I can't comment on the thread about mispronunciations! :(
I just wanted to say....y'all making me feel real bad about my manner of speaking. (I'm aware of what's wrong in that sentence)
I speak both General Southern and Ebonics (which, btw, does have grammatical structures of its own). I have become fiercely protective of my accent and dialect ever since moving to NYC.
That being said, "offenseful" is something I can't get behind.
@chennui: I feel like i can't either b/c of the way words come out b/c of my accent. Even though I'm saying it right, it sounds like I'm saying something completely different or similar. Like cruel sounds like cool coming out of my mouth. Unless I make sure to enunciate.
I've been waiting and waiting for this show to return. It's the absolute pinnacle of trash tv: highly entertaining and ever affirming of my relative superiority
You know what I like? Hearing a Kiwi accent. I don't care for the show itself, but I've kind of tired of picking out the Kiwi vowels of Phil Keoghan, Martin Henderson, and Alan Dale. It's time for some fresh blood!
It's kind of funny for a foreigner to come to this country after years of learning English and find out that the natives have no clue how to speak it correctly. And that they don't understand where grammatical constructions and certain expression come from, which leads to all kinds of hilarity.
@catness_: In fairness, most people probably wouldn't be able to explain the rules and grammatical constructions of their native language. Unless of course, they are etymologists. For the most part, when speaking their native language, people only understand what does and does not sound correct to their ears. Many people would be hard-pressed to discuss sentence structure, superlatives, present-perfect tenses, or hanging participles. When a language is native to a person, things such as these are taken for granted. A non-native speaker, however, would be well-versed in the idiosyncracies of their second language, because they need to learn these rules in order for the language they are learning to make sense.
I just watched this on my Tivo and when she called them followers I CRACKED UP - cause they WERE - and then they swarmed her like a pack of hyenas. She is so terrible! 'Oops! Am I offensive! Look at how cute I am!'
But yeah that one girl CALLED it in the beginning when she said she likes to make people mad and the show called her the instigator - she did start the whole thing and pitted them against each other just to get revenge! Brills
I love how the girl in the screengrab initially appeared to have a modicum of common sense, but then shat all over that impression in the blink of an eye.
This show is intended to wake people up to the issue of mental illness, I'm guessing? They need psychiatric evaluation. All of that shit they say in the intro while describing themselves is just a denial mechanism to cope with their insanity.
The only snippet I've ever seen of this show is when they showed a clip of Tanisha(?)on The Soup and then she shows up and bangs her pots at Joel McHale. LOL'd, I did.
(There also may have been a clip of someone throwing an apple at someone else and the other girl was worried she'd get hit in the "brains.")<---Could be making that up.
@Crabby Cakes wants some Dance Biscuits.: Said clip of Tanisha is the best reality show moment EVER. The only apple hurl I'm familiar with is when Dallas unsuccessfully tried to kill Lacey on Rock of Love Charm School. Wow. I know way too much about this shit.
@hussein persepolis hussein: @Dayman-Fan: No one will ever see this, but AHA! That was ALSO a clip on The Soup! I can't keep all these Klassy wimmin straight!
@Kayla: That's what I wanted too. I thought that the point of the show is that the women are supposed to help each other change (exceot for the ones that come out just for the experience).
I started to watch this without sound (I told you I don't want to work) but had to stop because I was going to have an epileptic fit from all the french tips flying around.
@Archetype: Dear Jebus! The last time I saw that many french tips was when my friend forced everyone at her spa/shower/bridal party thing to get french tips cause they photograph better. Yikes.
Ugh. "Expecially" is one of those made-up words/mispronunciations that is right up there with people saying "irregardless" and "pacific" instead of "specific": I want to strangle anyone who says it, thoroughly and immediately.
@toastandlove: Over the past few months I have heard my mother say "pumkin" at least 50 times. I had to stop correcting her because she was getting pissed off.
Also, I am here to tell you folks....it's not ORDament, it's ORNament.
@toastandlove: I have heard OBEAST seriously. And I had to tell an ex that it was wheelbarrow not wheelbarrel - keep in mind I am not a native speaker of English.
@toastandlove: "Subbosably" is the WORST. How can you think that's really a word? And it's always the people who say it wrong who use it - normal people don't need to say "supposedly" all that often.
@Annabellie: Really? I haven't noticed that at all. I'm pretty sure I don't say excape. I do the torst thing instead of tourist, though. But I'm pretty sure that's a New Brunswick thing.
Listen to MJBlige's "Valentines Day" and prepare to be horrified
You guys's
(plural for "you guys"
My native Spanish-speakers used to write the word want wan't. The 3rd and 4th grade held a long-ass faculty meeting trying to figure out why. It was a tremendous waste of time.
@eibhinn: Oh I totally said torst until I moved to Ontario! And the weird semi-long a in words bar and car. But I definitely heard a lot of "excape", at least in Halifax. And Sarah McLachlan even sings it one of her songs (a really early one, mind you, back before she decided that BC was her new home)!
@Annabellie: Can you tell the difference when they are speaking? "Should of" and "should've" said aloud sound the same. And I must admit I am guilty of "shoulda, woulda, coulda" - but I'm Texan, we are not big fans of hard consonants.
@toastandlove: Nah, I can't really tell the difference when someone is speaking, unless it really comes out sounding like two words. It's mostly in written form that it drives me bonkers.
@Archetype: I have a cousin who's nickname is Pumpkin.
Everyone pronounces it Punkin'. It's not so much I give up as I just never even bothered. I had my own problems. KIMBERLY DOES NOT RHYME WITH EMILY!!!
Also, loud black chick was killing me taking the other black girls friendship "for granite." She was looking at her like, "I don't want to be associated with your loud dumb ass." And why would she?!
@ceejeemcbeegee: The only problem with my otherwise flawless English as a kid was my insistence that fake people were "two-faceded." But that's the only way I'd ever heard it pronounced! Ever!!! Someone corrected me once and I was like, "No, that doesn't sound right at all." I didn't stop doing that until 5th grade.
This was a kid who'd get really upset because her aunt and uncle were always complaining about their "feets." IT'S ALREADY PLURAL! UGH!!! I'M GOING TO MY ROOM!!!
@Annabellie: I realized I pronounce that word that way! My dad's side of the family is originally from Nova Scotia, so it might have been passed down that way, like yestahday was...(My Boston accent doesn't exist except that one word!! And I have trouble with vowel first letter names that have an "r" as a second letter like Eric, Erin, Aaron etc.)
When I was little, I called marshmallows "oddfellos." Also, we had a lumber mill in town right on the coast that I could see from our front window and I would also say, "it's smokin' at the milt!"
@warbean: I have taken to saying Liberry on purpose lately. I don't think many people get that I'm joking, except people who know I'm a bit a grammar-holic. Eurgh.
@ceejeemcbeegee: My relatives pronounce the letter 'R' that way. Are they from the south?
Yeah, come to think of it, I used to say light-skinneded, too. Except most people I knew used the phrase "high-yellow" except yellow is pronounced "yaller." Accents don't bother me as much as plain old crappy grammar unless it's someone's name, though. If I were my uncle William, I would have major problems with answering to Weeyun. Which is why relatives are the only ones allowed to call me Kim. Just forget it if you're going to butcher my name. Just. Forget it.
I think I should show this to my dad because a few weeks back he emailed his sister (my aunt) and wrote "expresso" and she teased the mother-loving SHIT out of him. Maybe this will make him feel like less of a hillbilly.
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I just wanted to say....y'all making me feel real bad about my manner of speaking. (I'm aware of what's wrong in that sentence)
I speak both General Southern and Ebonics (which, btw, does have grammatical structures of its own). I have become fiercely protective of my accent and dialect ever since moving to NYC.
That being said, "offenseful" is something I can't get behind.
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Yeah, that Amber is definitely a racist bitch.
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But yeah that one girl CALLED it in the beginning when she said she likes to make people mad and the show called her the instigator - she did start the whole thing and pitted them against each other just to get revenge! Brills
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(There also may have been a clip of someone throwing an apple at someone else and the other girl was worried she'd get hit in the "brains.")<---Could be making that up.
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I was disappointed when I realized that the annoying, racist, dumb girls weren't going to receive their comeuppance from anyone but themselves.
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Also, I am here to tell you folks....it's not ORDament, it's ORNament.
Thank you.
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My faves (pet peeves?)
mines
As in, "That pencil is mines!"
Valentimes Day
Listen to MJBlige's "Valentines Day" and prepare to be horrified
You guys's
(plural for "you guys"
My native Spanish-speakers used to write the word want wan't. The 3rd and 4th grade held a long-ass faculty meeting trying to figure out why. It was a tremendous waste of time.
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Everyone pronounces it Punkin'. It's not so much I give up as I just never even bothered. I had my own problems. KIMBERLY DOES NOT RHYME WITH EMILY!!!
Also, loud black chick was killing me taking the other black girls friendship "for granite." She was looking at her like, "I don't want to be associated with your loud dumb ass." And why would she?!
@ceejeemcbeegee: The only problem with my otherwise flawless English as a kid was my insistence that fake people were "two-faceded." But that's the only way I'd ever heard it pronounced! Ever!!! Someone corrected me once and I was like, "No, that doesn't sound right at all." I didn't stop doing that until 5th grade.
This was a kid who'd get really upset because her aunt and uncle were always complaining about their "feets." IT'S ALREADY PLURAL! UGH!!! I'M GOING TO MY ROOM!!!
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Are you sure? Are you sure it's not "I been had! I been had knowed dat! Sheeeeeeeeyit."
Okay. Just checking.
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Also:
If someone fucks with my money somehow.
So I mock, but I try not to judge. :)
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I have a friend who says "volumptuous" and it makes. me. crazed.
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Relax ladies, s'all gunna be ok.
"The smorning" is just really adorable!
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When I was little, I called marshmallows "oddfellos." Also, we had a lumber mill in town right on the coast that I could see from our front window and I would also say, "it's smokin' at the milt!"
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::drumroll::
Nucular!
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Yeah, come to think of it, I used to say light-skinneded, too. Except most people I knew used the phrase "high-yellow" except yellow is pronounced "yaller." Accents don't bother me as much as plain old crappy grammar unless it's someone's name, though. If I were my uncle William, I would have major problems with answering to Weeyun. Which is why relatives are the only ones allowed to call me Kim. Just forget it if you're going to butcher my name. Just. Forget it.
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I blame my country roots.