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Well this is nice, seems I am totally normal after all. Not getting much support on the button issue, but I'm sure that's just because the language issue is so hot right now.
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I don't get irritated by the trivial things other people do, but I'm bothered by my own sloppy speech.
I say "gonna" hafta wanna s'posed'ta coulda
I contract "I will not" to something like "um'not" and instead of just contracting "we are ready" to "we're ready" I will also contract "boxes're ready" "wheels're ready" and so on.
I say "goin'" lookin'
I run words together like "can we" as "canwee"
I use the word "got" instead of some form of to have.
I'm sure there are many other habits of speech that I would change if I were more mindful of them.
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Ubetcha, I kind of like the sound of Ubetcha! Knowing it's an irritable word, its use will continue with abound!
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collage people that can't spell a simple 5 letter word.. there-their. I'm just gonna have to try and forget I saw this.... They were all pasted together.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
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I don't get irritated by the trivial things other people do, but I'm bothered by my own sloppy speech.
I say "gonna" hafta wanna s'posed'ta coulda
I contract "I will not" to something like "um'not" and instead of just contracting "we are ready" to "we're ready" I will also contract "boxes're ready" "wheels're ready" and so on.
I say "goin'" lookin'
I run words together like "can we" as "canwee"
I use the word "got" instead of some form of to have.
I'm sure there are many other habits of speech that I would change if I were more mindful of them.
This sort of thing doesn't bother me as much because I understand why we do it. We try to communicate in as efficient a manner as possible so naturally we trim things down and jam words together. Not quite on the level as germans yet, I'd say. It's more about the use of certain words or style of speech in an attempt to identify with a group.
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I think some folks are confusing slang with dialects and colloquialisms. Yes. And not related to the OP but I cannot stand when people won’t use pronouns. “Dad came by Sunday night to watch the game.” You mean YOUR dad came by Sunday night to watch the game? I’m not your brother you stupid fugkin hick. Ooopsies. You botched that one.
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I'm just gonna have to try and forget I saw this....
Try and or try to?
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I'm just gonna have to try and forget I saw this....
Try and or try to? This is a slang bitchfest, not a grammer nazi convention,I must insist you take your grievances elsewhere!
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Running off the good guys was Plan A Using slang, ebonics and Appalachian dialects to finish off the twáts. Plan B 😃😂
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Running off the good guys was Plan A Using slang, ebonics and Appalachian dialects to finish off the twáts. Plan B 😃😂 Humor covers a multitude of sins. As one of the funnier characters here,you will need to dial back the humor if you wish to succeed. I could also suggest typing in angry caps, ranting nonsensically about obscure topics and alienating friend and foe alike for any hint of disagreement with any position you hold. This is the way.
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Language changes.
Here are the opening lines of The Canterbury Tales, written between 1387 and 1400:
Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote, The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licóur Of which vertú engendred is the flour; Whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth Inspired hath in every holt and heeth The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne, And smale foweles maken melodye, That slepen al the nyght with open ye, So priketh hem Natúre in hir corages, Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages, And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes, To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes; And specially, from every shires ende Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende, The hooly blisful martir for to seke, That hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke.
Who knows what our language will look like 634 years hence?
Obey lawful commands. Video interactions. Hold bad cops accountable. Problem solved.
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That was Middle English.
We're transitioning into End State Gibberish.
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That was Middle English.
We're transitioning into End State Gibberish.
Middle English looks like gibberish now. Maybe we’re the ones speaking gibberish.
Obey lawful commands. Video interactions. Hold bad cops accountable. Problem solved.
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I do better with Middle English than Jive.
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I’m still hoping someone can explain the “ Biminouses” post.
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I’m still hoping someone can explain the “ Biminouses” post. I'll have to guess he meant "by my initials".....
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Go to a pub in Yorkshire, I had my wife as a translator. Took a tour of a castle in Edinburgh and the guide might as well have been speaking Maori. English is a flexible language.
mike r
Don't wish it were easier Wish you were better
Stab them in the taint, you can't put a tourniquet on that. Craig Douglas ECQC
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I’m still hoping someone can explain the “ Biminouses” post. I'll have to guess he meant "by my initials"..... The light came on, thanks.
Obey lawful commands. Video interactions. Hold bad cops accountable. Problem solved.
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Go to a pub in Yorkshire, I had my wife as a translator. Took a tour of a castle in Edinburgh and the guide might as well have been speaking Maori. English is a flexible language.
mike r Was at McDonald's in Dryden, sitting next to a table of old men. After a time, it dawned on me that they were speaking English.
Not a real member - just an ordinary guy who appreciates being able to hang around and say something once in awhile.
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Do people that fuss over everyday language use get upset when others aren't being controlled enough by the powers that be to suit them? I was seeing if anyone would catch that..
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