[quote]Cathall L DW wrote:
I hate when people use the word ‘decimated’ as if to describe something as being drastically reduced when it’s actual meaning is just a reduction in 10%.[/quote]
Yeah I’ve always liked the word decimate, but I never use it, because I can’t get over the fact that it’s literal historic meaning was just a 10% decrease. I think it is modernly defined as “destruction of a large percentage of”, but still, feels weird.[/quote]
Weeellll…
You might want to look into how that 10% reduction was achieved.
“Just” a 10% reduction is not quite the whole story. [/quote]
[quote]GeneticSynergy9 wrote:
Does anyone else pronouce LOL as a word, like Lol, instead of saying the letters like El Oh El? I’ve always pronounced it like a word, and never realized until recently that most people do not.[/quote]
I thought the majority of people pronounced it like a word. Like loal. I think the only people who spell out the syllables el oh el are noobs at the internet.[/quote]
I tend to hear “lulz” used as a word. Have heard el oh el, too.
[quote]GeneticSynergy9 wrote:
Does anyone else pronouce LOL as a word, like Lol, instead of saying the letters like El Oh El? I’ve always pronounced it like a word, and never realized until recently that most people do not.[/quote]
I thought the majority of people pronounced it like a word. Like loal. I think the only people who spell out the syllables el oh el are noobs at the internet.[/quote]
I must be a noob. I never thought about pronouncing it like a word.
Any slang. Saying “I know, right?”
That’s what I’m talking about
It is what it is
Irregardless, pronouncing the T in often, and the word moist
This. Trend. Saying. Best. Ever. and shit like that
[quote]jp_dubya wrote:
pronouncing the T in often[/quote]
The “t” in “often” is pronounced in proper English.
“Offen” was slang that became so common that it predominated for a time — well, until most people learned to read.[/quote]
Well, not exactly.
The t in often continued to be pronounced until some time in the 15th century when a consonant simplification occurred in some words that had two or more consonants in a row. It was at this time that speakers stopped pronouncing the d in handkerchief and handsome, the p in raspberry, and the t in chestnut and often.
John Walker’s Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, published in 1791 (and still available in a 2001 reprint of the 1838 edition), stipulates that “in often and soften the t is silent.”
By 1926, enough speakers were pronouncing the t in often to provoke this testy comment from H. W. Fowler in Modern English Usage:
“The pronunciation of the t in often is practised by two oddly consorted classes: the academic speakers who affect a more precise enunciation than their neighbours…and the uneasy half-literates who like to prove that they can spell.”
[quote]jp_dubya wrote:
Any slang. Saying “I know, right?”
That’s what I’m talking about
It is what it is
Irregardless, pronouncing the T in often, and the word moist
This. Trend. Saying. Best. Ever. and shit like that
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The word moist is on my list of overdescriptive words that I HATE!!
It’s up there with scrumptious, delicious, snacks, lunchables , perfectly crispy goodness, Easter treats for the children, supple , gift wrapped , I could go on and on. SRS words like these are nails on a chalkboard hated.
[quote]jp_dubya wrote:
pronouncing the T in often[/quote]
The “t” in “often” is pronounced in proper English.
“Offen” was slang that became so common that it predominated for a time — well, until most people learned to read and write.
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The pronunciation I can’t stand is “lie-berry” for “liBRary”
A lie-berry is something you eat and become a Democrat. A library is a place with books you can borrow.[/quote]
Agreed on the Lie-berry. Unless referring to our president, then Lie-Barry is appropriate. Feb-Uh-wary gets me as well.
Everything happens for a reason, literally.
[quote]jp_dubya wrote:
Any slang. Saying “I know, right?”
That’s what I’m talking about
It is what it is
Irregardless, pronouncing the T in often, and the word moist
This. Trend. Saying. Best. Ever. and shit like that
[/quote]
The word moist is on my list of overdescriptive words that I HATE!!
It’s up there with scrumptious, delicious, snacks, lunchables , perfectly crispy goodness, Easter treats for the children, supple , gift wrapped , I could go on and on. SRS words like these are nails on a chalkboard hated. [/quote]
[quote]thethirdruffian wrote:
Fake “countrified expressions” by people trying to play the “good 'ol boy.”
“stronger than an acre of garlic”
“colder than a witches tit/colder than Hillary’s tit”
“hotter than a $3 pistol”
“slick as a bucket of (whatever)”
“Dog don’t hunt”
“Bossman” or “Boss” (speaker is an ex-con and apparently proud of it).
"more (whatever) than Carter’s got Liver Pills (I have no idea what the fuck this means)
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Anyway, if you are an 86 year old man actually from the country, you can pull these off.
If you are a 35 year old lawyer turned investment banker come to look at a well you are drilling with other people’s money, speak like a fucking lawyer and don’t try to treat this summa cum laude Aggie engineer and NMSU geologist like a dumb fuck.[/quote]
It’s amazing how fake some texans are about being “country”. It actually a nation wide trend.
I was involved with a batshit insane “country” princess in Texas. Hot, tall, big tits, rich as all get out. Probably had 50 pairs of designer cowboy boots. The ranch her family owned, she didn’t even know where it fucking was. Go to the ranch, ewww no?
Don’t get me started about line dancing either. Crock of shit!!!
