Archive through September 14, 2002
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Archive through September 14, 2002
Phatcat | Saturday, September 14, 2002 - 10:27 am     ROFL...Great one Bernie. On the lfp's last night, they were saying goodnight to Lisa and there was no response. Jason commented that they must have gotten her bad ear. Then the night before, they were talking about pronunciation and Lisa said pp like the way I say 'what you put koolaid in' and held up a photo album and pointed to picture. Off topic, I have to really, really concentrate to be able to say 'raw oysters'. If I don't, it comes out 'roy oysters' every time. LOL |
Draheid | Saturday, September 14, 2002 - 10:47 am     One of my favorite 'hard to say fast' lines is: How many sheets could a sheet slitter slit if a sheet slitter could slit sheets. Of course, there's the Woodchucks, Peter Piper's peck of pickled peppers, Sea Shell Sally, and Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers.
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Cjr | Saturday, September 14, 2002 - 10:54 am     I know someone that always says Muffets for the Muppets. Drives me crazy. I think the word "photograph" would work well for Lisa. Solve most of her problems. |
Fabnsab | Saturday, September 14, 2002 - 11:47 am     Ok, how many here say comfterbowl for comfortable? I do, my husband says it right. Problee for probably? Same as above. Intristing for interesting? Show of hands please so I don't think I am THAT bad. I have tried to say them right but old habits do die hard. |
Tobor7 | Saturday, September 14, 2002 - 11:57 am     Lisa has actually started saying "Photograph" now. But the producers are pulling their hair out with Dani's reading problems. She has to do so many takes with the instructions... and this is after she has done work in the RD with it! Watch and I'll bet they start having one of the others read instructions soon. |
Oregonfire | Saturday, September 14, 2002 - 12:12 pm     I say intristing, and I like it that way. Okay, I usually say offen instead of of-ten, but lately I wonder which is correct? I've switched back and forth becuase I don't want to sound ig'nant. (BTW, a word that I type wrong every time? Becuase. I can't stop myself.) |
Tobor7 | Saturday, September 14, 2002 - 12:19 pm     Lisa just said: "I get so motion sickness." |
Dogdoc | Saturday, September 14, 2002 - 12:55 pm     I refuse to say February. I think it should be Feburary. On another note, we had a client bring in a dog expecting puppies. The technician hospitalizing the dog wrote down that is was there for "well-being." (instead of whelping).Mystery, I am dumb and cannot figure out the codpiece thing. |
Oregonfire | Saturday, September 14, 2002 - 01:04 pm     Dogdoc, a codpeice was basically a glorified jock strap in Elizabethan England, so if you think of the location...maybe the body part will come to you! Actually it was more of a "flap," than a "strap," but you get the picture. Humorous codpeice references can be found in Shakespeare's plays. Even he thought they were funny. |
Punkin | Saturday, September 14, 2002 - 01:26 pm     Someone mentioned that Jason speaks well and that his parents must have corrected him all the time...in one of the LFP's I recall him saying that he actually took acting lessons to help him get rid of his accent for radio. Sort of like the actor Kelsey Grammer (aka Frasier)...he's from somewhere in the Midwest or South if I recall...and he certainly does not have an accent as if he were from those areas! How many people add an "r" where it's not supposed to be? Midwesterners say "warsh" for wash...many New Englanders add the letter "r" to the end of a word (remember President Kennedy?). JMHO...so what if she mispronounces a word. TIN to one it don't matter to most of YA'LL. Tee-hee. |
Punkin | Saturday, September 14, 2002 - 01:33 pm     As for codpieces...I remember George Clooney, in an interview before Batman came out, joking that his codpiece wasn't nearly as large as that of Robin's, heheh. |
Punkin | Saturday, September 14, 2002 - 01:34 pm     Oh...how about nuc-u-ler for nuclear. Drives me nuts. |
Cas | Saturday, September 14, 2002 - 01:39 pm     A question for Wcv63, just because I am curious and have no idea but how else would you pronounce these street names? "need to find Burgundy Street you must pronounce it Bur-GUN-dee or no one will know what you're talking about. Also Caliope Street is pronounced Cal-E-ope. Remember this if you ever come for a visit or you'll be lost for a long time" Was in a cab in London once and had to get to Beauchamp St(could have been Rd.) anyway I only knew that word as "Bo-shamp" and the driver just wasn´t getting it. Had to spell it out and he says "oh you mean "beach-um"". Just a tip if you ever want to go there while in London. I only knew the word as a french surname so couldn´t see any other way to say it. That´s why I´m curious to see how others might say Burgundy(I´d actually say Burg-un-dee but it seems close enough) and Caliope. |
Punkin | Saturday, September 14, 2002 - 02:02 pm     Ohhhhh...and how many of us go to the li-bary (not the library, haha). |
Bernie | Saturday, September 14, 2002 - 02:13 pm     I go to the libree, actually, and go in Febuary, too, to borrow boooks, not bucks, as students pointed out to me during my days on staff at a junior high school.. My response was, I'm British and we invented the language, so I'm going to keep on pronouncing words they way I was taught, thank you dear. Since I speak English with a Northern accent-which would sound Scottish to North American ears-with an overlaying of Canajun, I say thank goodness no one can actually hear me here, LOL! |
Chiparock | Saturday, September 14, 2002 - 02:15 pm     Remember Shannon last year, when Hardy nominated her and Will, telling him that it was "the cowardest thing to do"?! We all know how she retaliated! The mispronunciation of nu-cu-lar has bugged me all my life. Another president who couldn't properly articulate the word was Jimmy Carter. No offense to Southerners, but I'm wondering if it's a Southern idiom? |
Kstme | Saturday, September 14, 2002 - 02:19 pm     When did "funnest and funner" become words? |
Punkin | Saturday, September 14, 2002 - 02:29 pm     What was the word that Jamie kept mispronouncing and Curtis kept correcting her? Ohhhh...saboteur, lol. |
Cathie | Saturday, September 14, 2002 - 03:06 pm     One that I've noticed several times recently is the use of the word prejudice when predjudiced should be used, as in "she is so predjudice..." Also, when people talk about having anes-tee-sia before surgery instead of anes-the-sia..., and the anes-the-si-olo-gist is referred to as the anes-tee-si-olo-gist And, a local one for any Texans out there, when people talk about the beautiful hill country town of New Braunfuls and put the 's' in the middle of the last word calling it New Braunsful, it drives me CRAZY! |
Bigsister | Saturday, September 14, 2002 - 03:11 pm     Someone mentioned Jason speaks well, and I agree. He is from Mobile, Alabama. I understand he has had some training to overcome his accent, but further than that, I think Mobilians (?) actually do have less southern accent than people from other parts of Alabama. I have known several people from Mobile and none of them had much of a southern accent. As to February - I don't think I know anybody who pronounces it correctly. I finally started mispronouncing it like everybody else, just so I wouldn't sound different. |
Chiparock | Saturday, September 14, 2002 - 03:15 pm     LOL Punkin! Yes, Jamie thought she was perfectly correct saying "sa-ba-twa"! |
Sheila494 | Saturday, September 14, 2002 - 03:18 pm     im sure not everyone speaks proper english for whatever reasons..big deal..i can think of much better reasons to put a person down. |
Wcv63 | Saturday, September 14, 2002 - 03:19 pm     Cas: "A question for Wcv63, just because I am curious and have no idea but how else would you pronounce these street names? "need to find Burgundy Street you must pronounce it Bur-GUN-dee or no one will know what you're talking about. Also Caliope Street is pronounced Cal-E-ope. Remember this if you ever come for a visit or you'll be lost for a long time" Normal people would pronounce Burgundy street like you would pronounce the color. We here in N.O. put the accent on the second syllable and really stress the GUN part. As for Caliope, most people would pronounce it like ca-LIE-uh-pee, the word for a carousel. We also call carousels Flying Horses. When we go to City Park we also make sure we have the opportunity to ride the Flying Horses. |
Punkin | Saturday, September 14, 2002 - 03:24 pm     Having grown up in the Southwest...I have noticed Jason has held on to a few of his "souther-isms", such as using the phrase "I'm fixin' to...". This is used in the South in the place of "I'm going to...". For example, "I'm fixin' to go to the hot tub.". Yoo kin take the boy outta the South...but it's mahty tuf to git all the South outta the boy. |
Bohawkins | Saturday, September 14, 2002 - 03:35 pm     In my travels around the world it came as a quite a surprise to me to learn that we Americans have created our own names for most other countries. It is not just pronounciation, like we do when saying France, we say Fr-aan-ce, and they say Frahnce. It's like our mouths just can't form the words, or we are so arrogant that we have to have our own pet names for so many of them. Of course, those people in those countries who speak English well, often know the American name for their country, but in many cases, local citizens had never heard of the American word for their countries. Japan is actually Nippon, Denmark is Danmark, Norway is Norge (pronounced Nor-gay), Cambodia is Kampuchea, Germany is Deutschland, Italy is Italia, Spain is Espana, Philipines is Pilipinas, Sweden is Sverige, Russia is Rossiya, Austria is Oesterreich, Greece is Ellas. Plus, there are lots of others. We do say Canada correctly, but not Mexico (Meh-he-co). What is strange is that while it is generally regarded as a courtesy to learn someone's personal name, and to pronounce it correctly, when we Americans talk about another country, we just come up with our own name or pronounciation for them. It is one of the many reasons local citizens have a hard time relating to American tourists. By the way, in many places I have visited people were not familiar with the term "United States." Their name for our country, almost univerally around the world is "Amerika." |
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