more snotty bitching about the english language

[maxsolomon]

i have to get this off my chest.

the point is now "MOOT", not "mute".

and you get the "GIST", not "jest".

christ almighty, people, lets pick it up here! we're an empire now; lets act like it.

[RevolutionaryActs]

1. Hear, hear.

:)

[txaslftist]

38. puppy puppy

whoot whoot.

c'mere, boy!

[StClone]

2. Moot means debatable

Not unchallengeable.

[maxsolomon]

8. IRregardless...

that's good info!

[Bridget Burke]

11. Yes, as in "Ent-moot"

The Professor did know his language(s).

My inner pedant fumes when someone informs me "it's a moot point"--meaning "shut up!"

[bobbobbins]

31. moot can also mean of no practical importance; irrelevant

in which case, it would be appropriate

[SouthoftheBorderPaul]

26. It's irrelevant....

I have "irrelevant" as the third entry for the definition of "moot" in my American Heritage Dictionary. Isn't that what people are really getting at when they use this word?

[txaslftist]

33. Or a feller could be mootant.

[Misunderestimator]

3. See, that's how we loose elections...

</sarcasm>

... :bounce:

[johnnie]

5. Definitly

[swag]

4. Would you care to hone in on that?

[Roland99]

6. For intensive purposes, I could care less

;)

[Sanity Claws]

7. Incorrect case

I almost throw up everytime I hear people say things like, "between he and I." For those who don't know, "between" is a preposition, and like all prepositions in English, take the objective case. It should be "between him and me."

Okay, I just jumped off my soap box.

[txaslftist]

32. That's allright. I are listening.

[Sanity Claws]

39. Are you listening to I?

or to me?

This is a pop quiz

[txaslftist]

41. I is.

[jswordy]

9. Max, just say what you WONT to say, boy!

[maxsolomon]

10. flesh out an idea, not FLUSH it out

you FLUSH out birds so you can shoot them.

you put FLESH on a skeleton of an idea.

[txaslftist]

30. he zoomed by me in a flesh of light!

[Lavender Brown]

12. You aren't bothered by a lack of capitalization, I guess.

;)

[txaslftist]

28. heh.

[Bridget Burke]

13. And "simplistic" doesn't mean "really simple"....

It means pretending that something is simple when it's not.

[txaslftist]

29. Ah need simblistic for my chapped lips.

[txaslftist]

14. It's pretty dam immigrant of you

to be so condensending to the rust of us.

You're just impertinent.

[Dogmudgeon]

15. "Do To" for DUE TO

--p!

[txaslftist]

16. That's do too, idnit.

As in you got a beer? I do, too!

[Dogmudgeon]

17. "Dampened" for DAMPED

Dampened is the past participal form of "to moisten" or "to wet"

Damped is the past participal form of "to reduce in intensity"

--p!

[txaslftist]

18. My client got locked up in the Dam pen.

[A HERETIC I AM]

19. It's not "Fortay" It's pronounced "Fort" (forte)

and it is "CHAMPING at the bit" not "Chomping"

[txaslftist]

20. forgive 'em, fortay know not what dey's doin...

[txaslftist]

21. "I'm the champing of the world!"

[redqueen]

22. Actually I think 'fort' is the standard accepted pronunciation, now.

Just like nucular.

And irregardless.

This irritates me more than it should, I know.

[txaslftist]

24. Yeah, yeah. First, second, third, fort... I get it.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

23. a dunno wot u r tokin abowt, jus chil owt

:bounce:

[Dogmudgeon]

25. Coummounwealth Spellynge

Actually, phony Brit spelling by Americans who want to put on airs. Often with "i" changed to "y" to make it look more faux-Druidic.

Egads, there was an epidemic of Commonwealth Spelling mania in the early Macintosh days. It was enough to make a person "rippe his Bouddyce".

Note: People who were raised in British Commonwealth nations, including Canada, are automatically and forever exempt from this characterization. Except for the faux-Druid Y thing.

I mean, you don't see any modern Spanish speakers spelling with the initial Y (as in "Ysabel and Ferdinand" or "San Ysidro") which was archaic by 1800.

--p!

[txaslftist]

27. 'tis unfourtunate that ye choos to pyck on the britisch.

[Dogmudgeon]

34. Kindly readest thou the post again

It's not the Brits I speak ill of ... it's the Yanks.

--p!

[txaslftist]

35. Of course...I was yankin' your chain...

[maxsolomon]

36. PORT-A cochere

god dammit it, its PORT(e) Cochere! the E is silent! if you can't pronounce it it won't put one on your house!

not that i would anyway as i would rather cut my hands off than draw mcmansions.

[txaslftist]

37. Hey now, I thought we was bitchin' about ENGLISH, not frog.

[kmla]

40. Wait - let me ORIENTATE myself before we head out....

It's orient! ORIENTATE is not a word.

Irregardless.

:evilgrin:

[txaslftist]

42. You'll get your privileges revocated if keep dissing ethnic minorities...

like the orientatals.

[kmla]

44. LOL!!!

Ooooh! Now I think I need to convince my wife that we need order out for some Orientatal food....

[txaslftist]

45. Next thing you'll be busting on Antarcticans.

You dang hemispherist!

[Anarcho-Socialist]

43. Look at that chicken dance, hehehehehe!