Words that piss me off.

[Freeky]

"Coupon", specifically when people pronounce it "kew - pon", not "coop- on", like and decent person out too.

Everyone knows what a coupon is.  Even when it's some insipd, valueless shit, like a payment coupon for your loans, which only serves to remind your dumb ass to send the monthly bill in. 

If you go around asking for a "Kew - pon", I'm going to make it a point to direct you to the aisle with the "Tampax" and "Depends"

That is really a dialect issue.....  being from the south the COU of my COUPON does lean more towards CUE as opposed to COO.  To me the COO pronunciation just sounds odd..... 

I say it like that too. Keyoopawn. It comes from being in the midwest, I think.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

"Coupon", specifically when people pronounce it "kew - pon", not "coop- on", like and decent person out too.

Everyone knows what a coupon is.  Even when it's some insipd, valueless shit, like a payment coupon for your loans, which only serves to remind your dumb ass to send the monthly bill in. 

If you go around asking for a "Kew - pon", I'm going to make it a point to direct you to the aisle with the "Tampax" and "Depends"

That is really a dialect issue.....  being from the south the COU of my COUPON does lean more towards CUE as opposed to COO.  To me the COO pronunciation just sounds odd..... 

I say it like that too. Keyoopawn. It comes from being in the midwest, I think.

NO.  In Chicago, people pronounce it properly.  COO-PON.

[Brotep]

Truth.


How about good ol' "begs the question"?  I had a comparative lit prof who got that shit wrong.  Ivy League education at work.

[Freeky]

"Coupon", specifically when people pronounce it "kew - pon", not "coop- on", like and decent person out too.

Everyone knows what a coupon is.  Even when it's some insipd, valueless shit, like a payment coupon for your loans, which only serves to remind your dumb ass to send the monthly bill in. 

If you go around asking for a "Kew - pon", I'm going to make it a point to direct you to the aisle with the "Tampax" and "Depends"

That is really a dialect issue.....  being from the south the COU of my COUPON does lean more towards CUE as opposed to COO.  To me the COO pronunciation just sounds odd..... 

I say it like that too. Keyoopawn. It comes from being in the midwest, I think.

NO.  In Chicago, people pronounce it properly.  COO-PON.

Well, I dunno then. I've always said it that way.

[Cainad (dec.)]

Truth.


How about good ol' "begs the question"?  I had a comparative lit prof who got that shit wrong.  Ivy League education at work.

"To beg the question" should just have its official meaning changed to the way people actually use it. It's more useful and makes more intuitive sense.

[Jenne]

Ah.  Dialectic differences.

They exist.

Makes linguists smack their lips and rub their hands together with glee, it does.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

Ah.  Dialectic differences.

They exist.

No.  They don't.

[ñͤͣ̄ͦ̌̑͗͊͛͂͗ ̸̨̨̣̺̼̣̜͙͈͕̮̊̈́̈͂͛̽͊ͭ̓͆ͅé ̰̓̓́ͯ́́͞]

"Coupon", specifically when people pronounce it "kew - pon", not "coop- on", like and decent person out too.

Everyone knows what a coupon is.  Even when it's some insipd, valueless shit, like a payment coupon for your loans, which only serves to remind your dumb ass to send the monthly bill in.  

If you go around asking for a "Kew - pon", I'm going to make it a point to direct you to the aisle with the "Tampax" and "Depends"

Do these people also call bags, "baigs"?

For example, "Imma lat a far under yer ass iffn yew don't put the kyew-pawn in the baig and git. Rawt nah-yew."

Some of my family from Indiana talks like that and looks like this:


   /
"We watchin' NASS-CAH-WER"

[Richter]

"Coupon", specifically when people pronounce it "kew - pon", not "coop- on", like and decent person out too.

Everyone knows what a coupon is.  Even when it's some insipd, valueless shit, like a payment coupon for your loans, which only serves to remind your dumb ass to send the monthly bill in. 

If you go around asking for a "Kew - pon", I'm going to make it a point to direct you to the aisle with the "Tampax" and "Depends"

That is really a dialect issue.....  being from the south the COU of my COUPON does lean more towards CUE as opposed to COO.  To me the COO pronunciation just sounds odd..... 

I say it like that too. Keyoopawn. It comes from being in the midwest, I think.

Yes, yes it does. 

And xenophobic yankees, holed into what they are convinced is the East coast's last bastion of intelligent though, cannot be convinced this pronunciaion has no deeper connotations. 

When they were switching TV over to digital, the proprietor of the "New Yankee Workshop", one of Boston Public TV's old beloved fixtures of simple woodworking how - to, did a PSA advising people about the "Kew - Pon" they could get for the digital signal converter box.  He was instantly marked as an outsider, cast down by the intelligencia of Cambridge, and his show slated to end it's run months later.

Who can blame them for their panic?  November before last, the rest of the country turned a different color.  They knew there was nothing between them and the West coast except the RIGHT. 
Never mind they had hunkered in with one of the more racist attitudes of the north.  Dirty old town.   

[P3nT4gR4m]

"Coupon", specifically when people pronounce it "kew - pon", not "coop- on", like and decent person out too.

Everyone knows what a coupon is.  Even when it's some insipd, valueless shit, like a payment coupon for your loans, which only serves to remind your dumb ass to send the monthly bill in. 

If you go around asking for a "Kew - pon", I'm going to make it a point to direct you to the aisle with the "Tampax" and "Depends"

That is really a dialect issue.....  being from the south the COU of my COUPON does lean more towards CUE as opposed to COO.  To me the COO pronunciation just sounds odd..... 

I say it like that too. Keyoopawn. It comes from being in the midwest, I think.

Yes, yes it does. 

And xenophobic yankees, holed into what they are convinced is the East coast's last bastion of intelligent though, cannot be convinced this pronunciaion has no deeper connotations. 

When they were switching TV over to digital, the proprietor of the "New Yankee Workshop", one of Boston Public TV's old beloved fixtures of simple woodworking how - to, did a PSA advising people about the "Kew - Pon" they could get for the digital signal converter box.  He was instantly marked as an outsider, cast down by the intelligencia of Cambridge, and his show slated to end it's run months later.

Who can blame them for their panic?  November before last, the rest of the country turned a different color.  They knew there was nothing between them and the West coast except the RIGHT. 
Never mind they had hunkered in with one of the more racist attitudes of the north.  Dirty old town.   

You talking about Norm, right? Norm is a fucking GOD! I saw him build a DRAAAAW this one time - it looked just like a drawer but Norm knew better

[Richter]

That was Norm all right.  He couldn't assimilate thouhg P3nt.  He couldn't adapt.  the Northeast folks LOVE diversity, they LOVE people form other parts of the country, and if it wasn't for southerners, their parties would be dry as toast.  Toast quietly soaking itself into a coma with expensive red wine.  They won't accept it from one of their fixtures though.

If Norm had built a Draawah, for a guy from Hahvahd Yahd, he'd have blended in.  Like Bob Villa or the Frudal Gourmet, they'd have kept him around forever. 

But they're shuttling him off.  sure as they disappeared Mr. Hooper.

[Jenne]

Ah.  Dialectic differences.

They exist.

No.  They don't.

[themenniss]

how about 'fair enough'?
just pisses me off for some reason. mostly because i use it all the time and go 'what the fuck? fair enough?' in my head every time i use it.

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

"Coupon", specifically when people pronounce it "kew - pon", not "coop- on", like and decent person out too.

Everyone knows what a coupon is.  Even when it's some insipd, valueless shit, like a payment coupon for your loans, which only serves to remind your dumb ass to send the monthly bill in. 

If you go around asking for a "Kew - pon", I'm going to make it a point to direct you to the aisle with the "Tampax" and "Depends"

That is really a dialect issue.....  being from the south the COU of my COUPON does lean more towards CUE as opposed to COO.  To me the COO pronunciation just sounds odd..... 

Well, yes.  Proper English IS, of course, strictly forbidden on your side of the River.

And we like it that way 

That's why all the monkeys keep crossing the damn river.  The won't let us stand on the bridge and shoot them.  Which I think is truly making the crossing too easy!!

[Golden Applesauce]

This was in my "Communications" "Class's" "textbook" (and yes, all three of those words require scare quotes individually.)

Articulation and Pronunciation. In addition to the rate, pitch, and volume of your voice, articulation and pronunciation help give meaning to your verbal message. Articulation consists of forming vowel and consonant sounds correctly. Because many people are lazy when it comes to articulating the sounds used to communicate, they may slur the s sound or leave sounds out of words altogether. In many cultures, this is very distracting; in others, it can be seen as a behavior symbolizing group membership. Some commonly mispronounced words are listed following. How many of these do you mispronounce?

Distracting Pronunciation and Articulation

    * AKS instead of ask
    * PIN instead of pen
    * DEM instead of them
    * DIS instead of this
    * JIST instead of just
    * NU-CU-LER instead of nuclear
    * NUTTIN instead of nothing
    * GITTIN instead of getting
    * CAUSE or CUZ instead of because
    * AN instead of and
    * BEAN instead of being
    * PITCHER instead of picture
    * WIF instead of with
    * WORSHington instead of Washington

That's right, people who pronounce words differently than you are just being LAZY.

I'm also confused as to why the put "nuculur" in there.  I mean, it's not like Bush is ever going to read take this "class," right?