English Appreciation Thread

[gick]

Exsanguination

 

[Raziaar]

surreptitious

somnambulistic

participle

rapaciousness

ostentatious

sybaritic

intrinsically

aggrandizing

ambivalence

dichotomize

internecine

ubiquitous

nacreous

assuage




GET THEM RIGHT YOU MORONS!


Kidding.


Oh yeah, and then there's the ever popular definitely. It's DEFINITELY, not DEFINATELY.

 

[UltimaApocalypse]

I've seen than and then get mixed up.

 

[Sulkdodds]

All the usual stuff.

Ridiculous (an i, not an e)

Aye, that's annoying.
TeeGeeBee claims he hates it when people spell 'independence' as 'independance'. "There's no dancing involved!" he ranted.

 

[Dumb Dude]

Oh yeah! Another word I see getting mixed up is the word "quiet". Have you guys ever seen reviews on newegg about how a certain power supply is "quite" and doesn't make a lot of noise? I'm sure you have, its all over the place on those reviews.

 

[15357]

"Its quite quiet enough for me", said Jake quietly. -Gradeschool English Textbook.

 

[kirovman]

English Appreciation Thread

Yes, let's all raise our glasses to the fine English Nation! :cheers:

 

[15357]

The English ate my babies!

Wait, I don't have any.... which PROVES MY POINT!

 

[DEATH eVADER]

"You're Winner!"

 

[kupocake]

The Greengrocer's Apostrophe's on item's such as apple's, pear's and potato's alway's make's me lol's.

Of course, the Japanese are a source of golden english. In a similar way to the Greengrocer's apostrophe, they randomly drop English in anywhere because it's prestigious. It makes Japanese pop music even more amusing

 

[Rupertvdb]

Colour

Quoted for delicious truth.

But this is nothing on the there, their situation. More frustrating than many's inability to spell is their inability to use apostrophes in the correct way. The death of the semi-colon is also pretty tragic.

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

Not a spelling but when people say "Ecscape" instead of "Escape" it pisses me off.

or "I'm going to axe him a question"

 

[Raziaar]

or "I'm going to axe him a question"

Heh. Futurama! :rolling:

 

[Raeven0]

Not a spelling but when people say "Ecscape" instead of "Escape" it pisses me off.

or "I'm going to axe him a question"

spaghetti / pasketti
nuclear / nukular

Also, the misuse of the word "Internet" to refer to an Internet connection, as in the erroneous, bastardish phrase "My Internet is down." I DIDN'T KNOW YOU POSSESSED YOUR OWN PRIVATE INTERNET, YOU STUPID WHORE

 

[kirovman]

I hate it how every uses the word bus.

Even transport companies use the word bus.

Since it is an abbreviation of the word omnibus, it should be 'bus.

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

spaghetti / pasketti
nuclear / nukular

Also, the misuse of the word "Internet" to refer to an Internet connection, as in the erroneous, bastardish phrase "My Internet is down." I DIDN'T KNOW YOU POSSESSED YOUR OWN PRIVATE INTERNET, YOU STUPID WHORE

Actually both are acceptable for nuclear.

 

[Raziaar]

Also, the misuse of the word "Internet" to refer to an Internet connection, as in the erroneous, bastardish phrase "My Internet is down." I DIDN'T KNOW YOU POSSESSED YOUR OWN PRIVATE INTERNET, YOU STUPID WHORE

It's short for internet access... YOU STUPID WHORE.

No seriously, sheesh dude!

 

[MiccyNarc]

Just for the record, Nauseous means you are making someone nauseated.
Don't say "I'm nauseous", I'll only agree with you. Say "I'm nauseated" and I'll give you sympathy.

 

[kirovman]

That reminds me of:

"Sire, the peasants are revolting!"

"I know, I can smell them from here."

 

[Jangle]

Also, the misuse of the word "Internet" to refer to an Internet connection, as in the erroneous, bastardish phrase "My Internet is down." I DIDN'T KNOW YOU POSSESSED YOUR OWN PRIVATE INTERNET, YOU STUPID WHORE

 

[kirovman]

They've already downloaded it

 

[15357]

Also the N.K. did too.

 

[Angry Lawyer]

Supplicate.
Incapacitate.
Clock-faced.

-Angry Lawyer

 

[Crushenator 500]

I've not got a problem with it, but how about onomatopoeia?


I take it you already know
Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you,
On hiccough, thorough, lough and through?
Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,
To learn of less familiar traps?
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
That looks like beard and sounds like bird,
And dead: it's said like bed, not bead -
For goodness sake don't call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat
(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt).

A moth is not a moth in mother,
Nor both in bother, broth in brother,
And here is not a match for there
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear,
And then there's dose and rose and lose -
Just look them up - and goose and choose,
And cork and work and card and ward,
And font and front and word and sword,
And do and go and thwart and cart -
Come, come, I've hardly made a start!
A dreadful language? Man alive!
I'd mastered it when I was five!

 

[Pesmerga]

Very nice, Crush, who's it written by?

 

[el Chi]

Yes, let's all raise our glasses to the fine English Nation! :cheers:

It's Great Britain, damn you!
Yeh big Englesh jesseh! Ah'll tek yrr Suthun arrrse doon any daay o' tha weeek, laddeh.

Sorry - got over-powered by my Scottish half... Wooo.

 

[ríomhaire]

Bologna?

Aloud
really

 

[Pesmerga]

Look at my first post, ASSHOLE.

 

[Crushenator 500]

Very nice, Crush, who's it written by?

It's on here http://www.spellingsociety.org/news/media/poems.php

 

[Shippi]

.

 

[Insano]

xenodocheionology

 

[Sulkdodds]

For goodness sake don't call it deed!

I find this very offensive towards the Scots. Racist!

 

[Qonfused]

Tongue.

 

[Pesmerga]

Porque

 

[Insano]

Diarrhoea.

 

[Jangle]

I've got a friend who lived in Sheffield who pronounces 'tongue' so it sounds like 'tong'. Does anybody else pronounce it like this?

 

[Crushenator 500]

Yup, me

how do you pronounce it, tung?

 

[Pesmerga]

I pronounce it tongue.

Ton-guay

 

[Jangle]

Yup, me

how do you pronounce it, tung?

Yep

And Pes, wtf? Really?

 

[Qonfused]

Tun(g). The G is almost silent.