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Most annoying mispronunciation
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Cody Pomeray wrote: »Is that the one with the stress on the beginning of the word? OIR-eachtas?
Well said. It sometimes takes an outsider to state what should be obvious to everyone.
It's a shame that the Hiberno-English dialect is being wiped out by some artificial need to speak like everyone on 'the mainland'.
I dated a lovely woman from Birmingham for a bit. You would have enjoyed the playful arguments we had when we disagreed on which one of us was the real English speaker. My favorite, er favourite, was to tell her that "English is not meant to be spoken like you're asking a question every time". She always called me out on "Prolly". I don't even realize, er realise, I am saying it. I blame the internet.
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I totally understand what you're saying about regional dialects and colloquialisms, but why the hells do Americans use the phrase 'write me'? It's totally nonsensical. 'Write me a letter every day', that's fine. 'Write to me every day' is also fine. 'Write me every day' sounds like they want you to carry around a notebook and, every morning, write the word 'me' in it. It just makes no sense!
There's a load of them. Lemme see what I can rustle up that I noticed in Ireland:
'Come in to me' - In America this would be sorta rude
'What are ya after?' or 'x is after x' - I know this is based on how the question would be phrased in the Irish language, but it still sounds very odd to an American.
'Give us a shout' - can you not generate your own shouting? In all fairness, the Texas/southern version would be "Give me a holler/I'll holler atcha".
'What's this then?' What is it then VS now? There's a difference?
'Us' - perhaps it's for dis-associative reasons, but the term 'us' seems to replace 'me' in much of the conversation 'we' take part in. And by 'we', I mean 'me'. Er, prolly. And stuff.
'How're ya gettin on?' - How am I gettin on what? Still, prolly better than ''Sup?"
'Alright?" - this is a greeting? All right...
'Ah, sure, look it' - I stopped waiting for that sentence to end a few years back.
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There's a load of them. Lemme see what I can rustle up that I noticed in Ireland:
'Come in to me' - In America this would be sorta rude
'What are ya after?' or 'x is after x' - I know this is based on how the question would be phrased in the Irish language, but it still sounds very odd to an American.
'Give us a shout' - can you not generate your own shouting? In all fairness, the Texas/southern version would be "Give me a holler/I'll holler atcha".
'What's this then?' What is it then VS now? There's a difference?
'Us' - perhaps it's for dis-associative reasons, but the term 'us' seems to replace 'me' in much of the conversation 'we' take part in. And by 'we', I mean 'me'. Er, prolly. And stuff.
'How're ya gettin on?' - How am I gettin on what? Still, prolly better than ''Sup?"
'Alright?" - this is a greeting? All right...
'Ah, sure, look it' - I stopped waiting for that sentence to end a few years back.
Janey, a...a...a...forner slagging our talking!
I spent some time in Texas and spent a lot of that time searching my map for the mythical place they call Warshington, where they keep all their eejits. When I gave up and asked a local, they wanted to know if I meant Warshington DC or Warshington state!
So, warsh your mouth out for criticising the way we bees talking, ya...ya...blowin ya.0 -
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I totally understand what you're saying about regional dialects and colloquialisms, but why the hells do Americans use the phrase 'write me'? It's totally nonsensical. 'Write me a letter every day', that's fine. 'Write to me every day' is also fine. 'Write me every day' sounds like they want you to carry around a notebook and, every morning, write the word 'me' in it. It just makes no sense!
If we're going to mention cases where the Merkins drop out a word, the this one is the one that gets me:
"I could care less."
The origins of this phrase, are of course, "I couldn't care less." as in, "the amount about which I care on that subject is so small, that it could not be any smaller."
This saying then mutated, so that it became the sarcastically reversed "Oh, like I could care less!"
So far, so good. Then it would appear that the sarcastic part of the sarcastic reversal was dropped, and now you hear (Merkin) people say "I could care less".
Great, so what you're saying is: "I do care about your issue. Perhaps not very much, but I do care at least a little bit. Or maybe I care a lot. I care about your issue, and the amount I care is an unspecified amount that is greater than 0, but with no upper limit."
Here's David Mitchell on the subject:
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I dated a lovely woman from Birmingham for a bit. You would have enjoyed the playful arguments we had when we disagreed on which one of us was the real English speaker. My favorite, er favourite, was to tell her that "English is not meant to be spoken like you're asking a question every time". She always called me out on "Prolly". I don't even realize, er realise, I am saying it. I blame the internet. and stuff... prolly.
I'm sure there are many linguistic roots for the way Americans speak, based on various European and African languages. Prolly sounds like African American vernacular, but I don't really know a lot about it.
I remember being called out on saying "I have it done" in school, when it would be considered incorrect from a standard British grammatical viewpoint. In fact, that structure corresponds exactly with its Irish translation - "Tá sé déanta agam". I think it's a shame that any of us feel the need to correct those interesting little cultural artifacts, and adapt some boring universal language where we all sound the same.0 -
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You'll find that a lot of Irish sayings or weird sentence structure is down to it being a direct translation from Irish. E.g. 'Give me a shout' = Lit 'Cuir glaoi orm'.There's a load of them. Lemme see what I can rustle up that I noticed in Ireland:
'Come in to me' - In America this would be sorta rude
'What are ya after?' or 'x is after x' - I know this is based on how the question would be phrased in the Irish language, but it still sounds very odd to an American.
'Give us a shout' - can you not generate your own shouting? In all fairness, the Texas/southern version would be "Give me a holler/I'll holler atcha".
'What's this then?' What is it then VS now? There's a difference?
'Us' - perhaps it's for dis-associative reasons, but the term 'us' seems to replace 'me' in much of the conversation 'we' take part in. And by 'we', I mean 'me'. Er, prolly. And stuff.
'How're ya gettin on?' - How am I gettin on what? Still, prolly better than ''Sup?"
'Alright?" - this is a greeting? All right...
'Ah, sure, look it' - I stopped waiting for that sentence to end a few years back.0 -
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Potential-Monke wrote: »People are incapable of pronoincing this:
It's pronounced Huu-har-den )the D is very soft). Not Hoe-Garden.
But surely Huu-har-den is how people in Belgium pronounce it. I know I don't pronounce Paris the way somebody from France would. Don't see anything wrong with pronouncing it Hoe-Garden.0 -
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Surely "Huu-har-den" would be the more annoying pronunciation in Ireland.Potential-Monke wrote: »People are incapable of pronoincing this:
It's pronounced Huu-har-den )the D is very soft). Not Hoe-Garden.
I'd let it go the first time, but I don't think I could sit and listen to someone go on about "Huu har den" over the course of a night.0 -
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Weathering wrote: »Stupid person I know who says "I hurteded my toe" and call sudo cream sudeoed cream. They like ed
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