The Ledge Usage Guide - Page 8

cliffdweller · #**106** 05-22-2006, 02:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Jyqm

It's "sammich."

Now that I say!

amber · #**107** 05-22-2006, 02:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Jyqm

You're both wrong.

It's "sammich."

has someone already mentioned "woof"? As in, "I heard a woof howling last night! I hope it didn't get in the chickens!"

hate.so.much.

I say sammich too, for fun. It makes the sandwich seem more light, carefree, and flirtatious.

cliffdweller · #**108** 05-22-2006, 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by amber

It makes the sandwich seem more light, carefree, and flirtatious.

...and tasty, don't forget tasty...

JazmenFlowers · #**109** 05-22-2006, 02:08 PM

living in the South there are a ton of "sayings" that just get under my skin. y'all (I say this a lot), over yonder, holler. a couple of the worst:

ask becomes aks.

about to become fixing to.

when I catch myself saying fixing to, I want to scream and I immediately recognize that I said it and move on.

cliffdweller · #**110** 05-22-2006, 02:15 PM

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when I catch myself saying fixing to, I want to scream and I immediately recognize that I said it and move on.

Yeah, it grates. So does aks. I mean, what is that? If someone says they are going to aks me, it sounds like "axe" me and well, that terrifies me. Please don't "axe" me anything!

David · #**111** 05-22-2006, 02:17 PM

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Originally Posted by cliffdweller

Okay David, your thread isn't that boring after all

The thread's cool, but my posts are boring!

chiliD · #**112** 05-22-2006, 02:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Jyqm

You're both wrong.

It's "sammich."

I'll use EITHER "sammich" or (one I got from my dad) "sangVich".

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Originally Posted by David

The thread's cool, but my posts are boring!

"Insanity" is never "boring", David.

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Originally Posted by cliffdweller

Yeah, it grates. So does aks. I mean, what is that? If someone says they are going to aks me, it sounds like "axe" me and well, that terrifies me. Please don't "axe" me anything!

Don't be racist. Some people speak in "Ebonics", that's just a fact.

Johnny Stew · #**113** 05-22-2006, 02:22 PM

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Originally Posted by amber

has someone already mentioned "woof"?

My brother pointed out to me a while back that I do this. I can't get that "L" in there. For some unknown reason, I can't fit it in there between the "woh" and "eff" sounds without really concentrating. It's embarrassing.

David · #**114** 05-22-2006, 02:26 PM

"kudos" = often misused as a plural

But it's a singular that means "praise." Don't mistake the "s" at the end for an English inflected plural (like "bees").

Use it as a singular, or better yet don't use it at all. Best to avoid it altogether.

cliffdweller · #**115** 05-22-2006, 02:27 PM

JohnnyStew, your post reminds me... my husband, being the true West Texan that he is, tends to mid-vowel his words sometimes like for instance, when he says "pale" it comes out sounding like "pell" and for "email" it sounds like "emell." It's kinda cute to me, but he hates it when I draw attention to it.

skcin · #**116** 05-22-2006, 02:30 PM

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Oh, and another friend of mine says "earf" instead of "earth" and thinks that's correct too! I corrected him the other day because it made my ears bleed a little to hear it, and frankly, I'm sick of hearing him say "earf" all the time---it's f*cking annoying

. Well, he got mad at me for correcting him! It was as if he had never seen or heard the word "earth" before. I swear, it was weird

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"Go Cliffy, it's your birfday, go Cliffy, it's earfday..."

I hate that too.

cliffdweller · #**117** 05-22-2006, 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by skcin

"Go Cliffy, it's your birfday, go Cliffy, it's earfday..."

I hate that too.

"earfday"

amber · #**118** 05-22-2006, 10:45 PM

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Originally Posted by cliffdweller

...and tasty, don't forget tasty...

Yes, because there's an "mmmm" in the middle! Good call!

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Originally Posted by Paula

"Go Cliffy, it's your birfday, go Cliffy, it's earfday..."

Hey Stew - When you sing to OSOTM, does it sound like this? "When you cry wooof! Waance to often, when you cry woof!, noI, won't come knocking, when you cry woof! I won't heah you, anymore."

Well (she said), if it doesn't, I'm now going to sing it that way. Except I'm going to say "woof!" like a dog would.

Yes, it's endlessly amusing inside here. My mind.

carrie721 · #**119** 05-22-2006, 10:52 PM

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Originally Posted by chiliD

Don't be racist. Some people speak in "Ebonics", that's just a fact.

OOH don't get me started. i wrote a paper about ebonics last semester.

amber · #**120** 05-22-2006, 11:04 PM

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Originally Posted by carrie721

OOH don't get me started. i wrote a paper about ebonics last semester.

uh...are you for or against it? I just call it bad grammar, but at the same time I also recognize it's cultural significance,(sp) etc. etc. all the pc stuff. I learned that stuff, I just still think of it as bad grammar. Except the made up words that have no real relation to English words (I can't think of any at the moment, but I'm sure there are some). I just think of those as made up words, which is cool.