If now we're discussing mispronunciations, my mother changed her pronunciation of "nuclear" to "nuke-u-lar." I think she's making a passive-aggressive stab at my politics.
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JimothyNot in front of the foxhe's with the owlRegistered Userregular
If Mr. Monroe's English teacher is correct, then I am going to continue citing "lol" as an appropriate verbal and written response to a semi-humorous situation ... just like how my coworker tried arguing that "conversating" is the appropriate verb form of "conversation" - because people use it more and more in spoken English!
Which people? I have never heard anyone make that mistake.
If now we're discussing mispronunciations, my mother changed her pronunciation of "nuclear" to "nuke-u-lar." I think she's making a passive-aggressive stab at my politics.
Nuke-u-lar!
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
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I've lived in New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma my entire life. If I let myself worry about dialect-related mispronunciations, I'd never stop screaming.
Who for the subject, whom for the object. In both of these "you" is the subject so "whom" is the right one for both. Exchange he or him for who and whom and you can tell. Any time you would use "him" instead of "he" it's "whom."
And have any of you ever been to the southeastern coast of the US?
I was pretty confused when I was offered some "srimp" on the street.
back in primary school there was this scary outback serial killer looking teacher who was generally an asshole and when he was on playground duty if you went up and asked him something like 'can we play some soccer here' or whatever you had to ask permission for hed be all
'you can but you may not'
fucking smartass sonofabitch
let us play the fucking game
I didn't get a photo, no. It was a loose paper advertisement that I found today amongst the papers I was filing. It would've been cooler had it been a large glossy advert or something
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No you can not ask me a question, you filthy pleb.
I thought I was too, but then I wasn't so sure.
that's just a dialect thing
not as bad as
"I can ax you a question?"
Not where I'm from. Learn to vocalise your words properly.
e: or pronounce if we're going to get nit-picky.
Which people? I have never heard anyone make that mistake.
how about "scrimps" instead of shrimp?
:x
Nuke-u-lar!
But then again we don't even say that word here.
The first (and only) time I heard it was in reference to "carpet skrimps," those lively bastards that curl up and die in your shag carpet.
Man, the dorms at my college were CLASSY.
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Who for the subject, whom for the object. In both of these "you" is the subject so "whom" is the right one for both. Exchange he or him for who and whom and you can tell. Any time you would use "him" instead of "he" it's "whom."
And have any of you ever been to the southeastern coast of the US?
I was pretty confused when I was offered some "srimp" on the street.
I've only heard it in that Beatles lyric.
It means this.
You're just being pretentious.
come on now, read a book or something
Oh, I've heard it in that context.
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I dunno, can you?
Out of fear he'll just piss his pants right there
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'you can but you may not'
fucking smartass sonofabitch
let us play the fucking game
Which is nowhere near as awful as:
"Ho brah, I can ax you one question? Where you had fly my keys? I no can find."
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Let fly!
Some slang just sounds so archaic to me
Like gat
I hear that and my mind conjures 1930's gangsters
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It was advertising some seminars/lectures that a literary editor was giving
The advert spent half a page listing this woman's qualifications, which included at least 15 years as an editor for various prestigious establishments
Then it listed the various topics she would be covering in her seminars under the bold heading:
TOPIC'S
haha
did you get a picture?
maybe her name was linda topic
maybe it was describing her lectures
didn't think of that did you ms. smartypants
I didn't get a photo, no. It was a loose paper advertisement that I found today amongst the papers I was filing. It would've been cooler had it been a large glossy advert or something
Dude, she's like, married now.
MRS. Smartypants.
look it ain't mori smartypants ok
that's not the way I roll
Mori came in and read this topic over my shoulder (he's been cooking dinner) and said exactly the same thing!