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Started by Samus Aran, April 17, 2008, 12:18:52 AM

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Selkie

April 17, 2008, 11:32:12 AM #15 Last Edit: April 17, 2008, 11:36:41 AM by Killer Tofu
1. The word "invaluable". To me that sounds like not valuable...

and also when people say "yooge" instead of "huge", or "yooman" instead of "human", like someone said before. God I hate that. Michael Kay does it bad.



Samus Aran

Quote from: Snorkel on April 17, 2008, 05:00:35 AM
When you end up with a situation in which you must say "do do." It just sounds ridiculous.





Any time where you have to say a word twice in a row is pretty stupid, but yeah, "do do" is probably the worst one.

Quote from: JMV on April 17, 2008, 08:37:41 AM
and i dunno my accent sucks and like mixes  a boston accent with a slight new york one and several of say "rilly" instead of "really"(or other words with similar sounds),


I always do that.

Quote from: Socks on April 17, 2008, 04:58:49 AM
When people say "Ya'll", it sounds so hick it's not even funny.


Seriously.

Title27GT


Selkie

Lucky bastard I want my picture with Michael Kay  gonk;

Title27GT

Quote from: Killer Tofu on April 17, 2008, 12:05:36 PM
Lucky bastard I want my picture with Michael Kay  gonk;
yeah a lot of people do


hehe

Kalahari Inkantation

Names that begin with "Mc--", like McCain or McDonald's. :'(

Kalahari Inkantation

Quote from: Your Posting Rival on April 17, 2008, 12:24:44 AM
1. "Warsh" instead of wash
2. "Wooder" instead of water
3. "Pop" instead of soda
4. In writing how people can't seem to comprehend the difference between words like your and you're
5. Skipping prepositions


Quote from: Kazarus on April 17, 2008, 12:18:52 AM
1.) When people use "da" instead of "the"
2.) When people roll their Rs unnecessarily
3.) "ain't"
4.) When people talk so fast you can't understand any of it
6.) Deep southern accents
7.) The fact that there is no English equivalent for "déjà vu."


i agree with all of the above

Nyerp

the fact that vowels have multiple pronunciations

"dude"

Claquesous

April 17, 2008, 02:26:53 PM #25 Last Edit: April 17, 2008, 02:33:15 PM by Claquesous
Quote from: Geno on April 17, 2008, 11:19:14 AM
My Biology teacher pronounces "Humans" as "Youmans"

I wanna smack her when she does that.

Oh that reminds me. When people say Chooseday instead of Tuesday. My brother used to say it like chooseday, but I nagged him enough to where he stopped.

Also when people capitalize every word rather than just what needs to be capitalized.

Socks

Quote from: Claquesous on April 17, 2008, 02:26:53 PM
Oh that reminds me. When people say Chooseday instead of Tuesday. My brother used to say it like chooseday, but I nagged him enough to where he stopped.


Was your brother mentally challenged? I don't think I've ever heard that from someone who didn't have a speech impediment.

Claquesous

Quote from: Socks on April 17, 2008, 02:37:25 PM
Was your brother mentally challenged? I don't think I've ever heard that from someone who didn't have a speech impediment.

No. One of my 7th grade teachers said it like that, too.

Samus Aran

I've never heard anyone say "chooseday."

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