Author Topic: Funny English and Linguistics stuff... (Read 203940 times)

pooka · « **Reply #225 on:** February 04, 2011, 03:40:45 PM »

Quote from: Brinestone on February 04, 2011, 12:03:50 PM

You know that a whole lot of English words are trochaic, right?

Who, me or the comic? Though now that I see the whole issue was the horrid pun "trocheotomy" I suddenly don't find it funny anymore.

BlackBlade · « **Reply #226 on:** February 14, 2011, 03:36:03 PM »

The Southern habit of putting the word now in the middle of the phrase, "Y'all come back now, ya here?" doesn't really make sense to me. Do they want me to turn around and come back inside? But, their habit of dropping now at the end of, "You have a great day now" is decidedly pleasant. I suppose in theory, I could be having a rotten day, and as I lay down to go to sleep the phone rings, my bank calls to inform me I've won some sort of raffle, have just aquired $1,000,000, and I could still call that day "good". But by saying, "You have a great day now" it's like they have requested that my day immediately become a good one, and that is something I can appreciate.

Nighthawk · « **Reply #227 on:** February 18, 2011, 01:44:39 PM »

I have no idea what you are talking about now.

BlackBlade · « **Reply #228 on:** February 18, 2011, 02:51:49 PM »

Quote from: Nighthawk on February 18, 2011, 01:44:39 PM

I have no idea what you are talking about now.

I'm actually unsure if they do that in Florida. They might in the Floribama region.

pooka · « **Reply #229 on:** February 18, 2011, 04:16:37 PM »

I'm familiar with both usages. I don't really think much beyond that about them.

Nighthawk · « **Reply #230 on:** February 26, 2011, 01:53:30 PM »

The Oatmeal presents 10 Words You Need to Stop Misspelling

dkw · « **Reply #231 on:** February 28, 2011, 07:18:45 AM »

They should add "advice."

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #232 on:** February 28, 2011, 07:35:30 AM »

I've got a whole nother list of words whose misspellings bug me. But since they are work-related they are not in the general parlance. But, please nurses, it's "codeine", not "codine" or "codiene", or "codene". And "enteral", not "entril". "Mechanical" has an "h" in it. I don't care if you can't hear the "h", use it anyway. "Protein" is how it's spelled. It's one of those exceptions to the "I before E" thing. And the word is "regimen", please. A "drug regime" is really a not-so-favorable government body. And one more thing, either abbreviate it "PCN" or else spell "penicillin" correctly. One "n". Two "l's".

Thank you.

Porter · « **Reply #233 on:** February 28, 2011, 07:56:08 AM »

I would get

codeine wrong
mechanical right
protein wrong
regimen right
penicillin wrong

And I don't even know the word enteral, so I wouldn't get it right or wrong.

rivka · « **Reply #234 on:** February 28, 2011, 02:30:03 PM »

Advice is the noun; advise is the verb.

Porter · « **Reply #235 on:** February 28, 2011, 02:32:06 PM »

Um, was that "a" supposed to be "as"? Otherwise, I don't know how to parse it.

Advice and advise are two different words with two different meanings. The first is a noun, the second is a verb.

BlackBlade · « **Reply #236 on:** February 28, 2011, 02:32:54 PM »

Rivka: Bah, checked for new posts, hit delete, and then your post appeared. Your timing was impressive.

For those interested I was asking why advice and advise both show up as words. I misunderstood Dana's statement to mean one of those was not a word. I believe I use both those words correctly. As a matter of fact, all of the words in the link are words I have had problems with but have since fixed by spending time talking to y'all online. I'm glad my ability to type English has tightened up significantly by doing so.

rivka · « **Reply #237 on:** February 28, 2011, 02:34:07 PM »

It's "y'all".

Porter · « **Reply #238 on:** February 28, 2011, 02:36:57 PM »

Quote

You're timing was impressive.

You are timing was equally impressive.

BlackBlade · « **Reply #239 on:** February 28, 2011, 02:39:55 PM »

Gah!

I hate, hate, hate typing at work on IE, and it's where I do most of my forum posting these days.

edit: And of course I made a typo on this post. It's mostly because often I have to compile a post between phone calls, and at times it takes so much time to finish typing, I just worry about finishing the post, do a quick glance at grammar and spellings and hit post. Or, if it's a smaller post, I feel rushed to just hit submit so I can manage something at work and don't spend enough time glossing over what I'm saying.

I should probably just take a few more seconds per post.

rivka · « **Reply #240 on:** February 28, 2011, 03:25:55 PM »

Or Porter and I could stop being mean.

Naaaah.

Porter · « **Reply #241 on:** February 28, 2011, 04:57:33 PM »

Let's be realistic here.

rivka · « **Reply #242 on:** February 28, 2011, 06:42:29 PM »

Like I said.

Quote from: rivka on February 28, 2011, 03:25:55 PM

Naaaah.

Porter · « **Reply #243 on:** March 01, 2011, 05:51:55 AM »

I was agreeing with you!

*takes ball and goes home*

rivka · « **Reply #244 on:** March 01, 2011, 08:11:38 AM »

Quote from: Porter on March 01, 2011, 05:51:55 AM

I was agreeing with you!

Yeah, ditto.

BlackBlade · « **Reply #245 on:** March 04, 2011, 04:46:35 PM »

The word cromulent came up recently, and upon looking it up my dictionary says it was created in the 21st century and it categorized it as slang. Is that word really new?

rivka · « **Reply #246 on:** March 04, 2011, 04:49:01 PM »

Coined in 1996 by David X. Cohen.

pooka · « **Reply #247 on:** March 04, 2011, 06:11:20 PM »

It was from a simpson's episode where they use it to describe the word "embiggen".

Tante Shvester · « **Reply #248 on:** March 05, 2011, 04:34:12 PM »

I know you can't play it in Scrabble. Believe me, I've tried.

Brinestone · « **Reply #249 on:** March 05, 2011, 07:57:22 PM »

Would you say it isn't cromulent, then?