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  • loveontwolegs
    loveontwolegs Posts: 501
    Mirror is meer-or NOT meer
  • RKCNDY
    RKCNDY Posts: 31,013
    not one specific word...but I *hate* it when people throw in an 'R' or 'L' (or other random letter) into words...

    'Seattle is in WaRshington State'
    'I'm gonna waRsh my hands'
    'I'm gonna drawL a pretty picture'

    and bad grammar sometimes gets to me...
    'I gots to gets me something to drink'
    The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.

    - Christopher McCandless
  • 81
    81 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
    loveontwolegs wrote:
    Mirror is meer-or NOT meer


    i can see my reflection in the meer or in the water.
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  • Lizard
    Lizard So Cal Posts: 12,091
    rick1zoo2 wrote:
    Lizard wrote:
    I am kinda surprised how mainstream the word "douche" is now.
    Grandmas are saying it!!! :lol::lol:


    it is really fun to say though.

    "douche"

    "douche"

    "douche"

    :lol:
    especially when the word nozzle is added to it!!
    So I'll just lie down and wait for the dream
    Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me
  • unlost dogs
    unlost dogs Greater Boston Posts: 12,553
    rick1zoo2 wrote:
    Lizard wrote:
    I am kinda surprised how mainstream the word "douche" is now.
    Grandmas are saying it!!! :lol::lol:


    it is really fun to say though.

    "douche"

    "douche"

    "douche"

    :lol:


    Wait a second _ I just had an idea for a new word.

    If you pronounce "douche" as though it rhymes with "touche," it sounds not like "doosh" but "doo-shay" which is far more elegant.

    Douche (picture the little hash mark over the "e" making it be "doo-shay" instead of "doosh") could be used when acknowledging or retorting to a rude comment. For example...

    Unlost Dogs: "I got so lost on my way to New Hampshire last weekend. Friggin' GPS."
    81: "Must have been using your iPhone."
    Unlost Dogs: "Douche, 81, douche."
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  • 81
    81 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
    unlost dogs wrote:
    rick1zoo2 wrote:
    Lizard wrote:
    I am kinda surprised how mainstream the word "douche" is now.
    Grandmas are saying it!!! :lol::lol:


    it is really fun to say though.

    "douche"

    "douche"

    "douche"

    :lol:


    Wait a second _ I just had an idea for a new word.

    If you pronounce "douche" as though it rhymes with "touche," it sounds not like "doosh" but "doo-shay" which is far more elegant.

    Douche (picture the little hash mark over the "e" making it be "doo-shay" instead of "doosh") could be used when acknowledging or retorting to a rude comment. For example...

    Unlost Dogs: "I got so lost on my way to New Hampshire last weekend. Friggin' GPS."
    81: "Must have been using your iPhone."
    Unlost Dogs: "Douche, 81, douche."


    :P :lol:
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  • loadedgun
    loadedgun Indiana Posts: 1,401
    How about 'walmarts'

    There is no S!!!

    'I'm going to Walmarts.'
    Unless you're going to more than one, that makes no sense.
    Midwest. Indy/Lafayette.
  • stuckinline
    stuckinline Posts: 3,407
    The color of the sun is yell-O, not yell-A
  • unlost dogs
    unlost dogs Greater Boston Posts: 12,553
    And what about right, right? Or, like, right? As in...

    "We were, like, going to the store, right? To like, buy a case of Sam, right? And like, you know the guy behind the counter, right? He was like, "Dude!"

    Actually that is an incorrect representation. In these parts you don't go to the liquor store for your beer, you go to the packie.
    15 years of sharks 06/30/08 (MA), 05/17/10 (Boston), 09/03/11 (Alpine Valley), 09/04/11 (Alpine Valley), 09/30/12 (Missoula), 07/19/13 (Wrigley), 10/15/13 (Worcester), 10/16/13 (Worcester), 10/25/13 (Hartford), 12/4/13 (Vancouver), 12/6/13 (Seattle), 6/26/14 (Berlin), 6/28/14 (Stockholm), 10/16/14 (Detroit)
  • Yellow Ledbelly
    Yellow Ledbelly Posts: 3,749
    edited May 2011
    Last night at the local school board meeting...the board president had to RECUSE himself from a vote involving a close family member.....he said..."i am going to RESCUE myself from this vote."

    With leadership like that, no wonder our schools are in the shitter and that wasn't the first time he said that either
    All I have to do is revel in the everyday....then do it again tomorrow

    They say every sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong...I'm guilty of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all
  • norm
    norm Posts: 31,146
    "ya know what I'm saying"

    usually spoken by someone with very few teeth and not the greatest command of the language

    my response is, of course "no. i have no fucking idea what you are saying."

    that is usually met with a blank stare
  • Yellow Ledbelly
    Yellow Ledbelly Posts: 3,749
    Also, my mom has begun saying 'so' and 'well' way too much in conversation

    Mom: SO BLAH BLAH. SOOOO BLAH BLAH, SOOOO. BLAH BLAH, SO BLAH.

    Me: Stop saying so so much.

    Mom: Well.
    All I have to do is revel in the everyday....then do it again tomorrow

    They say every sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong...I'm guilty of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,739
    justam wrote:
    I don't like it when advertisers make up fake words that are unnecessary. For example, there's a cable company pushing the word "More-dinary" .

    If people are going to make up words, I think they ought to at the very least be amusing or sound good!! :twisted:

    I totally agree! Like "Onwords"- oh brother- who came up with that lame idea?

    Oh wait... ahh...

    well, ok, but it is a little clever... maybe... :oops:
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • 81
    81 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
    norm wrote:
    "ya know what I'm saying"

    usually spoken by someone with very few teeth and not the greatest command of the language

    my response is, of course "no. i have no fucking idea what you are saying."

    that is usually met with a blank stare


    :lol:

    i met some chick from florida that moved to chicago to stalk Billy Corrigan. no joke, every other group of words out of her mouth were, "you know what i'm sayin". after about the 10th time, i said no. she just kept going. other than the crazy part, she was bangable. :lol:
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  • Yellow Ledbelly
    Yellow Ledbelly Posts: 3,749
    i don't think i'm really sticking to the actual intended topic..but the gf always says "honky dory"....it's hunky, dear.
    But I don't tell her, I just about split my guts laughing on the inside when she says it though
    All I have to do is revel in the everyday....then do it again tomorrow

    They say every sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong...I'm guilty of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all
  • Yellow Ledbelly
    Yellow Ledbelly Posts: 3,749
    RKCNDY wrote:
    not one specific word...but I *hate* it when people throw in an 'R' or 'L' (or other random letter) into words...

    'Seattle is in WaRshington State'
    'I'm gonna waRsh my hands'
    'I'm gonna drawL a pretty picture'

    and bad grammar sometimes gets to me...
    'I gots to gets me something to drink'
    I'm this way too. The worst one i hear a lot is chicaRgo

    Jerry Remy drives me crazy on the sox games....

    Pedroia-r
    Amica-r
    Matsuzaka-r
    Okajima-r
    All I have to do is revel in the everyday....then do it again tomorrow

    They say every sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong...I'm guilty of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all
  • 81
    81 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
    Yellow Ledbelly wrote:
    RKCNDY wrote:
    not one specific word...but I *hate* it when people throw in an 'R' or 'L' (or other random letter) into words...

    'Seattle is in WaRshington State'
    'I'm gonna waRsh my hands'
    'I'm gonna drawL a pretty picture'

    and bad grammar sometimes gets to me...
    'I gots to gets me something to drink'
    I'm this way too. The worst one i hear a lot is chicaRgo

    Jerry Remy drives me crazy on the sox games....

    Pedroia-r
    Amica-r
    Matsuzaka-r
    Okajima-r

    illanoise
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,739
    Another common one:

    "How are you doing?"

    "I'm good."

    "I know, but how are you doing."

    "Oh, yeah, um, I'm well, thank you!"

    or

    "How was your test."

    "Oh, I did good!"

    "Well yes, I know you are a philanthropist, but how did your test go?"

    "Oh, yeah, I see. It went well, thank you!"
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • EmBleve
    EmBleve Posts: 3,019
    "We all go threw rough times with the silly children and they have there ups and downs with us"

    ^^actually saw this post on facebook this morning and immediately thought of this thread. These types of things irritate me to death. Comments were "amen" and "so true gurl". omg. :roll:
  • pinkbutterfly
    pinkbutterfly Posts: 1,391
    rick1zoo2 wrote:
    this is more of a grammatical complaint than a word complaint.

    I cringe when I hear/see someone say:

    "I seen it"

    Now, I am no grammer expert, but that to me just sounds terrible. And it seems to be creeping into common use more and more, and by people, who up until that comes out of their mouth, I would think are intelligent. Worse than when I hear "I axed a question".

    Proper use is "I HAVE seen it" or even "I've seen it" or "I saw it".

    Those make me cringe, too. My own husband says "I seen", just to irk me. :roll:

    I had a childhood friend that would say "I'll have to ax my mother" Move over, Lizzie Borden, lol

    And, don't get me started on the misuse of plurals and possessives.
    My last message to you ~

    You're right. You are a monster! You are sick! Get help!

    At least, I am not a fuck-up! A lying fuck-up!

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