A frolic in Cambodia

[ThurgreedMarshall]

Originally posted by dtb
...I remember having an argument...about the incorrectness of the phrase "So don't I" when what they mean to indicate is "So do I."

Is it just me or do people (and not just athletes anymore) confuse "it's" with "there are" all the time now?

Example:

Rube 1: Why is it so hot?
Rube 2: Because it's a lot of people in here.
Rube 1: It sure is.

TM

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Fugee
My pet peeve is people who say off-ten rather than off-en. It's like nails on the blackboard. Because it is one of the 100 most mispronounced words, I'm worried it will become accepted.

Some stuff is regional. I come from a place where it's IN-surance, not inSURance.

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Some stuff is regional. I come from a place where it's IN-surance, not inSURance.

Yup.

At my southern college, a professor once tried to make a point about dialects, and asked a student from one of the boonier locales to identifty "that horn that sounds on the top of police cars."

His anticipated response was not a "SI-ren" but a "Sie-REEN."

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
I avoided the list for the same reasons, but I really, really hate "Li-berry." It's more like a nail gun to the temple than it is like nails on a blackboard.

Also, "anyways."

Boy, you really are a dtb wannabe, aren't you?

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Some stuff is regional. I come from a place where it's IN-surance, not inSURance.

In the place you come from, they incorrectly pronounce insurance.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Gattigap
Yup.

At my southern college, a professor once tried to make a point about dialects, and asked a student from one of the boonier locales to identifty "that horn that sounds on the top of police cars."

His anticipated response was not a "SI-ren" but a "Sie-REEN."

Which is why we do not look to rural hicks with comical yet undecipherable dialects for our pronunciation guides.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Fugee
Because it is one of the 100 most mispronounced words, I'm worried it will become accepted.

I worry about those things too. I mean I actually worry about it. Not that it keeps me up at night, but sometimes it gives me pause.

[Not Bob]

So, I'm hosting a mediation in my office today in one of my slip and fall cases. Here's the question -- if a client (a new in-house lawyer at W.T. Grants) is wearing a shortish skirt, and has nice legs, is it rude to look at them?

And by "look," I (no, really!) do not mean "leer" or "stare" or "drool over." I am actually making lots of eye contact. But I am sure that my occasional glances have not gone unnoticed. Rude?

(Apropos of nothing, I can hear the mediator yelling at plaintiff's counsel -- something about creating unrealistic expectations. Hah.)

[Gattigap]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
Which is why we do not look to rural hicks with comical yet undecipherable dialects for our pronunciation guides.

Well, some are so published, but they rarely become the standard.

Instead, they are invariably published straight to paperback and reside in the "humor" section of Waldenbooks.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by dtb
I didn't read the list as it would likely put me into a shock coma, but what I hate is "uh-casional" instead of "OH-casional" and "sandwich" with a failure to pronounce the "d".

So do your horses chomp at the bit?

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Not Bob
So, I'm hosting a mediation in my office today in one of my slip and fall cases. Here's the question -- if a client (a new in-house lawyer at W.T. Grants) is wearing a shortish skirt, and has nice legs, is it rude to look at them?

And by "look," I (no, really!) do not mean "leer" or "stare" or "drool over." I am actually making lots of eye contact. But I am sure that my occasional glances have not gone unnoticed. Rude?

(Apropos of nothing, I can hear the mediator yelling at plaintiff's counsel -- something about creating unrealistic expectations. Hah.)

Hey, she decided to wear the skirt, so she intended someone to notice!

At the same time, avoiding a leer/stare/drool is important. I know, it's hard being in the company of a sexy woman.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
I wonder if GWNC feels the same about "goldie." As in, "If we're going to play hockey, I wanna be goldie."

TM

I have never heard goldie other than in a hawn or locks context. Not a Canadian mispronunciation.

We pronounce everything correctly. Including nuclear, realtor and February. We are the best.

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Hey, she decided to wear the skirt, so she intended someone to notice!

At the same time, avoiding a leer/stare/drool is important. I know, it's hard being in the company of a sexy woman.

Fenwick says that it depends (typical lawyer answer).

According to Fenwick's Law of Looking, if the client with the nice legs finds me repulsive, any number of glances is rude and creepy. If the client with the nice legs is neutral on me, a few discreet looks are acceptable. If the client with the nice legs likes me, I can stare at them droolingly, and she'll be fine with it (so long as I don't do it in front of her husband. Or my wife. Or the mediator.)

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by greatwhitenorthchick
I have never heard goldie other than in a hawn or locks context. Not a Canadian mispronunciation.

We pronounce everything correctly. Including nuclear, realtor and February. We are the best.

I think the point was you'd be bugged by an American mispronounciation of a word you guys invented. Like when I hear "cereal killer" in Guelph.

And gol-die is big here, even if we call ourselves Hockey-Town.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by Not Bob
Fenwick says that it depends (typical lawyer answer).

According to Fenwick's Law of Looking, if the client with the nice legs finds me repulsive, any number of glances is rude and creepy. If the client with the nice legs is neutral on me, a few discreet looks are acceptable. If the client with the nice legs likes me, I can stare at them droolingly, and she'll be fine with it (so long as I don't do it in front of her husband. Or my wife. Or the mediator.)

Why not the mediator? Does this depend on whether or not she thinks the mediator is hot, too?

OK, with that now on your mind, head back in there, sport!