[PersonOfInterest]

You uns needs to git your Anglish straight. We's in the South Wherin ackcents means thingz. Us uns does jist fine understandin your high faluten Anglish. Multiples is whats we learnt in skool wit numbas.

[Cobullymom]

Originally Posted by turneronce

Use of language on this forum and elsewhere is getting pretty bad. The latest, heard everywhere, including on major networks, is the misuse of the word multiple”. 8 is a multiple of 2, 9 a multiple of 3. What happened to what they really mean, like “several”, “a few”, “many”, etc.? Am I picky? Yes, words have meaning.

I reread this multiple times, and I am trying to figure out why anyone should care? The trivial comments that we are subjected to several times a week, are enough to make me want to delete this forum many times....Not just a few on here agree..

[mntlblok]

Originally Posted by BrianL99

Language is dynamic and always changing. which is why the Chicago Manual of Style has been updated, 17 times.

These days, you hardly ever hear anyone say, "we had a gay old time last night".

Which raises three questions.

1) What does "gay" mean?

2) Does the period come before or after the quotation marks?

3) Is "dynamic" and "always changing" in the same sentence. redundant?

Once asked Richard Lederer if "anal retentive" has a hyphen. He replied that he wasn't sure, but that it *did* have a colon. . .

[MandoMan]

Originally Posted by shut the front door

My biggest et peeves:
Rampant misuse of the word "myself". My team and myself performed well.
Ahead of. Just use the word before.
Behind that, just use the word after.

And worst of all, even newscasters are using that horrible dropping letters out of words. Saying diunt instead of didn't.

Your final peeve is related to the “glottal stop,” a sort of gulp in the middle of a word in place of double T, as in ba’ul instead of battle and bo’ul instead of bottle. For some reason, it is becoming more common in the U.S., especially in Florida (I read recently). In the UK, it is a feature of many local accents, especially lower class ones. I find glottal stops offensive, but they are beyond my control. I’ve heard that the Lipton Company gathers these dropped Ts, rebottles them, and resells them as new or gently used Ts. Another organization gathers Ts for Tots around Christmas. In Nashville, a group of singers comments on T for Texas. In Boston, as well as in the non-rhotic parts of the UK, people save the Rs they drop in jars. (Or perhaps in Jaws—it’s hard to tell from the way they speak.) They can be recycled.

Glottal stops are an important part of Arabic, Hebrew, and other Semitic languages. Learning to use them properly is not easy. But in English, glottal stops are like smoking: a filthy habit that is hard to break.

[Fastskiguy]

It’s now pronounced “ki’’en” no need to bother with the T’s anymore. You know, when talking about a baby cat.

[CoachKandSportsguy]

Originally Posted by tophcfa

“Golf” “multiple” times per week and ya won’t have time to worry about proper grammar.

[jimdecastro]

Wow I was bored reading this thread. Multiple times.

[dhdallas]

Originally Posted by turneronce

Use of language on this forum and elsewhere is getting pretty bad. The latest, heard everywhere, including on major networks, is the misuse of the word multiple”. 8 is a multiple of 2, 9 a multiple of 3. What happened to what they really mean, like “several”, “a few”, “many”, etc.? Am I picky? Yes, words have meaning.

"Multiple" can mean several, many, etc.
Multiple

• adjective
  
• Having, relating to, or consisting of more than one individual, element, part, or other component; manifold.
• Containing more than once, or more than one; consisting of more than one; manifold; repeated many times; having several, or many, parts.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

[CoachKandSportsguy]

thread is very first world problems on display

[donfey]

Originally Posted by turneronce

Use of language on this forum and elsewhere is getting pretty bad. The latest, heard everywhere, including on major networks, is the misuse of the word multiple”. 8 is a multiple of 2, 9 a multiple of 3. What happened to what they really mean, like “several”, “a few”, “many”, etc.? Am I picky? Yes, words have meaning.

"Reporters" and newscasters are the product of government education. The End.

[PurePeach]

Originally Posted by shut the front door

My biggest et peeves:
Rampant misuse of the word "myself". My team and myself performed well.
Ahead of. Just use the word before.
Behind that, just use the word after.

And worst of all, even newscasters are using that horrible dropping letters out of words. Saying diunt instead of didn't.

YES! And don’t forget the misuse of “bring” instead of take: are you going to bring your purse when we leave?

[PurePeach]

Originally Posted by donfey

"Reporters" and newscasters are the product of government education. The End.

As is the general public.

[DavidK]

Originally Posted by shut the front door

My biggest et peeves:
Rampant misuse of the word "myself". My team and myself performed well.
Ahead of. Just use the word before.
Behind that, just use the word after.

And worst of all, even newscasters are using that horrible dropping letters out of words. Saying diunt instead of didn't.

I agree so many use "myself" incorrectly.
I also hear people use "below" as an adjective rather than an adverb like in "The below listing..."

"What I mean", and "I'm like", have replaced "you know" and "to be honest".

[chicksinger]

Originally Posted by turneronce

Use of language on this forum and elsewhere is getting pretty bad. The latest, heard everywhere, including on major networks, is the misuse of the word multiple”. 8 is a multiple of 2, 9 a multiple of 3. What happened to what they really mean, like “several”, “a few”, “many”, etc.? Am I picky? Yes, words have meaning.

I understand perfectly...there are so many misused words and pronunciations...the two that drive me the craziest are "irregardless" Ahhhhhh...there's no such word people! The other is the word "like"....if you watch any shows with young people on it that are not scripted, it's used every other word..."like when I...like I feel...like if...he's like...she's like...I'm like..." you get the picture...how do they not know how to speak???? They don't even realize how much they do it...where the hell did that come from?
It's worse to me than the "um"!

[Boomer]

Well, alrighty then......

Like, um, ya know, I think this thread is sorta, kinda fun. (Btw, I know I bastardize the hellouta punctuation around here -- works for me. )

Now, I must join this catharsis with a little segue into speech patterns that make me crazy......

There have been a lot of annoying speech affectations since ValleySpeak was all over the place in the 80s. A few years ago, there was one that caught my attention way too often -- until I figured it had to make other people crazy, too, so I did a search and found out it even had a name -- "Vocal Fry."

If you have 4 spare minutes, I invite you to open the link below to see what I mean about annoying speech patterns. "The Three Little Pigs" is told to us with labeling on the screen of the 15 different speech affectations that are just plain annoying. I hear these all the time from people getting paid to talk on television and in other media.....

(I am a big fan of "Freakonomics" podcasts -- of which there are several versions -- the latest of which is titled "Off Leash" and the interviews are all about dogs. But, the other day, I had to bail out of one (I think it was "Freakonomics M.D.) because one of the people interviewed kept talking in that stupid-sounding, sing-song routine. I think this video calls that one "Laundry List.")

I wish people who think this kind of speaking is cute -- or whateverthehell their thing is -- would realize it can distract completely from the content of what they are trying to tell us.....or is it just me???

Anyway, here is the link. Listen if you dare because you might not be able to unhear it.

Boomer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwfopSOcb-w