evenstr wrote:I swear, today I heard a sophomore in highschool say "libarien." "Axe" intead of "ask" also bothers me. Grr! Rant over .
ha. i got you beat. i heard the librarian say "axe."
My vice principal in high school said that. I remember one particular school assembly where he was instructing us on what to do should we get in a disagreement with the teacher.
"Fa Gawd's sakes, don't leave the classroom! Axe the teacher fo a pass!"
To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions. -Keen
"Unconscionable". It's going out of fashion, but for a while there liberal politicians and activists used it to describe anything the right did that they didn't like. There's another word that's been bugging me more, but I can't remember it at the moment.
It might be the unconscionable use of the word "gravitas."
Innocent Bystander wrote:"Sekatry" instead of Secretary.
Even BBC announcers sometimes commit this one!
I used to work on the shipping dock with an ex-Navy Texan who said "bat-tree" for battery. We kidded him about it, I remember. But, then again, my mother always referred to the cemetery as the "sema-tree", which is a similar way of shortening a multi-syllable word. I wasn't aware that I said certain words in an unusual way until I moved to another state to teach public school. The kids looked at me, shook their heads, and said, "Where did you come from, Mr. Tipple?" The truth of the matter is that I grew up in the back corner of a woods totally surrounded by corn fields in Indiana.
I heard a word used, today, on some cooking show on television that I hadn't heard before. It was something like "ennennemmennewenna" and best I could make out meant something like "and then I am going to want to."
There is a word I don´t like for some reason (I don´t know why). It´s DUDE.
I especially don´t like when people call me DUDE!
I also don´t like the abbrevation for thanks and good bye: "TA" and "BYE". It sounds like nauseating baby language to me --- especially BYE BYE. (and even worse --- TA TA)
It's the most agressive phrase I know. I'll let you know if I agree with you, otherwise don't make assumptions.
"Pro-active" means what?
There are also a couple of words frequently used in a silly context. People often talk about making a "conscious". What's the alternative? All the other decisions made in your sleep?
Over and under are used when the speaker means more than or less than.
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