Pet Peeve: "Guide wire and medium"

[Burnham]

Well, how about an explaination to help this poor dunce understand the meaning of your posts, friend?

 

[SouthSoundTree]

I don't get when people leave out "to be". That needs cleaned. This needs fixed."

 

[MasterBlaster]

Actually, using "to be" would be a tad verbose. The shorter a sentence can be, the better the sentence is.

 

[Cobleskill]

Doesn't sound right to me either. Could be a Northern thing.

 

[Knotahippie]

I know a guy who says 'council' instead of 'console'.

"The impliment is in the center council"

Makes me laugh, more than it bugs me.

 

[Paul B]

my mom in law says 'da nudder one' instead of 'another one', sure, english isn't her first language but she has been here for 30 odd years now...

 

[bill22]

I don't get when people leave out "to be". That needs cleaned. This needs fixed."

How about this needs fixin? This needs cleanin? My dad is good for both of those.

 

[SkwerI]

He needs learnin'.

 

[bill22]

Lmao. I pick on him all the time about his grammar.

 

[stig]

my mom in law says 'da nudder one' instead of 'another one', sure, english isn't her first language but she has been here for 30 odd years now...

Can she say "V" or does that still turn out as a half assed "F"?

I have always found that the best way to find out if someone is from Holland is to ask them to say " visa".

No can do!

 

[Paul B]

hahaha I can say Visa all day long buddy My parents do well also but they had english (also latin, german and french) classes in school, where my inlaws did not.

My mother in law however, not so much. So many European languages the V is a 'w' sound, I remember the first time I heard the term "bay ehm way' for BMW, made me chuckle.

Another way I can tell that some folks are European is the 'rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr' sound of French or the 'phlegmy' sound of guttural German and Dutch. Not that those sounds are limited to those languages. Another is 'eu' or 'euw' I think its the U with the umlout.

 

[stig]

A lot of danes have that "V" turns to "W" problem as well.
When my karate sensei decided to join the UN police corps in The former Jugoslavia, he had to take an english test.
Basically, the higher your English score, the more you can choose between assignments, for obvious reasons.
So I worked him really hard. One thing I taught him was to think V8 before ever uttering a word with the letter "V" in it.
That must have worked, because he had the top score of those tested that year.

 

[tophopper]

Funny, I always hear people say- supposevly instead of supposedly.

Doesn't bug me, but I always chuckle whenever someone says it.

 

[SoonerFan]

How about guys that talk about their prostrate exam when it should be prostate.

 

[sotc]

Could be a prostrate prostate exam

 

[Cobleskill]

I had to work on saying rotator cuff. I think part of the confusion is from the medical term actually being rotor cuff, but you hear rotary cuff pretty commonly.

 

[SkwerI]

I thought it was 'rotator cup'?

 

[Cobleskill]

I heard a new one on the local news last night. "Guide Rail." Apparently a car smashed into it. I gotta send them an e-mail. Curious what response I will get.

 

[flushcut]

It's to help guide you to the hospital.

 

[Cobleskill]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guide_rail

Silly me. They replied with an e-mail explaining some lawsuit made the change. No explanation about guide wire, meridian, medium. Douchebaggery abounds.

 

[stehansen]

I was laughing so hard at these posts, I had to unloosen my belt.

 

[Dave Shepard]

Am I supposed to unthaw my pizza before I cook it?

 

[Old Monkey]

That's de-thaw.