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Post by crissdee on Aug 19, 2024 15:18:00 GMT
A combination of them not being able to spell, AutoCorrect's inability to work out what they mean from context, and their inability/unwillingness to proofread their work before posting.
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Post by Bondee on Aug 20, 2024 7:25:17 GMT
Could just be the fact that a lot of people are fucking idiots.
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Post by crissdee on Aug 20, 2024 10:57:06 GMT
Always a possibility...
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Post by amanda on Aug 20, 2024 23:59:57 GMT
Twice on a FB post about offering 'Pull up' style nappies, etc - 'A friend has some inconvenience pass and unopened inconvenience pull ups - can anyone use them?'
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Post by suze on Aug 21, 2024 13:02:06 GMT
Is the person offering those products from India, perchaunce?
Indian English is keen on euphemisms to avoid mentioning what is best not mentioned in polite company, and there are citations from India for advertising using inconvenience so as not to say incontinence.
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Post by Bondee on Aug 21, 2024 18:52:33 GMT
When it's spoken, how many syllables are there in the word "batteries"?
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Post by crissdee on Aug 21, 2024 21:55:17 GMT
It may be my "estuary English" but there's two when I say it out loud, but there really ought to be three.
suze?...
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Post by amanda on Aug 21, 2024 22:47:17 GMT
Is the person offering those products from India, perchaunce?
Indian English is keen on euphemisms to avoid mentioning what is best not mentioned in polite company, and there are citations from India for advertising using inconvenience so as not to say incontinence.
I don't know, I just saw the ad. Though if that is the case for that part of the world, they should specify it or the rest of us wonder what they mean. |
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Post by suze on Aug 22, 2024 0:00:57 GMT
It's more likely that it was just poor English as you originally supposed.
But Indian English can feel a bit quaint to the ears of the rest of the world, and they seem to like it that way!
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Post by ali on Aug 22, 2024 0:46:40 GMT
When it's spoken, how many syllables are there in the word "batteries"? I think it depends on whether it is being spoken in a rhotic or non-rhotic dialect (rhotic dialects have a definite r-sound in words like 'car' and 'farm', (and non-rhotic don't)). Non-rhotic dialects will typically have two syllables while rhotic dialects will be much more trisyllabic. The 'r' sound can often seem to be a syllable in its own right for rhotic speakers. |
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Post by jenny on Aug 22, 2024 20:58:53 GMT
I hear three syllables in "batteries" - ba-ter-ries.
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Post by amanda on Aug 22, 2024 22:28:15 GMT
So do I but some UK accents and some here in Aus say it as bat-(t)rees.
Saw this on a FB post:
Lookin for new goods for new house:
Tele
Washer machen and dishwasher
cuvers 4 beds
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Post by Bondee on Aug 23, 2024 10:14:14 GMT
So do I but some UK accents and some here in Aus say it as bat-(t)rees. This is why I asked.
I hear a lot of people talking about the things that you'd find growing in The Bruce Wayne Arboretum rather than the things you use to power your remote control.
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Post by amanda on Aug 24, 2024 8:08:18 GMT
"Frensics"
Supposed to be forensics on a tv news item.
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Post by tetsabb on Aug 24, 2024 15:25:15 GMT
An item about the US Democrat Party.
Bernie Saunders 'threads the line'
Used twice....
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Post by jenny on Aug 24, 2024 20:19:56 GMT
One that I hear often over here is "the proof is in the pudding", which makes me shout at the TV "no it isn't! The proof of the pudding is in the eating!"
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Post by crissdee on Aug 26, 2024 18:54:47 GMT
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Post by Bondee on Aug 26, 2024 19:02:56 GMT
Some of the missing syllables from all those batteries got shoved in there.
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Post by crissdee on Aug 26, 2024 22:29:55 GMT
Someone on FB selling some "Marine Corpse" badges....
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Post by amanda on Aug 27, 2024 10:26:58 GMT
'Everyone is taken by this waterfall', referencing the main street of Waratah, Tasmania.
I get what was meant by that but better wording would have helped, or there'd be no visitors returning home.
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Post by suze on Aug 30, 2024 23:03:38 GMT
Strictly speaking I suppose this isn't actually English, but we were watching some track and field on the television.
I did actually learn something from it, viz Lima, Peru - the venue of the track and field contest - is really quite cold in August. The (rather few) spectators were wrapped up in coats and woolly hats, and quite a few of the athletes were wearing t-shirts under their athletic singlets. That is perhaps not one would expect from a city which lies at 12 °S and which gets practically no rainfall (< 1 inch per annum).
But the relevance to this thread concerns an athlete whose home town is Prague. Prague is in the Czech Republic, and we all know to pronounce the first word "check". The commentators on the event were using the form Czechia, which that country does actually prefer - but pronouncing it "chechia" (ie like Chechnya without the /n/) rather than "checkia". Why?
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Post by suze on Sept 2, 2024 23:11:58 GMT
This evening we watched an episode of The Avengers from 1967. It contained all the usual nonsense that one expects from that show - a bowler hat, some fast cars, some high society, and Diana Rigg getting all wet - and it also contained Steed amassing a fortune of 999,999 halfpenny coins. (Mrs Peel gave him one more from her purse to complete the million.)
Miss Rigg pronounced the word halfpennies as spelled, and not in the conventional way as "hape-knees". Was this ever standard, or was "hape-knees" considered common and not appropriate for use on television?
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Post by crissdee on Sept 3, 2024 0:20:12 GMT
Never heard it pronounced that way in my entire life.
In other news, a YT comment;
"Cracking nuckles causes arthritis, for like 25 years and dude only cracked his left knuckles and ended up winning a noble piece prize for his experiment to prove it doesn’t cause arthritis"
Badly spelled and semi-coherent....
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Post by tetsabb on Sept 3, 2024 10:33:05 GMT
This evening we watched an episode of The Avengers from 1967. It contained all the usual nonsense that one expects from that show - a bowler hat, some fast cars, some high society, and Diana Rigg getting all wet - and it also contained Steed amassing a fortune of 999,999 halfpenny coins. (Mrs Peel gave him one more from her purse to complete the million.)
Miss Rigg pronounced the word halfpennies as spelled, and not in the conventional way as "hape-knees". Was this ever standard, or was "hape-knees" considered common and not appropriate for use on television?
The only time I have heard it said thus was in relation to Leigh Halfpenny, former Welsh rugbyist |
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Post by crissdee on Sept 3, 2024 10:42:07 GMT
YouTube video. "exceeding over 65 mph"....
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Post by Bondee on Sept 3, 2024 16:45:34 GMT
The only time I have heard it said thus was in relation to Leigh Halfpenny, former Welsh rugbyist Don't forget the goddess that is actress, Jill Halfpenny. |
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Post by amanda on Sept 4, 2024 10:57:11 GMT
Australia had a politician by the name of John Halfpenny and I seem to recall that his name was said as seen - half penny.
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Post by suze on Sept 4, 2024 17:17:35 GMT
Everyone seems to be in agreement that the surname Halfpenny is pronounced as spelled.
The low value coin, not so much. My hypothesis is that ABC considered the usual pronunciation a bit common, and didn't want it broadcast. It was presumably for a similar reason that the BBC used to require "hick-off" rather than "hick-up" for hiccough.
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Post by amanda on Sept 5, 2024 10:30:02 GMT
Just had an ABC journalist here say 'debut' as day - bew.
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Post by crissdee on Sept 5, 2024 10:43:52 GMT
That's how I've always pronounced it.....
YT comment.....
"Sell it so a collector can preserve it as it is history the very history our grandfather fort against to keep the world free."
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