February 19, 201511 yr Interesting. While in Miami I ate at several nice Italian restaurants. At one, when the waiter asked me what I wanted on my salad, I piped up, I-talian! He merely smiled and said, "Nice choice." As soon as he left a woman sitting at the next table over leans over and says, "Pardon the intrusion, and I hope you don't take offense, but the proper pronuciation of the word Italian is It-alian. Pronouncing it I-talian stamps you as an outsider and is an insult to this fine restaurant." I apologized and admitted to being an outsider and thanked her (reluctantly) for pointing that out to me. Having pronounced the word I-talian for the best part of fifty years, you would think that someone might have pointed that out to me before now. Makes sense - Italy is pronounced It-aly and not I-taly. You learn something new everyday. Meh. I probably would have stuck my finger up my nose and thanked her for being nosy as well as rude.
February 19, 201511 yr I always proofread my ridiculously long posts before posting them, and ordinarily find a fair amount of items that need correcting before I post. Even still, quite often I'll find an error after posting, and rush to the "edit" feature to fix it up ASAP. Nothing embarrasses be more than to lead others into thinking that I'm not aware of proper usage. With that said, one error got past me a few days ago where I used "know" instead of "no", and by the time I had realized it, it was too late to edit it. I don't even recall now what thread it was in, and know one called me out on it, but I still felt pretty stupid for letting it get through without correcting it. I just had to get over it, and assume that anyone reading it had to no that I new better, and that it was just a simple oversight. When typing incessantly the fingers rattle off the words that the mind is spitting out, and something as simple as "no" can become "know" even if it took two additional keystrokes to type it. I no better than to use "know" when trying to use "no", but I don't always no if the reader is aware that I really new the proper usage, and that know matter how careful I try to be, I just no that sometimes I'll accidentally post the wrong usage before I no what I've done. I sure hope that know one gets the wrong impression and thinks that I don't no the correct ways that "no" and "know" should be used. Ironically your posts are read twice, once when you compose and once when you proof...I have trouble getting through them even once without getting lost. :eyeonyou:
February 19, 201511 yr Have you spent any time in Miami????? Ballsy is the norm! A couple of times. That still seems ballsy to me.
February 19, 201511 yr SAW/ SEEN. I can "see" how someone might use seen for saw in speaking but to actually type it and then see it in print, that is beyond me.
February 19, 201511 yr You'd be mistaken. Irregardless - Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary In your opinion. There are other dictionaries that don't list it as a word, or list it as 'nonstandard'. It's a double negative that has the same meaning as its antonym. Huh? I will stick with my criticism as I find it's generally used by people with double digit IQs and not by people I would consider reasonably intelligent.
February 19, 201511 yr This thread is defiantly a good idea.:thumb: You have my upmost sympathy in your efforts. Definitely a good idea also.
February 19, 201511 yr What I find interesting are words that have two acceptable spellings. Traveled, for instance , has two acceptable spellings.
February 19, 201511 yr What I find interesting are words that have two acceptable spellings. Traveled, for instance , has two acceptable spellings. So does cancelled/canceled.
February 19, 201511 yr Gotta get up pretty early in the day to scoop ol' papa. But he used the word "pedantic" which counts for bonus points.
February 19, 201511 yr In your opinion. There are other dictionaries that don't list it as a word, or list it as 'nonstandard'. It's a double negative that has the same meaning as its antonym. Huh? I will stick with my criticism as I find it's generally used by people with double digit IQs and not by people I would consider reasonably intelligent. Just sayin' Merriam-Webster defines it, then it's got to be a "word". It doesn't rake me like some other more simple gaffes that I seen on here. (
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