If you're gonna use 'cute' misspellings, at least spell it the way it sounds, willya?

[The_Tao_s_Revenge]

ITT: Chief Engineer of the Enterprise, Scotty

@ivan_astikov

“aiight, don u be chattin shit bart the way we spk+spl. jus cos u don unnastan, dunt mean we don tk propa”

[gang_green]

@Taber

I don’t know if it is a regionalism, but I’ve never heard anyone pronounce sandwich sammich, and I hope I never do.

There’s a woman at work who says “sangwich.” She is the subject of much teasing and hilarity.

[Nava]

@wierdaaron

u mus not deel wif man-e teens den cuz day bscly dont no how english wurks

Gotta love it when you’re in an internet game and the players butchering the game’s language are those who are native spellers…

In my WoW guild we have very few rules, but those rules include “use correct spellings (we brake for dyslexics, tho)” and “keep your mouth clean or we’ll wash it with soap.” It’s amazing how much fuss people make over being told “please spell properly, typing three letters isn’t going to kill you”
“aw, hey man, i can rite howver ai wan, u cant tell me hou to rite”
“This might not be the right guild for you”
“I didn’t say anything!”

[AskNott]

@ivan_astikov

“aiight, don u be chattin shit bart the way we spk+spl. jus cos u don unnastan, dunt mean we don tk propa”

Wait a minute! Isn’t Donunnastan one of those countries that were formerly part of the Soviet Union?

[gigi]

@Lust4Life

My particular bugbear is "n’ "used to replace “and”,as in salt n’ vinegar,or fish n’ chips.

Right, it should be salt ‘n’ vinegar and fish ‘n’ chips.

@JKellyMap

I have this problem with “Big Boi”, of Outkast.

I always pronounce it “bwah”, as if it were French.

I am tempted to say Treach to rhyme with beach. :smack:

[ctnguy]

@Lust4Life

My particular bugbear is "n’ "used to replace “and”,as in salt n’ vinegar,or fish n’ chips.

@gigi

Right, it should be salt ‘n’ vinegar and fish ‘n’ chips.

One of the big supermarket chains in South Africa is called “Pick ‘n’ Pay”, which is horrible enough to start with. But in their latest rebranding they dropped both apostrophes, so now it’s “Pick n Pay”. :mad:

[Heart_of_Dorkness]

@Brainiac

Mark Twain commented on this problem. He wanted to mimic people who pronounced “once” as “wunst”. That looked wrong, but “oncet” looked like it would sound like “onset” and “once’t” was just hard to read and sound out. His writing contains all three forms.

I am forever grateful to you for this. I always read that as “once-et”, and thought it was some archaic pronunciation that had completely died out. But “wunst”? I heerda that!

@G. Odoreida

A ‘£’ is in fact a capital ‘L’ for libra (as is lb for pounds in weight), but instead of replacing 'L’s they always use it to represent an ‘E’ or a ‘C’ or even an ‘M’ on its side.

This would drive me insane. I didn’t even know it’s supposed to stand for “libra”; it just looks like a goddamn L. So “LOTTERY” would be “LOTT£RY”, and not “£OTTERY”? That’s nuts.

@gigi

I am tempted to say Treach to rhyme with beach. :smack:

I would, too. How are you supposed to say it?

[gigi]

Treach is presumably short for treacherous, so like “kvetch”.

[Cisco]

Someone wanted to draw out the word “two” in a text message to me yesterday.

“twwwwwwwwwo”

:smack: the W is silent.

[Transistor_Rhythm]

Numthrers.

[overlyverbose]

What drives me nuts is seeing people spell co-worker cow-orker when they dislike a co-worker. Yes, I’m sure you’re quite brilliant and adorable for coming up with that genius dig at someone you dislike. But for the love of God, my three-year old comes up with more clever word plays.

[Prelude_to_Fascination]

@Manduck

I don’t know, when I used to frequent chat rooms I found people who were meticulous about spelling, punctuation, etc to be annoying because they couldn’t keep up with the conversation. Those chat abbreviations (like l8r, and u instead of your, omitting vowels, etc) do serve a practical purpose. They save typing time so you don’t have to wait so long for a response. If there’s one guy who is spelling out everything in full you find yourself having to backtrack in the conversation to figure out what he’s talking about - everybody else will have moved on to a new topic by the time he has his response typed in.

Really? It saves time? Of course, chat rooms were filled with such deep conversations (sorry, convos): “a/s/l”…“a rose for all the pretty ladies” (accompanied by some ASCII image of a flower)…{{{{{{muddy}}}}}

Yeah, I can see how crap like “don b h8n u brb lol j/k” saves time and makes things much more convenient and enjoyable.

I’m reminded of the segment on the CBS Sunday Morning news show where Bill Geist is talking about vending machines. He’s standing next to a pizza vending machine with a TV screen in it (pay your money, and get a hot pizza). The screen is there because 90 seconds is a long time not to be entertained. :rolleyes:

My gripe: “lose” as in, “Don’t lose your keys,” is not the same as “loose”. “Don’t loose your keys…” I see that with otherwise correct spelling and grammar. What the hell is going on? Language evolves, but that doesn’t even make sense.

[prettydorky]

@jjimm

So I would inadvertantly read it as:

SManarchySH THE STanarchyTE!

(Pronounced “Smanarkeesh the Stanarkeet”, which could be the name of a wizard from a bad fantasy novel.)

This is why I can’t read this board at work. My cow-orker just asked me why I was crying!!

[Manduck]

@Prelude_to_Fascination

Yeah, I can see how crap like “don b h8n u brb lol j/k” saves time and makes things much more convenient and enjoyable.

Of course it does. Obviously it would take much longer to type that out in full.

[overlyverbose]

@Manduck

Of course it does. Obviously it would take much longer to type that out in full.

Seriously? Perhaps I’m getting old already, but it took me way longer to figure out what that line was trying to say than typing it out longhand would’ve.

[Manduck]

@overlyverbose

Seriously? Perhaps I’m getting old already, but it took me way longer to figure out what that line was trying to say than typing it out longhand would’ve.

That’s because you don’t use chat rooms much and are not used to those abbreviations. Also, it wasn’t a real sentence - Prelude threw together a few unrelated abbreviations to make his point. Real chatroom converstations are more coherent than that.

[Prelude_to_Fascination]

@Manduck

That’s because you don’t use chat rooms much and are not used to those abbreviations. Also, it wasn’t a real sentence - Prelude threw together a few unrelated abbreviations to make his point. Real chatroom converstations are more coherent than that.

Close enough to what’s said in chatrooms. The conversations aren’t (or weren’t, years ago) much more coherent than that, not to mention they were about as deep.

Although I do remember being in the SD chatroom. That was an exception.

[Manduck]

People can have stupid, shallow conversations with fully-spelled-out words too. “BRB” is no more shallow than “I’ll be right back”, but it is a lot faster to type.

[crypto]

@Taber

I don’t know if it is a regionalism, but I’ve never heard anyone pronounce sandwich sammich, and I hope I never do.

All you have to do is watch the movie “The Edge” with Elle MacPherson. She says sammich in the first 15 minutes of the film. (wouldn’t stop me from doin’ her, but it was quite annoying)
w00t!

[Hampshire]

This started a long time ago for me with some rap guy calling himself 2Pac.

Why anyone would call him two-pock doesn’t make much sense.
After all, I didn’t grow up in the 80s playing the arcade classic pock-man.
I played pack-man. Spelled P-A-C-M-A-N.
And the Pac-10 conference is definitely pronounced “pack-ten”, not “pock-ten”.