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08-17-2010, 01:02 AM
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This one started with GC, but has now started bothering me IRL: BRUTALLY honest
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Typical translation: I just want to say mean things about chapters under the guise of a code because it's fun.
Or I just feel like making stuff up.
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08-17-2010, 01:46 AM
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"On Some Serious Ish"... hated it!
"Yo Son"... been female since birth
"Tell me why..." I can't. Sorry.
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08-17-2010, 02:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Preston327
Another one that gets on my nerves is "all y'all." I say y'all myself so I shouldn't complain but all y'all just seems needlessly repetitive.
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"I've already done this before."
Yes, the fact that you have "already done this" implies that you have done this "before." Knock it off!
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08-17-2010, 09:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Preston327
Who decided that "you" needs a plural form? . . .
I say y'all myself . . . .
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Why do you say "y'all" if "you" doesn't need a plural form? 
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Another one that gets on my nerves is "all y'all" . . . . all y'all just seems needlessly repetitive.
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"All y'all" has a different meaning from "y'all," just as "we all" has a different meaning from "we."
E.g.: "We know what you've been doing." vs. "We all know what you've been doing."
"Are we going to the game?" vs. "Are we all going to the game?"
"All y'all" means "every single of one of you."
(Yes, I know "y'all" is a contraction of "you all," but it functions as a plural rathar than as a true contraction.")
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08-18-2010, 04:14 PM
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Originally Posted by PiKA2001
Where in Michigan did you live? I lived in Michigan for 25 years and have never heard anyone say 'yous guys'.
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Suburbs of Detroit mostly.
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08-18-2010, 04:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Preston327
One I heard all throughout my seven years of living in Michigan, and despise to this day: "yous guys." Seriously, what is that? Who decided that "you" needs a plural form?
Another one that gets on my nerves is "all y'all." I say y'all myself so I shouldn't complain but all y'all just seems needlessly repetitive.
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I've lived here for 46 years and never heard someone say yous guys. It's "You guys" or "you people" usually.
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08-18-2010, 04:57 PM
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Originally Posted by AGDee
I've lived here for 46 years and never heard someone say yous guys. It's "You guys" or "you people" usually.
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I'm under the understanding that that's a Chicago thing more so than a Detroit thing.
We also go to The Home Depots and The Jewels (grocery store, Jewel-Osco), apparently.
I don't use these terms but "real chi-KAH-go guyz" do.
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08-26-2010, 12:32 AM
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Ok, the more I see this in recruitment threads the more I cringe. One joins a CHAPTER, not a HOUSE. A house is a physical structure that the chapter resides in. A Chapter is a group of women who go to the same college and are in the same sorority. I realize at schools where the chapters have houses everybody calls the chapters "houses" instead, but it's a pet peeve of mind and it makes me nuts when I read it. Chapter, not House.
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08-26-2010, 01:58 AM
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Originally Posted by AGDee
Ok, the more I see this in recruitment threads the more I cringe. One joins a CHAPTER, not a HOUSE. A house is a physical structure that the chapter resides in. A Chapter is a group of women who go to the same college and are in the same sorority. I realize at schools where the chapters have houses everybody calls the chapters "houses" instead, but it's a pet peeve of mind and it makes me nuts when I read it. Chapter, not House.
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Ditto! I remember getting a list of correct Greek terms (recruitment vs. rush, new member vs. pledge, etc) and it included "chapter" vs. "house". This was at an officer training session (or something like it) that was combined with other Kappa chapters that DO have houses, so it didn't make sense to me at the time.
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08-26-2010, 02:12 AM
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Praise God someone said it!
I was JUST coming here hoping this thread was somewhere near the top so I could put this in here!
http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/life/...wrong-2338028/
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08-26-2010, 10:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Drolefille
Warsh.
There is no r, so why are you using one?
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Take the r out of warsh and put it back in liberry where it belongs.
I think texted is an awkward word - "He texted me last night." I don't know what else the past tense of text would be, but it bothers me.
I also dislike journal being used as a verb.
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08-26-2010, 11:18 PM
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Originally Posted by tinydancer
I think texted is an awkward word - "He texted me last night." I don't know what else the past tense of text would be, but it bothers me.
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Sent a text?
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08-26-2010, 11:45 PM
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"At the end of the day..." do you really know what's going to happen at the end of the day?
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08-27-2010, 12:07 AM
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Originally Posted by preciousjeni
Sent a text?
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That's a lot better than texted.
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08-27-2010, 12:26 AM
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Originally Posted by tinydancer
Take the r out of warsh and put it back in liberry where it belongs.
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I'd be really impressed if they put it back in February.
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