View Full Version : I have HAD IT with intentional illiteracy!
FrustratedBunny
02-23-2006, 10:13 PM
My sister calls it a Caramel Macchiano
I don't go to Starbucks much so I'm going to have to ask what it should be?
My dad is the kind of mispronouncing things. He is tone deaf so I guess that's why he just can't say a lot of things correctly. Some things that come to mind are:
He says Toyota Camry Toyota Cam-ray
Atari is Ha-tari
He also cannot spell to save his life. I think he just can't sound out the words so the spelling just doesn't come to him. He graduated from college so I know he had to learn enough to get through basic college english but he can't even seem to spell my dog's name right!
Rhiannon
02-23-2006, 10:23 PM
I don't go to Starbucks much so I'm going to have to ask what it should be?
Caramel "Macchiato".. Try one! Get it with EXTRA caramel!
venusofwillendorf
02-24-2006, 12:35 AM
no, i'm not talking about the signatures. a few people have in the past posted in a large, bright green font... hasn't happened for a while, and it's more common on other boards, but it hurts my eyes.
Silverback
02-24-2006, 12:41 AM
no, i'm not talking about the signatures. a few people have in the past posted in a large, bright green font... hasn't happened for a while, and it's more common on other boards, but it hurts my eyes.
Well, it's a good thing. Because, well... It's just a good thing! :wife:
kitana
02-24-2006, 06:46 AM
Here's mine:
"Im going to unthaw some dinner"...oh are you now? you're going to freeze some dinner? You THAW things not UNthaw them...I've actually caught myself doing it.
ROFL!! Thank you my dear husband!
I tell him all the time to take something out of the freezer and de-thaw it, lol.
I know it's wrong, but it's our personal little thing. We both laugh a little, then hug, and go on with the day. I usually end up doing it just to steal a min away with him.
As for improper typing on the net, you guys think MySpace is bad? ROFL!
Try playing a Java based internet game called RuneScape. Usually around 6pm CST on world 2 in the town called Varrock. Now that's really bad.
"Ur a ****in noob, y dn't u go ram ur mum up the ace with a feet!"
"Selin run 2 h, 45k plz no noobs"
"buing draogn axe, pl0x seel to me!!!!!"
That's just the tip of the iceberg too, lol. They are usually much much worse.
Hubby has lost more hair (from pulling it out in disgust) in the past 6 months then he has since we have been together.
Djoser
02-24-2006, 07:59 PM
Years ago, when I was a puppy dog fresh out of college, I moved to Austin, Tx., and got a job at the newspaper in circulation. The job sucked, but the boss was pretty cool, and he and his wife would hang out with my girlfriend and I.
They were a very nice couple, but not well-educated, to say the least. She was from rural central Florida, which is about the same as rural Mississippi or Alabama. I forget where he was from, but he was a bit on the redneck side, and he would always say "There you go..."
Somehow I picked up the habit of saying this, and I still use it all the time, which is a bit embarassing, but what the hell...
Silverback
02-24-2006, 08:10 PM
Well, that one's not so bad. Reminds me of :
Buckaroo Banzai (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000693/): Hey, hey, hey. Don't be mean. We don't have to be mean because, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
Which, of course, was not quite "there you go", but... :)
Paris
02-25-2006, 03:01 PM
A KNYGHT ther was, and that a worthy man,
That fro the tyme that he first bigan
To riden out, he loved chivalrie,
Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisie.
Ful worthy was he in his lordes werre,
And therto hadde he riden, no man ferre,
As wel in cristendom as in hethenesse,
And evere honoured for his worthynesse.
Medieval english spelling...^^
Just the evolution of the language. A thousand years from now today's language will be as hard to read as this excerpt from The Canterbury Tales.
krchab99
02-25-2006, 03:16 PM
um my spelling is just bad sorry if i ofend you i am not illlitrate though i just can't spell you kinda of insulted me but whatever.
Star_bare_elegance
02-25-2006, 06:29 PM
A KNYGHT ther was, and that a worthy man,
That fro the tyme that he first bigan
To riden out, he loved chivalrie,
Trouthe and honour, fredom and curteisie.
Ful worthy was he in his lordes werre,
And therto hadde he riden, no man ferre,
As wel in cristendom as in hethenesse,
And evere honoured for his worthynesse.
Medieval english spelling...^^
Just the evolution of the language. A thousand years from now today's language will be as hard to read as this excerpt from The Canterbury Tales.
Paris I agree with you!
Rhiannon
02-25-2006, 09:35 PM
no, i'm not talking about the signatures. a few people have in the past posted in a large, bright green font... hasn't happened for a while, and it's more common on other boards, but it hurts my eyes.
Ah.. I hear ya. It bothers me as well. When someone does it in here in the Lounge, I edit it and change it to black text. Pastel text colors do not work on a pastel pink background, or even a white one.
azcustomer
03-01-2006, 10:44 AM
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by itslef but the wrod as a wlohe.
Deogol
03-01-2006, 05:24 PM
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by itslef but the wrod as a wlohe.
Yea, if you want to read something at a third of the speed.
And the theory doesn't hold so well with words of eight letters or more.
Star_bare_elegance
03-02-2006, 02:35 AM
lol yall funny bunnies crack me up :-)