#19805
02/21/2001 7:34 PM
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From the same folks which spend their time dissin peeps and giving mad props, I find "prolly" used instead of "probably." Does anyone know if this is an established slang term, or merely a mistake which is beginning to perpetuate on its way to slang?
The use of "prolly" to which I refer is written. It is not merely lazy pronunciation, although the spelling/word probably arises from lazy pronunciation.
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#19806
02/21/2001 7:36 PM
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Do people actually SPELL it that way? I admit that it sounds that way when I speak quickly. Another variation is "prob'ly". My fault for not trying harder! 
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#19807
02/21/2001 7:38 PM
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Hmmm... "prolly" is news to me, but I hear people say "probly" all the stinkin' time. Ranks right up there with nucular, libary, and irregardless on the Makes My Teeth Itch scale.
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#19808
02/21/2001 7:45 PM
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That's the kind of pronunciation that used to drive me wild ten years ago when my hearing loss was still mild.
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#19809
02/21/2001 7:50 PM
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yes, bean, I prolly spell it that way when I particularly want to get on someone's nerves.
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#19810
02/21/2001 8:04 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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I do mean spelled "prolly." I see this word used in lieu of "probably" in posts on sports message boards, which are primarily populated by men in their teens and early twenties.
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#19811
02/21/2001 8:21 PM
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I see this word used in lieu of "probably" in posts on sports message boards, which are primarily populated by men in their teens and early twenties.
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Sports nuts? Jocks?
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The only time I've heard it used is in "baby talk" between sweethearts or kidding amongst grownup friends in a joking way usually making fun of sweethearts who are indulging in the practice in front of them.
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#19812
02/21/2001 8:34 PM
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I'd wondered if it was pronounced with a long o, an affectionate version of prole.
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#19813
02/22/2001 4:07 PM
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Far as I know, it's just laziness, mostly on the part of the young. I overheard my youngest son (age 28) on the telephone the other night. It seems that the standard opening is, "Zup?" [what's up]. to which the reply is, "nmuch." [nothing much] Then you have the question regarding dinner, "Djeet?" [did you eat?]
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#19814
02/22/2001 4:24 PM
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Far as I know, it's just laziness, mostly on the part of the young.I put it up entirely to speed, rather than laziness (at least in myself). When I slow down, I unconsciously pronounce things better than when I am speaking quickly. I am 24 so I think I PROBABLY  count in the above category of "young".
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#19815
02/22/2001 10:13 PM
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I think many people speak fast to cover things up.
Like that they are nervous, or irritation that they have to talk to the other person about whatever subject.
I speak fast for the above reasons any others, but I slow down when I really need to get a point across.
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#19816
02/22/2001 10:22 PM
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It has often occurred to me that children and adults would be able to spell better if, in daily life, we were as precise and correct in the pronunciation of words as are the Interrogators at spelling bees.
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#19817
02/24/2001 12:54 AM
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wow...the enunciation was so Southern when we moved to S.C. that only children from the North could spell. Their only trouble was that the person saying the word could not say the words properly!!! It really was pitiful. It is better now than in the 1960's. Now the children from India and far away places take more interest in pronunciation and far outshine the majority of the children scholastically that were born in the South.
Thank goodness my children can enunciate, however one is still a lousy speller! I could go on and on about education "down here". Nuff said.
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