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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 11:29 AM Original message |
My line in the sand: nuke-u-lar |
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FSogol (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 11:43 AM Response to Original message |
1. They should be laughed at. n/t |
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 11:54 AM Response to Reply #1 |
8. Except usually they are on TV or radio |
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lapfog_1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 11:46 AM Response to Original message |
2. I have a good command of the English language and |
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 12:02 PM Response to Reply #2 |
14. Is it because you learned it from someone that way? |
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lapfog_1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 01:00 PM Response to Reply #14 |
29. no idea. |
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Tommy_Carcetti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 11:47 AM Response to Original message |
3. Irregardless of that, for all intensive purposes its the same word. |
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geardaddy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 11:56 AM Response to Reply #3 |
11. LMAO |
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 11:59 AM Response to Reply #3 |
12. You know what? None of those bother me near as much |
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Tommy_Carcetti (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 12:02 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. Despite its non-word status, I actually like how "irregardless" sounds. |
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Quixote1818 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-15-11 10:15 PM Response to Reply #3 |
49. John Kennedy use to butcher all kinds of words. For example "Cuber" instead of "Cuba" |
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LiberalAndProud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 11:47 AM Response to Original message |
4. I think GWB issued an order to change the correct pronunciation, maybe. |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 11:48 AM Response to Original message |
5. you meant to type "The only thing" and not "They only thing" right? |
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 11:52 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. That's ok, but typos are a completely different animal n/t |
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TroglodyteScholar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 11:49 AM Response to Original message |
6. The nukyular crowd is a joke. |
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hamsterjill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 11:55 AM Response to Original message |
9. I can't convince you that you are too harsh. I agree with you!! |
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pintobean (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 11:55 AM Response to Original message |
10. Your line in the glass won't matter. |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 01:17 PM Response to Reply #10 |
34. Good one |
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thereismore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 11:59 AM Response to Original message |
13. It's new-killer. nt |
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 12:03 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. Hmmm. That's a good one. |
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eShirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 12:05 PM Response to Original message |
17. Isn't that how Jimmy Carter pronounced it? |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 12:08 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. Yes. And he was a nuke-u-lar engineer. |
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madamesilverspurs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 01:39 PM Response to Reply #17 |
39. Carter's pronunciation |
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Sal Minella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
19. I agree with you 100%. When I hear "NEW-Kew-Ler," I just |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 12:10 PM Response to Original message |
20. Southerners have said it that way for decades. |
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 12:31 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. It's an accent? That's rich. |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 12:38 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. You mean like Jimmy Carter? |
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eShirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 01:14 PM Response to Reply #20 |
32. I think the word is "dialect" |
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immoderate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 12:25 PM Response to Original message |
21. Most dictionaries list it as an acceptable pronunciation. |
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elfin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 12:32 PM Response to Original message |
23. Kelly O Donnell on MSNBC just said it |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 12:37 PM Response to Original message |
24. Ah, so now we're damning people for regional accents, |
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 12:54 PM Response to Reply #24 |
28. I refuse to believe this is an "accent" |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 01:08 PM Response to Reply #28 |
31. Belive it or not, the fact remains that it is an accent thing |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 01:16 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. And I spent three years reminding Bostonians that there is a letter "R" |
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redwitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 01:20 PM Response to Reply #33 |
36. Bostonians know that. They just like to put it where it isn't. |
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Sal Minella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 01:53 PM Response to Reply #36 |
42. Indeed. I had a friend from Boston who said she couldn't drawer a |
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 01:18 PM Response to Reply #31 |
35. Why, then, is it that most times I hear "nuke-ular" |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 01:24 PM Response to Reply #35 |
37. A lot of people can lose most of their accent over time or with training |
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Sal Minella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 01:51 PM Response to Reply #24 |
41. Beg to differ. |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 12:52 PM Response to Original message |
26. My real-luh-ter says new-kyu-ler. (n/t) |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 02:03 PM Response to Reply #26 |
45. Does he have a neighbor who has a joo-ler-ie store? nt |
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fatbuckel (518 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 12:53 PM Response to Original message |
27. Like when someone says" cyber"-anything. |
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Myrina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 01:00 PM Response to Original message |
30. All of the CNN talking heads do it ... |
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woofless (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 01:28 PM Response to Original message |
38. I am the same. |
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Iggo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 01:49 PM Response to Original message |
40. I want to get mad when people say that, and sometimes I do... |
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Blue_Tires (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 01:54 PM Response to Original message |
43. So it's new-CLEAR? final answer? |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 02:01 PM Response to Original message |
44. It's been going on for awhile. As far back as Eisenhower. Just as |
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Hosnon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-14-11 02:14 PM Response to Original message |
46. Release your death grip on the English language. It's futile. |
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Sal Minella (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-15-11 10:09 PM Response to Reply #46 |
47. Please. Bite your tongue. Please . . . |
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Quixote1818 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-15-11 10:12 PM Response to Original message |
48. I noticed most of my friends say "Mortercycle" instead of "Motorcycle". :) nt |
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Quixote1818 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-15-11 10:20 PM Response to Original message |
50. Who was it the other day after the Walker prank call who kept calling it a crank call? |
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