When did "Medireview" = Medieval???

[Hairfoot]

Looks to me like more spellcheck hilarity.

I'm on a primitve PC right now, so I can't check, but I bet if you give Word for Windows the proper spelling of mediaeval (that is, -aeval) it thinks you mean medi-review.

Or it could just be garden variety language evolution, in the same way people say "would of" instead of "would have", or "obligated" because they can't get the hang of "obliged".

 

[Hairfoot]

I can't pass up the opportunity to ring in with a couple of my own, from the corporate world

Terrifying.

I've already resigned myself to the inevitable triumph of the grocer's apostrophe. Soon, it will be three rocks, but two boulder's. A dozen carrots and some banana's...

Nucular bombs. "Leverage" as a verb. "Designer" as an adjective. I brought it cheap and bought it home. Disinterested/uninterested, imply/infer. Aks a question, eks-cape from prison...

Bwaaah!

 

[Dr. Harry]

Not unlike the Merriam-Webster online dictionary listing a "correct" pronunciation of the word "nuclear" as nucular!!!

Ow. I'm mean, really, Ow. This is why I keep aspirin in my desk.

If a lot of people mispronouncing (refering to a later post) a word makes it proper, could I get people to start pronouncing nu- cle-ar as "frog" to have that listed as legitimate? I suppose there's no such thing as mispronounciation, then ...

 

[Dr. Harry]

Okay, I can't resist adding another spelling confusion that I see cropping up often in discussions on this very board:

TENANTS, as in the Cleric's tenants of belief!

For the record, TENETS, folks. They're things that the Cleric (or Paladin or Druid or...) hold to, not things which pay to live in his house!

Yes! and they have to do with how the cleric (or whatever) worships his/her DEITY (not DIETY)

Thank you. I feel much better now.

 

[Odhanan]

Oooh, yeah. All those course catalogs have GOT to be right!

ROFLMAO!

LOL. Yeah right.

The term, "medieval", is translated as "middle age" is it not? As in, "the age between the dark ages/ end of the Empire and the Renaissance." Not derogatory in any context that I was aware of, so is there another reason for some people switching to this totally non-intuitive term?

Yep. "Medireview" ?! WTF is THAT?

 

[Dr. Harry]

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.

Some of these I would disqualify as being amalgams of different langauges. It might be addressed on its own, but I am willing (for example) to say that Spanglish is incoorect considered as English (and as considered as Spanish).

Okay, I'm actually going to pick one. Leaving out differences in word usage and sentence construction, which can reasonably vary (depending on where you live, eh?) I pick "American (Midwestern) English" because it pronounces all the letters (Wot? 'ow's that then? Not picking 'er Majesty's own English? -- Nope) with the fewest number of extraneous letters to labour under and colour our speech.

Noting other pronounciations as extant, but not actually correct is acceptable, except for "Southern English" I lived in the American Southeast for a long time, and I think that the accent and word usage just makes the speak sound all kinds of wrong - and the darn thing seems to be spreading! I blame country music. (...but then, I blame country music for a lot of things ... )


Of course, this is all in good fun, and done good naturedly - except for using homophones (e.g. kitten caboodle) out of ignorance. That one gets right up nose..

Harry

 

[Hairfoot]

Aha!

Go to...

http://www.plastic.com/article.html;sid=02/07/16/19370156;mode=nested

... to read the wonderfully-titled "Yahoo! Mail Gets Medireview on Your Ass"

 

[Insight]

Bad use of quotation marks ("Food" served here!) -- Crawling
Skin.

I don't get crawling skin, but I consider "(word)" to mean "It's like (word), but not quite." So for example, when a product is advertised as being "Fat Free", I take that to mean "Mostly Fat Free" or "We can get away with calling it Fat Free if we put it in quotes."

When I see it used unintentionally, it makes me wonder whether the people who write ad copy really understand what a word or phrase in quotes is supposed to mean. Very strange.

 

[Insight]

I can't pass up the opportunity to ring in with a couple of my own, from the corporate world:

Using the tilde (~) to mean "approximately"
Using apostrophes to pluralize word's
Using "vice" to mean "versus" (I'm losing this battle)
Saying "notably," "importantly," or "surprisingly" when starting a sentence, when the subject of the sentence is not notable, important, or surprising
Spelling "voila" semi-phonetically: "wa la" (in more than one business proposal; yes, I'm serious)
Confusing word forms, as in "set up" (a verb) and "setup" (a noun)
Mixing up "assure," "insure," and "ensure"
Employing any of the various (wrong) forms of "user ID"
Using "drastic" to mean "dramatic"
Faulty parallelism in a bulleted list

And, to keep this at least tangentially on topic for the board:

Mixing up "horde" and "hoard"

Don't forget the classic regardless and irregardless <nails on chalkboard>

 

[freebfrost]

When correcting someone's grammar, please observe the following rules:

6) Don't begin the sentence with "whatever"; though I'm sure this is incorrect grammar, I'm not sure what the rule is.

Whatever do you mean by this?