OK, I hear the old offensive "irregardless" being used CONSTANTLY, so I'm now numb to it. It doesn't phase me.



But one of my friends, and former co-worker , once held a meeting to discuss application massaging via Novell Zenworks 3.2.

What application massaging is , essentially, is taken a application install script (via an .exe or .msi file) and pulling out anything in the script that would be superfluous in nature (registry entries, help files, documents, etc.) so that you can slim the application footstamp down the smallest manageable size possible---this can save you thousands or millions when deploying an application over a network to 100,000 company employees.


So anyways, my co-worker---I'll call him Fred to conceal his identity, was talking about how to spot afore mentioned superfluous files but he kept calling them superficious files. SUPERFICIOUS!!!!

He repeated that word 15 times during his presentation, each time destroying my soul just a little bit more.



ok. Anyways, which mishandled and made up words that folks you know use, annoy you? There have to be some pretty jankity ones.


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"Prolegomenon."

2the9s said:

I hope superspaceboy PWNS you on his most recent anti-2the9s thread!

My mom is SO awful with mixing words together and using words out of left field. Until recently, it embarrassed the hell out of me, but now I see it as one of the many cute things about her.

My current favorite: 'meticulate', which is some sort of meticulous/articulate hybrid (I'm assuming). When she uses it, it's usually some screwy stand-in for 'anal-retentive'.

/ Her family's from Louisiana.

Imago said:

This is all part of our little pageant that we are enacting for you.

We all have our roles.

Enjoy the show.

it's an actual word (and a simple, first grade one at that) but it's horribly mispronounced by far too many people i've been acquainted with.

sawl = saw

back in grade school, i was known for being able to spell really well (!!!! ). so anyway, this girl comes up to me and says "how do you spell sawl?" and i'm like " wha?"

so she's like, "as in, 'i sawl a truck go by.'"
i'm like, "saw. S. A. W."
and she's all like, "no! i mean sawl. like you sawl something."

INSATIABLE said:

I know someone who says "EXterical" instead of HYSterical.


One thing that I can't stand: When people say "If you have any questions, see Imago or myself."
You say: "...see Imago or me."
If U can't say "...see myself" by itself, then it's not correct.
So many educated people say that!

(I used your name because it's your thread! )

Imago said:

And for the record, I would trade your ass to the Others for a bag of airline peanuts in a heartbeat.

INSATIABLE said:

OMG, My mom is a crazy ass Thai woman, first generation, straight off the fucking boat, so I guess she has an excuse (other than she's been speaking English for 40 fucking years ).

But she just makes up fucking words out of nowhere.

Sometimes when she's talking to me , and she uses a whole bunch of made up words a the same time, my sister and I call that phenomenon "Samlee's greatest hits."

My favorite madeup words are:

1) Posely - I think it means "especially" in her world, though I've seen her use it as an exclamation purely as a way of emphasizing something. Example: You need to keep warm, posely in at night during winter. OR just "Posley!!!"

2) My GoodNA - basically this is "My goodness" on the smoothed out Asian tip.


3) NOT - In my mom's world, not only is "NOT" a bonafied verb, it is the most essential word used in the english language. It's more prevalent than Newton's ether or Einstein's cosmological constant.



oh god the list goes on, but I'm racking up karma like a motherfucker right now. I want to at least be reborn as a vertebrate of some type so I'll quit.

chocolate1 said:

Bring back the chains! If you don't you will die...
Nothing should come between you and I

Fall

i know someone who cannot - cannot say the words "spouse" or "insulation."
i love them to death, but they say spouse like sprouse or some shit

and they say insulation like "installation."

INSATIABLE said:

Are you my sister? Cause my mom is the same damn way...
My favorite of her mis-speaks is EVIDENTUALLY , a hybrid of evidently and eventually. She uses it for evidently.

theodore said:

i have no idea what typo
i mean what...person...you're talking about

Lfakk

Protege said:

you're killing me on this thread


My friend Eddie can not say "asked".. He pronounces it "AXED" as in I axed the bitch to death!!

Protege said:

Aluminimium
Particulllary
Febuary

Imago said:

and the other one i hate is

ECKSPECIALLY

es
pesh
ull
ee

Japanese cannot say:
Lollypop

VOLUMPTUOUS is NOT a word. It's actually VOLUPTUOUS. CALM DOWN! Calm down, you'll all get over the initial shock of that being the ACTUAL spelling and pronunciation of the word.

INSATIABLE said:

Dang... that sounds like me.
People laugh at me when I make my own words up.
Although, I swear I've heard that particular word before.


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Protege said:

Imago said:

I love it already.


HA! Your mom's the best. Bless her.



Dude, my mom makes sure to announce that she's FLUSTRATED at every given opportunity.



She seems to break these shits out as much as possible in public.

Protege said:

It took me a quarter of a century to be able to laugh.

Maybe that's why I'm all up on Danny's spelling.

2ndRevolution said:

Flustrated

Imago said:

This is probably the only time I'll ever be able to post it.

omg i can't believe i forgot!

people on the news and people i know are always saying "temp-it-chur"

there isn't an "R" in it for nothing.

whenever i hear it, i immediately feel like going and banging my head against a wall, all the while screaming "TEMP-ERRRR-A-TURRRRREEE!!!!"
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My friend, Mark still says this even after all these years of me pointing this out to him...


RE-IDIFY which is his word for reiterated. Which he doesn't even use in the right context.

For example, instead of , saying "let me iterate", he means to say, "Let me reiterate" as in he's repeating a point--which he's not, cause he's saying it for the first time. And to make it worse, he's saying RE-IDIFY.

And to make matters worse, most of the times he really just means to use the word "stress" as in "I want to stress." not, "I want to RE-IDIFY"

I mean, it's like that game where it takes you 6 steps to go from any hollywood personality and trace them back to Kevin Bacon--only it's much more hilarious.