You chose . . . poorly.Originally Posted by Bigdog13
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You chose . . . poorly.
I wonder how I will sleep tonight.
Not sure if this is the case for Vietnamese, but with regard to Mandarin Chinese, in the 50s the People's Republic of China adopted an official romanized alphabet for Chinese, called Pinyin, to facilitate advancing Mandarin as the official dialect, as well as to help foreigners learn Chinese. In the modern curriculum, Chinese children are taught to speak Chinese using Pinyin. They learn to read and write characters separately.
There are official (and, thankfully, consistent) pronunciations for each letter, with international phonetic alphabet renderings for each. Therefore, although it looks like English, it is actually Chinese rendered in a standardized romanized phonetic system.
In short, the Vietnamese spellings could make sense in some third-party system.
The one I hate is when it is said that a player got "untracked" when they mean "on track" indicating that he started doing very well. Untracked means he was going off the bad end! Drives me nuts. The News Star (unfortunately I have to read it b/c I'm in Monroe) is the worst about this, surprise.
You have hit the nail on the head!!!! I have heard/read that hundreds of times and it drives me freakin nuts. Good Call dawg419!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Holy crap. I've NEVER heard that. Absolutely ridiculous.
Question: Do we chide Ludacris for ensuring that an entire generation of children will grossly misspell a wonderfully illustrative word, or give him props for introducing an entire generation of children to a wonderfully illustrative word? Discuss.
we chide ludacris for being a perfect jackass, and for ensuring that an entire generation of children will associate a wonderfully illustrative word with a perfect jackass.
Props for introducing an entire generation of children to a wonderfully illustrative word and making sure they remember its meaning by giving them a walking definition.
I could not care less.
There, I said it.
If I could care less. I would.
But since I can't. I could NOT care less.
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Flagship of the University of Louisiana System
Yeah well I hope LSU looses every game next year.
People who pronounce "across" like it has a "t" on the end..."acrost". I work with two people that say it that way. One is from Michigan and the other from Utah, so I do not guess it is a geographical thing.
I believe this one keeps you awake at night.
I've thought it was funny when my fellow country folk would add and r to an a.
Chicago - Chicargo
Jena - Jener
I also like it when an i sound is pronounced with an a sound.
fire - far
wire - war
My jr. high football coach would always remind us when "warshing day" came around.
So I think we are all getting a bit too concerned with pronunciation. My wife teaches middle school and she has had students with names spelled Tayrey and when she pronounces it like it is spelled the parent complains that it is pronounced Terra. It might as well be pronounced Bob. So my wife has to memorize combinations of letters and map them to a sound.The liberals have even taken our phonics away from us, and I was hooked on them. This is only one example of the idocracy we are about to experience in our society where 1+1=2 is simply someone's opinion. If you haven't seen the movie Idiocracy you should, it shows how things are going to be.
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