s. Old Spanish X stood for Sh.

I think Dale Gribble has, possibly by accident.