Tonight's "word" that makes me cringe when I hear it: "Supposably." For God's sake, is it SUCH

[Redstone]

an effort to to pronounce the word correctly as "supposedly?"

Is that just TOO MUCH to ask?

Redstone

[WritingIsMyReligion]

1. My hated "word" is still "hubby."

What is with all these damn "b"s being added to our language?

x(

[Redstone]

2. And you remember my rants about "veggies" and "sammies," I'm sure. It's the

"juvenilazation" of English (and if "juvenilazation" isn't a word, it should be).

"Dumbing down?" It's happening at a rate that is unprecendented.

Redstone

[DarkTirade]

5. The speed of communication has changed

Now stupidity can travel faster, and occasionally the dumbed-down versions are even faster than normal speech. Wnt 2 go 2 movie takes less time to send as a text message to your teenage friends than calling them up and asking them in plain simple english.

[unpossibles]

59. Did you know that when the telegraph was introduced

people thought we would stop using all kinds of words, and that language would degrade and we'd all become illiterate.

[DarkTirade]

60. We still seem to be heading in the direction... just a lot slower than they thought we were.

:P

[unpossibles]

61. i no wut u mean

ttfn!

[DarkTirade]

62. Liek OMG, totaly.

[Bake]

47. If it is, it should probably be spelled "juvenilization"

From the root "juvenilize."

:rofl:

Good rant, by the way!

Bake

[Redstone]

72. Oops. You're right. I should have checked that more closely.

Redstoe

[Common Sense Party]

3. That one drives me bonkers as well. nt

[Lil Missy]

4. "warsh", and "Warshington" are pet peeves of mine.

[Redstone]

6. But those are regionalisms, and therefore forgivable. People in Philadelphia

"warsh" their hands, rinse them with "wooder," and dry them with with a "tal."

Just regional pronunciation, and that doesn't bother me at all. But "supposably" is just pure ignorant.

Redstone

[Lil Missy]

7. Okay. I can see that. Like "roof" and "ruff".

On a slighly different track on regionalisms, I "scoop" the snow. A co-worker many years ago originally from the east coast told me she had never heard that, because she "shovels" snow.

And she always ate pizza folded in half?? :wtf:

[Redstone]

8. Eating a pizza slice folded in half? Gotta be a New Yorker.

Redstone

[ThomCat]

11. Your co-worker sounds reasonable to me.

:P

I spent every winter as a kid shoveling snow for my parents and many of my neighbors. And if a pizza is made correctly I always fold it to eat it. :)

[Lil Missy]

21. Folding pizza in half? BLASPHEMY!

;)

[CreekDog]

17. don't they say "supposably" in Maryland?

:hide:

[madinmaryland]

52. No. It is supposedly a California thingie.

:hi:

[nytemare]

63. That is how Warshingtonians say it, as well.

I said Warshington until I was about 16, moved out of Maryland when I was 8. I think my folks still say it.

[ThomCat]

9. YES! I bite my tongue to resist telling people to learn some real words.

x(

[latebloomer]

10. Someone I knew who always said "supposably"

also said "pacifically" when he meant "specifically."

Believe it or not, he had a master's degree. :shrug:

[ThomCat]

12. Hopefully it wasn't a masters degree in

something that required writing or fluency in English. :P

[latebloomer]

14. Well, it was social work/ drug counseling

which does require both!!

[Zornhau]

13. Curmudgeon

:P
Do you think they still teach English in school?

[ThomCat]

15. Hey, one of my favorite people!

:hi:

:hug:
How are you doing? How are the preparations coming along for the move?

I know I could probably just read LynzM's blog to find out, if I could remember where I put the url to her blog. :P

[Zornhau]

28. Hey, how are you doing?

We're not moving, so they're coming along great! :D Too many cool people and things we'd miss to leave, so we're not going.

http://vagabond-lynzm.blogspot.com/

[ThomCat]

29. YAY! Woo Hoo!

:woohoo:
:party: :toast: :bounce:










Um... I mean... that's really a shame. :P

[Zornhau]

31. hey now!

that's what everyone says :P

[CreekDog]

16. It's an adverb of supposed

:hide:

[Redstone]

18. It's an adverb of iggerance, if it's an adverb of anything. But we got lots of iggerant

folks in the US, so I'm betting that not only will it survive, it will become dominant.

Redstone

[jobycom]

19. Wow, With grammarians like you, we'd all be speaking Latin.

Or ancient Germanic, anyway. Dialects are the spice of life. Vive le difference! Y'all. Just about every word you think of us as "proper" was once a corruption of proper language. Read Chaucer.

Irregardless, I still luvs ya!

[Redstone]

27. "Supposably" is NOT a "dialect." It's just ignorant. I do genuinely like dialects,

in fact it's one of my hobbies to study them. But ignorant pronunciations are NOT a dialect.

Redstone

[jobycom]

35. Since when?

If ignorant pronunciations aren't dialect, they are on their way to becoming so.

[alarimer]

20. My coworker says "sangwich"

I want to scream at him "IT'S SANDWICH YOU IDIOT" But I somehow restrain myself. (I do scream at Bush on the radio or tv when he says nukular).

[Eurobabe]

40. hey! my kids used to say that, but they were 2

:rofl:

[liberaltrucker]

22. Jeet yet?

Naw, djew?

Naw, yontoo?

Foxworthy joke that's all too true!

We Southerners have our own language-Rednecklish.

:hi:

[Gormy Cuss]

23. Supposably, its correct irregardless and has the same affect.

:hide:
Did that subject line make your head explode, my friend?

[mitchum]

24. "Flounder" drives me crazy...

it's FOUNDER...WITH NO L (unless you're talking about a fish)

[Gormy Cuss]

25. Flounder=flopping around like a ground fish on the beach.

I had a coworker explain the usage that way rather than admit he was wrong.

[fishwax]

34. well that's a rather silly argument

Flounder is perfectly fine as a verb (meaning to move clumsily or to struggle), but it is not likely related (etymologically) to a ground fish on the beach :)

[nytemare]

65. "Sangwich" is one I have been hearing lately.

Instead of sandwich.

[fishwax]

33. "to flounder" is to struggle violently or clumsily

"To founder" is to sink (fail, fall, etc.), but flounder has uses other than those referring to fish (at least according to the OED :)) ...

[madeline_con]

69. Founder is sink, crumple or fall...

Flounder is to flail about, like a fish. Some people are using the correct word, some aren't. Depends.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

26. And then there are the people who sell real estate:

"Real-a-tors." It's "Real-tors," you Philistines. And the natives of Italy: "Eye-talians."

:banghead:

[Tangerine LaBamba]

30. What is this?

I keep running into this language tic and I'll be damned if it makes one bit of sense, even as oral filler:

"The thing of it is ................"

[crimsonblue]

32. supposably.

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[grannylib]

36. Oh I hear you...I hate hate hate that one. And "for all intensive purposes."

Yikes.

[ForrestGump]

37. Yes, it IS too much to ask, apparently.

Indisputably so.

Irregardless, we must stay the course.

[Lil Missy]

38. So, how do you feel about "mines", instead of mine?

That used to be an irritation with me in my youth, but I don't hear it so much anymore.

[Eurobabe]

39. I still hate IRREGARDLESS

:puke: It really offends my ears.

[madinmaryland]

56. That one really irritates me also!

:grr:

It's not a word!!

[Lasher]

41. Iggerant peoples prolly dont no better.

[Iggo]

42. "Flustrated."

Makes me want to take a hostage.

[fishwax]

50. or "fustrated"

My high school band teacher used to say that all the time. :)

[CreekDog]

58. my grandmother said "flustrated" (South Jersey)

:eyes: :rofl:

i don't mean Philly suburbs, i mean really South Jersey, like Vineland.

[Javaman]

43. the mispronounced word I hate the most is: Height.

People at least here in Texas have the inability to pronounce it correctly, they say, ugh, "heigth"!!!
what the fuck is heigth?????????

[Ikonoklast]

48. 'Heigth' ith wath you thlip on when it'th cold out.

Go on, make fun of my lithp, you pwick.

:popcorn:

[Javaman]

49. Perhaps you would like to meet my friend...

bwian.

[Schema Thing]

54. It's actually more precise

It means a measurement of "height" accurate to the nth degree.




:evilgrin:

[Tommy_Carcetti]

44. Irregardless of what you think, supposedly and supposably are for all intesive purposes the same

I don't know why it has such a affect on you.

[madinmaryland]

57. Are you series?? If so, then we are all screwn.

[madeline_con]

70. Irregardless is superfluous. Regardless is the word to use. n/t

[Rambis]

45. Guesstimate!

Don't care if it is a word hate it! "my best gestiment would be"
Maddening!

[MorningGlow]

46. I can go you one syllable "better" (worse?)

Mr. MG and I used to work with a girl who always said "supposanably". Now it's become part of our "family slang". :scared:

[MrsMatt]

51. I blame it on the show "Friends"

that damned Joey started the trend in one episode.

I've only heard it once, but I heard Barry White use the word "distinctful" to describe Whitney Houston's voice on a radio show. That one really grated my ass.

[WinkyDink]

53. My best friend says that. I haven't the heart to correct her (though it grates on this English

teacher's nerves!).

[Schema Thing]

55. Prolly makes you want to go nuculer on their asses, eh?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

64. This word is used only by those with supposable thumbs.

;-)

[Inspired]

66. I cringed today when I tried to say "minimalist".

I couldn't spit the word out to save my life.

[pagandem4justice]

67. Oh My...

And I thought this was a regionalism!!!! I live in deep South TX, along the border, so we have a lot of pronunciation anomalies, which I guess you can expect in an area where two languages merge. I hear on a regular basis, "supposebly," "sangwich," "sus-specially," "BEAR-llly" (almost a trilled "r"), "YON-kay" (junk, pronounced with Spanish "Y" for the "j"), "shaiz" for cheese, and my name Jennifer as "Yennifair."

I can't tell you how dismayed I am to hear that some of these are NOT regional, or as the result of an accent!

And yes, my absolute pet peeve is "supposebly," especially out of college educated colleagues (I'm a teacher). To me at least, it sounds ignorant as hell.

[Redstone]

68. Now, that's interesting. Some of those pronunciations really do seem like

something you'd expect in a region where Spanish and English are melding together.

Just curious, because I like learning this stuff: Are those pronunciations equally common among native Spanish speakers and native English speakers? If so, I'd say you may be witnessing the birth of a dialect, and how cool would that be?

It's the words "BEAR-llly," "shaiz," and "Yennifair" that sound like true language-mixing to me.

Redstone

[jonnyblitz]

71. Hey, Redstone, I think I was in your town earlier tonight.

I had to go to the Radio Shack at the Old Saybrook Shopping Centre on Elm St. The internets told me it was the closest Radio Shack that had what I needed in stock, the one near me in Norwich didn't have it. For some reason I thought that was near you, if I remember correctly :hi:

[Redstone]

73. Dammit, you were right around the corner (less than half a mile) from the house!

I'll PM you my phone number so you can give me a shout nest time you're around. We'll have a beer, cup of coffe, lunch, whatever.

Redstone

[Redstone]

74. I just remembered a worse one. Anyone else ever hear "un-thaw?"

I swear, I know a woman who would take food out of the freezer and say she had to let it "un-thaw" before she could cook it.

Redstone