Mis-pronounciation and dating - Page 3

Trilby · 02-02-2005, 02:43 PM

Homo-ba-phone? Obe-ma-Fob? D'Oh! Sax-A-ma-Phone!

Troubleshooter · 02-02-2005, 03:15 PM

The biggest offenders in my experience are:

"Go down duh screet tuh get some scrimps."

OnyxCougar · 02-07-2005, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Troubleshooter

The biggest offenders in my experience are:

"Go down duh screet tuh get some scrimps."

OMG you've been talking to my customers!

They eat scrimps on da screet den go watch their digikal (or diginal) cayb-oe.

Ugh.

And when I first met my husband, who spent 12 years in Jersey, EVERY time he would say coah-fee, I would repeat it like that. EVERY time. It was cute then. Now half the time I don't notice it.

Troubleshooter · 02-07-2005, 05:29 PM

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Originally Posted by OnyxCougar

OMG you've been talking to my customers!

A friend of mine was a paramedic for a while. Every so often he'd head into the ethnic hinterlands to go pick somebody who had run out of their peanutbutterball...

See if you cna figure that one out.

404Error · 02-08-2005, 01:23 AM

Just when you thought you were safe from the badger badger thing...

It's Harry Potter Potter Potter's turn

wolf · 02-08-2005, 01:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Troubleshooter

peanutbutterball...

See if you cna figure that one out.

Phenobarbital.

Guess them folks was having some major convictions, eh?

lumberjim · 02-02-2005, 05:21 PM

my daughter says Cindabrella. i think it's cute as shit.

I talk just like people on tv. no discernable accent. so there.

Clodfobble · 02-02-2005, 07:33 PM

My husband says "acrost" instead of across, "melk" instead of milk, and "may-zure" instead of meh-zure. He does try to catch himself, though, to keep my teeth-grinding to a minimum.

Also, my stepdaughter calls it a "cell-o-phone," because clearly the word is supposed to rhyme with "telephone."

SteveDallas · 02-02-2005, 10:13 PM

My grandmother used to refer to Vienna sausages as "vye-eeena." She also was very fond of "arsh" potatoes, which as near as I could tell were exactly the same as the just plain potatoes we ate at our house. It was years later that I finally figured out that the word was "Irish."

xoxoxoBruce · 02-03-2005, 01:09 AM

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Originally Posted by SteveDallas

My grandmother used to refer to Vienna sausages as "vye-eeena." She also was very fond of "arsh" potatoes, which as near as I could tell were exactly the same as the just plain potatoes we ate at our house. It was years later that I finally figured out that the word was "Irish."

My Grandparents had some strange pronunciations also. Of course my Dad's parents were immigrants which explains much of it. My Mom's parents, growing up in rural New England during the late 1800s, had hit or miss formal schooling.
Also, during that time a kid might have one maybe two teachers for the first 8 grades and their pronunciation became the standard.

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Not spongmonkey annoying, but annoying all the same.

The very first time you saw the spongmonkeys,(not the commercial) were you puzzled and a little bewildered? Or did you hate it right from the gitgo?
I think I watched it 3 times before I got annoyed.

wolf · 02-03-2005, 10:45 AM

I hated it right away.

I already thought the viking kittens were stupid, and recognized the style.

lookout123 · 02-03-2005, 10:50 AM

huh??? did i unknowingly rip that off from somewhere?

Happy Monkey · 02-03-2005, 12:05 PM

An ad for some delivery service had some guy pronouncing "Phoenix" as "Pahonex". Not a particularly good ad.

mrnoodle · 02-03-2005, 12:08 PM

The viking kittens doing 'Run to the Hills' is funny. you normally have such good taste, wolf.

lookout123 · 02-03-2005, 12:44 PM

i have never seen either of the commercials you're talking about.

02-02-2005, 02:43 PM	#1
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02-02-2005, 03:15 PM	#2
Troubleshooter The urban Jane Goodall Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Florida Posts: 3,012	The biggest offenders in my experience are: "Go down duh screet tuh get some scrimps." __________________ I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. - Aristotle

02-08-2005, 01:23 AM	#5
404Error Lecturer Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: CT USA Posts: 826	Just when you thought you were safe from the badger badger thing... It's Harry Potter Potter Potter's turn __________________ "To disarm the people is the most effectual way to enslave them." ~George Mason~

02-02-2005, 05:21 PM	#7
lumberjim I can hear my ears Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 25,571	my daughter says Cindabrella. i think it's cute as shit. I talk just like people on tv. no discernable accent. so there. __________________ This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality Embrace this moment, remember We are eternal, all this pain is an illusion ~MJKeenan

02-03-2005, 10:45 AM	#11
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	I hated it right away. I already thought the viking kittens were stupid, and recognized the style. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

02-02-2005, 07:33 PM	#8
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	My husband says "acrost" instead of across, "melk" instead of milk, and "may-zure" instead of meh-zure. He does try to catch himself, though, to keep my teeth-grinding to a minimum. Also, my stepdaughter calls it a "cell-o-phone," because clearly the word is supposed to rhyme with "telephone."

02-02-2005, 10:13 PM	#9
SteveDallas Your Bartender Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Philly Burbs, PA Posts: 7,651	My grandmother used to refer to Vienna sausages as "vye-eeena." She also was very fond of "arsh" potatoes, which as near as I could tell were exactly the same as the just plain potatoes we ate at our house. It was years later that I finally figured out that the word was "Irish."

02-03-2005, 10:50 AM	#12
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	huh??? did i unknowingly rip that off from somewhere? __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

02-03-2005, 12:05 PM	#13
Happy Monkey I think this line's mostly filler. Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: DC Posts: 13,575	An ad for some delivery service had some guy pronouncing "Phoenix" as "Pahonex". Not a particularly good ad. __________________ _________________ \|...............\| We live in the nick of times. \| Len 17, Wid 3 \| \|_______________\| [pics]

02-03-2005, 12:08 PM	#14
mrnoodle bent Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: under the weather Posts: 2,656	The viking kittens doing 'Run to the Hills' is funny. you normally have such good taste, wolf. __________________ Sìn a nall na cuaranan sin. -- Cha mhór is fheairrde thu iad, tha iad coltach ri cat air a dhathadh

02-03-2005, 12:44 PM	#15
lookout123 changed his status to single Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Right behind you. No, the other side. Posts: 10,308	i have never seen either of the commercials you're talking about. __________________ Getting knocked down is no sin, it's not getting back up that's the sin

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