Folks can't speak worth a.... - Page 6

mccoyred · #1 07-31-2003, 01:57 PM

Why does my husband insist on saying "wan" (rhymes with can) instead of won? I try to tell him that he sounds ign't but he doesn't want to hear it.

OrigamiTulip · #2 07-31-2003, 02:12 PM

Spaghetti = pa-sketti
Bathroom = baffoom
Onion = on-yon (thanks Justin Wilson

)
Roof = ruff

Steeltrap · #3 07-31-2003, 02:14 PM

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Originally posted by BetaRose
Spaghetti = pa-sketti
Bathroom = baffoom
Onion = on-yon (thanks Justin Wilson )
Roof = ruff

Heeeeyyyy! Don't dog Joo-stahn Wilson! He has me CTFU.

ClassyLady · #4 07-31-2003, 04:37 PM

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Originally posted by FeeFee

PSA - "Conversate" and "irregardless" are not words. Please repeat this sentence as often as needed until the concept is firmly placed into your brain.

Thank you, FeeFee. The worst part about conversate and irregardless is that the people who say these words actually think using them makes them sound more intelligent.

Diva_01 · #5 07-31-2003, 05:05 PM

I bet it was already brought up, but I cannot stand when people say brung! That is not a word. BROUGHT...I brought it...

FeeFee · #6 07-31-2003, 05:14 PM

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Originally posted by Diva_01
I bet it was already brought up, but I cannot stand when people say brung! That is not a word. BROUGHT...I brought it...

I've been guilty of saying BRUNG a time or ten.

AKA2D '91 · #7 07-31-2003, 09:55 PM

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Originally posted by ClassyLady
Thank you, FeeFee. The worst part about conversate and irregardless is that the people who say these words actually think using them makes them sound more intelligent.

Add SKEWL for SCHOOL to this list!

I CANNOT stand to hear it pronounced that way.

miss priss · #8 08-01-2003, 08:00 AM

Yall I can't stand to hear people say..

"For the simple fact" ----when they are trying to prove a point. Ironically, I've caught myself saying this a time or two.

But I reallllly can't stand this-----

"I got my hair DID"
It's I got my hair done, done ya hear me, done!

ClassyLady · #9 08-01-2003, 02:29 PM

One thing that I hate is when people misuse and mispronounce the word alumni. First, the word is pronounced a-LUM-NEYE, not a-loom-in-neye. I hate that.

Additionally, alumni is the plural form of the word alumnus. Example: In one year, I will be a FAMU alumnus. In on year, all of my friends and I will be FAMU alumni.

One last point, alumus and alumna are not interchangeable. Alumna and its plural form, alumnae, are the feminine forms of the words alumnus and alumni. Example: In one year, I will be a FAMU alumna, but my friend Herman will be a FAMU alumnus.

Sorry for the English lesson but that gets on my nerves just as much as people who misuse who and whom. I just hate it.

StarFish106 · #10 12-20-2006, 01:53 PM

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 · #11 12-20-2006, 02:22 PM

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".

darling1 · #12 12-20-2006, 02:54 PM

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!!!

TonyB06 · #13 12-20-2006, 03:21 PM

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

thank you.

TonyB06 · #14 09-27-2003, 05:42 PM

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."

ShiningStar83 · #15 09-28-2003, 01:26 AM

fruit -feeyewt

strawberyy-scrawberry
feets instead of feet