Phrases people don't say correctly- Page 2

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 1/19/04 at 12:24pm

A friend of mine thought that the Pulizer Prize was the PULLET SURPRISE". I told her my grandma made a great pullet suprise, but I enjoyed her tuna casserole better.

(This person also grew up thinking that Mt. Rushmore was a natural phenemenon!)

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 1/19/04 at 12:30pm

Sueleen - LOL That's the best one I've ever heard. I hope I can use it someday.

Dollypop - Completely agree with the nookyooler comment. It drives me nuts every time he says it and makes me embarassed that he's the leader of our country.

Another one that grates my nerves - real-uh-tor

The word is realtor - two syllables, nothing between the l and the t

[Auggie27]

Posted: 1/19/04 at 12:32pm

Zanna, don't!

You're falling prey to the "because I hear it, it's correct" syndrome. You've heard "feeling badly" so many times, it sounds right. Yes, badly is a modifying adverb. But "feeling badly," as noted above, describes the way -- the manner in which -- you are feeling SOMETHING.

For example: "I am feeling Namo badly" would mean you've got the noted Broadwayworld.com bon vivant on a table, or similar surface, and you're rubbing him the wrong way. Several people rub Namo the wrong way, but I don't think it's done with their hands, not as a rule. (I'm personally glad that they do, because the resulting withering, acid-tongued comebacks from Himself raise the level of wit at this site tenfold.)

To describe the state of your mind, you must employ an adjective to describe YOU, not the action of "feeling."

Oh, it's so hard to be Lady Bracknell, but somebody's gotta do it.

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[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 1/19/04 at 1:17pm

i think this board needs a bit more rubbing be it done badly or not.

[TheaterBaby]

Posted: 1/19/04 at 1:19pm

How about words like "Library" ... when did it become "lie-berry?" and "excuse me" is now "scuse me."
It drives me up a wall when people end sentences in prepositions. I know it's unavoidable sometimes, but come on..."Where you at?" I feel like slapping people when they say that one. and 'Aint' is not a word! At least not one I ever use.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/19/04 at 1:21pm

Hey 3rd row -- everyone knows IRREGARDLESS is wrong -- it's IRREGARDLESSS-LY!

[lassy]

Posted: 1/19/04 at 2:29pm

Not a phrase, but a word:

TONYS. Not Tony's. It's plural and not possessive.

Example: I will be going to Tony's house to watch the Tonys.

[LadyGuenevere]

Posted: 1/19/04 at 2:31pm

Febuary.

'Nuff said.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/19/04 at 5:51pm

Auggie, the words bon vivant and Namo are never used the same sentence. To do so is in correct. It says so, right here in Mirriam-Webster's Dictionary:

Main Entry: bon vi·vant
Pronunciation: "bän-vE-'vänt, "bOn-vE-'vän
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural bons vivants /"bän-vE-'vän(t)s, "bOn-vE-'vän(z)/; or bon vivants /same/
Etymology: French, literally, good liver
Date: circa 1695
: a person having cultivated, refined, and sociable tastes especially in respect to food and drink

We were also taught at Paris Island that refined and sociable tastes are spelled g-e-n-t-l-e-m-a-n, not N-a-m-o.



Bulldog
Updated On: 1/19/04 at 05:51 PM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/19/04 at 5:58pm

You were taught that "a Paris Island" what? Please read more than just the cover of your grammar book before weighing in on that topic.

(Your little dig might sting a teeny bit if I'd ever actually seen you land a joke on this site. Once.)

P.S. If you're going to go back and correct your mistakes with the edit button, try to get them all.

Hint: "in correct" is not two words.

Updated On: 1/19/04 at 05:58 PM

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/19/04 at 6:00pm

Why should one land a joke. We have you Namo and you're joke enough. LOL.



Bulldog Updated On: 1/19/04 at 06:00 PM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/19/04 at 6:03pm

That doesn't even make sense. But at least it made you LOL, and really, your ability to make yourself LOL is really something to see.

Also, you might want to look up the word "dictionary" in your "dictionery."

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/19/04 at 6:07pm

Thanks again for your editing. It always improves my posts.

Cheers!



Bulldog

Oh and Namo?

LOL. Updated On: 1/19/04 at 06:07 PM

[Auggie27]

Posted: 1/19/04 at 6:12pm

I hate to come between friends, you should excuse the expression, but Namo's stated yen for Head mix in the on-the-edge-of-my-seat "how does Idina do it" thread reveals him as a man with real Bon vivant gravitas.

Updated On: 1/19/04 at 06:12 PM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/19/04 at 6:12pm

Thank you, Auggie. I don't blame, Bulldog, really I don't. He seems incapable of understanding certain things.

As for your thanks for my editing, Dog, you're welcome. One does one's best but one always hopes (against hope) that in a grammar-related thread such as this that a contributor such as yourself would take more care in his, well, I wouldn't call it writing, exactly, more like his output. But good for you, taking a chance on an issue that is obviously a great personal challenge for you!

Updated On: 1/19/04 at 06:12 PM

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/19/04 at 6:13pm

Namo wouldn't know bon vivant if it hit him in the gravitas.

Cheers!

Bulldog. Updated On: 1/19/04 at 06:13 PM

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 1/19/04 at 6:14pm

JohnPopa... I used to work with someone from Buffalo who thought the word was "fustrated". Maybe it's a regional linguistic breakdown.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/19/04 at 6:15pm

"Namo wouldn't know bon vivant if it hit in in the gravitas."

What? Again, your jokes just don't make sense. Are you so agitated that you're stuttering now? Calm down! Life is short. Enjoy! (Insert Bulldog-brand LOL here.) Smiley face.

Meanwhile, back to the thread, I too have heard "flustrated" and "fustrated." The first one makes sense as a hybrid word. The second, I'm not so sure.

There are also people who put a "t" on the end when prouncing the word "across." That's a cute one.

Sueleen, Pullet Surprise is GENIUS. I had a Jewish acupuncturist who thought well into her adulthood that the phrase "up to par" was a one word Yiddishism: "uptahpar." As in, "Those lox weren't uptahpar."

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[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/19/04 at 6:26pm

My secretary types my external communications. She's off today because it's a holiday, so one has my efforts. If I had a $ for every typo one found on the board, even yours Namo, I'd have enough to pay you a little extra for your editing efforts on my behalf.

DofB and Namo mention axe murderers on another thread and that ties nicely with this one...

One college educated person I know told me she is fully aware of the difference between the words ask and axe but her ask always comes out axe because of the fact that she has dental problems.

A curious explanation as she has no trouble pronouncing other words.

Bulldog



Updated On: 1/19/04 at 06:26 PM

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/19/04 at 6:28pm

Then ax her about that and stop being such as jackask.

[Corine2]

Posted: 1/19/04 at 6:34pm

I hate when people say "anyways" my boss always said it and it drives me up the wall.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/19/04 at 6:36pm

You are just so clever Namo.

I just don't know what we're going to do with you.

How can such cleverness and wit and talent for living be contained in one thoughtful, likeable, socialable, kind, considerate, and responsive person. I can't add the word good-looking as I've no idea what you look like. And that causes some concern. You mentioned in another thread that you swing, and, well, monkeys swing too. So maybe we'll leave good-looking out this go around.

Keep those bon mots flying. You are just too brilliant!

Cheers!

Bulldog

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/19/04 at 6:52pm

Namo, Either is correct, according to Mirriam-Webster's Dictionary:

2 entries found for ax.
To select an entry, click on it.
ax[1,noun]ax[2,transitive verb]

Main Entry: 1ax
Variant(s): or axe /'aks
Function: noun

I prefer using axe.

Thanks for raising the axe, it sent me to the dictionary.

Cheers!

Bulldog

P.S. Have you ever considered teaching as a professsion?
Updated On: 1/19/04 at 06:52 PM

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 1/19/04 at 9:09pm

since i'm in a sharing mood, when i was growing up my mother used the phrase "up and at 'em" quite often to rouse us from our slumber. as i was a good catholic boy and knew my bible, i understood the phrase as "up and adam." now i knew who adam was, but this up person had me a tad confused. fortunately saturday morning cartoons came to my rescue.

since mom used this phrase to try to get us to wake up, i logically concluded that there must be some arcane bible reference to "adam" meeting this "up" person and together they did something darn exciting. that was about as far as i was able to take the idea. but one saturday morning i was watching cartoons and who should i see, but "atom ant," whose rallying cry was "up and at 'em, atom ant." i had never known that my mom had been so into cartoons (actually she wasn't as her exposure to "ren and stimpy" later proved but it was a nice idea for a while to believe that she was). but i was still a bit perplexed because this "up person" was still strangely non-existant.

it was not until a at least 2nd grade that things all few into place and the meaning behind the phrase became clear. but i still have yet to find the mysterious "up."

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/19/04 at 11:24pm

As a matter of fact, I look just like my icon, Bulldog. Unlike you, I don't run from cameras. (That is, if your image even shows UP in pictures.) You try so hard to be funny but it never, ever works. I mean, "monkeys swing" is the BEST you could come up with? Holy cow! This is not even a notch better than "I don't make monkeys, I train them."

REM put out a cd called "Up," papa. Maybe there's a clue on it for you. Did you think of your mom's exhortation throughout the career of Adam Ant? "Goody two, goody two, goody good, goody two..."

Updated On: 1/19/04 at 11:24 PM