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 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.bschool.nus.edu.sg/staff/bizcjh/movie_files/image141.jpg
― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 20 August 2005 09:20 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― OleM (OleM), Saturday, 20 August 2005 09:56 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Steve.n. (sjkirk), Saturday, 20 August 2005 10:16 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Leon C. (Ex Leon), Saturday, 20 August 2005 12:39 (nineteen years ago) link
(in critical/cultural discourse following assertion "X is true...")
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 20 August 2005 12:45 (nineteen years ago) link
(au courant journalistic convenience for making contrived conclusion read like casual observation)
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Saturday, 20 August 2005 12:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 20 August 2005 20:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Saturday, 20 August 2005 21:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 20 August 2005 21:17 (nineteen years ago) link
"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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 20 August 2005 23:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― joseph (joseph), Sunday, 21 August 2005 00:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 21 August 2005 00:29 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 21 August 2005 05:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Chris H. (chrisherbert), Sunday, 21 August 2005 05:42 (nineteen years ago) link
I think this is pretty common!
― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 21 August 2005 07:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 21 August 2005 07:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Sunday, 21 August 2005 07:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Trayce (trayce), Sunday, 21 August 2005 08:04 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Penelope_111 (Penelope_111), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 16:15 (nineteen years ago) link
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― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:06 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:11 (nineteen years ago) link
if its been mentioned upthread, it deserves mentioning again
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― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 17:22 (nineteen years ago) link
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― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Tuesday, 13 September 2005 22:23 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Markovitz, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 00:42 (nineteen years ago) link
I will probably think I get annoyed about stupid things, again, at some point
― RJG (RJG), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 00:46 (nineteen years ago) link