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Redstone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 09:39 PM Original message |
Tonight's "word" that makes me cringe when I hear it: "Supposably." For God's sake, is it SUCH |
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WritingIsMyReligion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 09:40 PM Response to Original message |
1. My hated "word" is still "hubby." |
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Redstone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 09:46 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. And you remember my rants about "veggies" and "sammies," I'm sure. It's the |
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DarkTirade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 10:07 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. The speed of communication has changed |
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unpossibles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 05:11 PM Response to Reply #5 |
59. Did you know that when the telegraph was introduced |
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DarkTirade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 08:08 PM Response to Reply #59 |
60. We still seem to be heading in the direction... just a lot slower than they thought we were. |
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unpossibles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 08:25 PM Response to Reply #60 |
61. i no wut u mean |
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DarkTirade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 08:26 PM Response to Reply #61 |
62. Liek OMG, totaly. |
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Bake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 11:10 AM Response to Reply #2 |
47. If it is, it should probably be spelled "juvenilization" |
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Redstone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-17-08 09:45 PM Response to Reply #47 |
72. Oops. You're right. I should have checked that more closely. |
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Common Sense Party (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 09:51 PM Response to Original message |
3. That one drives me bonkers as well. nt |
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Lil Missy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 09:58 PM Response to Original message |
4. "warsh", and "Warshington" are pet peeves of mine. |
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Redstone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 10:12 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. But those are regionalisms, and therefore forgivable. People in Philadelphia |
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Lil Missy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 10:20 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Okay. I can see that. Like "roof" and "ruff". |
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Redstone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 10:22 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Eating a pizza slice folded in half? Gotta be a New Yorker. |
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ThomCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 10:24 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. Your co-worker sounds reasonable to me. |
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Lil Missy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 10:40 PM Response to Reply #11 |
21. Folding pizza in half? BLASPHEMY! |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 10:35 PM Response to Reply #6 |
17. don't they say "supposably" in Maryland? |
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madinmaryland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 03:06 PM Response to Reply #17 |
52. No. It is supposedly a California thingie. |
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nytemare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 08:28 PM Response to Reply #6 |
63. That is how Warshingtonians say it, as well. |
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ThomCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 10:23 PM Response to Original message |
9. YES! I bite my tongue to resist telling people to learn some real words. |
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latebloomer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 10:23 PM Response to Original message |
10. Someone I knew who always said "supposably" |
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ThomCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 10:25 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Hopefully it wasn't a masters degree in |
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latebloomer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 10:29 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Well, it was social work/ drug counseling |
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Zornhau (413 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 10:28 PM Response to Original message |
13. Curmudgeon |
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ThomCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 10:32 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Hey, one of my favorite people! |
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Zornhau (413 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 10:56 PM Response to Reply #15 |
28. Hey, how are you doing? |
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ThomCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 11:01 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. YAY! Woo Hoo! |
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Zornhau (413 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 11:09 PM Response to Reply #29 |
31. hey now! |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 10:34 PM Response to Original message |
16. It's an adverb of supposed |
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Redstone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 10:36 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. It's an adverb of iggerance, if it's an adverb of anything. But we got lots of iggerant |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 10:36 PM Response to Original message |
19. Wow, With grammarians like you, we'd all be speaking Latin. |
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Redstone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 10:52 PM Response to Reply #19 |
27. "Supposably" is NOT a "dialect." It's just ignorant. I do genuinely like dialects, |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 11:20 PM Response to Reply #27 |
35. Since when? |
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alarimer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 10:38 PM Response to Original message |
20. My coworker says "sangwich" |
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Eurobabe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 03:41 AM Response to Reply #20 |
40. hey! my kids used to say that, but they were 2 |
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liberaltrucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 10:41 PM Response to Original message |
22. Jeet yet? |
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Gormy Cuss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 10:41 PM Response to Original message |
23. Supposably, its correct irregardless and has the same affect. |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 10:48 PM Response to Original message |
24. "Flounder" drives me crazy... |
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Gormy Cuss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 10:50 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Flounder=flopping around like a ground fish on the beach. |
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fishwax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 11:19 PM Response to Reply #25 |
34. well that's a rather silly argument |
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nytemare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 08:29 PM Response to Reply #34 |
65. "Sangwich" is one I have been hearing lately. |
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fishwax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 11:09 PM Response to Reply #24 |
33. "to flounder" is to struggle violently or clumsily |
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madeline_con (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-17-08 09:42 PM Response to Reply #24 |
69. Founder is sink, crumple or fall... |
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The Velveteen Ocelot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 10:52 PM Response to Original message |
26. And then there are the people who sell real estate: |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 11:08 PM Response to Original message |
30. What is this? |
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crimsonblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 11:09 PM Response to Original message |
32. supposably. |
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grannylib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jul-15-08 11:34 PM Response to Original message |
36. Oh I hear you...I hate hate hate that one. And "for all intensive purposes." |
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ForrestGump (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 12:06 AM Response to Original message |
37. Yes, it IS too much to ask, apparently. |
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Lil Missy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 03:33 AM Response to Original message |
38. So, how do you feel about "mines", instead of mine? |
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Eurobabe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 03:40 AM Response to Original message |
39. I still hate IRREGARDLESS |
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madinmaryland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 03:48 PM Response to Reply #39 |
56. That one really irritates me also! |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 04:12 AM Response to Original message |
41. Iggerant peoples prolly dont no better. |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 09:20 AM Response to Original message |
42. "Flustrated." |
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fishwax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 12:19 PM Response to Reply #42 |
50. or "fustrated" |
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CreekDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 03:49 PM Response to Reply #42 |
58. my grandmother said "flustrated" (South Jersey) |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 10:45 AM Response to Original message |
43. the mispronounced word I hate the most is: Height. |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 11:10 AM Response to Reply #43 |
48. 'Heigth' ith wath you thlip on when it'th cold out. |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 11:52 AM Response to Reply #48 |
49. Perhaps you would like to meet my friend... |
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Schema Thing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 03:44 PM Response to Reply #43 |
54. It's actually more precise |
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Tommy_Carcetti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 10:54 AM Response to Original message |
44. Irregardless of what you think, supposedly and supposably are for all intesive purposes the same |
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madinmaryland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 03:49 PM Response to Reply #44 |
57. Are you series?? If so, then we are all screwn. |
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madeline_con (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-17-08 09:44 PM Response to Reply #44 |
70. Irregardless is superfluous. Regardless is the word to use. n/t |
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Rambis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 10:56 AM Response to Original message |
45. Guesstimate! |
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MorningGlow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 11:04 AM Response to Original message |
46. I can go you one syllable "better" (worse?) |
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MrsMatt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 02:01 PM Response to Original message |
51. I blame it on the show "Friends" |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 03:31 PM Response to Original message |
53. My best friend says that. I haven't the heart to correct her (though it grates on this English |
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Schema Thing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 03:46 PM Response to Original message |
55. Prolly makes you want to go nuculer on their asses, eh? |
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GoddessOfGuinness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 08:29 PM Response to Original message |
64. This word is used only by those with supposable thumbs. |
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Inspired (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 08:34 PM Response to Original message |
66. I cringed today when I tried to say "minimalist". |
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pagandem4justice (193 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jul-16-08 10:17 PM Response to Original message |
67. Oh My... |
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Redstone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-17-08 09:30 PM Response to Reply #67 |
68. Now, that's interesting. Some of those pronunciations really do seem like |
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jonnyblitz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-17-08 09:45 PM Response to Original message |
71. Hey, Redstone, I think I was in your town earlier tonight. |
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Redstone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-17-08 09:48 PM Response to Reply #71 |
73. Dammit, you were right around the corner (less than half a mile) from the house! |
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Redstone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-17-08 09:51 PM Response to Original message |
74. I just remembered a worse one. Anyone else ever hear "un-thaw?" |
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