Archive through September 12, 2002
TV ClubHouse: Archive: ARCHIVE THREE:
"PICTURE" instead of "PITCHER" ? (ARCHIVE):
Archive through September 12, 2002
Costacat | Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 05:36 am     LOL Watching! Is that how you are s'posed to pronounce "Rochester?" Ra-cha-cha? Yah! Now I'm "in the know" and can go visit and now sound like a tourist! <snicker> BTW, the hair in the blow dryer? I do it all the time. It's one of the disadvantages of having very long hair. If I'm using my travel blowdryer and flip over to blowdry the underneath part, hair gets sucked in to the intact vent. And yes, it really DOES get stuck. And it's not pleasant. And I'd still like to know why everyone seems to want to pick on Lisa? Oh, wait, make that NIT pick! |
Kits | Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 05:39 am     Just a point, getting back to naked or nekid. NAKED is when you have no clothes on. NEKID is when you have no clothes on and are 'up to something'.
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Shan | Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 05:54 am     I have to agree that Lisa's pronunciation of the word "picture" has nothing to do with her intelligence. Once you learn something a certain way and have been doing it for years it is very difficult to change. As far as everyone saying that noone will take her seriously as a photographer unless she learns to say it right, that is ridiculous. Anyone who judges someones talent as a photographer by the way they pronounce a word is the ignorant one in my opinion. This is why I could never be on BB. Yes, people who go on the show realize that they are being watched 24/7, and that their actions as far as the game is concerned are being closely scrutinized, but you should not have to deal with the public picking apart your every single personality trait and analyzing it under a microscope. How would it make you feel to know that the majority of the viewing public have declared you ignorant based on your pronunciation of ONE WORD! That is ridiculous! Before you post you should put yourself in the hg's shoes, and think of how you would feel reading these posts if they were about you. Nobody is perfect, and everyone has their flaws that they would not like being publicly discussed and disected by the entire country. There is no reason to make this game that personal! |
Earthmother | Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 06:18 am     Sounds to me like boredom is bringing out the worst in people....(I hope no one is offended by these dots, because I don't give a damn). Is there a reason to have a whole thread about people's short comings? I'm sure if we dig deep we can find some of our own that others are respectful enough to ignore because they care what we have to say instead of how we say it, or write it.....(this was said in a calm, talk to your child tone). |
Mollywood | Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 06:24 am     dont worry posters, the same way identical fast food places are taking over the country...soon we will all speak exactly alike, with no variation, no color, we will all wear grey sweatsuit uniforms and shave our head.. |
Sia | Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 06:46 am     And will everyone have a plasma-screen through which morning p.t. will be monitored and daily reports from BigBrother be announced, Mollywood? (cue spooky music) Here's a board-enhancement I'd like to see: make it possible for the computer to speak aloud each post--in the dialect most closely resembling the true speech of the post-er. Has technology come far enough to allow this? It would be a hoot to select any dialect in which you'd like for your posts and e-mails to be written and later read. What a hoot that would be! (And I could save time while working at my desk; I could pay bills while listening to the posts instead of having to read them!) |
Twiggyish | Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 06:53 am     WCV, I'm the same way! |
Ruditoo | Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 07:09 am     Pride in being right or having to think your right is |
Betty | Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 07:49 am     Willsfan, true blue Texans say, "Howdy". "Heidi" is a little girl with pigtails who lives on a mountain top with her grandfather. And it's "San Antone" with the "io" dropped. However, Texan is a language unto itself. ;) Thank you Trutlelvr for the site! I've bookmarked it to the kids' Language Arts folder. I admit I mispronounce 'Arctic' and 'February' so I'll try to correct it. I've only heard "nek-kid" when someone is joking. Lisa was corrected and continues to mispronounce it despite being on national tv. I'm casting my vote for "doesn't care". Didn't she once say she didn't know how to use a camera??? You'd think as bored as these HGs are they'd at least try to learn a new skill other than solitaire and work on some self improvement, NOT. |
Mollywood | Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 08:10 am     Who corrected Lisa? I didnt hear that...has anyone corrected Marci "languaged that" or Dani "he be good" i think its unfair..also, wasnt Lisa partially deaf? that could account for some of it..and SO WHAT...Lets go back to ripping Marci a new one,. |
Cas | Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 08:36 am     It doesn´t bother me(her pronunciation, it isn´t like the girl is saying ax for ask) but I´m bored and checked out that site on the first page of this thread. I wouldn´t use that as a guide to learn by, get a dictionary instead because there are mistakes in it and for a lot of the words the emphasis is in the wrong place. Kind of ironic that someone would be up a page of common mispronunciations and well....... |
Twiggyish | Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 08:57 am     .......love THEM dots..LOLOLOLOLOL (j/k) Mollywood, exactly. Our society is moving towards a "FAST FOOD" direction. |
Bailey | Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 08:58 am     One of the things I love about this country is how dialects run galore.. how different parts of the country live in their own little world of what's proper english and what's not. If we had a british friend posting here.. they would probably be astonished that picture/pitcher is our only complaint. No.. pronounciation of picture like it's a container filled with liquid is not the correct .. but really.. WHO CARES???? I live in a city (Philadelphia) that has invented some of the most interesting words you've ever heard. It's known as "lazy english". They speak fast and don't bother with such things as vowels and syllables. Sometimes we can even make 3 words into one... Jeet? No jew?
Because of this, I try harder to take my time when speaking because I think it's important to project myself as an intelligent, well educated woman. However, I'm incredulous that a whole thread has been designed to bash Lisa for the way she speaks. Has BB really gotten this boring? (don't answer that). |
Bailey | Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 09:03 am     WCV... that "harrassment" word really stumped me too. Same thing happened when they changed the island of Grenada to Grenaaaada.. <g> |
Betty | Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 10:35 am     Tobor or anyone else - Admitting my ignorance, but where the heck is Spell Check on Win98? The only way I can check spelling is to copy to Word which is a pain. |
Crossfire | Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 10:44 am     For a cool spell checking program...look into a program called ieSpell. Beautiful program, practically made for people who spend half their life chatting away. It is an addon for Internet Exploder. http://www.iespell.com/ |
Cmc209 | Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 10:54 am     could the way Lisa talks be because of where she lives? i know there is that whole soda/pop/coke thing across the country, maybe the way she says certain words is just something she grew up with? |
Draheid | Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 11:01 am     Just a question from the something I remember reading ... isn't Lisa a photographer? I know her bio says 'Bartender' but I've heard conversations about her picture taking exploits somewhere before. Wouldn't you think a photographer would pronounce Picture correctly considering they deal with them all the time? Another 'Things that make you go Hmmmmm' (Ooops FOTH) LOL |
Blossumtree | Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 11:05 am     and while we're at it, have you guys noticed that she wipes her butt in a counter-clockwise motion when clearly most of the planet wipes clockwise, even the austrailians wipe that way. i mean really, who spawned this child? |
Blossumtree | Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 11:06 am     the above post was brought to you by the letter S for sarcasm. |
Tabbyking | Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 11:13 am     i love dialects, however, i also think if lisa is thinking of a profession in photography, she might want to put the 'c' in picture. i know that someone spelled 'picture' as 'pitcher' during the 'what's missing from the house'? game, so some people do think they are the same word. i have a friend who has a doberman. she has called it a doverman for all 9 years she has had it. it drives me nuts! i could see if she didn't have one, so wasn't sure what the name was! she also says supposably, so what can you do? just grimace when she talks and still be her friend! however, if she were a veterinarian and called a doberman a doverman... blossum, you 'crack' me up with your wiping comments! planet and moons and wiping, oh my!! lol |
Tabbyking | Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 11:19 am     hey, and didn't we all learn the planet uranus as 'your anus' and when it was big news and people had to say it on newscasts for several months, it was suddenly 'yurenuss' with the accent on 'yur'...which sounds like a urinal to me, so take your pick!! |
Puck1021 | Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 11:30 am     Listen to the people from the Midwest like me say the word forty, I live in IL and interstate 40 and 44 are major interstates that run right through both MO. and IL and when we say it we say farty four or highway farty, it is a constant form of amusement to those not from this area. The way you say certain words just depends on where you were raised. Yes I can laugh at myself.
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Countrymeadow | Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 11:35 am     Get the old chalkboard out when someone says WARSH instead of WASH.... ACK! |
Chiparock | Thursday, September 12, 2002 - 11:48 am     I think Lisa simply uses "lazy" English -- not taking the trouble to speak properly. I do that often, which is a bad habit, as it crops up when I try to express a thought rapidly. For example, "Can I do that" when I really mean "MAY I do that" -- asking permission as opposed to asking if I have the capability of doing something. It's really no biggie unless you mind if people think you're somewhat inarticulate. Something that has puzzled me for several years now: in what decade did the planet "You-RAIN-us" become "YOUR-a-nuss"? And the spelling and pronunciation of Chinese cities: "Peking" became "Beijing" -- where was I when that change occurred??!! Guess I've been REALLY out of it, even though I try to keep up with current events. *Sigh* - getting old is not fun. The mind is a terrible thing to waste, or have turn to Swiss cheese, like mine! |
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