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TV ClubHouse: Archive: ARCHIVE THREE: "PICTURE" instead of "PITCHER" ? (ARCHIVE): Archive through September 12, 2002

Spear

Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 12:22 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I know more than a couple of people who say:

heighth

instead of:

height

And let me take this opportunity to say (even though it's not a pronunciation thing) that there are a lot of people on this board who say:

could/should/would *of*

instead of

could/should/would *have*

Willsfan

Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 12:29 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Survey says...
A. She thinks it's cute.


Jason stutters. And I want to finish his sentences for him.

Crossfire

Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 12:34 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Hey, this is the place I can do some complaining of my own.

LOL = Laughing Out Loud.

Therefore

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL= Laughing Out Loud Out Loud Out Loud Out Loud Out Loud Out Loud Out Loud.

Which is (i). And as always, I mean that in the nicest way. :)

Tobor7

Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 12:35 am EditMoveDeleteIP
When a smart person is corrected, they usually learn. That is how they became smart.
The one that kills me is ppl write "your" when it should be "you're" -- YOU ARE (you're) RIGHT!


Arghhhhhh.
D just said "LIBERRY" instead of "library".
(they are killing me coach)


Survey says:

(a) She thinks it is cute: 2

(h) Hearing problem: 1

(i) Ignorant: 1

((How about a vote with those comments.))

Bernie

Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 12:35 am EditMoveDeleteIP
How about option h)she doesn't give a damn?

Sunriverose

Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 12:35 am EditMoveDeleteIP
It's late, I'm sleepy, and maybe cranky, but picking on how Lisa says "picture" sure doesn't seem very important right now.

Bernie

Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 12:37 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Nor to me either.

Scorpiomoon

Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 01:10 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Tobor7: I know what you mean! And it makes me CRAZY when I see, all over the damn Web, people who write "loose" when they mean "lose". One might think it is a typo, and it might be at times, but there are actually people who think "loose" is "lose".

Crossfire

Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 01:18 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Blame english, it should have been luze from the start. :)

Having said that, good call Scorpiomoon, that particular one happens A LOT.

Tobor7

Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 01:19 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Spelling is one thing. I am a bad speller (thank god for spell check) because I think they taught me phonics in early school and I spell like it sounds. But there is no excuse for spelling errors with computers. Too lazy to spell check????
And---- I mean, what is with the "ie" or "ei" thing anyway? I know the rule, but c'mon- gimme a break.

Loose or lose is a spelling error.

Your and you're is a grammar error.

I don't know what picture and pitcher is.

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Survey says:

(a) She thinks it is cute: 2
(b) She thinks it makes her look smart 0
(c) She won't be corrected by anyone 0
(d) She has a learning problem 0
(e) She has a speech problem 0
(f) She has a baseball fetish 0
(g) She is a professional photographer and can call it whatever she wants 0
(h) Hearing problem: 1
(i) Ignorant: 1
(j) She doesn't give a damn. 1

((How about a vote with those comments.))

Tobor7

Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 01:35 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Crossfire,

LOL = Laughing Out Loud

LOLOLOLOL = Hysterical Laughter or could be converted to "HL" (Rule of Computer English, drop the L when two "L"'s appear. For example: LOLLOLLOLLOL becomes LOLOLOLOL.)

HLHLHLHL = Death by laughter or could be converted to DBL

Just my three cents.

Crossfire

Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 01:39 am EditMoveDeleteIP
No no no no no. :)

Hysterical laughter = ROTFLMFAO.

LOLOLOLOL was just made to annoy me, I am almost certain.

Kind of like the word hella that all the kids use.

Ahhhhh.

Tobor7

Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 01:46 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Not trying to annoy you, but it is catching on.

You must really hate "up-talk" that all the kids do. Mostly the LA kids.
You know, they go higher with their voice at the end of a sentence as if they are asking a question. (?) <LOL>

Is that better?

How about a vote on the topic question for the survey?

Toolhound

Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 02:26 am EditMoveDeleteIP
WOW is there anything that people will not pick on these HGs for or about???????????

Bernie

Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 03:12 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I'm just bored....

How about folks saying this sight .... when they mean site, or, there and their...we could keep going on this all night! But not me, I'm off away tae ma wee bed.

Wcv63

Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 04:22 am EditMoveDeleteIP
You know, I don't take as much time checking my grammer, spelling or sentence structure when I post on a message board as I do when I am doing something for business.

I simply have a thought and type it as I go. Sometimes my brain goes faster than my fingers and I'll leave out important words or misspell something along the way. This happens even though I do know correct English and I would never send out hastily written business correspondance.

Hi topic. As far as mispronounced words go, I'm going to go with dialect as being a core reason for many mispronounciations in the English language. Not to mention that English is one of the most confusing languages to learn when it comes to spelling and pronunciation.

Tobor7

Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 04:28 am EditMoveDeleteIP
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Survey says:

(a) She thinks it is cute: 2
(b) She thinks it makes her look smart 0
(c) She won't be corrected by anyone: (0)
(d) She has a learning problem: (0(
(e) She has a speech problem: (0)
(f) She has a baseball fetish: (0)
(g) She is a professional photographer and can call it whatever she wants: (0)
(h) Hearing problem: (1)
(i) Ignorant: (1)
(j) She doesn't give a damn. (1)
(k) Dialect: (1)

((How about a vote with those comments.))

Braveheart61901

Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 04:36 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Lisa doesn't bother me as much as Danielle ending all her "th" words with "f". For example:

gotta go to da bafroom
bofe of us will stay next week
lemme brush my teef
If you go, I'll go wiff you

She does this a lot and it just drives me nuts!

Mollywood

Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 04:58 am EditMoveDeleteIP
wcv...im with you...i would rather get a persons thought right of the brain (presses). imo, language is a fluid thing, not fixed in stone..words, punctuation change, over the years, and the real pupose of it is to communicate..so if its not perfect but you still know what the person is saying..thats what counts. when i have to write something in a standard business form, that is different..to me its almost like the formal and informal in Spanish. or the equivalent of what you wear to a business meeting and what you wear in your back yard (especially if you suntan naked) jm2

Mollywood

Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 05:05 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I remember when i first heard marci use the expression "languaged it" He uses it so much, i dont know if it is really a little known colloquialism (u can see why i stick up for the bad spellers) my first reaction was to kind of laugh at it, but the more i thought about it, the more i thought it does describe a behaviaor different that "said" in language it, clearly it seperates thinking from saying... two seperate processes...you think, then you form it into language. it is actually more correct than said. i am watching too much bb3 soon ill be praying to Dani.

Tobor7

Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 05:15 am EditMoveDeleteIP
People that are wrong, and corrected but continue to do it wrong... well that is just wrong. Failure to learn is failure.
Pride about being wrong is a whole other problem.

And that's all I have to say about that.

Wcv63

Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 05:22 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Okay Tobor...explain the whole ha-RASS-ment, HAR-ass-ment debate to me then. Until the whole Anita Hill hearing I had ALWAYS pronounced it the first way. The media are the ones that made a big huge stinking deal out of the second pronunciation and I remember thinking "What the hell?" at the time.

This was right around the time that all TV journalists started making a huge deal of pronouncing foreign country names with the accents, i.e. Mexico became Me-HE-co, etc.

There are many things that change pronunciations and language and new words (colloquialisms) are being integrated into the language every day.

The only person I'm willing to take correction from is a teacher and even then I'm a little leery. I had one teacher who pronounced the word pencil like it was 3 syllables. I kid you not.

Jaxrock

Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 05:25 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Ok, a couple of my pet peeves are "flustrating" for frustrating and "ax" for ask (everytime I hear "I just axed him and he said no" I get a mental picture of someone hacking someone up.

Anyone ever think that this is the way she was taught to say it, and it's so ingrained in her she can't stop? But we here on the boards must be really board (j/k, bored) to be discussing the way Lisa says picture
JMO

Costacat

Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 05:28 am EditMoveDeleteIP
It's early and I just checked the boards and I'm wondering why this is "pick on Lisa" day? She's not the only HG to mess up. Didn't Chiara spell a word incorrectly during a comp? And Danielle constantly mispronounces stuff. Even Roddy, as intelligent as he claimed to be, occasionally mispronounced some of the bigger words he tended to throw out. So what? I know a lot of people who can't pronounce words correctly. It has nothing to do with their level of intelligence or amount of learning.

Watching2

Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 05:33 am EditMoveDeleteIP
:::::::sneaking in to make a comment since I grew up where Lisa did::::::::::: :) People make fun of our "Rochester accents." Personally, I don't say the words as we are supposed to - for instance, we have a location named Char-lotte. It's written all over the place that we say Sha-lot. Then we're supposed to say our "A"s funny, but in comparison to other places, I think our "A"s sound just fine, and of course, I say things the correct way all the time. Ha ha. I remember hearing the "pitcher" "picture" pronunciations often. Actually, we are a pretty multi-cultural area. People who grow up in a certain ethnic-background neighborhood tend to pick up the slang and pronunciations. When I was young, we were one of the few people on the street whose last name didn't end in a vowel. Most of the others had been "Americanized" and the spellings were changed. While it was predominantly Italian back then, now it's changed and you'll see a lot of names from different areas in Europe. Some people seem to make up their own entire mangled version of English on purpose! Two of my biggest pet peeves: people saying AXED instead of ASKED and DON'T instead of DOESN'T.

Anyway, in defense of Lisa, I think she just grew up saying it that way and it was accepted and old habits are hard to break! Go Ra-cha-cha girl, Lisa! LOL

Oh yeah, and we ARE sure getting picky here, eh? <g> Anyone annoyed she got her hair stuck in the hair dryer? Now why isn't THAT a whole thread? *giggle* j/k