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1. my friend's father lecturing him about the virtues of college women, "watch what you doing and don't catch none of dat dere Hercules..."

2. "ajax" for anthrax

3. another friend's uncle instead of saying he was frustrated and traumatized, was always "flusterated and trammalized."

fruit -feeyewt:(
strawberyy-scrawberry
feets instead of feet

Re: Re: lmao!!!!
 

Total Elegance, my mother must be country as anyone because she does this.

Honestly, I know what it's like to have a pet peeve and all, but this is going to drve you nuts unless you let it go, lol.

Nobody who didn't take latin cares on this one!

Tonight I'm gonna have some chicken BREASTESES!!!

...
 

scrate for straight
screet for street
strimp for shrimp (my ex says that)
threadmill for treadmill
ambulampse for ambulance
carruh for car
jawjuh for georgia
baldimo for baltimore

I'm going to get some books...
 

From the "liberry."

Girl, did you see Mary J. on "Ophrah" today?

I have to flip these eggs over. Hand me that "spatuler."

Let's go the "sto." I need to get some "tawlet tissha."

But the funniest was when I went to my family reunion in 'Nawlins over the summer. We went on a tour of the city and the tour guide jacked up EVERY OTHER WORD! My sister and I were laughing so hard, we literally were crying... Until he told me I was a "redbone", and looked like a "murlatta"... Are you kidding me? :eek:

Ya'll people.... :rolleyes:

Re: I'm going to get some books...
 

I don't know about that guy, but I do know that some of us folks in New Orleans have a unique form of speech....

can the GC English teachers help me here...
 

Is anybody else bothered by the following type of bootleg sentence that I now hear all the time?

"The car needs washed."

NO. The car needs to be washed. I know we tend relax our language a bit away from the professional setting but this one bugs me for some reason...

Re: can the GC English teachers help me here...
 

I hate PEED MY/YOUR/HIS/HER PANTS. . . stick a fricking preposition up in that sentence. She peed in her pants, I peed in my pants :(. . .

ooh, ooh, ooh!
 

How about my erudite and scholarly Community College students that say "tooken"? First time I heard it, I told my husband, and he said "That's not even ebonic!"

Me: What classes did you take last semester?
Student: I tooken . . .

Here's another one: gaven (don't ask, I don't know).

Student: My instructor gaven me. . .


:rolleyes:

I love my man, but....
 

Please tell me why my sweetie says "eloquent" when what he really means is elegant?

"I like that restaurant. It's nice. It's eloquent."

:eek: What in thee...

Oh well,... I love everything about my baby, even his occasional english faux pas... I'd kill concrete and drown watta' ova' dat man! Whew! I apologize.. *wiping my brow* I got a little caught up...

Love that man... :p

Brung-I brung that stuff home
HPO for HBO...wtf does the P stand for
banace-balance
Bill CROSBY- for Bill Cosby. HELLO the only CROSBY i heard of was Bing! :rolleyes:
ax for ask
ghost-ses for ghosts :rolleyes:
dest for desk

(I am ashamed to say I heard these from folx in my family) :eek:

But when you correct them, you are charged with being proper! Or worse, you think you are better than everyone else or ALL THAT!

Well dammit, I am guilty as charged! :p I talk like I got some sense! OY! :rolleyes: Act like you have some education (even if you don't!) I CRINGE

Re: Please learn how to properly conjugate verbs
 

I was talking to someone today and he said "conversate" and I just had to struggle not to laugh because I was reminded of this thread.:)

My aunt who just moved here from NY always says "KMots" and "WalMots" like she is from BAHHHSton or something!

I had to add to this thread. I absolutely hate when my sister says:

1. Towah - Towel
2. Mote control - Remote control

My auntie says:

1. Ch'ren - Children
2. Veggie-tebbles - Vegetables

New Yorkers, gotta love us but we do a number on the English language:

1. Man-hat-en - Manhattan
2. over thee - over there ( we forget the r)
3. come hea - come here ( again with the r)
4. ionno - I dont know
5. yanno - you know
6.tawk - talk
7. yo'n - your own
8. fagedabodit - forget about it (classic)
9.worser - worst
10. bestest - best
11. thew - through
12. loosed - lost
13. muv'ah - mother

Other than conversate I despise when people substitute the letter O for the number zero , ughhhhhhhhh that irks my nerve.

" I live at 1-4-oh-3 Farnsworth Road"

No, no, no ... It's 1-4-zero-3 9smh). Its a number not a letter!!!!

Yes, I had to come back and quote myself!

Here's another one I just heard.

BOUGHTEN
(def.: past tense of bought; really did purchase.)

I was asking a student if she had an MP3 player and she was saying that she didn't, but a friend boughten one and . . .

Well, needless to say, I was still trying to get through boughten, so I don't know what the friend did.

One word that I hear alot here in Houston is, and this burns me up,

usher===err-sha

My personal fave to laugh at

Refridderator= Refrigerator
Gits= Grits
Errybody= Everybody* (although I will type this to speak slang but I know the difference)

08shalom: how was you day Yusef?
Yusef: Mom, I can't stand my keyboard partner, Destiny.
08shalom: Why?
Yusef: I keep telling her the word is pronounced internet, not "inner-net".

this made my day
 

poor yusef!!!

today i heard my co-worker on the phone say RRA not once or twice. she said it 3 times and it made my ears hurt.


btw: welcome back to gc!!!

...you need to be pacific when you speak
 

Ladies and gentlemen, "Pacific" is an ocean on the left side of California.
To be "specific" is to be precise.

thank you.

I had an office manager who said that in all SERIOUSNESS!!!! :rolleyes: :confused: :eek:

College degree and all...

I could on and on...
 

One of the choir members had a headache during rehearsal. She asked, "Del, you got some ALIVES?" I said, "what are those?" She said, "you know...ALIVES for your head." I looked at her incredously, and said, "you mean ALEVES!!!!!!" :eek:

This same young lady (she's not even 40 years old) has on her voice message:

"Hello. You've reached the ___________ residence. I'm sorry we can't come to the PHOME right now, but at the sound of the tone, leave your name and number and we'll get back to you."

It's something new every week...:rolleyes:

This is not speaking but it is grammar. Misusing the apostrophe is rampant - on this very message board full of college educated folk. See my post for a tutorial if need be!! LOL.

ETA: don't know if this has already been mentioned but while many rappers may have popularized this term, "conversate" isn't actually a word. It's "converse."


SC

Living in the South, I have heard it ALL...
Over yonder: Somewhere in a far off place, unseen by the nekkid eye
Nekkid: (Naked) Ain't got no clothes on; a person without clothes
We be______: Instead of saying "We had fun" or "We watch t.v.", we BE having fun and we BE watching t.v.
Mane: Man
Winder: Window
The list goes on and on. In fact, if CT4 is interested, we could write a book about the Southern vernacular. That would be too funny!!

Conversate is so annoying:(. My 2 cents:

Dead -Ded
Shole-Sure
Gull- Girl
Finna-Going to
FO-Four
Fiy-Five
Niyn-Nine
Leven-Eleven
Fuuls-Fools
Havta- Have to
Ain'tcha-Aren't you
Sum- Some
Runnin'-Running
Mutha-Mother
Der, Dare-There
Anyuna-And you know

when my students say FOE instead of FOUR, I tell them "Foe is an enemy; FOUR is a number"

How about people who can't spell worth a....

I know I'm one of them, but there are people far worse than me!

The next time I see someone spell p*ssed, "pist", I will snatch them through the computer.

hurted - hurt is already in the past tense
prolly - for probably
irregardless - regardless (irregardless is a double negative)
alphabeticalize - ???
agoitiator - for negoitiator
lightskinned pronounced light-skinndid

Okay - here's another one that I heard from a student about 10 minutes ago. I asked her to go to our admissions counter and speak with the ladies there about readmitting. She said that "admissions sunt her to financial aid, and then financial aid sunt her over here to advising".

I was born and raised here in Chicago..and we're not known for speaking right at all! here are a few

Front Room-Fronch Room
Car-Cah
Two-Too
Three-Tree
For who?- Fa hoo
Trying to-China
Where is he-Where's he at?
Look at the time-Look, what time is it :mad: IRKS ME, but my mom definitely says this alot
I'm going to give the baby a bath-I'm going to take him a bath
Ask-Ax
Hospital-HOOOUSE-Pital

Non-Greeks ALWAYS mispronounce Lambda and say Lambada (my relatives mainly, they say they are joking but some honestly think it's the correct pronounciation

I absolute HATE when people say: 'conversate'...It makes me want to throw my AP Stylebook & Dictionary at them...:mad:

did anyone say "Li-Berry" (library) yet?

Some jerk off said that on Judge Judy today...

This thread is hilarious ... I live in Florida (which, depending on your POV, may or may not be the South) and I've heard it all.

Liberry = library
Shole = sure
Irregardless = regardless
I'ma = I'm going to
Tryna = trying to
Ax = ask
I seen him/her = seen is a participle, thanks

And my personal favorite: "Where you at?"
Umm, behind that preposition you left dangling.

Not sure if anyone mentioned this.....
 

Ok.... I pronounce it like that. How is it supposed to be pronounced? :confused:

RedefinedDiva....
 

Ok. The online dictionaries that I checked have an interchangeable pronounciation for the word.