Author Topic: Funny English and Linguistics stuff... (Read 203876 times)

Annie Subjunctive · « **Reply #75 on:** December 26, 2009, 04:59:38 PM »

It would be nice if English speakers would learn the IPA. Case where it would have come in handy:

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The Justice Department charged that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab (OO-mahr fah-ROOK ahb-DOOL-moo-TAH-lahb) willfully attempted to destroy or wreck an aircraft; and that he placed a destructive device in the plane.

Jonathon · « **Reply #76 on:** March 10, 2010, 10:39:02 AM »

Nation Shudders at Large Block of Uninterrupted Text

rivka · « **Reply #77 on:** March 10, 2010, 12:10:32 PM »

Jonathon · « **Reply #78 on:** April 08, 2010, 09:46:50 PM »

Jonathon · « **Reply #79 on:** May 09, 2010, 09:45:49 PM »

rivka · « **Reply #80 on:** May 09, 2010, 10:05:33 PM »

*eyes bleed*

Brinestone · « **Reply #81 on:** May 10, 2010, 06:56:18 AM »

*giggles*

Neutros the Radioactive Dragon · « **Reply #82 on:** May 10, 2010, 08:17:28 AM »

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #83 on:** May 10, 2010, 10:18:40 AM »

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*eyes bleed*

*eyes blede*

Jonathon · « **Reply #84 on:** May 10, 2010, 10:34:38 AM »

I think you mean *I's blede*.

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #85 on:** May 10, 2010, 10:39:45 AM »

Its what I's meant, allright.

Jonathon · « **Reply #86 on:** May 13, 2010, 11:26:54 AM »

This made me chuckle.

Neutros the Radioactive Dragon · « **Reply #87 on:** May 13, 2010, 11:44:14 AM »

I'm amazed anyone can plod through her dense assumptive prose at all. I guess I did, once.

sweet clementine · « **Reply #88 on:** May 13, 2010, 06:34:04 PM »

I'm planning on plodding through her prose some day soon...

Jonathon · « **Reply #89 on:** August 26, 2010, 12:22:47 PM »

I don't get why that last panel is at the end rather than the beginning, but funny nonetheless.

Scott R · « **Reply #90 on:** August 26, 2010, 12:24:42 PM »

Right. That's part of the joke. Like ending a sentence with a preposition.

dkw · « **Reply #91 on:** August 26, 2010, 05:49:09 PM »

Or the opposite -- in some of the convluted ways people avoid ending a sentence with a preposition you don't find out what the sentence is about until the very end.

BlackBlade · « **Reply #92 on:** August 26, 2010, 06:04:45 PM »

Quote from: dkw on August 26, 2010, 05:49:09 PM

Or the opposite -- in some of the convluted ways people avoid ending a sentence with a preposition you don't find out what the sentence is about until the very end.

That's why it was especially funny to me.

BlackBlade · « **Reply #93 on:** August 30, 2010, 08:08:01 AM »

From a job posting,
"Requirements:

*Extremely honest and refutable"

What does that even mean?

dkw · « **Reply #94 on:** August 30, 2010, 08:12:27 AM »

It means they value character over vocabulary skills.

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #95 on:** August 30, 2010, 08:22:04 AM »

They are advertising for a proofreader.

Jonathon · « **Reply #96 on:** August 30, 2010, 09:54:06 AM »

At least it wasn't "refudiatable".

rivka · « **Reply #97 on:** August 30, 2010, 10:29:28 AM »

One letter wrong. Sadly, that's pretty good for some ad listings.

pooka · « **Reply #98 on:** August 30, 2010, 05:30:11 PM »

I actually think that would be a good description of what my boss values in her employees. She wants us to be right about everything, but also be willing to accept contradiction with grace.

Jonathon · « **Reply #99 on:** September 14, 2010, 11:27:36 AM »

Sometimes I think the German penchant for concatenating words is a little ridiculous, as in the word zweimilliardenzweihundertsiebenmillionenfünfhundertzwanzigtausend. In English, that's two billion, two hundred seven million, five hundred twenty thousand.