For watt? Witch part was incorrigible? Halloween is coming so watch out of the Evil Which down the lane...
When spelchekers go rogue... (and grammar chekers, tu)
The real sad statement is that no one proofreads these days...
incrediBILL
12:29 am on Oct 19, 2014 (gmt 0)
The other day mom said someone was "pesticating" her. I don't even know where the hell she made that word up.
tangor
12:43 am on Oct 19, 2014 (gmt 0)
My mom is in her late 80s... I suspect there was a sense of humor back then that was actually based on real education. Mom called rats in the house "pesticules" that needed to be "bombbazzled". Heard that in the 1950s and never forgot it. :)
The Orkin Man was called.
But there's no getting around the fact that poor spelling and word use, as well as a lack of proofreaders, remains more pestiferous today than ever.
incrediBILL
1:28 am on Oct 19, 2014 (gmt 0)
forget typos, people that say "warsh" instead of "wash" drives me up the wall
add that to my highly educated buddy that uses programming "langrages", we're talking a mensa guy and he just can't stop saying it
lawman
6:38 am on Oct 19, 2014 (gmt 0)
When my mother was still with us, she used to call any large flying insect a heeleegobber. I made up the spelling for a made-up word.
Leosghost
7:10 pm on Nov 15, 2014 (gmt 0)
Whelp!I find it bizzard that these three were mist..
lucy24
7:54 pm on Nov 15, 2014 (gmt 0)
Recently someone in another forum used the word "factlet". Don't know if they made it up on the fly or if it is already used in their linguistic circle. All I know is that if they had been within human range I would have kissed them, because I am SOOO tired of people (mis)using the term "factoid" to refer to something that is actually true. And then you have to go look up their fact pellet to figure out if it is or is not true, and then figure out whether the speaker does or does not believe it to be true.
"Warsh" is irritating to my ears too. But if we ventured into ugly-sounding dialects (looking at you, South Africa) we'd be here all day.
RhinoFish
9:03 pm on Nov 15, 2014 (gmt 0)
Hold on a minuet, your awl being to harsh on grammer!
RedBar
8:22 pm on Nov 18, 2014 (gmt 0)
Should of instead of should have, my youngest daughter's forever getting that wrong.
Planet13
8:14 pm on Dec 2, 2014 (gmt 0)
Don't remember where I saw it, but they were talking about a boxer who was so good at anticipating his opponent's punches that they believed he had "woman's institution." The story went on to mention that because of his ego, he was often labeled a "pre Madonna."
This was an English site with (what I assume to be) native English speakers.
lucy24
9:17 pm on Dec 2, 2014 (gmt 0)
he was often labeled a "pre Madonna."
Now that would actually be funny ... if only we could be certain the writer had done it on purpose :(
Planet13
9:34 pm on Dec 2, 2014 (gmt 0)
Mom called rats in the house "pesticules" that needed to be "bombbazzled".
Reminds me of a client I had a few years back who, whenever there was a problem, would say, "There seems to be some confusionment about this."
I think she was serious since she seemed to be lacking the "sense of humor gene" that most people are born with.
