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PrintableProtege said: Imago said: 
I would METICULATE that it is often tragic as well.  especially when you've toad people over and over again! I'm never hurtful or demanding about it. Mostly I axe them. | |
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fhqwhgads said: I'll post it again as some may have been lazy to wade through this whole thread.
http://www.yourdictionary...spron.html 100 Most Often Mispronounced Words and Phrases in English A handful of these actually surprised me as I found I'd been getting it wrong.  
cardsharp is right? spitting image is wrong? you don't pronounce the 't' in 'often'?
. [Edited 3/20/08 17:29pm] AHA! Dammit, I was right all along!! My fourth grade teacher and I argued back and forth about the word "often". I told her that you don't pronounce the 't', and she kept telling me I was wrong. | |
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Imago said: Protege said: especially when you've toad people over and over again! I'm never hurtful or demanding about it. Mostly I axe them. yeah. you wouldn't want to be unhumane or anything.  HE'S COMING AGAIN | |
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Anxiety said: Imago said: Wow that's the most dramatic HYPERBOIL yet with regards to our sentiments about the issue here. You have a way of expressing yourself. Posely, when you're upset.  Hey, what's Popeye doing on this thread? RIP, mom. I will forever miss and love you. | |
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Protege said: Imago said: I'm never hurtful or demanding about it. Mostly I axe them. yeah. you wouldn't want to be unhumane or anything.  | |
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WillyWonka said: JustErin said: I recently had a conversation with a friend whom I consider to be very intelligent and she said, "conversate".
that one especially makes me grind my teeth. i once even heard a school principal being interviewed on television say it. Did you throw a shoe at your TV?  RIP, mom. I will forever miss and love you. | |
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psychodelicide said: Anxiety said: Hey, what's Popeye doing on this thread? he's undressing imago with his eye. | |
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Anxiety said: psychodelicide said: Hey, what's Popeye doing on this thread? he's undressing imago with his eye.  RIP, mom. I will forever miss and love you. | |
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somebody started a thread and asking if Prince was a Combinationalist .. (there's no such word) .. | |
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Flowerz said: somebody started a thread and asking if Prince was a Combinationalist .. (there's no such word) ..
wtf | |
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Imago said: fhqwhgads said: :posely: I love that!Thai people are so cute Yesterday Mon said she was going to 'swop' the floor. | |
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Flowerz said: somebody started a thread and asking if Prince was a Combinationalist .. (there's no such word) ..
Speaking of threads. . . I've been avoiding saying this since the beginning, but why oh why, do people type woman instead of women and vice versa (BTW, visa versa is another verbal fuck up I can't stand) For example, people on the org and everywhere on the net will type: "She's a beautiful women" OR "They are beautiful woman." You (hopefully) don't speak like that so why would you type it??? | |
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Anxiety said: Flowerz said: somebody started a thread and asking if Prince was a Combinationalist .. (there's no such word) ..
wtf yup .. here's the thread lol .. http://prince.org/msg/7/2...ump=1&pg=1 and again.. no offense fluid.. lol.. it's cute.. [Edited 3/20/08 17:58pm] | |
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fhqwhgads said: I'll post it again as some may have been lazy to wade through this whole thread.
http://www.yourdictionary...spron.html 100 Most Often Mispronounced Words and Phrases in English A handful of these actually surprised me as I found I'd been getting it wrong.
cardsharp is right? spitting image is wrong? you don't pronounce the 't' in 'often'?
The correct phrase is "spit and image." In a sentence, "He is the spit and image of his father." We don’t mourn artists because we knew them. We mourn them because they helped us know ourselves. | |
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SCNDLS said: Flowerz said: somebody started a thread and asking if Prince was a Combinationalist .. (there's no such word) ..
Speaking of threads. . . I've been avoiding saying this since the beginning, but why oh why, do people type woman instead of women and vice versa (BTW, visa versa is another verbal fuck up I can't stand) For example, people on the org and everywhere on the net will type: "She's a beautiful women" OR "They are beautiful woman." You (hopefully) don't speak like that so why would you type it??? yeah, i dont get that either lol ... and not only do they type like that .. they will also type .. 'womens' like e.g. 'the womens i hang out with are so cool' .. | |
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Flowerz said: SCNDLS said: Speaking of threads. . . I've been avoiding saying this since the beginning, but why oh why, do people type woman instead of women and vice versa (BTW, visa versa is another verbal fuck up I can't stand) For example, people on the org and everywhere on the net will type: "She's a beautiful women" OR "They are beautiful woman." You (hopefully) don't speak like that so why would you type it??? yeah, i dont get that either lol ... and not only do they type like that .. they will also type .. 'womens' like e.g. 'the womens i hang out with are so cool' .. That's kind of like when people say "my moms" instead of "my mom" (like they have more than one mom). RIP, mom. I will forever miss and love you. | |
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People who spell definitely 'definately'.
 !!!Oh shit, my hat done fell off | |
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Protege said: AsianBomb777 said: I grew up in Alabaster, Alabama
There was only one book available for checkout at the public library. And it was the Holy Bible. 
the other one i hate, which is pretty much general because i've heard so many people say it, is when people say pronounciation instead of pronunciation. i mean i know it's pronounce/pronunciation but....really...  ...no....wrong....wrongwrongwrong.I've heard people say "pa-nounce". Hoo, boy!  | |
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Genesia said: fhqwhgads said: I'll post it again as some may have been lazy to wade through this whole thread.
http://www.yourdictionary...spron.html 100 Most Often Mispronounced Words and Phrases in English A handful of these actually surprised me as I found I'd been getting it wrong.
cardsharp is right? spitting image is wrong? you don't pronounce the 't' in 'often'?
The correct phrase is "spit and image." In a sentence, "He is the spit and image of his father." Yes, as per the link I posted in that reply above that obviously I'd read before posting. | |
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jami0mckay said: JustErin said: I recently had a conversation with a friend whom I consider to be very intelligent and she said, "conversate".
the one that gets me is people that can't tell the different between specific and pacific. whats more annoying is that I have to correct them every time. I get it from young kids all the time around here: "I told him PACIFICALLY which store to go to." I'm all over them with that one. . .  | |
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SCNDLS said: KidaDynamite said:
and Skress = Stress I used to work for a credit bureau designing their training and one of our trainers would say "credick" instead of "credit." All day EVERY day. I'm like, how/why do you add a "ck" to the end of that shit when the word "credit" is written repeatedly in all of the class materials, the software application, and the fucking building. Makes no sense. The killin' part is that he didn't do this with any other word that ended in "it." One day I purposely asked him to edit something for me and worded it so he'd paraphrase my request and he said "edit" just fine. WTF is that about???  That one drives me crazy, too. | |
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gemini13 said: When I first met my husband, he used to try to impress me with his intellect, untillll.....
He said something about a figure of speech called a HYPERBOIL I said, Huh?????
You mean HYPERBOLE I laughed my ass off at him for about five minutes. He didn't think it was funny. | |
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irregodless is what i hear.....
oh and don't forget.....aggavate....
NOW GO AND LEARN TO SPEAK ENGLISH PROPERLY! ! ! ! ! ! ! THE B EST BE YOURSELF AS LONG AS YOUR SELF ISNT A DYCK[/r]
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INSATIABLE said: People who spell definitely 'definately'.
!!!I did that when I was little
I also pronounced "family" as "fumnia" | |
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psychodelicide said: WillyWonka said: that one especially makes me grind my teeth. i once even heard a school principal being interviewed on television say it. Did you throw a shoe at your TV? quit spying on me!  | |
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psychodelicide said: Flowerz said: yeah, i dont get that either lol ... and not only do they type like that .. they will also type .. 'womens' like e.g. 'the womens i hang out with are so cool' .. That's kind of like when people say "my moms" instead of "my mom" (like they have more than one mom). yeah, my 'moms' lol.. that reminds me.. there's another one.. where they say 'Yo son, meet me tonight @ the party.. just u n me son..' .. i wonder who's idea was it to refer to everyone as 'son' lol... i dunno how our language is just composed of sometimes lol [Edited 3/21/08 16:57pm] | |
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gemini13 said: When I first met my husband, he used to try to impress me with his intellect, untillll.....
He said something about a figure of speech called a HYPERBOIL I said, Huh?????
You mean HYPERBOLE I laughed my ass off at him for about five minutes. He didn't think it was funny. It's almost as bad without the whole inexplicable 'boil' part ( ) just with people pronouncing it like it's some kind of major sporting event though, as opposed to hyPERbulee. | |
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Flowerz said: psychodelicide said: That's kind of like when people say "my moms" instead of "my mom" (like they have more than one mom). yeah, my 'moms' lol.. that reminds me.. there's another one.. where they say 'Yo Son, meet me tonight @ the party.. just u n me Son..' .. i wonder who's idea was it to refer to everyone as 'son' lol... i dunno how our language is just composed of sometimes lol There is a reality TV show called "The Bad Girls Club". There is one girl on the show who calls everybody "son" regardless of their gender. Your post made me giggle thinking about it.RIP, mom. I will forever miss and love you. | |
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WillyWonka said: psychodelicide said: Did you throw a shoe at your TV? quit spying on me! RIP, mom. I will forever miss and love you. | |
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There is sooooo much pain conveyed in this thread.
so much. | |
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