This just in...
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Just my thoughts on things in general, mostly things that piss me off.
Anyway - This just in...
No more using the letter Z at the end of words to replace the letter S.
I saw a sign on the way to work today that said - "Come to our Kidz Day."
Putting a Z at the end of a word does not make it cooler.
The letter S has been fulfilling the making words plural role for centuries and has been doing a very good job of it, no need for a substitute.
This may seem like a small thing but it's one of a series of things that have been creeping into our language, things like jamming two words together - Reaganocmics, or Corporate-Speak (which is a whole other subject - outsourcing, god, the mere typing of that word creeps me out).
Please, for the love of all that is holy, make the insanity stop.
Bill Maher has his New Rules, I'll have "This just in..."
Just my thoughts on things in general, mostly things that piss me off.
Anyway - This just in...
No more using the letter Z at the end of words to replace the letter S.
I saw a sign on the way to work today that said - "Come to our Kidz Day."
Putting a Z at the end of a word does not make it cooler.
The letter S has been fulfilling the making words plural role for centuries and has been doing a very good job of it, no need for a substitute.
This may seem like a small thing but it's one of a series of things that have been creeping into our language, things like jamming two words together - Reaganocmics, or Corporate-Speak (which is a whole other subject - outsourcing, god, the mere typing of that word creeps me out).
Please, for the love of all that is holy, make the insanity stop.
posted by Angry Democrat at 10/28/2005 08:08:00 AM
7 Comments:
lol I get picky about things like that too. The one that bugs me the most is when people say "fer" instead of for. Of course now that I've moved to the deep South I hear it everyday.
I have it on good authority that some people in Pennsylvannia actually say (I can barely bring myself to type it) "yuns" in place of a "you" when refering to more than one person.
A statement I actually heard someone make -
Do yuns offer a rebate?
I guess it's a Pa version of the South's y'all.
Do y'all offer a rebate?
Well, yuns and y'all can learn to speak the language correctly, thank you very much.
Hurrumph.
Because we 'yankees' talk (pronounced-tawk) fast, I catch myself saying "where yuz goin"? as a one syllable word.
translation: Where you you 'plural' going to?
"I'm goin' to Starbucks to get coffee" (pronounced caw-fee).
Office = awe-fice.
When I lived in Ohio for a short period of time, going to school, they would make me say stuff, just to hear how I "tawk" funny. Yeah, they got a big kick out of me. They couldn't understand me half the time, and of course I tawked too fast for them. Boy, I couldn't wait to get the hell out of there.
No ocean, either.
I am a Philadelphia girl.
I do not have the accent (Youz going to the eagles game?)
but when I lived in Ohio I could always close my eyes and say if I heard the accent on the news (total philadelphia person or south jersey)..
Yuns, I do not say that.
I will say in Ohio they had a "mid west" hard accent at times.
OK even if the flying spaghetti monster is our god
I hate X-MAS
how hard is it to write Christmas.
I love Bill Maher his show would be awesome tonight with Libby - :)
PS My dh worked with the president at AT&T who had the worst brooklyn accent his speech therapist re-taught him to speak with marbles in his mouth.
Marbles in his mouth??? ughhh The mom in me kicks in and feels like saying "Are you nuts?? What if you swallow one and choke??"
Polisci... I too speak very fast and I also use my hands a lot when talking. If I had to sit on my hands I wouldn't be able to speak.
That's funny, DL.
DL, are you a Paisan? LOL!
Kel, when I was out in Ohio, they used to brag that they had 'no' accents and that's why many people from Ohio would go into broadcasting on television. Go figure. The scariest thing for me out there would be when they had the county fairs, and you'd see these scary people walking around with part-time teeth and 1,000 yard stares, and my friends would say to me, 'ut oh, looks like someone left the back gate to W. Virginia open again'.
Actually, it is a subsitute for the possesive plural (the "s'" and not the "s") as is
kids' day.
but it still blows.
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