When did "Medireview" = Medieval???

[Eosin the Red]

Hey, I get to chime in my language pet peeves -

New Pronunciations


Was ----------------- Has become
An-gina -------------- An-jana
Resp-ra-tory------ Re-spi-ratory
Gengis ---------------- Jengis


Makes my skin crawl


[Edit - spelling, my real pet peeve is finding my errors after I post]

 

[Deadguy]

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!

 

[The It's Man]

(...)Misuse of it's. Crawling skin. (...)

Yeah, I agree completly; well unless there is some pitchforkin' involved

 

[WizarDru]

Okay Eric....

I can't help but notice you ducked the REAL question.


Prescriptive or Descriptive? Where do YOU stand?

 

[Wolfspider]

Descriptive all the way, baby!

Oh, this was directed toward Eric.

Heck, I don't care! I'll say it again!

Descriptive all the way, baby!

 

[Hand of Vecna]

Gah, here's another one from today's Trivia Mailbits!

Most of the time, such an incantatory word is created simply for its sound, such as the fairy tale word, "rumplesnitz." But abracadabra has a more interesting background. It's a magical charm from cabbala, the practice of medireview Jewish mysticism that has recently caught Madonna's fancy, bless her little bustier-enclosed heart. The word, possibly the initials of some ancient Hebrew words, was inscribed on parchment and worn around the neck to cure flux and ague.

I'm leaning more and more towards the "rogue word editing thingie"....

 

[Ruin Explorer]

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

Anjana is just crazy talk. People really wouldn't understand you if you used it...

My personal peeve at the moment, something I'm seeing a great deal of, even in some allegedly "professional" sites is release(d) being used for realize/realise(d).

It's as bad as loose instead of lose, an error which has always driven me up the wall.

My biggest spelling peeve, though, would be no specific word, but rather, when someone spells something obviously incorrectly, and you reply, spelling it correctly, but not saying "You suck, lern to spel!", and they ignore you showing them the correct spelling, instead continuing with the wrong one, even if it's completely insane (like release for realise)... Gah...
Grammar on the internet is a trickier matter, as most people write according to how they talk, rather than according to literary standards.

Whether this is correct or incorrect is open to debate in the case of "chat" or BBSes, but is clearly incorrect in the case of news reports, articles, and rants written offline...

 

[Fidget]

Maybe we should just spell it "Midievil" from now on?

One peeve I haven't seen mentioned is when people say replicate and they mean duplicate.

 

[RogueJK]

Internet Spelling/Grammar Pet Peeves, part 2

Some recent posts have brought these to mind:

3) Hear/Here
Too often, these are used incorrectly, as in "The knight is coming over hear" or "I made my listen check, so can I here the goblin?"

Hear = to perceive sound. "Can you hear the radio?"
Here = at or in this place or time. "The pizza is here."


4) Role/Roll (For this, I'm not talking about the special instances of "Rollplaying vs. Roleplaying.")
"I have to role a 15 or higher to hit the orc" is not correct.

Role = a character or part. "I just got the role of Jane Doe on Days of our Lives!"
Roll = to move forward on a surface by revolving around an axis. "Roll a d20."

 

[Tiberius]

Re: Okay Eric....

Prescriptive or Descriptive? Where do YOU stand?

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