Wyloch All American 4244 Posts user info edit post |
Incorrect: You might could buy one. Correct: You could buy one.
Incorrect: I should of listened. Correct: I should have listened.
Incorrect: That fence needs fixed. Correct: That fence needs to be fixed.
Incorrect: We're going out. Do you want to come with? Correct: We're going out. Do you want to come with us?
Incorrect: I'll sell it for cheap. Correct: I'll sell it cheap.
Incorrect: In which chair is he setting? Correct: In which chair is he sitting?
Incorrect: All of the sudden, the car broke down. Correct: The car suddenly broke down.
Incorrect: I will axe him a question. Correct: I will ask him a question.
Incorrect: Let's make our excape. Correct: Let's make our escape.
Incorrect: Flag that sentence with an asterix. Correct: Flag that sentence with an asterisk.
Incorrect: Let me explain the reason why this happened. Correct: Let me explain the reason this happened.
Continue. 9/10/2008 4:18:25 PM |
djeternal Bee Hugger 62661 Posts user info edit post |
this has never been done before
ever 9/10/2008 4:19:37 PM |
NyM410 J-E-T-S 50085 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "You might could buy one." |
Anyone who says that deserves a punch to the balls/ovaries.9/10/2008 4:20:30 PM |
sober46an3 All American 47925 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "That fence needs fixed" |
who the hell says that?9/10/2008 4:20:39 PM |
lopezlisa All American 540 Posts user info edit post |
amen.
Incorrect: He did good yesterday. Correct: He did WELL yesterday.
Pet peeve... 9/10/2008 4:21:11 PM |
TreeTwista10 minisoldr 148421 Posts user info edit post |
Incorrect: This is the dumbest thread I've posted in Correct: This is the dumbest thread in which I've posted 9/10/2008 4:21:52 PM |
NeuseRvrRat hello Mr. NSA! 35376 Posts user info edit post |
man i tell you what i'll talk however i damn well feel like talking you goddamn yankees come down here and think you kin tell me how to fuckin speak my own damn language dammit why don't y'all just take ya sorry asses back up north cross that damn mason dixon line you goddamn queers 9/10/2008 4:22:49 PM |
Wyloch All American 4244 Posts user info edit post |
^ I have 95% confidence you're just dicking around. 9/10/2008 4:24:28 PM |
vonjordan3 AIR 43669 Posts user info edit post |
who cares 9/10/2008 4:24:58 PM |
dbmcknight All American 4030 Posts user info edit post |
Incorrect: I attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Correct: I am a homosexual. 9/10/2008 4:26:01 PM |
Sousapickle All American 3027 Posts user info edit post |
heighth
and barnes and nobles
but really, 9/10/2008 4:26:06 PM |
NeuseRvrRat hello Mr. NSA! 35376 Posts user info edit post |
^^^^look here you fuckin yankee don't you bring your fancy ass statistics and confidence intervals and shit down here in my homeland and try to tell me i'm just dickin around seerrus as a heart attack is what i am
[Edited on September 10, 2008 at 4:26 PM. Reason : goddamn fast-posting yankees is what ya are] 9/10/2008 4:26:13 PM |
djeternal Bee Hugger 62661 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "That fence needs fixed" |
Quote : | "who the hell says that?" |
I think it is more of a northern thing, or at least PA Dutch. My family up in PA say shit like that all the time. They also say shit like "Outen that light" instead of "Turn out that light"9/10/2008 4:26:37 PM |
Wyloch All American 4244 Posts user info edit post |
hahahahahahahaha 9/10/2008 4:26:45 PM |
StillFuchsia All American 18941 Posts user info edit post |
speaking is only tangentially related to the written language
and within a dialect, there are all kinds of ways of speaking that are "correct" 9/10/2008 4:26:49 PM |
dbmcknight All American 4030 Posts user info edit post |
seerrus 9/10/2008 4:27:08 PM |
Wyloch All American 4244 Posts user info edit post |
Incorrect: Please put that up. Correct: Please put that away. 9/10/2008 4:27:18 PM |
NyM410 J-E-T-S 50085 Posts user info edit post |
Is your family a bunch of Quakers? Or Mennonites?
[Edited on September 10, 2008 at 4:27 PM. Reason : ^ up a few more] 9/10/2008 4:27:19 PM |
vonjordan3 AIR 43669 Posts user info edit post |
more like that fence needs fixen 9/10/2008 4:27:40 PM |
NeuseRvrRat hello Mr. NSA! 35376 Posts user info edit post |
hey, mash dat button right der fer me
[Edited on September 10, 2008 at 4:30 PM. Reason : and i say "mash" instead of "press" or "push" all the time...my wayco comin out...dbmcknight knows] 9/10/2008 4:28:50 PM |
ambrosia1231 eeeeeeeeeevil 76471 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "I think it is more of a northern thing, or at least PA Dutch. My family up in PA say shit like that all the time. They also say shit like "Outen that light" instead of "Turn out that light"" |
That sounds WAY more like a Penn Dutch thing, than a northern thing, seeing as how that's very much a german syntax and feel.
"Turn out that light" would be "Machen das Licht aus"9/10/2008 4:29:15 PM |
Walls1441 All American 10000 Posts user info edit post |
correct: im fixin to go to the store
I'm walls1441 and i approved this message. 9/10/2008 4:30:54 PM |
vinylbandit All American 48079 Posts user info edit post |
I, too, hate vernacular speech. 9/10/2008 4:31:02 PM |
RawWulf All American 9126 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "Incorrect: I attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Correct: I am a homosexual." |
Winner9/10/2008 4:31:19 PM |
vonjordan3 AIR 43669 Posts user info edit post |
I'm walls1441 and i have approved of this message. 9/10/2008 4:31:53 PM |
Wyloch All American 4244 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | ""Incorrect: I attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Correct: I am a homosexual."" |
I lolled9/10/2008 4:32:25 PM |
Aficionado Suspended 22518 Posts user info edit post |
^ 9/10/2008 4:32:33 PM |
djeternal Bee Hugger 62661 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "Is your family a bunch of Quakers? Or Mennonites?" |
close, they are German but live in the heart of PA Dutch Country. They all have crazy accents, to the point that if you haven't been around them for a while it almost doesn't sound English. And, they are about 20 minutes from Lancaster, so it is pretty common to see Horse and Buggies rolling through town.9/10/2008 4:32:54 PM |
dbmcknight All American 4030 Posts user info edit post |
[Edited on September 10, 2008 at 4:36 PM. Reason : .]
[Edited on September 10, 2008 at 4:36 PM. Reason : .]
9/10/2008 4:33:13 PM |
jethromoore All American 2529 Posts user info edit post |
For all intensive purposes. 9/10/2008 4:33:14 PM |
NeuseRvrRat hello Mr. NSA! 35376 Posts user info edit post |
i'm fixin to fuck you goddamn queer-talkin yankees up is what i'm fixin to do
goddang queers 9/10/2008 4:33:32 PM |
djeternal Bee Hugger 62661 Posts user info edit post |
wrong: vetanarian correct: veterinarian 9/10/2008 4:34:17 PM |
ambrosia1231 eeeeeeeeeevil 76471 Posts user info edit post |
wrong: expresso correct: espresso
expresso is only correct if there's an s prepended 9/10/2008 4:35:36 PM |
spaceurface All American 985 Posts user info edit post |
Incorrect: I could care less. Correct: I couldn't care less. 9/10/2008 4:37:22 PM |
Wyloch All American 4244 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "For all intensive purposes." |
I find myself guilty of that one sometimes. I also make the mistake of:
Incorrect: Go and talk to bolth of them. Correct: Go and talk to both of them.9/10/2008 4:37:41 PM |
dbmcknight All American 4030 Posts user info edit post |
My heart is very full right now.
so lazy.9/10/2008 4:37:49 PM |
djeternal Bee Hugger 62661 Posts user info edit post |
wrong: no correct: of course i want to have sex with you 9/10/2008 4:38:39 PM |
NeuseRvrRat hello Mr. NSA! 35376 Posts user info edit post |
you try to cram all that in the tiny little reason for editing box 9/10/2008 4:39:23 PM |
jethromoore All American 2529 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "wrong: no correct: of course i want to have sex with you [no homo]" |
FTFY9/10/2008 4:40:55 PM |
Smath74 All American 93278 Posts user info edit post |
some things i say don't line up to the strictest grammar rules, but i say them anyways. 9/10/2008 4:46:45 PM |
IRSeriousCat All American 6092 Posts user info edit post |
its a mute point and a doggy dog world. 9/10/2008 4:50:28 PM |
dbmcknight All American 4030 Posts user info edit post |
^^iswydt ^lol
[Edited on September 10, 2008 at 4:51 PM. Reason : doggy dog] 9/10/2008 4:51:10 PM |
sd2nc All American 9963 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "Incorrect: I should of listened. Correct: I should have listened." |
I should've listened sounds the same though9/10/2008 4:55:24 PM |
vinylbandit All American 48079 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "Incorrect: Go and talk to bolth of them. Correct: Go and talk to both of them." |
That's not an error. It's a fucking accent.9/10/2008 5:06:32 PM |
Kitty B All American 19088 Posts user info edit post |
Quote : | "Incorrect: I could care less. Correct: I couldn't care less." |
that one drives me up a fucking wall9/10/2008 5:10:57 PM |
vinylbandit All American 48079 Posts user info edit post |
^ 9/10/2008 5:12:14 PM |
dbmcknight All American 4030 Posts user info edit post |
^^ 9/10/2008 5:14:48 PM |
Kodiak All American 7067 Posts user info edit post |
9/10/2008 5:56:00 PM |
pilgrimshoes Suspended 63151 Posts user info edit post |
thanks 'diak
now the hook of that common / lily allen song will be cycling through my head for the rest of the day 9/10/2008 5:57:40 PM |
JT3bucky All American 23257 Posts user info edit post |
YOU MONGREL! i was too late
i thought this thread was about
[Edited on September 10, 2008 at 5:58 PM. Reason : g] 9/10/2008 5:57:51 PM |