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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Freeper on March 22, 2010, 03:00:09 PM
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Mon Mar-22-10 03:57 PM
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New Rule: If you are going to USE a word on tv, at least know the pronunciation
Today's words are:
epithet..it's EP-i-thet..yes there IS an "h" in there, folks
It's NOT..
epitaph.. that's for a deceased person
NOT..epitat...something to do with lace-making, perhaps?
NOT epitet.. Tet was epic, but not in this context
and then we have
hyperbole
It's NOT...
HYPER-bolly...some wacky Indian movie maybe?
It's hy-PER-bow-lee..The "bow" ?..think Clara Bow..not a ship's "bow"
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I know it's yet another nit to pick, but if newswriters are putting these words up on the prompter, they need to warn their news-readers ahead of time, just how to SAY these lesser-used words..or maybe use more common words they are not likely to flub :)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7987870
Tell you what when Obama learns how to say corpsman then you can bitch about this.
:)
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7987870
Tell you what when Obama learns how to say corpsman then you can bitch about this.
:)
As well as Pockiston and Towelybon.
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As well as Pockiston and Towelybon.
If you really want to know how to pronounace something...just axe some of the local Obama voters.
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I hate, hate, HATE when people say "ax" when they mean "ask."
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I hate, hate, HATE when people say "ax" when they mean "ask."
Wellz, den yewz best don'z be move'n downz he'uh witz me den..... :rotf:
Did you know there is an "O" in the middle of RC Cola.....yep, sure is just axe the Obama voters.
"Yews gotz any R O C Coca Cola soda's?"
Mod to explain that:
When spelling a word or pronouncing the letter "R", it is always followed by the letter "O" or a sound that is a close approximation thereof. Like if I were to spell "rubber", it would go like this ....R-ruh-U-B-B-E-R-ruh.
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Or how, for the past 50 years, some member of the Kennedy clan or another has been slaughtering the pronunciation of Cuba, instead calling it, "kyoo-BER"?
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Or how, for the past 50 years, some member of the Kennedy clan or another has been slaughtering the pronunciation of Cuba, instead calling it, "kyoo-BER"?
Yeah, but they're Massachusetts liberals, so they get a free pass.
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Yeah, but they're Massachusetts liberals, so they get a free pass.
The good ones are dead.
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I hate, hate, HATE when people say "ax" when they mean "ask."
Racist!!!
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Racist!!!
No,That's Wacisit!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Don't forget Obama's pronunciation of Teddy's state: Massa-two-sits.
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Don't forget Obama's pronunciation of Teddy's state: Massa-two-sits.
He's just getting even for the drunken Dead Ted referring to him, on the floor of the Senate, as Osamabama.
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The good ones are dead.
Bad ones, too, but the dead ones are the best....
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My husband was on the phone with a customer service person, who asked him, "do you want me to go axe a supervisor?" He said, "No, don't go axing anybody, I wouldn't want anybody to get hurt." Went right over her head. :lmao:
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My husband was on the phone with a customer service person, who asked him, "do you want me to go axe a supervisor?" He said, "No, don't go axing anybody, I wouldn't want anybody to get hurt." Went right over her head. :lmao:
There's a VELCRO joke in there somewhere.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7987870
Tell you what when Obama learns how to say corpsman then you can bitch about this.
:)
First thing that came into my head. :-)
It's Corpsman BTW ;)