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 Yesterday at 9:04 pm
| amother Myrtle wrote: | | I have never heard sundee mondee. How does that sound? Who speaks that way which area? | I've heard it in Pittsburgh. I'm sure they say it in other places too. But that's where I've heard it.
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Yesterday at 9:06 pm
| amother Gray wrote: | | How in the world could you tell a difference when speaking? |
One sounds like use (rhymes with juice), the proper ways is used. They also spell it as use…
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Yesterday at 9:07 pm
Haven't read through all the responses, but what is surprising to me is how commonly the term "apropos" is misused.
Admittingly, I only know this because my college professor taught me. But hey, you'd expect many acedemics to know this, but very often it's used as "appropriate" instead of "in regards to" which is it's real meaning. Such as, "Apropo extereta, I have another example..."
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sequoia
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Yesterday at 9:12 pm
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I was in Florida and asked a nice-looking black man where the Walgreens was. He replied, “There’s no Walgreens, there’s a CVX!”
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Today at 4:44 am
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Confused by matinée in the afternoon and maître d for maître d'hôtel
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Debbie
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Today at 6:13 am
[quote="amother Sand"]Don't must
Don't must is annoying; as is referring to a pair of shoes, tights etc as it instead of them.
Just one more for now...'The bigger/smaller half' if it's bigger or smaller, it's not half!
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Today at 6:52 am
| amother Gray wrote: | My dh drives a sumburban. It’s set in stone. Impossible to change. Sumburban fan for life  |
What is a sumburban? 
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amother
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Today at 7:15 am
| amother Brass wrote: | What am I ignorant of? I said that I am aware of how to write etcetera. If there is a requirement for me to pronounce every word perfectly, then I am definitely ignorant of that.
I am choosing to pronounce a word (the only) way that I hear it pronounced. That may not be your choice, and it may not be the same way that you hear the word pronounced, but it doesn't mean I'm lacking knowledge or information.
I will happily continue to use pronunciations that are commonly used around me, even if I learn that they are technically incorrect. Doesn't bother me. And I don't say expecially, exape, or the other examples people gave, but I'm sure I would if everyone around me did! |
Fascinating you know the correct pronounciation and still choose to ignore it. To articulate a word incorrectly on purpose, what's the purpose of it?
Your attitude comes over as ignorant and I-dont-care, its not important.
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amother
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Today at 7:19 am
| amother Nasturtium wrote: | Fascinating you know the correct pronounciation and still choose to ignore it. To articulate a word incorrectly on purpose, what's the purpose of it?
Your attitude comes over as ignorant and I-dont-care, it’s not important. |
Umm no it doesn’t. Take a Philly accent. No one writes like how a Philly accent talks. Or Boston. And Southern.
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Today at 8:50 am
[quote="Debbie"] . Don't must is a direct literal translation of Yiddish מוז נישט, which sounds like "must not" but means "don't have to."
It would make perfect logical sense to have an expression "don't must," but language evolves organically. Like a stream working its way to the sea, it doesn't take a straight and logical path, but meanders hither and yon and takes inexplicable detours. If you think about it, "don't have to" as the opposite of "must" is counterintuitive, awkward, and inefficient, just like a river's big bend that takes a vessel miles out of the way--and yet that's how people chose to express it.
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amother
Linen
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Today at 9:11 am
| amother Nasturtium wrote: | Fascinating you know the correct pronounciation and still choose to ignore it. To articulate a word incorrectly on purpose, what's the purpose of it?
Your attitude comes over as ignorant and I-dont-care, its not important. | It can be done for effect, to sound homey and folksy, to minimize social barriers, to blend in and show identification with one's audience. Black professionals who lecture in standard English may speak "black English" among friends who did not escape the old neighborhood.
When I talk to Brooklyn-type frum people, I take on that singsong style of speech, peppered with pious expressions that I don't use when talking to the outside world. And sometimes when I give a speech, I'll say something like "I ain't gonna touch that!" for humorous effect.
I would not , however, knowingly mispronounce a word just because it's a common error, any more than I would knowingly misspell one. That's just peculiar--and maybe a bit condescending, as if assuming that the audience wouldn't recognize the word if pronounced correctly.
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Today at 9:18 am
| amother Blushpink wrote: | Where are you being for Shabbos?
I’m being a clown for Purim.
We’re being by my parents for YT.
Arrrrgggghh makes me want to rip my ears off.
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Also a direct literal translation from Yiddish.
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Today at 9:22 am
| mfb wrote: | | screamt is the pass tense of scream, | Past tense. Just saying ...
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