Check your vocabulary and dictionary! - Page 3

SHIRAZ · ‎06-27-2010

@novamc1 wrote:

And then there was one FREQUENT blooper that I used to hear REGULARLY from a host on a non-QVC home shopping network. When describing clothing or shoes, she always felt the need to point out the item's "comfortability".

Did notice that after using this so-called "word" about a hundred times, she stopped and began speaking about comfort. Someone finally had spoken up and corrected her, apparently. This made listening to her considerably more comfortable.

There's a couple of them on QVC using that "word" too. One uses it everytime she doesn't just say "comf." Comfort truly isn't in her vocabulary.

Then there's another host that is constantly saying "Lookit." I remember my grade school teachers correcting kids that said that!

"It doesn't matter if the glass is half-full or half-empty as long as you still have the rest of the bottle."

Q4u · ‎03-17-2010

Coming from publishers and technical editors I was raised with a dictionary and encyclopedia even though now I rarely will open one (I check on-line).... and I think that the last 20 years (with the advent of immediate communication) has driven people to putting their thoughts down as quickly as they can, with no editing, and send it! I think that's behind the lack of grammar and spelling. Along with that is the fact that there seems to be no shame anymore in mispellilng anything and therefore no drive to learn a new word.

And the changing of the pronunciations of words gets me.... because the longer the mispronunciatons go uncorrected, the more accepted (and used) they become...

Example: PREsentation rather than PRESENTation

I care about the English language, but I also realize that in this world of immediate communication (and gratification) that most people don't....

*~"Never eat more than you can lift......" Miss Piggy~*

Kachina624 · ‎03-10-2010

And then there was one FREQUENT blooper that I used to hear REGULARLY from a host on a non-QVC home shopping network. When describing clothing or shoes, she always felt the need to point out the item's "comfortability".

Did notice that after using this so-called "word" about a hundred times, she stopped and began speaking about comfort. Someone finally had spoken up and corrected her, apparently. This made listening to her considerably more comfortable

There seems to be a trend toward adding "ability" to each and every word in the language creating some really silly new words.

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Jacie · ‎01-09-2011

I have a hard time with the hosts who make up their own words. It is annoying!

"Cats are poetry in motion. Dogs are gibberish in neutral." -Garfield

chickenbutt · ‎03-09-2010

I'm with you all on the 'made up words' thing.

I have to admit I've made up a word or two in my time. But the ones you usually hear are just cringeworthy like sammy (for sandwich) or I don't even like words like hubby, or veggies, or taters, etc. Those all sound like baby-talk to me.

insomniac · ‎03-09-2010

"More dressy" and "dressier" are both correct.

SHIRAZ · ‎06-27-2010

Adding to the list of made up words, my pet peeve is adding "-oholic" to the end of words. An alcoholic is addicted to alcohol, not alc. I am NOT addicted to foodohol, or chocohol, nor do I know anyone who is addicted to workohol.

"It doesn't matter if the glass is half-full or half-empty as long as you still have the rest of the bottle."

Vivian · ‎03-11-2010

I have several pet peeves that I hear all the time.

1. Between you and I should be replaced by between you and me. Me is the object of the preposition. The pronoun I is the subject of a sentence as in "She and I went to the store.

2. I seen should be I saw or I have seen.

3. I could have did should be I could have done.

4. I could have went should be I could have gone.

My French professor at Cornell University retired several years ago. She told me that she could no longer teach a foreign language to students who don't understand the structure of their own language. It's bad enough to make vocabulary errors, e.g., pant instead of pants or fabrication instead of fabric. Ignorance of structure is worse. Sometimes I wonder what my grandchildren are doing in school all day. My guess is that they're learning about the next test that politicians have mandated.

violann · ‎03-10-2010

"Her and her husband" went to the supermarket........ OMG

circles · ‎03-10-2010

I haven't finished reading this thread....I will a little later....its very interesting....I bet some of you are screaming because of my .... between my sentences...sorry...

I wanted to share a couple of text I recently sent....I wanted to tell my sil about Pandora....well my phone would not let me put all the letters together ...so I had to send it Pan dor a....I bet she wondered what was the matter with me....lol

Another one was to my friend ...Gina....my phone would not let me add the "a" at the end of Gina....so all I had was either "Gin" or it auto_corrected it to "Final".....I decided to just use "G"....lol, again...