[QUOTE=lissener]
Awesome, I can bow out now. Carol Stream clearly has this under control.
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How is the video store going? Mom & Dad must be soooo proud.
I was wondering how long that would take.
Agreed. OTOH, there’s no reason Carol Stream has to be such a douchebag. On the gripping hand, she’s always a douchebag. You can tell she’s only a Republican because she likes watching less fortunate people suffer. I think the most important point is this, though:
Exactly. If I hadn’t scrolled down to see Carol Stream’s response, I wouldn’t have caught the two excellent translations, and if I hadn’t seen those, I wouldn’t have bothered trying to parse the OP. Why burst a blood vessel? Leave that to VCO3.
Classy.
Well, they call me the Gentleman…
[QUOTE=Carol Stream]
How is the video store going? Mom & Dad must be soooo proud.
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Up until this thread, I was agnostic on the question of Carol Stream’s doucheitude. Call me a convert. 
[QUOTE=lissener]
Starting post#8 and continuing. Unabated. Seriously, WTF? I’m all for sinking to pitful behavior in the pit when someone deserves it, but this looks more like a random attempt to start a pileon on an innocent bystander. Fortunately, Carol Stream remains the biggest asshole in the thread; no one is taking her bait. Still, is the “don’t be a jerk” rule completely suspended in the pit? or are there standards of jerkishness even here?
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Frankly I’m amused by your OP. Carol’s posts in that thread would actually pass the rules in any other forum as she’s criticizing the posting not the poster in that thread. You on the other hand are definitely trying to start a pile on on Carol including charging her with felatio.
Other than the blatant hypocracy(I may have mispelled), your OP complies with pit standards so I won’t call for your banning. Please carry on for my amusement.
[QUOTE=Carol Stream]
Just give me one example, please.
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I had a student named Racheal this year. Of course, you could call me a liar too, but it’s true. She and her parents weren’t going to be members of MENSA either anytime soon, but that’s how she spelled her name. I’ve also had students named Micheal and Adrein. Your criticism is bullshit.
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic]
I’ve never encountered it before either and I’m well read and well travelled.
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I had a boss named Micheal once. He was head of Quality Assurance. The sign on his door said:
Quality Assurance Manager
Micheal Smith
…which I always found funny.
[QUOTE=Carol Stream]
How is the video store going? Mom & Dad must be soooo proud.
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Thanks. My dad decapitated my mom in a video store. In Carol Stream. Thanks for understanding.
[QUOTE=Argent Towers]
Well, they call me the Gentleman…
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Nobody does that, you big fat liar. I hope you have asbestos pants.
In case Carol Stream wasn’t willing to take me at my word that I’ve personally known a Racheal, and that people actually spell it that way, here are some examples. Which you easily could have Googled up yourself if you were actually interested and not being a douchebag.
You can admit you were wrong and apologize to katpohl anytime, Carol Stream. But of course, you never will, because you are a troll. Moving on…
I come across misspelled names quite a bit- I think it’s hilarious. It’s like a walking advertisement to people for your whole life that your parents are/were stupid. I especially love Jaime for Jamie. The other day I had to call the mom of a Jaime and I pronounced it the normal (Spanish) way: Hi-may. The mom corrected me, “Actually, it’s Jamie.” “Oh!” I said, “Is it misspelled on her chart here, J-a-i-m-e?” I guess I need to get a life, but it amused me for a few seconds. Especially since I have a Jamie of my own, and I spelled it right.
I’ll agree with the pittee that the poster of the original thread pitting Racheal can’t spell very well and has some problems with punctuation and proper grammar. But given Carol’s history of thread-shitting, and given that it’s pretty much all she ever does on this board, I will agree with the OP of this thread- Carol Stream is an asshole. I won’t go so far as to call her a troll, but so far she walks like a duck.
[QUOTE=Alice The Goon]
I come across misspelled names quite a bit- I think it’s hilarious. It’s like a walking advertisement to people for your whole life that your parents are/were stupid. I especially love Jaime for Jamie. The other day I had to call the mom of a Jaime and I pronounced it the normal (Spanish) way: Hi-may. The mom corrected me, “Actually, it’s Jamie.” “Oh!” I said, “Is it misspelled on her chart here, J-a-i-m-e?” I guess I need to get a life, but it amused me for a few seconds. Especially since I have a Jamie of my own, and I spelled it right.
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Hey, be careful about that - you might get the hose again.
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers]
Hey, be careful about that - you might get the hose again.
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What? I was genuinely concerned that a chart might have a misspelling of a name! Really!
You should just feel lucky that your parents didn’t name you Brain. Or did they?
[QUOTE=Carol Stream]
Do you really think the person in question is actually a “Racheal”? More likely, the OP just can’t spell.
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I don’t care if the person in that OP is “Rachael,” “Rachel,” “Racheal,” “Rachelle” or any of a million other variants. I was addressing your request for a citation for the name “Racheal” only.
[QUOTE=pulykamell]
I don’t care if the person in that OP is “Rachael,” “Rachel,” “Racheal,” “Rachelle” or any of a million other variants. I was addressing your request for a citation for the name “Racheal” only.
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<hijack> The actress Rachael Leigh Cook pronounces her name as one would say Rachel, but whenever I see it I can’t help but pronounce it Ray- shall. Cute spellings bug me.</hijack>
Sincerely,
Abbye_Ehmmae_Sahshuh
[QUOTE=Carol Stream]
How is the video store going? Mom & Dad must be soooo proud.
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How’s the view from the high road?
By the way, you’ve been an insufferable asshole in every post so far between this thread and the one that spawned it. You’re not even particularly clever about it, either.
‘Racheal’ is a real name like ‘Micheal’ is a real name. In other words, it’s not. Unless the parents are illiterate or, at the very least, dyslexic, of course.
Bottom line: you can’t get an ‘al’ sound out of an ‘eal’. Unless her name is pronounced ‘Raych-eel’, the name is not written in any way that makes sense.
Seriously, if we start defending nonsensical spellings on the basis of the ‘parents must be right’, we may as well just start naming children ‘Throatwarbler Mangrove’ and be done with it.
What’s more likely? That ‘Racheal’ is a perfectly valid and sensible spelling that nonetheless defies any known rules of spelling vs vocalisation… or that the parents were idiots?
[QUOTE=Alice The Goon]
What? I was genuinely concerned that a chart might have a misspelling of a name! Really!
You should just feel lucky that your parents didn’t name you Brain. Or did they?
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I believe Bryan was making a joking reference to the fact that the villain in The Silence of the Lambs was named Jame Gumb, as his name had been mispelled on his birth certificate. Whenever I see Captain Stottlemeyer I always hear “It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again.”
Whether the parents were idiots who can’t spell is irrelevant to Carol Stream’s assholish behavior. He/she got all huffy about how “Racheal can’t possibly be a real name” and refused to back down from her stance that “nobody spells it that way” in the face of cites from several people that some people spell it that way.
And on the issue of strange name spellings, we’ve had any number of threads about them, and while the “parents are idiots or illiterate” reason for some names is not discounted, I don’t remember anyone in any of those threads frothing at the mouth about how some name “couldn’t possibly be a real name”.