When did "Medireview" = Medieval???

[kenjib]

Re: Re: Okay Eric....

Prescriptive! IMO, there should be one set pronounciation for the words of the language to which all speakers should be held accountable, rather than having dictionaries full of the most recent mangling of spoken English.

-Tiberius

Which of the following would you pick, and what would you propose to do to the rest of them:

British English (choose one of countless different pronunciation schemes)
Irish English
Scottish English
American English
American Southern English
American Western/Middle North English
American New England English
American New Jersey English
American New York English
American Creole English
Canadian English
Jamaican English
African American English
Spanglish
Singapore English
Australian English
New Zealand English

All of them use different pronunciations for many different words. I'm sure that others can easily expand this list as well. Perhaps someone could expound on the various pronunciation schemes of the UK.

 

[Hand of Vecna]

Why don't we all just speak Esperanto?

*is beaten severely by many posters*

 

[Michael Tree]

Eosin - Neither Gengis or Jengis is correct, of course, and I often hear Chingis instead, which is apparently "better"...

Chingis is closer to the Chinese pronunciation of Genghis. Which pronunciation is closest to the truth is anyone's guess.


My biggest pet peeve is the word penultimate, which does not mean "best of the best." Penultimate means second to last, or in some contexts, second best. Whenever I read or hear someone say something is the penultimate, I immediately think to myself, "Why would I want the penultimate, when I could have the ultimate instead? Why settle for second best?"

 

[SubMensa]

In case anyone is still interested in the medireview issue here are some links that explain the issue. Apparently we can all blame Yahoo for causing the fiasco.

http://www.lawblog.com/2002/07/what-does-medireview-mean-apparently.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2546
http://www.ntk.net/2002/07/12/yahoo.txt

 

[Agback]

I am writing with simple sentences now. When I do this I sound like a cave man, not Hemingway.

Well spotted!

 

[Agback]

In case anyone is still interested in the medireview issue here are some links that explain the issue.

Time to bend over and kiss it goodbye. These words are here to stay.

 

[davidschwartznz]

All of them use different pronunciations for many different words. I'm sure that others can easily expand this list as well. Perhaps someone could expound on the various pronunciation schemes of the UK.

There's a difference between dialectal differences in vowel sounds and mangling the order of sounds in a word. Stop "nuculer" proliferation!

 

[Elder-Basilisk]

Like, duh.

I think that the internet would be a much better place if people didn't use so many invectives, like "whatever," "duh," and "Bzzzt - wrong!"

 

[Wayside]

Prescriptive! IMO, there should be one set pronounciation for the words of the language to which all speakers should be held accountable, rather than having dictionaries full of the most recent mangling of spoken English.

This will never happen--it's not how the human brain works.

 

[Pbartender]

In case anyone is still interested in the medireview issue here are some links that explain the issue. Apparently we can all blame Yahoo for causing the fiasco.

http://www.lawblog.com/2002/07/what-does-medireview-mean-apparently.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2546
http://www.ntk.net/2002/07/12/yahoo.txt

Wikipedia concurs.