Ain't is still incorrect.... Now I just need to figure out why Firefox isn't underlining it, LIKE IT SHOULD BE.
Don't be foolish. All the wiki article shows is that it's recognized as a variant by some and not by others.
"Ain't" was considered incorrect for a long time too. Common usage caused it to be accepted eventually. That's how it works with language, since language is not static but ever evolving. So stop imagining that the way YOU like it is the only way it should be.
Ain't is still incorrect.... Now I just need to figure out why Firefox isn't underlining it, LIKE IT SHOULD BE.
Don't be foolish. All the wiki article shows is that it's recognized as a variant by some and not by others.
"Ain't" was considered incorrect for a long time too. Common usage caused it to be accepted eventually. That's how it works with language, since language is not static but ever evolving. So stop imagining that the way YOU like it is the only way it should be.
So, I was watching Fox News this weekend and heard one of their commentators use the word Nuclear...only he pronounced it nookular. What kind of dumbfuck who proclaims to be a journalist intentionally mispronounces a word like this? Did you flunk out of high school and then go to the University of Dumbfuckistan for your degree in Journalism?
Take the pronunciation of nuclear as "nucular." That one has been getting on people's nerves since Eisenhower made the mispronunciation famous in the 1950's.
I agree completely. Ironically enough, we are dicussing this fact using a medium that has done more to torture, abuse, mangle, and mutilate the English language than any other medium in history."Ain't" is NEVER a word one should use in any formal, educated, written, non-colloquial, scientific, or intellectual context outside of an academic reference (like I just did) or mockery.
I agree completely. Ironically enough, we are dicussing this fact using a medium that has done more to torture, abuse, mangle, and mutilate the English language than any other medium in history.
Let's clear something up here. Just because a word is "disapproved" of, that doesn't mean it hasn't been accepted into the English lexicon. Ain't is one such word. Nucular is another. I really don't care if a bunch of snobby, uptight twits want to look down their collective noses at a word that they feel is beneath them because, allegedly, only idiots or the uneducated employ them. In fact, that a-holish attitude nearly prompts me to use them purely to piss off those posers and I hope everyone else that can't stand self-important types feels the same way.
Its one thing to [mis] pronounce a word colloquially (spoken), its quite another to misspell the word as well in a way that phonetically parallels the colloquial gaff. Lots of people mispronounce NUCLEAR and yet they spell it correctly.
/looks at zin's lack of capitalization and horrid sentence structure in his rebukeit's, "poseur."
not, "poser."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poseur
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/poseur
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/poseur
look, even the peons at urban dictionary know this:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=poseur
Not only is it a weak rant, it's an uninformed one.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nuclear
Notice the second accepted pronunciation?Main Entry: nu·cle·ar
Pronunciation: \ˈnü-klē-ər, ˈnyü-, ÷-kyə-lər\
Three short syllables, patiently explained before your tiny little brain, and YOU GOT ALL THREE WRONG.Let me break it down for you, Sparky:
ˈnyü- /= noo
kyə /= u
lər /= lar
Uninteresting topic, underdeveloped and generic delivery, Fox News-related, 0/10 rant.
/looks at zin's lack of capitalization and horrid sentence structure in his rebuke
otay dude. tanks for da' heads up. :thumbsup:
lol. The second pronunciation is essentially nookular, nucular, nukyaler, or however you want to spell it out, dipshit. Stop trying to be such an assinine pedant based on a spelling when everyone else already knows what specific pronunciation we are talking about.My God! If there's anything more annoying than a retard, it's an insistent retard!
That second pronunciation is NOT "nookular", you fucking dipshit!
Three short syllables, patiently explained before your tiny little brain, and YOU GOT ALL THREE WRONG.
What a big, sloppy bucket of fiercely determined FAIL you are!
Does Mom still tie your shoes for you, or what?
Don't be foolish. All the wiki article shows is that it's recognized as a variant by some and not by others.
"Ain't" was considered incorrect for a long time too. Common usage caused it to be accepted eventually. That's how it works with language, since language is not static but ever evolving. So stop imagining that the way YOU like it is the only way it should be.
The "poseurs" I'm bashing are those positioning themselves as some sort of elite of the grammar world who feel it's their job to mock and deride those who don't speak precisely as the "posers" dictate. I'm not the one trying to claim there is only one right way and that all others are hicks and/or idiots.well, now you're simply being silly.
isn't it ironic that a grammar poseur is unveiled while attempting a bash against "posers?"
but actually, most people have no idea how that word is truly spelled. weird...I've known it since the only age people ever use it (middle school--when such things are..."important" :sneaky
the misspelling isn't accepted in any language guide.
No, it shows some odd form of style and usage owing to several factors (including vernaculars or dialects to which one may have been exposed as a child or adolescent, which can be difficult to overcome in colloquial usage), having little to nothing to do with literacy. e.g. SKEDJUAL v. SHEDJULIt shows some odd form of illiteracy.
lol. The second pronunciation is essentially nookular, nucular, nukyaler, or however you want to spell it out, dipshit. Stop trying to be such an assinine pedant based on a spelling when everyone else already knows what specific pronunciation we are talking about.
Sheesh, fucking moron.
Christ, man, RIGHT ON THAT MERRIAM-WEBSTER PAGE is a pronunciation symbol guide you can click on::thumbsdown: Fail. I listened to both of the audio pronunciations on that site, and neither sounds like "nook-u-lar".
If you were still either too stubborn or too dense to comprehend or admit that ˈnyü is NOT "noo" or "nu", whoop, there it is![FONT=Arial, Helvetica]
\ n \ as n in own
\\ as ng in sing
\\ as o in go
\\ as aw in law
\i \ as oy in boy
\ p \ as p in pepper
[/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica] \ s \ as s in less
\ sh \ as sh in shy
\ t \ as t in tie
\ th \ as th in thin
\ th \ as th in the
\ ü \ as oo in loot
\\ as oo in foot
\ v \ as v in vivid
\ w \ as w in away
\ y \ as y in yet
\ yü \ as you in youth
\ y\ as u in curable
\ z \ as z in zone
\ zh \ as si in vision[/FONT]
iirc, the first variation of "ain't" is allegedly traced back to that uneducated hick of language bastardization, William Shakespeare."ain't" is the incorrect pronunciation of "isn't"
so many uneducated people said it that it finally became a word in the dictionary.
until "nucular" becomes a term in the dictionary synonymous with "nuclear," as opposed to something that comes from or pertains to a nucule, nuclear = nuclear, not nucular.
nucular is NOT nuclear.
p.s. i'm not being foolish in proving to you that "nucular" is an incorrect way of saying "nuclear".
I learned how to pronounce this word in middle school...over 25 years ago. The fact that this is even debated just proves to me how stupid many Americans are. There is only one way to properly pronounce nuclear...and it isn't the way the dumbshit from faux news pronounced it.