I have decided to take a league of absence

[InflatableBuddha]

Probally/prolly/probly

It's probably.

 

[Schfifty Five]

"Mine as well" when it should be "might as well"

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: captains
ebonics

/thread

sigh...the uninformed media-driven destruciton of ebonics continues...

ebonics was never "ghetto speak," btw. It is legitimate recognition that a certain segment of coastal people have a very distinct dialect with clearly tracable roots; on the order of Castillan vs Basch Spanish. or Cantonese/Mandarin. etc...

The best comparison may be with Romansch, the 4th official language of Switzerland (kind of a bastardized mix of French, German...maybe Italian...I think).

it was laughed-out by the media and other talking heads who understand nothing about linguistics.

 

[SlowSpyder]

I have a buddy that says, "You never seem to amaze me." This is basically the exact opposite of what the real saying means.

Also, instead of "humid" he's been known to say "human." As in, "it's really human outside today."

 

[Unmoosical]

Originally posted by: kt

Originally posted by: redly1
"Can I ask you a question"

Can I axe you a question"

I don't know.. CAN you?

Or "yes, but only one."

 

[jupiter57]

Originally posted by: DeadByDawn
Had a guy in computer class that said "Jiggabytes" instead of Gigabytes.

I know a few people that say "Alltimers" instead of Alzheimers

Down South here, most say "Oldtimers"!

 

[Bryophyte]

Chester drawers (for chest of drawers)
"10 items or less" (damnit, it's "10 items or fewer")
Would of/could of/should of (instead of would have/could have/should have)
Try and (no, it's supposed to be "try to", unless you're saying something like "Try, and fail")
Old timer's disease =/= Alzheimer's disease

 

[meltdown75]

Originally posted by: jupiter57

Originally posted by: DeadByDawn
Had a guy in computer class that said "Jiggabytes" instead of Gigabytes.

I know a few people that say "Alltimers" instead of Alzheimers

Down South here, most say "Oldtimers"!

I've heard people say Sometimers too, referring in jest to people that are forgetful.

 

[tw1164]

Originally posted by: her209

Originally posted by: LoKe
Duck tape. =/

Along the same lines, I can't stand it when people say give me a:

Coke/Pepsi when they mean soda, soda pop, pop, etc.
Band-Aid when they mean bandage, gauze, etc.
etc.

I normally ask for a cola to drink. The waitress commonly asks if Coke/Pepsi is ok.

 

[tabasco]

Originally posted by: SlowSpyder
I have a buddy that says, "You never seem to amaze me." This is basically the exact opposite of what the real saying means.

Are you sure he doesn't mean it the way he is saying it?

 

[Chryso]

Some of these bother me alot.

 

[heyheybooboo]

Originally posted by: dbk
I had a professor who always pronounced Wachovia (wah-koh-via) as (wah-cho-via).

sheesh . . . everybody knows it's walk-all-over-yah

I kinda snicker when people say 'physical' instead of 'fiscal'

 

[her209]

How about people that say "inzone" when they really meant to say "endzone"?

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: PowerEngineer
Actually, you'll find that what we now commonly call "duct" tape was orginally developed during WWII to help seal ammunition cases, and was dubbed "duck" tape for the way ot shed water.

Close, but it's not "duck" for it's ability to shed water, but rather because the tape was made from cotton duck, a type of fabric commonly used in tents and other applications requiring a strong, durable fabric that is reasonably water-resistant.

Advertisements from 1945 have been shown advertising rolls of government surplus "cotton duck tape".

Additionally, that cotton duck tape is not the same as duct tape, the former being difficult to tear and not necessarily self-adhesive.

ZV

 

[Electric Amish]

Originally posted by: RapidSnail

Originally posted by: her209
From Cartalk.com

The Joys of Being a Teacher

Actual answers and spelling on a 6th grade history test:

1. Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel Cervantes. He wrote Donkey Hote. The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote Paradise Lost. Then his wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained.

2. Delegates from the original 13 states formed the Contented Congress. Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Declaration of Independence. Franklin discovered electricity by rubbing two cats backwards and declared, "A horse divided against itself cannot stand." Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead.

3. Abraham Lincoln became America's greatest Precedent. Lincoln's mother died in infancy, and he was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves by signing the Emasculation Proclamation. On the night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln went to the theater and got shot in his seat by one of the actors in a moving picture show. They believe the assinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposingly insane actor. This ruined Booth's career.

4. Johann Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and had a large number of children. In between he practiced on an old spinster which he kept up in his attic. Bach died from 1750 to the present. Bach was the most famous composer in the world and so was Handel. Handel was half German half Italian and half English. He was very large.

5. Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling for him. Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this.

6. The nineteenth century was a time of a great many thoughts and inventions. People stopped reproducing by hand and started reproducing by machine. The invention of the steamboat caused a network of rivers to spring up. Charles Darwin was a naturalist who wrote the Organ of the Species. Madman Curie discovered radio. And Karl Marx became one of the Marx Brothers.

ROFTLOL!!!!!!!!!

I've never actually laughed so hard out loud at something I've read on the internet!!!!


:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

How old are you? This was circulating via PAPER when I was in high school nearly 20 years ago...

 

[gar3555]

My all time favorite is from Dumb and Dumber: "...she'll invite us right in for tea and strumpets..." I didn't know what a strumpet was when the movie first came out.

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: Kadarin
Wreckless driving..
escape-boat (corruption of scapegoat) (I like Mojoed's version better )
a mute point
it's a doggy dog world out there (dog-eat-dog)
beckon call
for all intensive purposes
another words
where you at?
wreck havoc

these two make me cringe whenever i hear them...

 

[CaptainGoodnight]

This is sort of related, in that I hear it all the time and it kind of gets annoying after awhile.

My wife is Russian and when we both introduce ourselves to new people about 50 percent of the time the conversation goes like this:

Them (to my wife): Oh you?re Russian? Have you seen Borat?
Us: ?
Us: No.

They sometimes then quote some part of the movie.

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: DeadByDawn
Had a guy in computer class that said "Jiggabytes" instead of Gigabytes.

i keep running into people that say jiggabytes. i always say "jigga, giga, whatever you want to say"

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: her209

Originally posted by: LoKe
Duck tape. =/

Along the same lines, I can't stand it when people say give me a:

Coke/Pepsi when they mean soda, soda pop, pop, etc.
Band-Aid when they mean bandage, gauze, etc.
etc.

kleenex when they want a tissue...

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: DangerAardvark

Originally posted by: Izusaga
This isn't rocket surgery.

That's usually intentional. Like "bass ackwards" or "Alfred Einstein".

ya, there were two sayings... "its not rocket science" and "its not brain surgery". i often mix the two.

 

[Sentinel]

I can't stand it when people say PITCHERS when they mean PICTURES.

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: meltdown75
My mother-in-law says "orDERBS". Not that I would fault her for mispronouncing a term from another language, but she should really just say "appetizers".

we always called them horse ovaries. or whores ovaries. the parents hated when we did that.

 

[FeuerFrei]

Yesterday I saw someone write: "I'll give it a looksie."
I lol'd.

 

[FeuerFrei]

Originally posted by: hanoverphist

Originally posted by: meltdown75
My mother-in-law says "orDERBS". Not that I would fault her for mispronouncing a term from another language, but she should really just say "appetizers".

we always called them horse ovaries. or whores ovaries. the parents hated when we did that.

Reminds me: I like to call "hormones" "whore moans." Not that anyone can hear a difference.