Quote :

"3. Impact (when they mean effect) Do you mean affect?"

Skwinkle

Actually, I should've listed both effect and affect. People use impact instead of affect as a verb (to impact this or that) and impact instead of effect as a noun (the impact of this or that).

[Edited on April 15, 2008 at 11:19 AM. Reason : .]

4/15/2008 11:10:32 AM

course not

4/15/2008 11:10:47 AM

^so then how do you distinguish the noun and verb forms of "envelope"

^^that does bother the hell out of me, though it's technically not incorrect.

[Edited on April 15, 2008 at 11:11 AM. Reason : .]

4/15/2008 11:11:20 AM

I mean, they are spelled differently too.

Envelope would be the noun
and envelop is the verb.

[Edited on April 15, 2008 at 11:14 AM. Reason : +]

4/15/2008 11:12:09 AM

i understand that, but if you're going to misprounce the noun as the verb, why not just flip both of them? And you do realize it's wrong too, right?

4/15/2008 11:13:01 AM

Why did you (Dammit100) spell the verb with an e on the end?

And saying impact on is not wrong, though using it as a verb is.

4/15/2008 11:14:47 AM

I think dammit is talking about something different than I am. I would never say en VEL ope for the noun. Sorry, didn't realize ANYONE did that.

4/15/2008 11:15:51 AM

^^touche. I wasn't thinking clearly.

-1 pt for me



[Edited on April 15, 2008 at 11:16 AM. Reason : consider this one a loss]

4/15/2008 11:15:54 AM

^x6 The verb usage of the word at issue has been branded "bureaucratic," "pretentious," and "vile" by a number of panels. As for the noun usage, I agree with you--but I reserve impact for physical contact of objects.

[Edited on April 15, 2008 at 11:18 AM. Reason : .]

4/15/2008 11:17:57 AM

Quote :

"liberry"

oh yeah ...

and "Barnes and Nobles"

IT IS NOT PLURAL!

4/15/2008 11:18:27 AM

You don't have to defend the misuse of it as a verb. I completely agree. But one of the publications I work on uses it alllllllllll the time, and they make me leave it

4/15/2008 11:19:40 AM

AM-bah-lance

4/15/2008 11:20:41 AM

^^ Um. . .I wasn't defending the misuse of it as a verb--I hate it. And the noun usage as I listed it.

In any event, academics and government types love it. They think it's a forceful verb--but it's really just incorrect usage.


[Edited on April 15, 2008 at 11:23 AM. Reason : .]

4/15/2008 11:21:29 AM

I know it's a David Cross bit, but I agree w/it. People who misuse the word "literally"

4/15/2008 11:23:44 AM

Defending why it's a misuse, not defending it being misused.

[Edited on April 15, 2008 at 11:24 AM. Reason : damn there's a lot of confusion going on]

4/15/2008 11:24:03 AM

I don't want to get into it, but there's a certain mountain range nearby that I grew up pronouncing very differently from (probably) most of you. I always wonder which pronunciation they teach out west.

4/15/2008 11:25:14 AM

apple-latch-in That's correct, right?

4/15/2008 11:26:05 AM

When people pronounce "fiscal" as "physical"

"We gotta have physically sound policies" etc.

I went to a local commissioners meeting, and every one of them did this.

4/15/2008 11:32:39 AM

^^There are two pronunciations. App-a-latch-in is the one that seems most prevalent in the South.

The other is App-a-lay-she-un.



[Edited on April 15, 2008 at 11:37 AM. Reason : +]

4/15/2008 11:34:49 AM

when someone calls me "buddy", or says it often

4/15/2008 11:35:31 AM

"to where" instead of "to the point" or something like that

"it did suchandsuch so much to where it was blahblahblah"

4/15/2008 11:46:59 AM

^^ I'm not your buddy, guy

[Edited on April 15, 2008 at 11:49 AM. Reason : r]

4/15/2008 11:49:08 AM

NUKE

YEW

LER

4/15/2008 11:49:37 AM

acrost

I think this was covered in some other thread too

4/15/2008 11:50:23 AM

oh!! another one!!

"heighth"

wtf

4/15/2008 11:51:07 AM

"I love you"

4/15/2008 11:54:16 AM

^ I'm trying not to encourage you--but that made me laugh.

4/15/2008 12:03:32 PM

Quote :

"Pick'emup truck"

how do you feel about "push'em ups" I like that one

4/15/2008 12:12:24 PM

"I have a high tolerance for pain."

No you don't. No you fucking don't. Fuckin prove it you douche.

4/15/2008 12:16:49 PM

"for all intensive purposes"

4/15/2008 12:16:54 PM

Quote :

"GIT 'R DONE"

4/15/2008 12:17:08 PM

You all would just go nuts if you headed down to Louisiana

My family would trip you out with that cajun/creole pronunciations haha!

4/15/2008 12:17:55 PM

^ don't they say "urnge" for "orange" there?

4/15/2008 12:21:16 PM

yes girl! and GO-rage for garage

4/15/2008 12:22:43 PM

grinbaggons

4/15/2008 12:24:15 PM

I drink your milkshake.

4/15/2008 12:25:49 PM

"hells yes" or any variation of plural hell

I will bitch slap you if you say this.

4/15/2008 12:26:34 PM

"warsh" instead of wash

git-r-done

broad

idear

natch

stoked

and I'm from the fucking south

4/15/2008 12:26:53 PM

Quote :

"The other is App-a-lay-she-un."

arg... that one drives me nuts

4/15/2008 12:28:32 PM

Quote :

""warsh" instead of wash git-r-done broad idear natch stoked and I'm from the fucking south"

you'd hate New England!

4/15/2008 12:30:26 PM

i used to have this big black professor that used to say

cak-a-latah

(instead of calculator)

4/15/2008 12:30:27 PM

5. Persona non gratis

4/15/2008 12:31:38 PM

mile per hour instead of miles per hour

4/15/2008 12:32:24 PM

I'm a fan of skreet

4/15/2008 12:34:40 PM

Quote :

"you'd hate New England! "

damn! 'cause i've always wanted to visit maine

4/15/2008 12:39:49 PM

don't listen to her

we do not say warsh

4/15/2008 12:46:47 PM

Naaiize does not equal Nice

Some of you will probably be like wtf, but I swear a girl I know said nice just like I spelled it.

4/15/2008 12:47:10 PM

lemme AXE you a question!

4/15/2008 12:47:44 PM

^haha, i was gonna put that

4/15/2008 12:49:28 PM

"I gotta have my anything"

4/15/2008 12:51:16 PM