Words in the wrong context

[DanaC]

Affectation is usually unnecessary, come to that. Half-brights, I say, and I say it with confidence, DanaC.

Am I the only one who sees the irony in that?

@ UG. It isn't affectation if it's the way you've been taught to say the word by everybody around you. It would be an affectation were I, or Sundae, to start pronouncing it offen. In much the same way that it would be an affectation for you to start pronouncing it often. You've just accused most of the British nation of being half-brights because they pronounce a word differently to the way you (an American) pronounce the word. What an utterly ludicrous position to take. Even for a man of your arrogance that is wholly preposterous.

I expect I shall continue to twit you from time to time over your fits of notwithitness --

I expect you shall. And I expect I shall continue to twat you from time to time over your fits of pomposity.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Well, I suppose you're the one who imagines the irony. Will that do?

[Cicero]

I am anxious and eager to pick up my puppy today!!! Yea! Mostly eager....

[HungLikeJesus]

I'm 100% with Dana on this one.

[Cicero]

Actually Dana, pronouncing the t in often is not limited to brits...I don't think this has a bit to do with the Brit vs US dynamic.

Tons of US people do it that aren't half-brights or less. I think UG is aiming at offending globally.

[HungLikeJesus]

UG ofTen offends.

[Juniper]

Spotted in another forum, on a thread regarding Ike:

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UGH

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by Juniper

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Oh, that happens when all the Realtors in town go bugfuck, all together.

What, you hadn't heard?

Do people where you live say "please" when they mean "what did you say?" I know it's a Cincinnati affectation - I do it, and yes, it causes problems when I'm on the phone with someone from another state. Just wondered how far away the custom goes.

That may be drawn from other languages -- specifically, German and Russian both do it that way. Romance languages pick the word for "how" rather than "what," figuring what to be flatly rude, and the Turkish uses an inquiring "M'lord?"

[FStop]

We say either "wha?" or "fuckyousay?"

[Pico and ME]

To customers I say, "Could you say that again?", but to everyone else its "huh?"

I dont prounounce the 't' in often unless Im reading it, otherwise its awfin...as in 'how awfin do you go to the store?'

FStop - I think there some similarity between Pittsburgh English and the way people from Chi-Town talk.

[Sundae]

I overheard some terribly terribly nice ladies who lunch the other day and they dropped the T in ofTen. They pronounced it "orphan". I thought of UG and laughed.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Orphan... okay, now this is beginning to resemble the first act of Pirates of Penzance.

"...O'fen-frequently only once!!"

Yeah, I'm in rehearsal. My first experience of G&S.

[Juniper]

There may be a better thread than this one to resurrect for what I wanted to share, but I couldn't find it, so this will do.

I'm taking two online classes this quarter and they're always a rich source of funny typos and mistakes. I saw this one today and it made me chuckle. Maybe you will too. A little.

I work two jobs and go to classes. I am a very very orangized individual. I play tennis and watch movies in my spare time. Later.

[Shawnee123]

I have some great scholarship application quotes from my old job. I'm not sure where my notebook is, but two that stand out in my mind are:

I want to major in medical assassinating.

and:

(end of a sentence.) Because I like to see things through and I never leave anything undone. (start of another sentence.)

My sis-in-law was one of my committee members (I was chair and she's VP of Development) and we probably laughed reading scholarship applications more than was nice.