BS: Absolutely!

Subject: RE: BS: Absolutely!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 21 Mar 12 - 03:02 PM

Nobody would dare do that!

Subject: RE: BS: Absolutely!
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 21 Mar 12 - 03:27 PM

Indeed! Meaning I concur with all of the above.

Ya'll have a nice day, ya hear!

Subject: RE: BS: Absolutely!
From: Bert
Date: 21 Mar 12 - 03:50 PM

Guys,

the word man has always been allowed to be inclusive. It is women who have their own special word.

Subject: RE: BS: Absolutely!
From: JennieG
Date: 21 Mar 12 - 04:43 PM

For some years now, sporting matches here have been described as "clashes".....as in, "Norths and Wests will clash on Saturday". When is wrong with saying "North and West will play on Saturday"? It's become very prevalent. Do other countries have clashes on their fields of sport, or is this peculiar to Oz? Peculiar it is......

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Absolutely!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 21 Mar 12 - 04:47 PM

Hockey brawls are sometimes referred to by Canadian sports commentators as "a brouhaha" or "a donnybrook". This makes it sound a little higher class and intelligent than just calling it a brawl or a fight.

Subject: RE: BS: Absolutely!
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 21 Mar 12 - 05:05 PM

What really gets me mad is people callin' apes "monkeys" all the time! Apes are not monkeys!!! I am gonna prosecute 'em all for specist hate crimes after I get elected.

- Chongo

Subject: RE: BS: Absolutely!
From: JennieG
Date: 21 Mar 12 - 06:30 PM

Fair enough too, Chongo! I heartily concur.

"Donnybrook" sounds quite Irish (which of course it is - although there are many places named Donnybrook in the rest of the world, including three in Oz) and "brouhaha" sounds quite English and posh, although it's apparently of French origin! "Brawl" sounds very lower-class, as does "fight", so you are probably right, you know.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Absolutely!
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 21 Mar 12 - 07:18 PM

I fume when Media journalists (who are presumed to be writers) refer to "a phenomena" or "one criteria", both plurals.

It appears that their education in their mother tongue bypassed the singular "phenomenon" and "criterion".

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: Absolutely!
From: ChanteyLass
Date: 21 Mar 12 - 08:05 PM

Three pronunciations I dislike, especially when they pop out of my very own mouth (and before anyone gets mad, I know some of these are regional pronunciations and are fine elsewhere, but not where I have always lived):

Jewlery (or jewlry) for jewelry
Nuculer for nuclear
Relator for realtor

And I also get mad at myself when I use an all-too-frequent local way of pronouncing words by putting an r-sound where it doesn't belong or leaving it out where it does. Examples are the names Pauler instead of Paula and Heatha instead of Heather.

Subject: RE: BS: Absolutely!
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 21 Mar 12 - 09:18 PM

What about that well-known lady policeman, Laura Norder?

Subject: RE: BS: Absolutely!
From: GUEST,Donal
Date: 21 Mar 12 - 09:32 PM

Plan ahead, it's much better than planning retrospectively.

Subject: RE: BS: Absolutely!
From: frogprince
Date: 21 Mar 12 - 09:43 PM

Chantey Lass, f'goodness sake find a better excuse for getting mad at yourself than pronouncing things the way people around you pronounce them. : )

My father-in-law is from Massachusetts, although he has lived here in Michigan for many years now. One of the first times I was at his home, he kept mentioning that he needed to go to Lenid. For the life of me I couldn't think of a Lenid, Michigan. Leonard, however, is just a few miles from his place. But then I guess he needs to save up rs for when he refers to things like Marr Bell, the telephone company.

Subject: RE: BS: Absolutely!
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 22 Mar 12 - 04:44 PM

Laura Norder lives in Letsby Avenue.

Subject: RE: BS: Absolutely!
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 22 Mar 12 - 05:34 PM

It is what it is.

I'm just sayin'.