I can't take it anymore. Part 2 (sentence, grammar, quote, difference)
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Not once, but TWICE this week I've heard newscasters on national television say "supposably." The word is "supposedly!!!!!!!!!" STOP THE MADNESS!
I can't recall where I read it, but newscasters have been given the go-ahead to say liBERRY and FebUERRY because the mispronunciations are so popular these days...
I can't recall where I read it, but newscasters have been given the go-ahead to say liBERRY and FebUERRY because the mispronunciations are so popular these days...
Maybe this deserves its own thread, but: the growing/expanding "trend" of using words/terms that are inaccurate to describe individuals and how the individuals are allegedly connected.
In the distant past I saw very little of it, and one person referred to it as "phony relatives."
One recent example: a neighbor was going on and on about 'her husband' this and 'her husband' that, and when she was finished venting she added 'but I've never been married- I never want to get married!'
Another example: person was remarking she was glad her 'son-in-law' was coming over that night because he was a good cook and was going to make dinner- person she was referring to was her teenage daughter's latest boyfriend.
Really weird example: a guy called his boss to apologize and explain he'd be late for work because he was helping someone who was ill- 'my wife- no, wait, my girlfriend- no, my wife...'
It's going the full range- from referring to live-ins as husbands or wives, to calling one's boyfriends/girlfriends one's children's 'step-parents,' to leaving off the 'in-law' so there's no distinction between your child and your child's spouse, etc. etc.
Whether people think they're being cute or are intentionally being manipulative, it's a negative thing.
I've even seen it in reverse- one example was a young woman who'd met her father for the first time, and people were later remarking 'oh, he's someone you call your dad;' and a ridiculous experience I had a few years ago- 'that young guy is somebody you call your son?' (not unless I raised somebody else's kid!!!)
I can't recall where I read it, but newscasters have been given the go-ahead to say liBERRY and FebUERRY because the mispronunciations are so popular these days...
If that is true, then there is no point to anything much about word usage. Junior High students must be in charge of these decisions. I'm going to go conversate with someone, which must be acceptable if liberry is.
Not once, but TWICE this week I've heard newscasters on national television say "supposably." The word is "supposedly!!!!!!!!!" STOP THE MADNESS!
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Originally Posted by Tia 914
I can't recall where I read it, but newscasters have been given the go-ahead to say liBERRY and FebUERRY because the mispronunciations are so popular these days...
I don't know about the area where you folks live, but the current crop of extremely young newscasters in NYC can't pronounce Edinburgh properly, and--to a man (or woman)--they all pronounce it as Edin-Berg. (For those who might be puzzled, the correct pronunciation is Edin-Boro.
However, this geographic ignorance is--unfortunately--not really a new trend. For many years, the "dean" of the local newscasters at WCBS in NYC was Jim Jensen. When our forces invaded the island of Grenada during the Reagan administration, Jim told his viewers that our forces had invaded Granada. I can remember thinking...Why did Ronnie declare war on Spain?...until I saw the news in print and realized that we had actually invaded the Caribbean island with a similar spelling and a different pronunciation of its name.
And, just to continue the theme of newscaster bashing...Why do so many of them continue to show their phony smile while reporting a story that is tragic?
Just this morning, the young woman doing the local news on WCBS smiled through about 75% of a news story that she was reading, and that event about which she was reporting had resulted in multiple deaths! It was as if she finally realized the inappropriateness of that smile toward the very end of the piece, when her expression suddenly became...deadpan.
Do these talking heads read news stories without actually understanding what they are reading?
My wife's niece uses "prolly", instead of probably, and a whole gamut of a few letters representing the English language in her conversations. A complete disregard for the spoken/written word is, to me a shame.
I'm curious if the English language will one day be morphed into a slang-speak form of dialect? A sad prospect to envision.
My wife's niece uses "prolly", instead of probably, and a whole gamut of a few letters representing the English language in her conversations. A complete disregard for the spoken/written word is, to me a shame.
I'm curious if the English language will one day be morphed into a slang-speak form of dialect? A sad prospect to envision.
"I have a bother who is really messed up on drugs and has gone downhill the past couple of months."
Siblings are a real bother, aren't they?
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