Synonyms

[Guest Fallen Angel]

I could care less about this thread. 

 

That is the correct way to say/write it. 

 

I could not care less would work to I guess, but it isn't correct.

Would work to what? To exhaustion? To help better humanity? Jeez. 13rn 70 r33d.

 

A lesson, briefly:

 

I go to the store to buy two gallons of milk and some ice cream, too.

[Guest The ChriZa]

I really hate it when when people mis-pronounce Moscow and Glasgow. The W is silent. Is it really that difficult?

Honestly I've NEVER heard that the W is silent until this thread.

 

Everyone I've met pronounces it "cow".

Same here, actually. Thank God, it was looking like I was the only one. But yeah, I've always heard it MOS-COW and GLAS-COW.

 

And in my opinion, its Hae-lees.

[Guest Korgath]

The discussion on pronunciation reminds me of the rather poor command of the English language we have in Singapore.

 

Many ethnic Chinese here tend to spell like they pronounce - this very word being the major killer in many essays.

 

I remember one joke which went:

 

A guy wanted to send a telegram to his friend, asking him to pick up a newly purchased bovine with his truck. Seeing as to how telegrams are charged by the number of words used, he just sent one word-- "COMFORTABLE".

 

One guy simply couldn't get it because he'd always pronounced it "COME FER TER BER".

 

Yes, we Singaporeans suck.

[Guest EricMM]

I just wanted to remark on this:

 

For example, "I spitted on the sidewalk."

Or "I hitted a home run."

 

This is convention, it's true, but this rule about [verb]-ed vs. [irregular verb] is not set in stone. For example, many many years ago there was a word. You said "I clum a tree" instead of "I climbed a tree." It was no different from saying "I knew you were going to do that" instead of "I knowed you were going to do that"

 

But it's become convention, that "mistake" that someone made became proper english. Lets just say this: there are worse rules to break."

[Guest papacita]

What's weird is that even though "HAIR-iss-ment" is grammatically correct, "huh-RASS-ment" sounds like it's right.

That one irks the hell outta me for some reason. I know it's not wrong, but I just wanna stab the hell outta people who pronounce it "HAIR-iss-ment" instead of "huh-RASS-ment."

 

I also hate it when people use "an" in inappropriate ways. For instance, people say or write something like "I need an blank tape" or "he sat in an chair". I've been noticing that a lot lately.

[Guest MissMattitude]

Here's a verbal one and I don't think that anyone outside of Britain is going to know what I mean but it has become all the rage to end each sentence with... 'Innit'. Holy fucking christ that annoys me, these people are never asking an actual question.

 

Also when people pronounce things as 'gay', like for example... I have an opinion on something and someone says to me "That's so gay"... so my opinion is either homosexual or happy, which is it.