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President of the United States. . .

I'd like to point out I only know this b/c of the band with the "Lump" song b/c they also had a song called "Kitty" which I liked quite a bit. . .

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Saturday, 20 August 2005 01:37 (eighteen years ago) link

I also dont know whats wrong with "veggies" and more to the point was a bit miffed that "too australian" maybe suggests we speak like idiots :(

― Trayce (trayce), Saturday, 20 August 2005 01:48 (eighteen years ago) link

what term SHOULD be employed when referring to the current commander-in-chief?

Shrubya.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 20 August 2005 03:16 (eighteen years ago) link

If you have a suitable font, this should probably print a schwa:

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 20 August 2005 06:44 (eighteen years ago) link

(it works for me)

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Saturday, 20 August 2005 06:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Shrubya.

ding ding ding. okay, this wins.

― kingfish fucked up his login (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 20 August 2005 07:01 (eighteen years ago) link

we'd have to do fake English accents to say "Emma Bunton" and talk about "Jun May-ja" and "Bessment Jocks."

Except no English person pronounces them that way (er, so how do Yanks pronounce ""Emma Bunton"" exactly?). Otherwise I agree with you.

Definitely Grand Pree and Byerk, but then again Craft Work. But pronouncing all foreign, especially French, words and names with really emphasising the accent ("A Year in Prov-ONCCCE") is just such a middle-class affectation. Calling a restaurant a rest-eau-ROOONHHH and so on. Jeh-rarrhd Deh-pAH-DEUUUHHHH. Boo-lehh-VAHHHHHHDEUGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH...
I mean, fucking hell...

― David Merryweather Goes To Far (scarlet), Saturday, 20 August 2005 09:13 (eighteen years ago) link

"Vincent Van GOCCCHHHH"

http://www.bschool.nus.edu.sg/staff/bizcjh/movie_files/image141.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 20 August 2005 09:20 (eighteen years ago) link

my friend dr vick - who is dutch - gets cross bcz posh english ppl ties themselves in knots pronouncing french and italian correctly then don't even slightly bother with dutch (viz VAN GO!!) (hint: there's a REASON it's called flemish you know)

my personal rule is: say what is funniest at the time of saying (eg GRAND PRICKS is ALWAYS FUNNY!) (= they are knobheads who drives cars fast and WHO CARES!)

"restaurant" = "ress-tront"
also from now on: BESSMENT JOCKS

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 20 August 2005 09:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Re "language is fluid": yes it is, and its flow is ahem dialectically determined BOTH by those who make new words and wilful or ignorant mistakes AND those of us who like to complain and attempt to stem these changes!

― OleM (OleM), Saturday, 20 August 2005 09:56 (eighteen years ago) link

oh oh i forgot the only thing in the entirety of all galactic language formation which annoys me is the phrase "a cup of joe"

― mark s (mark s), Saturday, 20 August 2005 09:59 (eighteen years ago) link

"community"

― Steve.n. (sjkirk), Saturday, 20 August 2005 10:16 (eighteen years ago) link

YO MAMA

I met a girl recently who always says this! I love her to death, but it's starting to annoy me!!! She always tries to make some kind of "mama" joke after it. oh..........

― Aja (aja), Saturday, 20 August 2005 12:38 (eighteen years ago) link

I wonder why?

― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Saturday, 20 August 2005 12:39 (eighteen years ago) link

"...unless it isn't."

(in critical/cultural discourse following assertion "X is true...")

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 20 August 2005 12:45 (eighteen years ago) link

"...as it happens..."

(au courant journalistic convenience for making contrived conclusion read like casual observation)

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 20 August 2005 12:48 (eighteen years ago) link

it's rare to hear, but i'm unsually amused when people say "andaconda".

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 20 August 2005 20:32 (eighteen years ago) link

grammar nazis annoy the shit out of me

― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Saturday, 20 August 2005 21:15 (eighteen years ago) link

"[anything] nazis"

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 20 August 2005 21:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Hi, I'm new. Living in New Jersey, there's a couple NJ-centric phrases that drive me nuts....

"Not for nuthin'"
When used as a preface, this can be translated as: "although my next comment comes unsolicited, please pay attention because it is germane to the topic at hand."
IE "Not for nuthin, but nobody wears acid wash jeans anymore."

"The City"
Referring to New York City
"You going into the city tonight?"

But the worst, which isn't just in NJ, is when people misuse the term "penultimate." It's not a larger, more powerful version of ultimate. You can't say, "Dude, Eruption is the penultimate guitar solo." Penultimate means second to last. So while you can say "There's only one burger left, I just ate the penultimate one," you cannot say "That burger is so good, it's the penultimate burger."

― Anyone For Newcomb?, Saturday, 20 August 2005 22:50 (eighteen years ago) link

On a modernist/postmodernist literary group I'm in, one person said that Tristram Shandy was 'the penultimate postmodern novel'. I asked him what the last one was.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 20 August 2005 23:10 (eighteen years ago) link

my father says "not for nuthin'" ALL THE TIME. usually preceding a smartass though well-meaning but ultimately mundane observation ("y'know, not for nuthin', but uh, it's 100 degrees outside and you're wearing JEANS!")

― joseph (joseph), Sunday, 21 August 2005 00:09 (eighteen years ago) link

you people are completely uptight

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 21 August 2005 00:29 (eighteen years ago) link

"Not for nuthin'"

note: with Howard Stern being nationally syndicated for years, he's helped plenty of NY/NJ speech patterns spread across the land. This phrase is one of 'em.

― kingfish fucked up his login (kingfish 2.0), Sunday, 21 August 2005 00:33 (eighteen years ago) link

People misunderstand "penultimate" as better than ultimate? What the hell?

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 21 August 2005 05:33 (eighteen years ago) link

The word "snarky" makes me sick. I also hate it when people say "whuuuut?" when they hear something that offends them. Then they'll call it "problematic."

― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Sunday, 21 August 2005 05:42 (eighteen years ago) link

People misunderstand "penultimate" as better than ultimate? What the hell?

I think this is pretty common!

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 21 August 2005 07:08 (eighteen years ago) link

It's certainly spreading, yes.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 21 August 2005 07:47 (eighteen years ago) link

So is everyday-as-noun. Just means more knobs to line against the wall when the pedantariat seize power!

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Sunday, 21 August 2005 07:57 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm all for being elastic with the language - I mean I love ee cummings and Joyce and the like - but really, completely misunderstanding the meaning of a word is just wrong.

― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 21 August 2005 08:04 (eighteen years ago) link

the ultimate one = last one ever = you are sad after

the penultimate one = there is more to come which may be better = you are shivery w.hot anticipation = better than the ultimate one

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 21 August 2005 08:41 (eighteen years ago) link

QED

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 21 August 2005 08:41 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

"That's X hours of my life I'll never get back."

I can't tell whether this annoys me more because it's become a stupid cliche, or because I dislike thinking of aesthetic experiences (it's usually used in reference to movies) as wastes of time. The notion that a piece of art owes you something is particularly noxious to me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 16:11 (eighteen years ago) link

OTM. I hear this at least once a day and it makes me homicidal.

― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link

"alot," unless you intended to say "allot" and you just misspelled it.

also, "so, therefore"

I know a guy who vehemently hates "kudos."

― emilys. (emilys.), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 16:48 (eighteen years ago) link

it's not suggesting it owes you something, is it? it's being pissed off that you made a stupid decision to go and watch some piece of shit film and you could've been doing something good.

― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 16:49 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't believe no-one's mentioned the abuse of "in terms of" yet. It's become a plague; a catch-all solution for when people are too inarticulate to put two parts of a sentence together.

― Crackity (Crackity Jones), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Give me an example of what you're talking about.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:02 (eighteen years ago) link

fauxhemian OTM with "whatnot". I wince when I hear someone say it.

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:06 (eighteen years ago) link

I briefly dated a girl who, instead of "whatnot," said "whatsuch." I think I thought it was cute at the time.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:07 (eighteen years ago) link

My guess is that it would've gotten old if you'd kept dating. We have a couple of "value-added" guys in this office. They're lucky I don't carry a weapon.

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:11 (eighteen years ago) link

K THANX BYE

if its been mentioned upthread, it deserves mentioning again

― daavis sztaayenszz, Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:14 (eighteen years ago) link

The inexcusable "copacetic" is still the stoner guy big vocab word.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Completely! My old perma-baked landlord would end off every conversation we had with it.

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:22 (eighteen years ago) link

INEXCUSABLE! THERE IS NO EXCUSE!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:27 (eighteen years ago) link

"out and about" - I can't be bothered to check and see if it's been mentioned upthread.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 19:39 (eighteen years ago) link

" can't be bothered to check and see if it's been mentioned upthread."

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 19:42 (eighteen years ago) link

oooh cutting

― dan m (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 19:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Sorry. I just don't really understand why some people can't use CTRL + F. It takes about as long to use as it does to type out the phrase "I can't be bothered to check and see if it's been mentioned upthread."

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 19:50 (eighteen years ago) link

profiles of actresses that begin by saying "[X] is funny, smart..."

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 21:16 (eighteen years ago) link

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