Help my language please !!!

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

I'll pencil it in. Right after I accidentally drop my pencil from where it pins my tousled hair in place and bend low and slow to pick it up again.

Cool beans. I'll be fiddling with my tortoiseshell glasses and trying to keep my skirt pulled down over my garters.

[twowls 217]

Actually, American English and Bushisms appear to be merging.

I heard a politician saying he had 'misremembered it wrong' last night.

If Congressmen can do this, what linguistic chimeras will emanate from aisle 13 in Walmart ?

I predict American English will follow and merge with Borneo pidgin English so that by the year 2015, Prince Philip will be referred to as 'Man belong Quinn'

You're not wrong about this. Untold damage has been done by Bush league malapropisms like "misunderestimate." I'm having apocalyptic visions of a small horde of us cowering in a cave somewhere, decorating our territory with signs that say "not never no double negatives" like prayer flags and protecting our heads from a hail-like onslaught of misspelled epithets--Morans! Loosers!!!--from all sides.

[Rob and Jill 82]

According to Merriam Webster Online:

Main Entry: drug

dialect past of drag

So technically, it is a word in the sense the people who annoy you use it.

However, and being American I want to add this gripe in:

An IDEA is not the same frapping thing as an IDEAL.

*Pet peeve soul cleansing meditation begins*

I say "'m fixng to..." but it's a Southern thing. I remember some counselors from a Northern State laughing at me one year for it. XD

I also go nuts over bring and take.

Can you bring me to work? ####### NO. I'll TAKE you though.

My link

Whether you use bring or take depends on your point of reference for the action. The quick and dirty tip is that you ask people to bring things to the place you are, and you take things to the place you are going.

[Gemmie 142]

Hey Alan.

Last night, I said "BLOWED".

As in, past tense of "blow". As in, should've been "blew". The moment it left my lips, my husband had a seizure, and so did I.

You can shoot me if you like.

[Gemmie 142]

Someone on Facebook just said "I have took".

[Captain Oates 911]

Hey Alan.

Last night, I said "BLOWED".

As in, past tense of "blow". As in, should've been "blew". The moment it left my lips, my husband had a seizure, and so did I.

You can shoot me if you like.

No 1 on my hit list is :

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility

- it's ENSURE for crying out loud....I doubt that any reputable insurance company would insure domestic tranquility right now - and if it did, imagine the premium

.

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

Dude, don't harsh on the Founding Fathers' mellow, especially given the fluidity of spelling in the late 18th century.

Especially don't harsh on that James Madison, he's the dreamiest and the foundiest!

[Captain Oates 911]

Dude, don't harsh on the Founding Fathers' mellow, especially given the fluidity of spelling in the late 18th century.

Especially don't harsh on that James Madison, he's the dreamiest and the foundiest!

He is my fav too coz he is in the 100 questions - federalist papers the answer to...

I can remember him easily coz I used to hang out in Madison Wisconsin with all the students - much beer - much duck poop on the water's edge

yes he is ok

However, that Jefferson dude is going to get us all slain with his tree of liberty blood speech. I know he wanted froggies to kill froggies but my local militia don't see it like that and they want to lynch somebody coz of the coca cola tax (1.5 cents)

I suppose I can let em have one word wrong - after all they didn't have google or spell check - but people still use insure every night on telly when they mean ensure. At least it's not a new word so it's more of a malapropism

JUST WHAT ARE YOU INCINERATING YOUNG MAN ! and now - let us glaze our arses to the ####### old dean - oops no that's a spoonerism

Edited June 8, 2010 by saywhat

[Captain Oates 911]

Perhaps they were trying for a more perfect Onion ?

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

Perhaps they were trying for a more perfect Onion ?

Yum! Yes please.

[Pooky 3,775]

Irregardless.

Seriously, people.

[Captain Oates 911]

Irregardless.

Seriously, people.

Actually, I must confess that an accountant working for me in The UK used 'irregardless' and if he hadn't been so big and tough I would have attacked him. So I can't blame American English for that one - unless he had been watching dirty Harry films

also 'as opposed to ' when they mean 'as compared to' gives me slight pulsing forehead veins

[Krikit 1,164]

Using "advise" when they mean "advice". I get a tick in my left eye when I see that. One day I'm going to end up like Chief Inspector Dreyfuss in a straight jacket writing advice-advise with a crayon held between my toes. Seriously.

[Captain Oates 911]

It wouldn't be so bad if it was just illiterate people - we have mega millions of them in the UK but it doesn't corrupt the standard language (much).

The trouble is that it's the intelligentsia that uses all this junk - people to be looked up to - genuinely clever people - much cleverer than me - and so it is spreading and becoming fixed and validated as American English when it's just wrong English.

Anderson Cooper CNN is a perpetratorial example

[Pooky 3,775]

Oh, and "I could have cared less"

Do people realise that this actually means they care?