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Mis-pronounced words by people that should know better:
SUPPOSABLY
A WHOLE NUTHER
-------------------- Jeff Vrstal Main Street Signs 157 E. Main Street Evansville, WI 53536 1-608-882-0322 Posts: 670 | From: Evansville, Wisconsin | Registered: Sep 2001
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If the customer were only smart enough to say keep it "economical" "give me more bang for the buck" or "keep this one close" but no he has to say "I just want something cheap" (BANGO the price just went up 20%) and god help him if he says cheap more than once in the same conversation.
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LOL Georgie. Nope....spring has sprung....and I am busting looose! I can't explain why that saying bugs me. Guess it is because any saying telling me how to think gets to me. think outside the box think positive ARGGGGGGGG!
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"irregardless" is a redundancy. The suffix "-less" on the end of the word already makes the word negative. It doesn't need the negative prefix "ir-" added to make it even more negative.
Should have read Bob's post before posting this. Pat
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How about "Are you workin' hard?....or hardly workin" followed by a big belly laugh like it's the first time you've ever heard anything so clever!
Suelynn
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Suelynn Sedor Sedor Signs Carnduff, SK Canada Posts: 2863 | From: Carnduff, SK Canada | Registered: Nov 1998
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"It takes all kinds." Well maybe it does, and maybe it doesn't. Have we tried it without some of the kinds, just to see?
How about the "love it or leave it" crew? It always sounds to me like they are the people that need to go someplace where people are only allowed to say or think one way.
"Possession is nine tenths of the law" This misquote of Shakespeare is used as if it comes from some law, not from a script for a play. The quote is "nine POINTS of the law" anyhow! He doesn?t say how many points the law has, could be hundreds.
Almost anything said by a telemarketer. My favorite is "I'm only trying to save you money", Does your boss know?
-------------------- Mike Pulskamp Pulskamp Arts Sacramento, CA mpulskamp@earthlink.net Posts: 165 | From: Sacramento, CA | Registered: Dec 2002
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...........When someone says "Don't work too hard"..............? How can you really work too hard an' what's really wrong with workin' hard? It's like sayin', "don't worry about your bills, your deadlines, don't worry about gettin' anything accomplished" Since this saying irks me, I always walk away from people sayin', "work hard!"
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One thing that really bugs me is when I get a phone call here at work, (usually from one of my kids or people other than customers)...
I answer the phone with "Hello, Main Street Signs" and the person on the other end says "What are you doing"
AAAAHHHHHRRRRRGGGG! YOU CALLED ME AT WORK, WHAT THE HECK DO YOU THINK I AM DOING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So, someone come up with a snappy answer for me.
-------------------- Jeff Vrstal Main Street Signs 157 E. Main Street Evansville, WI 53536 1-608-882-0322 Posts: 670 | From: Evansville, Wisconsin | Registered: Sep 2001
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my answer to jeffs phone question..."what are you doin?...i tell them iam playin with my pee-pee!!! those who know me never ask the question again, and those who dont know me ..never call again! our home phone is listed under hennie hopkins(we been livin together for 20 yrs)i pick up the phone, the caller will say "mr. hopkins?"....and my answer is "NO....IAM JUST MESSIN WITH HIS WIFE WHILE HES NOT HOME!" they never call back either!!!! the saying that gets me going is....."MORE OR LESS"....ok pick ONE!!!!!
-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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When someone tells me to do something, that I'm obviously in the middle of doing already.
The word "should" kinda rubs me the wrong way. When someone says ... "here's whatcha should've done", or "you should do this". I rather like the word "could" in those instances better. Sounds more like a suggestion, rather than a command.
"You look tired" Does anyone ever feel good after having that said to them? Kinda like just another way of saying, "you look like crap" don'cha think?
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Somebody just called on the phone and asked what I was doing. I told them I was designing a sign. They then said "oh you are?" well duh. didn't I just say that?
Or when one of my kids friends call and I say they aren't home. The comment 90% of the time is "oh they aren't?????' well didn't I just saaaaaaaaay that? funny huh Posts: 3729 | From: Seattle | Registered: Sep 1999
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"Hi, am I interrupting anything?" (well of course you are, I am involved in something every second I'm awake, no?) Or " Hi, do you know who this is??" (well, no, and how about calling me back when you remember who you are) Or "Hi, I can save you money on your phone bills" (thanks but I am not interrested, I don't have a phone)
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When I pick up the phone and someone asks "who is it?" My standard answer is "and who are YOU?" I learned to say me name when picking up the phone and when calling someone else. No one does this around here, it really bugs me.
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The word "irk". WHere the hell does it come from? I hate that word!
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How about the British way of pronouncing aluminum 'al-you-mini-um'. Must be the stiff upper lip thing.
My kids have of late learned to reply with 'yeah, whaaaat-everrr..' It's more of an attitude than the actual phrase, but anoying none the less.
Ruff instead of roof..
shrimp on the barbi...
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Hey Pete its because you Cannuks can not spell "ALUMINIUM" correctly not Aluminum Here's one from an English point of view, the way Americans say Skedule (Schedule) its pronounced with a Shh, Shhedule ya dim wit!! LOL
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-------------------- Steve Broughton Alpha Grafix Signs Lowfields Road Benington, Boston Lincolnshire, England Posts: 315 | From: Boston, Lincolnshire, England | Registered: Aug 2001
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Please...... incorrectly placed apostrophes bug me. Troy, "Back to Basics" is great, but please skip the apostrophe in "basics". Signwriters, like teachers, are supposed to be better at spelling that the average bloke, aren't we !
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7017 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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Whoops, I forgot: "Saying's that irk me" doesn't need the apostrophe in "sayings". (No offense)
The other thing I don't like is people frequently using the word "that", instead of "who" (or whom) when talking about other people. (e.g. "The person that I just spoke to...". "That" is for objects and animals, we were always taught, ans "who/whom" for people.
Best wishes (and I often make the same mistakes that I cand stand others doing...!) Ian S-K
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"...there are no limits when you aim for perfection..." Jonathan Livingston Seagull Posts: 7017 | From: Highgrove via Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia | Registered: Dec 2002
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"Wow!, what a great computer, or what a great program"
...after watching me whip through 2 or three programs designing, scanning, vectorizing, plotting & printing with the efficiency of over 10 years full time experience.
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Peter Schuttinga , Shrimps are what you eat in the US, Prawns are what you eat here. The only time you cook them on the BBQ is if you have been watching too many tourism adverts, or you contract the condition known as "Hand on Gland" Otherwise you buy them buy the kilo and rip them apart and eat them over plate (optionally - and prefererrably with a beer) Personally speaking, a prawn under 3" might qualify as a shrimp because it would be a pain in the bum to peel
Also: aluminum // noun US aluminium.
aluminium // noun a silver-white metallic element, light in weight, ductile, malleable, and not readily oxidised or tarnished, occurring combined in nature in igneous rocks, shales, clays, and most soils. It is much used in alloys and for lightweight utensils, castings, aeroplane parts, etc. Symbol: Al; relative atomic mass: 26.9815; atomic number: 13; density: 2.70 at 20°C. Also, US, aluminum. [New Latin, from Latin: alum]
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Nascar commentators that refer to the race cars as "Hot Rods" annoying enough but they overuse the phrase.
BTW, Darrell Waltrip didn't coin the phrase "boogity boogity" The Mississippi Scoundral, the announcer at Little Rock's I-30 speedway has been using that one for twenty years or more.
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Any phrase that contains the word "frank" or "frankly".
By the way, Stephen, does that mean you pronounce school "shhool", and if not, why not? And what about schematic, schiophrenia, and schooner? Why single out "schedule" to be pronounced differently from all the other "sch" words? I've always wondered about that one.
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"Ignorance of the law is no excuse" always irks me because just exactly how am I going to obey a law that I know nothing about??? I've got the general idea down OK but DAMN!! when they've got more laws written than any single person (even any single lawyer) can reasonably comprehend it sure looks like a rigged game to me!!
p.s. if a judge mentions the phrase above when he's talkin' to you.....it's not a real good idea to reply "Ignorant law (or an ignorant lawyer) is no excuse for the travisty of justice you're trying to run by me either!!......(don't ask me how I know this)
-------------------- Chris Elliott 1longshot@classicnet.net cell 62084two2232 Posts: 686 | From: Scottsdale, AZ & Anthony, KS, USA | Registered: Dec 1999
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and if we're going to pick on the Brits, how about Bedlam = Bethlehem
Werstasher = Worcestershire
A friend of mine from Bwahstin Mass, actually Haverhill, which he called Havrel pahked his cah in the yahd next to the otha derity bastids. Funny how he lost his accent in about a week after he came back from leave, but regained it when he went home for a few days. We were stationed in Florida and he said his family couldn't understand him for a few days whenever he went home.
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Bugs me when people, seems like most. Make the incorrect statement...
"I could care less."
Shouldn't it be...
"I couldn't care less."
If you could care less, that means you do care some. Wouldn't it be more effective if you didn't care at all ?
Oh, and how about this one. This was a common saying around the shop where I was last employed. In reference to any small mistake, glitch etc... that could only be seen close up.
"Thats just a booger on a billboard."
Laff.
Steve
-------------------- Steve Aycock Designs 3489 Oswald St. Johns Island, SC zaor@warpdriveonline.com Posts: 124 | From: Charleston, SC | Registered: Feb 2003
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My business partner Dick, has so many verbal quirks I'm thinking of just calling him that. "Hello Mr. Client, I'm Joe, and this is my partner Verbal. Verbal Quirks."
One of his anomalies is absolutely EVERY time he calls me on the phone, he'll ask "Hey, how ya doin?" Of course he doesn't really want to know how I am, hell we just got finished putting in an 8 hour day together...How am I doing? my back hurts, my feet stink and I - what do you want?
Dick's also not known for finishing a train of thought on the phone. Second and even third callbacks are not uncommon. Guess what he asks me when I pick up?
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While we're on the subject, a question for the British readers. I met a woman from England years ago that, pardon, WHO said she was taught to say seldom instead of rarely. Do be so kind as to inform us which is correct. Thank you, Jim D.
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since mike mentioned the boston problem word...WORCHESTER. i was takin my car back to maine from penna in 66 and this was the 1st road trip ive ever driven. being from pa and never left the place before iam driving thru mass. and stop for gas and asked the guy there the easest way to maine. wellll he tells me stay on the mass pike till i see the WOOSTA exit to 495 and take it. o.kkkkkkk. get back on the road and iam drivin and drivin...next thing i know iam in BOSTON!!!!! damn now i pull over and ask another guy where the WOOSTA exit is...he says you missed it back 40 miles ago. told him i never saw a WOOSTA exit....he then show me his map and says look!!! HERE IT IS...told him it dont say WOOSTA its WAR-CHESTER damn it.....he laughed like hell, thought it was so funny...and i got introduced to BOSTON 5 pm rush hour traffic....now thats a whole nother story!!!!!!
-------------------- joe pribish-A SIGN MINT 2811 longleaf Dr. pensacola, fl 32526 850-637-1519 BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND Posts: 11582 | From: pensacola, fl. usa | Registered: Nov 1998
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