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#80493 09/16/02 04:41 PM
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be specific, not coy.

...but TEd did.


#80494 09/16/02 06:47 PM
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... a body that is generally recognised as suitably qualified...

... So lets resist the trends that we find unpalatable or ugly to try to prevent them from becoming accepted!


Your choice of what is unpalatable or ugly seems to be aligned with your definition of a "suitably qualified" body... but personally *we find language an art form and its virtue is in the ears of the beholder.

I know what is meant when I hear 'noo-cue-lar' (I can't even say it myself) and I use 'eye-ther' quite 'off-ten' but I ain't tryin' to impress nobody by doin' so, yet the little journey of juxtaposition and misuse of "acceptable form"(blech) I take myself and the listener on in this sentence is intentional.

Speaking of... If the mispronouncer doesn't "know better" how long does it take 'til it no longer qualifies as a mispronouciation?


#80495 09/16/02 10:24 PM
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it takes some effort for me not to assume they are putting on airs...they may well feel that those who do pronounce it correctly are a little bit stuffy

Well, that's just inverse snobbery really, isn't it?

Point taken, though, nunclage - you shouldn't really judge people by what you consider mispronunciations, any more than you should judge them by accent, spelling, handwriting, dress, hairstyle, blah blah.

But the fact is, we do.

This can mislead us in ways that may suit a politician down to the ground, but those misconceptions could equally well destroy the politician's career. It's part of the job to be able to tell the difference.




#80496 09/17/02 09:37 AM
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The poll results are in!
Is participatory democracy the cat's pajamas or what?


(No offense intended to those of you who still have Kings and Queens and outdoor plumbing)

The Survey

Should President Bush bomb Saddam Hussein out of the Old Stone Age and into the New Stone Age?
________________________________________YES [ ] NO [ ]

Does President Bush care if dippy, henny-penny, tree hugging, commies-with-out-a-country, liberals call him "Duhba" behind his back?
_________________________________________YES [ ] NO [ ]

Does "nuclear" rhyme with "knuckle-ear"?
_________________________________________YES [ ] NO [ ]


Does "nuclear" rhyme with "molecular"?
_________________________________________YES [ ] NO [ ]

Is anyone here driving a red ford station wagon parked out front in the loading zone with the lights on?
______________________________ YES [ ] NO [ ] DON'T KNOW [ ]


THE SURVEY SAID...

* 100% of my grandchildren agreed that we should stand firm against the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction by Saddam Hussein.

* 80% said that they thought that President Bush didn't care what you people called him (as long as it wasn't late to lunch. 20%)

* 0% thought that "nuclear" rhymed with yucky "knuckle-ear"

* 100% thought that "nuclear rhymed with "molecular".

* 80% answered that they owned the red station wagon, 20% (Olivia, who is only three and hasn't yet learned to lie) answered "I don't know.


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#80497 09/17/02 10:33 AM
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Anyun thanks a three yer ole cain't lie 'sgot his hed stuck so far up his butt he's lookin out thru his ahbawls.

She jes gone lie about somthin worth liein about.

#80498 09/17/02 11:07 AM
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Speaking of decimate, it happens to be today's Word. Y'all suppose Anu reads this thang sometimes?


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I like knuckle-ear.

Knuckle-ear reactors

Knuckle-ear bombs

Knuckle-ear physicist

Knuckle-ear power



I'm gonna write President Bush a letter and request that he start using "knuckle-ear" ASAP. I think it'll catch on. Thanks, milum, for coining a great word that gets at the both the drift of this thread and the drift of this thread.


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a great word that gets at the both the drift of this thread and the drift of this thread.

That's very profound.

Or either that or a really dumb, unproofread mistake, one, or neither, none, or either that or both, both.


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a great word that gets at the both the drift of this thread and the drift of this thread.


...'twere intentional, Fald. Take it as you will.

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#80502 09/17/02 12:39 PM
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'twere intentional

Well, OK. I guess my onliest question now is whut's 'at firstest the doon in ther?


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