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If someone has a speech impediment it's one thing, but I can't stand it when adults who CAN speak properly don't. I used to work with a lady who baby-talked all the time, and she would say pasghetti and think it was really cute. She never spoke in her true voice, she always put on this really high pitched kind of smarmy baby talk. We worked with another lady name Brenda and BabyTalker would come in and say "Hey Bwenda! How are yooooo today? I've bwought some pasghetti in the break room, yummmm!"
BabyTalker would frequently announce her need to "go potty", and mispronounce all kinds of words the way a 2 year old might.
My God, that's slightly sick and more than a bit scary!
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Originally Posted by southdown
People who get paid to write who don't know the spellings REALLY annoy me. Saw this just now in the Austin Business Journal;
"I think Austin is one of a handful of markets in the country that could really do well with that type of concept," says Rowe, referring to people with more sophisticated palettes.
Palettes? You use them for painting.
Pallets? For moving stuff.
Palates??? Ah, yes, that's the one...doh.
That annoys me too - did you see a thread a while ago where someone was asking about journalism jobs? Their grammar was absolutely appalling. I remember thinking "good luck with that..."
I also find it irritating when people can't be bothered to take care with the language on posters or flyers. I had a thing through my door a few weeks ago for a local thatre that was absolutely riddled with basic mistakes; about one every 2 lines on a sheet of A4. I marked it in red and nearly sent it back to them. I may yet do that actually!
It bugs me when people use the word anxious, when they mean eager. I know it can be a fine line sometimes, but really, people seem to always say anxious, even when the outcome they're waiting for is good. To me, anxious implies dread.
Like,"I'm anxious to get to the store to pick up my new car", should be, "I'm eager to get to the store to pick up my new car."
If ya love the English language, ya just gotta love this thread. Thanks for the smiles and the chuckles, and I'll try to find one to make you squirm a bit, too.
The 'baby talk' sounds a bit too immature. I think I'd have given it back to the poor woman. "Ewww. . .pasghetti! My fave-wit!," with a slight edge to the tone. Of course, she may have just assumed I was a 'meanie.'
I often circle things, misspelled or misused, and send them back to the author/publisher/whomever. I try not to do it in a derogatory manner, but more in the vein of "I didn't want you to embarrass yourself," but . . . I know, from having taught HS English, and writing for publications, and editing others' work, how easily things can slip by -- but I have seen whole articles, ads, and the like with something misspelled or misused repeatedly. Most often it's it's for its. Note: it's does not belong to it; its does.
I know, from having taught HS English, and writing for publications, and editing others' work, how easily things can slip by -- but I have seen whole articles, ads, and the like with something misspelled or misused repeatedly.
Oh yes, I know none of us are perfect and it's astonishing how thoroughly you can think you've edited something only for someone else to pick up a mistake that you missed, but it's pure laziness that gets me.
Apostrophes in plurals are particularly annoying when they're on signs outside shops. What on earth to they think it's for? Maybe to denote the extra e that Dan Quayle added (potato's)
I also find it irritating when people can't be bothered to take care with the language on posters or flyers.
Me too - you'd think that you'd have a quick go on the spellchecker before PAYING to make your mistakes public in print, like this (mind you, it's quite funny anyway)...
People who get paid to write who don't know the spellings REALLY annoy me. Saw this just now in the Austin Business Journal;
"I think Austin is one of a handful of markets in the country that could really do well with that type of concept," says Rowe, referring to people with more sophisticated palettes.
Palettes? You use them for painting.
Pallets? For moving stuff.
Palates??? Ah, yes, that's the one...doh.
I love triple homonyms!
How about pore, pour, and poor? People seem to get pour and pore mixed up a lot. "He poured over his notes." He did?? What did he pour? Tea? Coffee? I hope it wasn't maple syrup!
Didn't Richard Armour make a living from finding such boo-boos, intentional and otherwise? I recall a little ditty of his. . .
If the plural of mouse is mice,
And the plural of louse is lice,
Why not the plural of spouse, 'spice?'
Some of my favorite mistakes were those of my HS students. Wish I could recall some of them. Of course, you could forgive them theirs, as they were still learning. Or still refusing to learn.
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