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    I have been OFFENDED and everyone needs to KNOW IT!

    Posts: 1,320 Member
    edited January 25 in Chit-Chat
    I've decided to slightly modify and subsequently liberate this important message from the confines of my news feed and present it to the larger MFP community for consideration.

    HEAR YE, HEAR YE.

    It REALLY pisses me off when words that should be pronounced a certain way because of how they are spelled are pronounced otherwise, usually because they are a proper name. This message was brought to you courtesy of the Weber grilling sauce commercial I just watched. From my couch. At work. Having said that, it's pronounced WEE-BUR not WEB-BER. If you want people to say WEB-BER then spell it with TWO Bs. Sorry that WEE-BUR doesn't sound as cool to the American ear and as such is not as marketable but that does not give you the right to OFFEND MY FINELY-TUNED SENSIBILITIES.

    What say you, friends? Are you equally offended? Of course you are. Don't hold back. UNLEASH YOUR RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION!

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    • Posts: 372
      Ummm, hearing the word "penalized" pronounced"pee-nal-ized" sounds kinda dirty to me. Does that count?
    • Posts: 3,198 Member
      "Loosing" weight offends me.
    • Posts: 1,320 Member
      Ummm, hearing the word "penalized" pronounced"pee-nal-ized" sounds kinda dirty to me. Does that count?

      Yes! Yes it does! Thank you for sharing this!
    • Posts: 504 Member
      I get more upset when people make up their own words I.E. conversate instead of converse.
    • Posts: 582 Member
      this is the exact reason i have changed my name to a symbol that is unpronouncable....
    • Posts: 1,344 Member
      and susequently
      subsequently*
    • Posts: 641 Member
      "Loosing" weight offends me.

      O.M.G. To the power of 9000 this!!!
    • Posts: 621 Member
      I have fought the pronunciation of the picture file format .gif for more than 20 years. I was vindicated earlier this week by the creator. It is indeed a soft G, not a hard one.

      bugs.gif

      'sokay, I fought the same battle with Star Wars being 9 films for longer... and was right all along. I'm not crazy, I swear. Much.
    • Posts: 107 Member
      I work in Bangor Maine. That's Bang-gore, not Banger. THERE IS NO FREAKIN' E IN THERE! Sales reps call it Banger (as in Bang-ger) all the time.
    • Posts: 1,320 Member
      show previous quotes
      subsequently*

      I'm sorry, what?
    • Posts: 11,118 Member
      Pretty much everything pisses me off, but this thread is the last straw. Where's the fist-waving smiley? :mad:
    • Posts: 1,320 Member
      I have fought the pronunciation of the picture file format .gif for more than 20 years. I was vindicated earlier this week by the creator. It is indeed a soft G, not a hard one.

      bugs.gif

      'sokay, I fought the same battle with Star Wars being 9 films for longer... and was right all along. I'm not crazy, I swear. Much.

      You are entirely correct and anyone who disagrees with you is wrong.
    • Posts: 216 Member
      I am a real stickler for proper grammar and pronunciation and it really does get to me when people don't do these things right - like my ex had a horrific time pronouncing things (the confusing name of the Asian supermarket, okay, I'll give him that - foreign language and all) but even simple words were like above him.

      If Grammar Nazis were not hated all across the internet, I'd likely be one, but I just keep my mouth shut and cringe when I see some of my friends don't know the difference between your/you're or their/there/they're....
    • Posts: 1,344 Member
      show previous quotes

      I'm sorry, what?
      I'm offended that you're not using a browser that would have placed a squiggly red line under that when you posted it.
    • Posts: 1,320 Member
      I am a real stickler for proper grammar and pronunciation and it really does get to me when people don't do these things right - like my ex had a horrific time pronouncing things (the confusing name of the Asian supermarket, okay, I'll give him that - foreign language and all) but even simple words were like above him.

      If Grammar Nazis were not hated all across the internet, I'd likely be one, but I just keep my mouth shut and cringe when I see some of my friends don't know the difference between your/you're or their/there/they're....

      The only solution is constant correction. What good is a friend if they can't perform simple contractions? NO GOOD IS THE ANSWER!
    • Posts: 3,763 Member
      Here baby, have some cheese to go with your whine.

      :drinker:
    • Posts: 600 Member
      You should sit in the same room as me and you will really be offended. I just ate beans and broccoli.
    • Posts: 3,763 Member
      "Loosing" weight offends me.

      Ugh, this totally gets under my skin too.
    • Posts: 582 Member
      I have fought the pronunciation of the picture file format .gif for more than 20 years. I was vindicated earlier this week by the creator. It is indeed a soft G, not a hard one.

      bugs.gif

      how does he intend to keep it from being confused with the peanut butter?
    • Posts: 3,195 Member
      I get more upset when people make up their own words I.E. conversate instead of converse.

      Hey m y kid does that.

      cons-strate instead of concentrate

      ..........................and I love her for it. :love:
    • Posts: 1,337 Member
      Irregardless, I'd like to conversate on this frigdiddlin' topic.

      It is ILL I NOY, not ILL I NOISE.

      ASKED not AXED

      Suh PO SEDly, not suh PO SA Blee

      "My friends and I" not "me and my friends"

      (FYI: guess what I do for a living???)
    • Posts: 1,320 Member
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      I'm offended that you're not using a browser that would have placed a squiggly red line under that when you posted it.

      My browser appreciates my genius and would never insult me so much as to correct something that is obviously a simple mistype. My browser loves me... and you.
    • Posts: 582 Member
      show previous quotes

      I'm sorry, what?

      perhaps a susequent post can help clear this up.......
    • Posts: 1,320 Member
      show previous quotes

      Hey m y kid does that.

      cons-strate instead of concentrate

      ..........................and I love her for it. :love:

      Children are hereby granted immunity to criticism as regards such matters on the grounds that they are too cute.
    • Posts: 825 Member
      Stop saying 'literally' when you mean 'virtually'.

      Stop saying 'ironic' when you mean 'sarcastic'.
    • Posts: 664 Member
      How about when MILITARY people, who should know, pronounce "cache"..."cachet" instead of "cash"? Or people say they "axed" someone a question, instead of "asked." I even prefer to pronounce plaes the way they're pronounced by their locals, but then sometimes people don't get it. Qatar pronounced "cutter" instead of "ka-tar", Quebec as "qua-beck" instead of "ka-beck." But then you run into trouble in places like Martinez, GA, where it's pronounced "MAR-tin-eze" instead of "Mar-TEEN-eze."
    • Posts: 689
      This is the English language, which is a conglomerate of hundreds of dialects and a great number of words from many other languages, so pronounciation could be anything...and they're mostly all correct. For instance, the word balcony was pronounced bal-Cony (emphasis on the second syllable) up until the late 1800's. The word Ask, was originally pronounced Axed throughout the middle ages (so is technically correct).

      So, you say to-may-to, I say to-mah-to, so what...We've got bigger issues to deal with these days !
    • Posts: 358 Member
      I have major issues when the wrong "there/their/they're" is used.
    • Posts: 21 Member
      When someone says "Pacific" instead of "specific".

      I scream inside when I hear that. Like I'm sorry, I didn't realize we were talking about the ocean...
    • Posts: 12 Member
      It's ES-presso, not EX-presso!!!!
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