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Posted: Nov 4, 2006 1:42 pm
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Vernacular Misuse Pet Peeves
Okay... I smell I rant coming on.
Vernacular Misuse: A.K.A. YOU SOUND LIKE AN UNEDUCATED IDIOT!
I'm not talking about colloquialisms and regional accents. I'm not talking about typos in written text.
I'm talking about people totally unable to speak their native tongue. (English)
These are things I hear all the time that drive me up a wall and make that little vein behind my eye twitch.
"I feel like a weight has been TOOKEN off my shoulders"
It' s TAKEN YOU RETARD! "Tooken" is not a word!
"We were conversating" "We conversate"
You were having a CONVERSATION and CONVERSING to CONVERSE is to speak! To TALK! Which you obviously can't do!
"He stoled that"
HE STOLE THAT!
"I have boughten/boughtted a new blouse"
You BOUGHT a new blouse! To BUY something in the past tense.
You went to BUY a blouse
You have BOUGHT a blouse. There is no past tense for Bought, it IS the past tense.
Things like this, total disregard for speaking your native language is an insult. Yet, I hear these things every day.
Especially on Shows Like "Judge Judy" and "The People's Court" I cringe, I cry, I want to throw things.
It's amazing how COMMON these phrases are and accepted!
These are not words you are speaking people. They aren't words at all in our language.
Please listen to yourselves and try not to sound like complete idiots when you speak.
If you said those things in a Job interview with me? I'd not hire you.
Why? Because you sound uneducated and like a dolt and it gives me the impression you have not the brain capacity to think so why would I waste my time on you?
Language is so very important, communication defines you.
For instance... I know I cannot say the word "anonymity" ... I cannot wrap my tongue around it. I've tried, I've practiced. I've failed miserably to say this word.
So, instead of saying: "He wishes to retain is anonymity" I CHOOSE CONSCIOUSLY TO REPHRASE into something I can say:
"He wishes to remain anonymous."
I can say "anonymous" so I choose to sound EDUCATED and speak properly.
It's not that difficult. But everyday... I hear speech patterns that make me want to go postal.
So what gets your goat?
Vernacular Misuse: A.K.A. YOU SOUND LIKE AN UNEDUCATED IDIOT!
I'm not talking about colloquialisms and regional accents. I'm not talking about typos in written text.
I'm talking about people totally unable to speak their native tongue. (English)
These are things I hear all the time that drive me up a wall and make that little vein behind my eye twitch.
"I feel like a weight has been TOOKEN off my shoulders"
It' s TAKEN YOU RETARD! "Tooken" is not a word!
"We were conversating" "We conversate"
You were having a CONVERSATION and CONVERSING to CONVERSE is to speak! To TALK! Which you obviously can't do!
"He stoled that"
HE STOLE THAT!
"I have boughten/boughtted a new blouse"
You BOUGHT a new blouse! To BUY something in the past tense.
You went to BUY a blouse
You have BOUGHT a blouse. There is no past tense for Bought, it IS the past tense.
Things like this, total disregard for speaking your native language is an insult. Yet, I hear these things every day.
Especially on Shows Like "Judge Judy" and "The People's Court" I cringe, I cry, I want to throw things.
It's amazing how COMMON these phrases are and accepted!
These are not words you are speaking people. They aren't words at all in our language.
Please listen to yourselves and try not to sound like complete idiots when you speak.
If you said those things in a Job interview with me? I'd not hire you.
Why? Because you sound uneducated and like a dolt and it gives me the impression you have not the brain capacity to think so why would I waste my time on you?
Language is so very important, communication defines you.
For instance... I know I cannot say the word "anonymity" ... I cannot wrap my tongue around it. I've tried, I've practiced. I've failed miserably to say this word.
So, instead of saying: "He wishes to retain is anonymity" I CHOOSE CONSCIOUSLY TO REPHRASE into something I can say:
"He wishes to remain anonymous."
I can say "anonymous" so I choose to sound EDUCATED and speak properly.
It's not that difficult. But everyday... I hear speech patterns that make me want to go postal.
So what gets your goat?
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Posted: Nov 4, 2006 3:38 pm
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"...so to speak." There's this lady I know who's in my boyfriend's extended family that says this phrase ALL the time completely out of context and it drives the whole family nuts:
"Would you like some cookies, so to speak?"
"There are some photos, so to speak, on the counter for everyone to look at."
"She's at school, so to speak."
It's like every sentence that comes out of her mouth has to have that phrase in it. And it is damn annoying. She has no clue what it means. Everyone rolls their eyes every time she says it. I'm thinking of educating her about it.
"Would you like some cookies, so to speak?"
"There are some photos, so to speak, on the counter for everyone to look at."
"She's at school, so to speak."
It's like every sentence that comes out of her mouth has to have that phrase in it. And it is damn annoying. She has no clue what it means. Everyone rolls their eyes every time she says it. I'm thinking of educating her about it.
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Posted: Nov 4, 2006 4:41 pm
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*shudders* I know how it feels! I live in Florida and there about 90 bajillion red necks who can't say crap right! I can't even begin to remember all of it, but this is what i got.
- Let's all go down to that thar pizza shop!
- I are have to go the bathroom.
- Listen Michaer i don't like that dar soup there!
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Posted: Nov 4, 2006 4:46 pm
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I use the proper grammar just about all the time....i have caught myself on ocassion saying tooken but very very rarely does it happen.
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Posted: Nov 4, 2006 10:55 pm
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Kernnarnor: That's Colloquialism... they are saying the right word. just in an accent that you don't care for. That's not something I'm talking about. I saying people using words that are not words at all. All regional accents aside. My family ranges from Southern "redneck" as you so put it... to Macedonian immigrants so I have the whole range of accents in my family.
At least they are using the right WORDS. My peeve was people making up words.
That totally trips my trigger.
Brung instead of Brought
that sort of stuff. Please let's not turn this thread into bashing people's regional dialects. O_o
At least they are using the right WORDS. My peeve was people making up words.
That totally trips my trigger.
Brung instead of Brought
that sort of stuff. Please let's not turn this thread into bashing people's regional dialects. O_o
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Posted: Nov 5, 2006 1:20 am
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How about people saying axe instead of ask. I hear that all the time on Judge Judy.
"He axed me when I'd pay him back."
We made reference to that in the Yamcha episode of ZMT:
"He axed me when I'd pay him back."
We made reference to that in the Yamcha episode of ZMT:
Aren't you gonna axed me what I've been doing since Dragon ball-zizzle?
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Posted: Nov 5, 2006 7:01 am
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Rednecks unite! *throws up a fist* That aside, most of my pet peeves have already been covered here so all I've got to add is a rather amusing story from school. Now, I'm in enriched English 3, that should mean my classmates are smart, eh? Wrong. They're retards. But one day a set of girls were going on about how somebody took something from them. One went up to the teacher and said 'tooken' and poor Mr. Brown looked like he'd been stabbed. He decked them all their participation points for the semester, which is around ten percent of our grade. I, being a mean and petty bastard, was laughing so hard I almost fell out of my chair. Mr Brown continues to deduct points for every misused word he catches, disregarding people like me who sport the dreaded reappearing hick accent.
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Posted: Nov 5, 2006 7:36 am
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On Nov 5, 2006 7:01 am, Chief Icy Sunset said:
Because you are saying the right word, it would be like deducting someone of asian decent for saying RICE and it sounding like LICE... because in their dialect "r"s are almost rolled and are soft. You can't blame anyone for having a regional dialect or accent, it's just environment.
In Boston: CAR... CAH
Chicago: YESTERDAY... YEHSTADAY (I'm guilty of that, I have a VERY "Chicagoland accent, I grew up there.)
LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND: ALL RIGHT... ALL RIGHS (All "T"s sound likes "S"s in that accent.)
In some places it's just minor accents and pronounciations and in others hard accents occur but we *ALL* have them so you really cannot deduct points for that. Can it get irritating for some? Oh sure. I could NEVEr understand my ex-husband's liverpudlian cousin on the phone his accent was so thick.
So your teacher is spot on correct. If they are just being LAZY and misusing the language entirely, in an ENGLISH CLASS then they should absolutely learn the hard way how to speak it at the very least correctly. Give Mr. Brown two thumbs up for being a great teacher!
Mr Brown continues to deduct points for every misused word he catches, disregarding people like me who sport the dreaded reappearing hick accent.
Because you are saying the right word, it would be like deducting someone of asian decent for saying RICE and it sounding like LICE... because in their dialect "r"s are almost rolled and are soft. You can't blame anyone for having a regional dialect or accent, it's just environment.
In Boston: CAR... CAH
Chicago: YESTERDAY... YEHSTADAY (I'm guilty of that, I have a VERY "Chicagoland accent, I grew up there.)
LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND: ALL RIGHT... ALL RIGHS (All "T"s sound likes "S"s in that accent.)
In some places it's just minor accents and pronounciations and in others hard accents occur but we *ALL* have them so you really cannot deduct points for that. Can it get irritating for some? Oh sure. I could NEVEr understand my ex-husband's liverpudlian cousin on the phone his accent was so thick.
So your teacher is spot on correct. If they are just being LAZY and misusing the language entirely, in an ENGLISH CLASS then they should absolutely learn the hard way how to speak it at the very least correctly. Give Mr. Brown two thumbs up for being a great teacher!
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Posted: Nov 5, 2006 9:07 am
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On Nov 4, 2006 10:55 pm, fablespinner said:
Kernnarnor: That's Colloquialism... they are saying the right word. just in an accent that you don't care for. That's not something I'm talking about. I saying people using words that are not words at all. All regional accents aside. My family ranges from Southern "redneck" as you so put it... to Macedonian immigrants so I have the whole range of accents in my family.
At least they are using the right WORDS. My peeve was people making up words.
That totally trips my trigger.
Brung instead of Brought
that sort of stuff. Please let's not turn this thread into bashing people's regional dialects. O_o
At least they are using the right WORDS. My peeve was people making up words.
That totally trips my trigger.
Brung instead of Brought
that sort of stuff. Please let's not turn this thread into bashing people's regional dialects. O_o
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Posted: Nov 7, 2006 5:49 pm
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Oh, sweet Jeezu. Thank goodness I'm not the only one! I HATE it when people make up words like that. "Tooken, brung.." Oi. But you guys covered all that, and I don't see a point in repeating it. ![[emoticon]](http://www.paperdemon.com/images/forum/mysmilies/15pxyellow_thumbsup.gif)
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Now then, here's something else that bugs me. Intentional mispronounciation of a word. For example, eKscape, rather than escape. I can't think of any others right now, but you all know what I mean, right? That peeves me so much.
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Posted: Nov 7, 2006 6:11 pm
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Ack, a peeve of mine. These two following words, are just that, words. But there is a common misunderstanding between the two...of the two...
PROSTATE
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PROSTRATE
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PROSTATE
and
PROSTRATE
i.e. "He a had a prostrate exam"
Ugh! It bugs me to no avail when a person refers to a prostate as a prostrate. It's quite a common misconception however, and my peeve isn't going to change the world.
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Posted: Nov 7, 2006 6:28 pm
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I personally hate it when people don't try, but seriously, some people just aren't educated enought to know what tenses are about . It's very common. I wouldn't rule off an uneducated person as being unworthy to talk to you. They may be awesome people, just not good at the english lanuage
*am terrible at spelling/ grammer*
I'm not uneducated- I just didn't pick up the english lanuage in that way too easily. I know alot of words, but using them is different.
My pet peeve is people that use a word in spite when it totally doesn't mean what they are saying, simly cause it is known to have impact- swear words and slang. I hate it. *shrugs*
*am terrible at spelling/ grammer*
I'm not uneducated- I just didn't pick up the english lanuage in that way too easily. I know alot of words, but using them is different.
My pet peeve is people that use a word in spite when it totally doesn't mean what they are saying, simly cause it is known to have impact- swear words and slang. I hate it. *shrugs*
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Posted: Nov 7, 2006 7:00 pm
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I might have read it wrong but did you mean you dont like people who just curse for no reason?
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Posted: Nov 7, 2006 7:34 pm
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On Nov 7, 2006 7:00 pm, JIAM said:
Not really- people that curse words they don't know the meaning to. Like "Bastard."
I might have read it wrong but did you mean you dont like people who just curse for no reason?
Not really- people that curse words they don't know the meaning to. Like "Bastard."
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Posted: Nov 7, 2006 10:26 pm
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This isn't really a peeve but I think it's amusing when I talk to my friends and they get all into what they're saying and they start to slurr and get tongue tied. They always ending up starting over from the start and have to take a breath once in a while. lol I'm guilty of this too and they all laugh at me and say "See! You do it too!" *poke poke* ![[emoticon]](http://www.paperdemon.com/images/forum/mysmilies/15pxyellow_tongue.gif)
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Posted: Nov 9, 2006 5:18 am
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Hehe...my peevee is people that use the act of "I'm better than you without doing anything" and then they mess it up. I cannot beleive people can be so blatently stupid. _ _
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Our school recently held a volleyball nationals championship, so we had a couple of teams staying in our classrooms for the week. The team that stayed in my english teacher's room messed with her computer, which made her really mad because they were told not to. But they apparently took the time to print off a thank you note, which they taped to her moniter. It was very sloppily done, and they spelled 'sincerely' wrong. This was a typed letter to a teacher....they could have at least used spell-check. ![[emoticon]](http://www.paperdemon.com/images/forum/mysmilies/15px_check.gif)
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Posted: Nov 9, 2006 10:35 am
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Posted: Nov 9, 2006 12:09 pm
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I absolutely hate it when people say "seen" instead of saw.
"yea, i seen it!" - NOOOO you "saw" it!
One of my best friends always says brang instead of brought. What the heck is brang? "Oh yeah, I brang that picture with me so you can hang it up in your gallery." I like to call him on it, he blushes.
The other thing I don't agree with is the filler swear words. That's what I call them. Listening to people tell a story and they forget a certain word or pause and just add f**kin'. WHAT?! WHY!?! It makes no sence!!!
"I was at the store the other day and....f**kin' ... this guy..." SPIT IT OUT! You are a moron.
My younger brother in law has a regular plethora of adjectives. In order-
Gay, and Retarded.
I don't think he knows anymore! I ask him every time he says Gay to change the word to something like dumb, and he says " dumb sounds so gay, I'm not saying that."
AAAAHHHHHH READ A DICTIONARY! Don't you know that you might be hurting someones feelings?!
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Posted: Nov 9, 2006 1:25 pm
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Again, the people that don't seem to try to use tenses are either uneducated to know beter, or lowering themselves to hang out with less intellegent people.
The 'cool' words- slang, annouy me I guess. They're just lazy and really make themselves look like a moron. It's on the level with low riding pants- that irritates me. Who wants to ses someones pants half way down their butt? *irky face*
The 'cool' words- slang, annouy me I guess. They're just lazy and really make themselves look like a moron. It's on the level with low riding pants- that irritates me. Who wants to ses someones pants half way down their butt? *irky face*
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Posted: Nov 9, 2006 1:54 pm
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On Nov 9, 2006 12:09 pm, Fembot said:
The other thing I don't agree with is the filler swear words. That's what I call them. Listening to people tell a story and they forget a certain word or pause and just add f**kin'. WHAT?! WHY!?! It makes no sence!!!
"I was at the store the other day and....f**kin' ... this guy..." SPIT IT OUT! You are a moron.
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omg! My brother does that alllll the time.
"I have to finish this project...f**kin'...by thursday!"
" I gotta... f**kin'...hang out with my friends." lol ohhh that's hilarious cause it's so true. People use f**kin' to fill pauses unnecessarily .
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