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

Diva_01 · #76 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 · #77 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 · #78 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 · #79 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 · #80 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.

TonyB06 · #81 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 · #82 09-28-2003, 01:26 AM

fruit -feeyewt

strawberyy-scrawberry
feets instead of feet

soulfulremix · #83 09-28-2003, 06:52 PM

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Originally posted by Total Elegance
Another country word:
Pronouncing the "w" in sword.

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

lovelyivy84 · #84 09-28-2003, 06:55 PM

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!

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Originally posted by ClassyLady
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.

Dionysus · #85 09-28-2003, 06:59 PM

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

iceandivy · #86 09-28-2003, 07:14 PM

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

Prissfit1908 · #87 09-28-2003, 11:22 PM

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?

Ya'll people....

RedefinedDiva · #88 09-29-2003, 05:55 PM

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Originally posted by Prissfit1908
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?

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....

TonyB06 · #89 10-13-2003, 04:49 PM

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...

CrimsonTide4 · #90 10-13-2003, 05:01 PM

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Originally posted by TonyB06
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...

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

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