No. Why would I?
Daniel
You’re a little slow, aren’t you?
i·ro·ny
n. pl. i·ro·nies
An expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning.
I got it; have you worked it through yet?
Daniel
When one acts deliberately acts
ob·tuse
adj. ob·tus·er, ob·tus·est
Lacking quickness of perception or intellect
One rather forces others to be patronizing, doesn’t he?
Just so we’re clear here, you DO understand that I wasn’t accusing you of being patronizing, right?
Maybe now I’m being whooshed.
Daniel
I can forgive “noo-cue-lar”, but what bugs me is “Dey-hate-eus-be-cauz-we-haff-free-dom,” which is just eye-rollingly stupid.
NO, I think I’m being whooshed, because I have no idea what point you’re trying to make now. Was that all supposed to be some sort of droll joke? If so, sorry about the flaming, but if you’re gonna be that wry, a smilie would be nice.
Yep, I heard that one too. But being a dink is less stressfull than being an OINK - One Income Nine Kids
Here in Southern California, we call that a ding (or, more commonly, a door ding).
When I was a much younger man than I am now, I read the book Bless the Beasts and Children (I don’t know whether it was an original work, or if it was a novelization of the movie). The leader of the protagonist group often referred to the group (composed almost exclusivly of emotional and physical misfits) as “a bunch of dinks.”
Later, when I was in Boot Camp (USNavy, San Diego RTC, 1980), I was introduced to the term dink" as a shortened form of the word “delinquent,” not in the sense of “juvenile delinquent,” but in a sense of “behind the training curve by which the recruits’ progress is periodically judged.”
And Los Angeles Harbor is in the city of San Pedro, with “San” rhyming with the “Khan” in Kublai Khan, and “Pedro” rhyming with “hey, bro.” Any pronunciation that rhymes with “Man Free Throw” is just wrong.
Just trying to add something to the discussion.
Reminds me of when I first moved to L.A., and I got directions to get off at the CA-WEN-GA exit. So I’m driving down the freeway, and thinking “I don’t see Cawenga, all I see is this one called Cahuenga.”
Depends. North Florida is southern. Why do you think Panama City is called the “redneck Riviera”? Once you get down around Orlando, things change. Miami and that whole area is definitely transplanted Yankee-land. Them people are different…
Here’s another use of dink.
"When Duberry handled up stepped Henry to dink in the resulting penalty and he completed his fifth Arsenal hat-trick by side-footing past Paul Robinson. "
This from a report from a football match played an hour ago.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/eng_prem/3615769.stm
Spooky coincidence or what? 
I think we should be told.
Another for the record:
It is Ore-gun (similar to organ)
Not Or-e-gone
Thank you.
I hate when people say the word MISCHIEVOUS as “mis-CHEE-vee-us” rather than “MIS-che-vus.” What the hell is that? Also, “axed” instead of “asked.” Like nails on a chalkboard.
Also, there is no one who will ever convince me that it’s OK to say “NEW-kew-ler.” It sounds horribly wrong to me and always will.
MAX CARNAGE I was born in Florida and I have lived here all my life. My dear departed father was born in Savannah Georgia and grew up living between Florida and Georgia. My point to Bruce Daddy was that Florida is and always has been a “Southern” state. The concept of the Deep South is part of a mythological deep south that only includes Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and somtimes Louisiana. The reason I label it as mythological is because it does not include all of the states that were in fact part of the Confederate States of America. I’m not trying to be pedantic or overly sensitive, I just know from growing up that Florida is just as much a part of the “South” as any of the other states that are routinely given higher billing. I believe the reason that Florida is not considered a true southern state is that the population was small and very wide spread, therefore the contributions of Florida during the late great unpleasantness between the North and the South have been largely overlooked.
If you would like to discuss this in further detail then maybe you could start another thread in IMHO or some such forum so that I don’t continue to hi-jack this thread.
BeerFan (A True Southerner)
It’s Nev-ADD-a, not Nev-ODD-a
Eh?
The redneck Riviera is the Naples/Fort Myers area, isn’t it?
Well, crap. I just found I out I mis-pronounce two state (ne-VAH-dah and OR-e-gone, as I say them) and mis-CHEE-vee-us. These are the pronunciations I was taught, and I’ve never even heard the others (aside from mis-CHIV-us from my grandparents).
I hate nuk-U-lar, and always will.
Moving from MI to TX, I had to learn a few new pronunciations, and overcome my hatred of a few. Words like “guvmit” instead of “government” and “sendence” for “sentence” are in my cringe category.
Now, a few questions:
foy-yer or foy-yay? I learned the second.
fort or for-tay for skill? I’ve heard fort is skill, while for-tay is musical. I avoid the word, heh.
FTR, I say hom-age.
foy-yay and fort.
I’m not sure which homage you’re saying you say- from now on let “ommaage” be the Frenchy way and let “hommidge” be known as the Right way.
Yep, me too.
I’ve always wondered: when these people go out trick-or-treating, do they wear a “maks?”