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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #300 on: February 23, 2015, 03:03:50 PM »
incorrectly saying "supposably" instead of "supposedly"

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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #301 on: February 23, 2015, 04:10:24 PM »
"should of" instead of "should have" (thankfully does not happen much on goEMAW)
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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #302 on: February 23, 2015, 04:11:03 PM »
"should of" instead of "should have" (thankfully does not happen much on goEMAW)

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« Reply #303 on: February 23, 2015, 04:17:00 PM »
"should of" instead of "should have" (thankfully does not happen much on goEMAW)

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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #304 on: February 23, 2015, 05:00:17 PM »

"should of" instead of "should have" (thankfully does not happen much on goEMAW)

do you even know your name?
plus, the misuse of 'of' instead of 'have' is pretty rampant on gE. I was trying to point each error out, but I tired of it after a couple of days.


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« Reply #305 on: February 23, 2015, 05:26:48 PM »

"should of" instead of "should have" (thankfully does not happen much on goEMAW)

do you even know your name?
plus, the misuse of 'of' instead of 'have' is pretty rampant on gE. I was trying to point each error out, but I tired of it after a couple of days.


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People who misuse "of" in place of "have" should be publicly shamed.  It's so rough ridin' stupid I don't even know how it became a thing.  Not sure why I remember this but on one of those standardized tests from grade school one of the multiple choice options for completing part of a sentence was WOULD OF or WOULD HAVE and I remember thinking "What kind of a dumbass thinks it's WOULD OF??"  I knew the difference in 4th rough ridin' grade and anyone in 4th grade or beyond should know the difference too.

Puni's example of supposably is also puzzling, like where in the hell did the B come from?

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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #306 on: February 23, 2015, 05:58:19 PM »

"should of" instead of "should have" (thankfully does not happen much on goEMAW)

do you even know your name?
plus, the misuse of 'of' instead of 'have' is pretty rampant on gE. I was trying to point each error out, but I tired of it after a couple of days.


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People who misuse "of" in place of "have" should be publicly shamed.  It's so rough ridin' stupid I don't even know how it became a thing.  Not sure why I remember this but on one of those standardized tests from grade school one of the multiple choice options for completing part of a sentence was WOULD OF or WOULD HAVE and I remember thinking "What kind of a dumbass thinks it's WOULD OF??"  I knew the difference in 4th rough ridin' grade and anyone in 4th grade or beyond should know the difference too.

Puni's example of supposably is also puzzling, like where in the hell did the B come from?

It's pretty easy to explain, actually.  Many people write how they speak. The scurrilous "of" comes from the way "have" sounds when part of a contraction (would've, could've), and often times supposedly is pronounced supposebly because it is difficult to pronounce a 'd' sound followed by a 'l' sound, since they are practically identical in terms of how your mouth produces the sounds.  This results in a glottal stop, which slows down speech.  Since speaking patterns tend to follow the path of least resistance, many people subconsciously swap the 'd' for 'b'--a phonetically similar consonant but one that is much easier to transition to 'l' from. 

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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #307 on: February 23, 2015, 06:59:13 PM »

"should of" instead of "should have" (thankfully does not happen much on goEMAW)

do you even know your name?
plus, the misuse of 'of' instead of 'have' is pretty rampant on gE. I was trying to point each error out, but I tired of it after a couple of days.


Gonna win 'em all!


People who misuse "of" in place of "have" should be publicly shamed.  It's so rough ridin' stupid I don't even know how it became a thing.  Not sure why I remember this but on one of those standardized tests from grade school one of the multiple choice options for completing part of a sentence was WOULD OF or WOULD HAVE and I remember thinking "What kind of a dumbass thinks it's WOULD OF??"  I knew the difference in 4th rough ridin' grade and anyone in 4th grade or beyond should know the difference too.

Puni's example of supposably is also puzzling, like where in the hell did the B come from?

It's pretty easy to explain, actually.  Many people write how they speak. The scurrilous "of" comes from the way "have" sounds when part of a contraction (would've, could've), and often times supposedly is pronounced supposebly because it is difficult to pronounce a 'd' sound followed by a 'l' sound, since they are practically identical in terms of how your mouth produces the sounds.  This results in a glottal stop, which slows down speech.  Since speaking patterns tend to follow the path of least resistance, many people subconsciously swap the 'd' for 'b'--a phonetically similar consonant but one that is much easier to transition to 'l' from.

Yeah I understand the thing about pronunciation but just because it sounds like you're saying WOULD OF doesn't mean you should type it out that way. For crap's sake have some standards.

Also I'm not sure I get your explantion for supposably but since you're this board's resident cunning linguist you're probably right.

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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #308 on: February 23, 2015, 09:12:54 PM »
:wha:!!!


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« Reply #309 on: February 23, 2015, 09:33:37 PM »
You bunch of PC "racists" are back handly making fun "of" the Black race.  :facepalm:
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« Reply #310 on: February 24, 2015, 08:25:42 AM »
I know this lady from Oklahoma who always says stuff like "Was you there last night?" I just took it as a local speech pattern sort of thing until I started getting emails from her and she typed the same way. She actually typed out a sentence, "Was you going to get the money?" and thought it was correct.

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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #311 on: February 24, 2015, 08:47:50 AM »
Was wrong with that?
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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #312 on: February 24, 2015, 08:50:57 AM »
Was wrong with that?
Funny.  I were going to type the same thing.

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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #313 on: March 11, 2015, 10:13:48 AM »
people making me watch internet videos on their computers while they watch me watch them.

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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #314 on: March 11, 2015, 10:25:39 AM »
people making me watch internet videos on their computers while they watch me watch them.

Yes!  That they're usually not your style of humor adds insult to injury.  I manage to stay polite, though.

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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #315 on: March 11, 2015, 10:52:03 AM »
people making me watch internet videos on their computers while they watch me watch them.

Yes!  That they're usually not your style of humor adds insult to injury.  I manage to stay polite, though.

the only fun part for me is telling them how old the video is afterward, or telling them its fake/hoax/cgi

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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #316 on: March 11, 2015, 11:01:40 AM »
I think some of the of/have comes from the fact that people use contractions in speech like should've which sounds very similar to should of.

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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #317 on: March 11, 2015, 11:22:52 AM »
I think some of the of/have comes from the fact that people use contractions in speech like should've which sounds very similar to should of.

Compelling theory...

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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #318 on: March 11, 2015, 11:27:40 AM »
Hey Spracs give me the reason behind eXpecially.  :sdeek:

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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #319 on: March 11, 2015, 11:28:23 AM »
Hey Spracs give me the reason behind eXpecially.  :sdeek:

speech impediment

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« Reply #320 on: March 11, 2015, 11:29:22 AM »
Hey Spracs give me the reason behind eXpecially.  :sdeek:

speech impediment

oh. so I shouldn't make fun of almost everyone I work with for saying it? whoops.

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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #321 on: March 11, 2015, 11:32:00 AM »
Expresso/espresso

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« Reply #322 on: March 11, 2015, 11:35:33 AM »
Expresso/espresso

#TheWesIsTheFuture

yeah this is a bad one.

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« Reply #323 on: March 11, 2015, 11:38:24 AM »
Expresso/espresso

#TheWesIsTheFuture

yeah this is a bad one.

I had to go to Starbuck's on FPD because I couldn't bring myself to brave Aggieville. Anyways, the moral of the story is that the barista at Starbuck's said "expresso".

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Re: Pet Peeves
« Reply #324 on: March 11, 2015, 12:00:34 PM »
can someone explain "ect." instead of "etc."
I want to wake up in a city that never sleeps, etc.