# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851/141 "2005-06-18T00:45:06Z")
Unthaw. “I gotta go home and Un-Thaw somethin’ fer dinner” _me_- You’re going to go home and freeze something for dinner? _them_- Huh? Mentioned before- _irregardless_- _me_- that means “_with_ regard” _them_- Huh? I should note that this one appears in many dictionaries :_sigh_: Lie-Berry. “I gotta go to the Lie-berry to read up on some stuff” Thanks. This has been fun! ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851/142 "2005-06-18T01:52:54Z")
:smack: Did it again!!! I read to the bottom of the _first_ page and hit Post. :smack: Most, if not all, of these have been pointed out. :smack: Has anyone hit on _Alright_. It should be _All Right_ unless, of course, it would be _Alwrong_ Also, I recently commented on _Beckon Call_ in another thread and was promptly corrected that is _Beck and Call_, much to my surprise. That _Beck_ is the old English term that later became Beckon. Leastwise according to [this](http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/beckon.html) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851/143 "2005-06-18T04:14:48Z")
Lookee here, in my line of work I am constantly aksed to orientate the signage, irregardless of any nuculer inference that might have maybe cattywompussed it. Ain’t no tellin’ how it took loose; it’s just up to me to put it right. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851/144 "2005-06-18T04:16:40Z")
oh, and I hate “hella”, too… how lazy are people that the extra syllable in “helluva” is too much work? Even in the South we could muster up the energy for it… ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851/145 "2005-06-18T05:19:06Z")
> [@](#): > > Once I heard a professor lecturing about irregular verbs in Anglo-Saxon. He claimed that the baseball player and announcer Dizzy Dean, from the backwoods of Arkansas, had resurrected some Anglo-Saxon verb conjugations that everyone else had lost: “He slud into third!” “I should have stood in bed.” My mom still remembers many years ago hearing a woman on a bus say, I kid you not: “When I seed who it was, I retch right out and wove at him.” I still stand in awe of that woman’s conjugational abilities. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2005, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851/146 "2005-06-18T05:24:30Z")
> [@flamingbananas](#): > > Ha, check out this entry from a LiveJournal that belongs to a girl at my school: > [@](#): > > Quote: > hey guys! okie this is a message for well ne1 who reads this! okie i want sum1 burn me sum cds? if u could do that for me? like the used, taking back sunday, etc, etc, etc. yeah, ill give u money or the blank cds, w/e! just lemme no!!! thx! I’m surprised she didn’t say “ect. ect. ect”. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851/147 "2005-06-19T03:45:18Z")
Or “and etc.”-- which is what some of my students write. They don’t have a clue that they’re saying “and and other things.” In regard to what **Hypno-Toad** said: A friend of mine who does film clip clearance and similar work for a major entertainment studio often receives requests which are so poorly written, confusing, and loaded with errors that she cannot take them seriously. She can barely figure out what the person is asking for because of their lack of professionalism. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851/148 "2005-06-19T04:11:29Z")
Hehe, so many great new ways to continue my fight to drive people slowly insane. I had no idea heighth was so rare. I actually notice it when people say height, since it seems so unusual. Length, width, depth, heighth… yep I’ll stick with that one just, sounds better. And I like irregardless. It just flows better as an interjection. You can accent the irr part and break into the conversation in a way that rrr alone just falls flat and ineffective. ---
**Author:** ![MissGypsy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8491ac/32.png) [@MissGypsy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissGypsy)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851/149 "2005-06-19T04:35:32Z")
I knew a guy who, when I mentioned that my little baby was cutting teeth, called it “teeding.” He then argued with me about whether it was called “teething” or “teeding.” Um, ok, define the verb “teed.” (as it refers to babies drooling and such, at least.) He also told me that his aunt borrowed him some money. Then he borrowed some money to his friend. Idiot. ---
**Author:** ![rkts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c4cdca/32.png) [@rkts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rkts)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851/150 "2005-06-19T05:32:10Z")
I have a friend who recently excepted Jesus Christ into her life. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851/151 "2005-06-19T06:13:16Z")
I still think that my boss’ (or is it boss’s? Ah, screw it) pronunciation of mammogram as “mammy-gram” is the worst. My father makes many of the pronunciation errors in this thread and it drives me loony. I don’t correct him, as it would take too long. Worst of all is when I am talking with someone who makes these errors; I often fall into them myself without meaning to do so. I guess I could just pretend I’m code-switching. It was even worse when some of my relatives teased me about “talking fancy.” Yep, she done gone and got her one of them fancy eddications and now she thinks she’s better’n us. My mother told them, “She’s always talked like that.” ---
**Author:** ![flamingbananas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f4b2a3/32.png) [@flamingbananas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flamingbananas)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851/152 "2005-06-19T19:31:20Z")
I have another: “I played night games with kelly jenny nikol em and ashley which was fun and we had a bondfire.” :smack: ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851/153 "2005-06-19T20:07:48Z")
Arctic, not Artic! Accessories is pronounced “aksessories”, NOT “assessories”! And most of the other things already mentioned make me cringe, too. But “heighth” is not exactly wrong, just archaic. The second variant of “height” that OED lists is actually “highth”, which it says Milton used. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2005, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851/154 "2005-06-19T23:59:02Z")
This one has been bothering me for several days, now. I was on the road, travelling when I was passed by a younger man in a car. The driver’s side passenger window had the letters **SI** written on it with soap. Then, when the the car was in front of me, the rear window could be seen, with its large smiley face and the letters **NI** to the lower left of the smiley face, and **OR** to the lower right. I’m left hoping that this was done by some class-conscious underclasspersons, not by the driver. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2005, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851/155 "2005-06-20T01:05:43Z")
Some people who used to live across the street had a party and were playing music. At one point, a particular song apparently reached a part that was a family member’s favorite, because she yelled out, “Higher it! Higher it!” And someone turned up the volume. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2005, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851/156 "2005-06-20T01:09:07Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#): > > This one has been bothering me for several days, now. I was on the road, travelling when I was passed by a younger man in a car. The driver’s side passenger window had the letters **SI** written on it with soap. Then, when the the car was in front of me, the rear window could be seen, with its large smiley face and the letters **NI** to the lower left of the smiley face, and **OR** to the lower right. > > I’m left hoping that this was done by some class-conscious underclasspersons, not by the driver. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2005, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851/157 "2005-06-20T01:10:33Z")
Don’t you spell highschool senior with only one I? I know that’s how I was taught to do it. ---
**Author:** ![exastris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b38774/32.png) [@exastris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/exastris)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2005, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851/158 "2005-06-20T01:17:32Z")
I had an education professor in college who would drive us batty with her pronunciation. The most obnoxious examples that leap to mind are “pooberty” for puberty, and “perfoom” for perfume. This was also the same professor who told a chubby classmate that to be an effective teacher, she would really need to be a size 10 or smaller. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2005, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851/159 "2005-06-20T02:18:05Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#): > > Don’t you spell highschool senior with only one I? I know that’s how I was taught to do it. Okay; I just didn’t even realize that’s what the letters were supposed to add up to. ---
**Author:** ![D505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5daacb/32.png) [@D505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D505)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2005, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851/160 "2005-06-20T05:55:28Z")
Saying “Calvary” when you mean “cavalry”. Wargames become surreal when you make a quick, flanking attack upon an army with the hill which Christ died on. And it drives me BONKERS!!! It’s CAVALRY you IDIOT!!! -d [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-weep-for-the-future/305851.md?page=9)