# I Weep for the Future. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 28, 2005, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851 "2005-05-28T03:12:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![flamingbananas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f4b2a3/32.png) [@flamingbananas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flamingbananas)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851/1 "2005-05-28T03:12:38Z")
This week during sewing class I witnessed something so absolutely amazingly stupid I need to make a thread about it. Before class a girl was in the room visiting her friend and gossiping quite loudly about people at school. They then began to whisper to each other, scrunching their make-up caked foreheads in concern. After, they began to walk out of the room when the girl said to her friend, “I’ll be your supporterer! Is that how you say it? _twirls hair_ Supporterer? I don’t know, but I’ll be there for you.” _sighs_ I do believe all that frying she does to her hair has fried her brain. ---
**Author:** ![Campion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@Campion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Campion)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851/2 "2005-05-28T07:00:25Z")
Don’t get me started on “orientate.” Because, really, it’s all downhill from there. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851/3 "2005-05-28T19:26:45Z")
Conversate. Dialoging. And there was some perverse twist of “analyze” that always grated on my ears. Analyzation? ---
**Author:** ![flamingbananas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f4b2a3/32.png) [@flamingbananas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flamingbananas)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851/4 "2005-05-28T19:39:15Z")
> [@iamthewalrus(:3=](#): > > Conversate. Dialoging. And there was some perverse twist of “analyze” that always grated on my ears. Analyzation? Salmon is always my favorite. “…and the saLmon swim upstream” ---
**Author:** ![dare\_devil007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@dare\_devil007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dare_devil007)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851/5 "2005-05-28T19:41:56Z")
One girl told me she had to work on her “managingment” skills. “Sorry,” I told her. “I don’t speak idiot.” Now that I think about it, that was kind of mean of me. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851/6 "2005-05-28T19:46:17Z")
I’m always getting emails from my ex-supervisor that include the word “dailey”, as in, “Please turn in your production sheets dailey.” ---
**Author:** ![flamingbananas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f4b2a3/32.png) [@flamingbananas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flamingbananas)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851/7 "2005-05-28T20:35:20Z")
> [@dare\_devil007\_](#): > > One girl told me she had to work on her “managingment” skills. “Sorry,” I told her. “I don’t speak idiot.” > > Now that I think about it, that was kind of mean of me. ☹ Funny though. ---
**Author:** ![dare\_devil007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@dare\_devil007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dare_devil007)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851/8 "2005-05-28T21:10:20Z")
> [@flamingbananas](#): > > Funny though. You can’t deny that. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851/9 "2005-05-28T21:55:21Z")
A former coworker used to mark collected accounts with “Paided in full”. I shuddered every time I saw it. ---
**Author:** ![Antigen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/848f3c/32.png) [@Antigen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antigen)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851/10 "2005-05-28T22:21:24Z")
I know too many people who say “supposably”. And they _write_ it like that too. It hurts! ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2005, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851/11 "2005-05-29T04:23:32Z")
I once reported directly to a VP who issued a weekly “pass do” list. A fellow employee told me it mean “past due.” ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2005, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851/12 "2005-05-29T04:30:28Z")
My ex (emphasis on the ex) mother-in-law used to say “chimley” for chimney and enVELope. Where in the _hell_ did that come from? ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2005, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851/13 "2005-05-29T05:33:52Z")
> [@Antigen](#): > > I know too many people who say “supposably”. > > And they _write_ it like that too. It hurts! “Take it for granite.” I swear, if I see this one more time…I may snap. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2005, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851/14 "2005-05-29T05:35:49Z")
What about “drownded”? It wasn’t only in Mark Twain’s dialogue. I heard kids in Ohio talking that way when I was growing up. Never figured out what the extra syllable was for. **Ruby** , I think “chimbley” must be a Welsh pronunciation. It was used by Dylan Thomas in \*Under Milk Wood. Come and sweep my chimbley She said with a blush. Come and sweep my chimbley Bring along your chimbley brush!\* That was one of the funniest plays I ever read! And that was one naughty song! :o Anyway, linguistically the phonetic process at work in “chimbley” is called “dissimilation.” Because the two nasal sounds /m/ and /n/ right next to each other are easy to confuse, sometimes people pronounce the word more comfortably if they become more different. So the n is dissimilated from the m by losing the nasalisation. If you pronounce a sound in the same tongue position as n, but it isn’t nasal, it becomes /l/. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2005, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851/15 "2005-05-29T05:47:22Z")
My pet peeve? When people say ‘To be quite Pacific…’ rather than ‘To be quite specific…’ :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2005, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851/16 "2005-05-29T06:08:17Z")
When I delivered pizzas in high school this one guy would always write on the tickets, “Third house on the left _passed_ the oak tree.” When I finally broke it to him gently that it was “past”, he . . . kept doing it. Almost no one in the area I grew up can say “specifically.” “Well, pacifically…” “_spe_cifically.” “spuh-spuh-spuh…pacifically…” “_SPE_cifically.” “spuh-spuh-spuh-spuh…exactly…” We’re talking grown men and women here. ---
**Author:** ![BrattiAtti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@BrattiAtti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrattiAtti)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2005, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851/17 "2005-05-29T06:27:06Z")
I just heard one today that made me smile. A girl (older teenager, perhaps) was on her cell phone speaking with a guy about meeting up for a date or some such thing. “So, I think we should meet at a mutual location” followed by her reason for wanting a _neutral_ location. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2005, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851/18 "2005-05-29T06:33:08Z")
Mentioned before on other threads, but next to the theater where I worked, an irate immigrant shop owner got pissed off at people parking in his spot and wrote a sign, “No Park Or You Will Be Toad”. ---
**Author:** ![sewalk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@sewalk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sewalk)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2005, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851/19 "2005-05-29T07:02:00Z")
Maybe he’s a sorcerer, in which case the spelling would be correct. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2005, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851/20 "2005-05-29T08:29:39Z")
The horrible-est of the horrible. “It’s a mute point”. It’s MOOT !! Moot, people !! I’ts a latin word !! Gah! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851.md?page=2)