# Share Some Mangled Language **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 20, 2015, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-mangled-language/710369 "2015-01-20T09:28:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Hopeful\_Crow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/da6949/32.png) [@Hopeful\_Crow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hopeful_Crow)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-mangled-language/710369/41 "2015-01-21T19:50:37Z")
I dunno. Maybe that’s a euphemism for chamber pot. > [@PeskiPiksi](#): > > “Shuttered” instead of “shuddered.” Ohh! I just saw this one in the local weekly. An old “shuddered” city building is going to be reopened soon. ---
**Author:** ![Dogzilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e480ec/32.png) [@Dogzilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogzilla)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2015, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-mangled-language/710369/42 "2015-01-21T20:24:32Z")
> [@hyperspaz](#): > > When I was a copy editor, I would constantly come across stuff like this: > > “She’ll get her come uppins” > > “A deep seeded problem” > > “A knit picking answer” > > “This will be the death nail for radio” > > “Two percent skinned milk” > > And my biggest peeve: “These parts need to be deburr”. I have never seen this type of error until recently (a few years ago). Why have people stopped realizing there needs to be an -ed ending? When did “need to be” become a necessary part of verbs? Can’t we just skip straight to the verb? Using your last line as an example, wouldn’t it be more efficient to say, “Why have people stopped using an -ed ending?” As an editor, I go around lopping out “need to” from every sentence I see it in. 90% of the time it’s not… needed. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-mangled-language/710369/43 "2015-01-22T00:42:27Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > “Wah-la” makes me froth at the mouth. Or “viola” (when you are not referrig to the instrument). As I’ve said on SDMB several times in the past, “ect.” makes me **extrememly** stabby. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-mangled-language/710369/44 "2015-01-22T00:54:49Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I get stabby right here on the Dope, when I read of someone burning the midnight oil and _pouring_ over some document for hours at a time. Pouring that oil all over those documents can’t be good for them, no matter what time of day it is. _Especially_ if it’s burning. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-mangled-language/710369/45 "2015-01-22T01:09:41Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > Pouring that oil all over those documents can’t be good for them, no matter what time of day it is. _Especially_ if it’s burning. I suppose that could be more of a brain fart misspelling, rather than ignorance. I’ve been told “Good mourning” by email. Thanks; I’ll just sit here and sob quietly, then. ---
**Author:** ![robert\_columbia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@robert\_columbia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robert_columbia)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-mangled-language/710369/46 "2015-01-22T01:13:31Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > …Which is in the snowy Sierra Nevada mountains, a phrase overheated hiking and skiing writers occasionally use. Which translates to snowy mountains snowy mountains… Don’t forget the La Brea Tar Pits, which translates to “the the tar tar pits”. ---
**Author:** ![Helena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c68b51/32.png) [@Helena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-mangled-language/710369/47 "2015-01-22T01:13:38Z")
“I received the merchant dice I ordered.” ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-mangled-language/710369/48 "2015-01-22T01:47:08Z")
> [@Canadjun](#): > > Or “viola” (when you are not referrig to the instrument). > > As I’ve said on SDMB several times in the past, “ect.” makes me **extrememly** stabby. Oops! Just noticed _I_ made a boo-boo in my last post. In my defense, I don’t do that consistently! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-mangled-language/710369/49 "2015-01-22T04:36:37Z")
Once, in a Parisian hotel, I shared breakfast with a family of stereotypical Texans. The father would show up in total Texas drag (including spurs), and got the waiter’s attention by bellowing "Parlay-voo, boy, parlay-voo!!! ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-mangled-language/710369/50 "2015-01-22T05:02:24Z")
Not sure whether it was a mangling of language or of cuisine. In an Italian-themed restaurant, so-called bruschetta which was hiding under a mountain of chopped-up tomato. You couldn’t see any bread until you’d laddled a bunch of tomato off it. I wanted toast with oil and garlic with maybe some chopped tomato, I got a ton of tomato with an itty bit of bread (garlic, what is this thing?). It was like the bastard child of bruschetta, pa amb tomàquet and an explosion in a tomato field. And the tomato was just chopped up, there was nothing to compose it with 😕 The book I’m currently reading includes a reference to a “principle investigator” in the acknowledgements. Maybe the physicist in question is in the Ethics Committee, but I doubt it. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-mangled-language/710369/51 "2015-01-22T06:58:20Z")
“Well, I would of gone out, but…” is a pet peeve. You “would _have_ gone out…” I’m also not a big fan of “alot,” as in “I like alot of mustard on my hamburger.” It’s two words: “a lot.” The strangest I ever heard though was when I overheard a conversation in a coffee shop. One guy was telling another about a car he was thinking of buying. He called it a “Chris-ler” instead of a “Kry-zler.” (It was a Chrysler, as you may have guessed.) His friend must have been too polite to correct him. ---
**Author:** ![movingfinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@movingfinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/movingfinger)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-mangled-language/710369/52 "2015-01-22T07:41:32Z")
I don’t recall where I read it but someone was writing about legendary jazz cornetist Bix Beiderbecke and seriously called him Big Spider Beck. ---
**Author:** ![BrassyPhrase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@BrassyPhrase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrassyPhrase)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 8:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-mangled-language/710369/53 "2015-01-22T08:15:16Z")
I worked with a woman who had three teenaged kids and one had gotten into such trouble that she(coworker) and her husband had to take parenting classes. (As part of the charges being dropped, maybe? The whole thing was a mishmash and I never did understand the whole story.) So she came into work and we were talking about it: what she’d learned in the classes. "Well, they’re telling me no matter how angry I get–I have to stay the three C’s-- Calm. Cool. and COLLECTIVE.\* Me, mentally: “Sooooo…ride a tractor and farm for the common good…?” Of course, it’s collected and I didn’t have the heart correct her. It was really a dark part in her life and I didn’t want to be the asshole. BUT (b/c I am an asshole) when I do get upset with The Fella, I do say “Look, I’m trying to be ‘calm cool and collective’ and you are pissing me off!” \*Bolding mine. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 11:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-mangled-language/710369/54 "2015-01-22T11:14:48Z")
> [@movingfinger](#): > > I don’t recall where I read it but someone was writing about legendary jazz cornetist Bix Beiderbecke and seriously called him Big Spider Beck. I wonder if you’re referring to something that happened on the Steve Allen Show. He used to start his show by introducing himself using someone else’s name, and on this particular episode, he was laughing, then had the cue card brought to him. He showed the audience where it said _Big Spider Beck_. My mother had to explain to me who Bix was and why Steve was cracking up. ---
**Author:** ![Filbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/filbert/32/3433_2.png) [@Filbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Filbert)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-mangled-language/710369/55 "2015-01-22T17:18:10Z")
I saw an ad recently for a ‘leaf letter’. Repeated several times in the advert. While I have come across plant rental businesses, I had no idea they got that specific. The ‘ortonamus\* worker wanted’ ad was my favourite though. Or the one specifying ‘Computer illiterate worker’. I actually applied for that, and pointed out the typo; they did change it, and sent a grateful reply, but I didn’t get any further with it. \*I may have got the spelling slightly wrong, but I remember it started with an ‘o’ and looked like a dinosaur.) ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-mangled-language/710369/56 "2015-01-22T20:03:50Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Once, in a Parisian hotel, I shared breakfast with a family of stereotypical Texans. The father would show up in total Texas drag (including spurs), and got the waiter’s attention by bellowing "Parlay-voo, boy, parlay-voo!!! A friend of mine told of being asked, “Can you tell us how to get to the Champ de Sleazy?” Richard Lederer’s classic [The World According to Student Bloopers](http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~norman/Jokes-file/StudentBloopers.htm) > [@](#): > > Cyrus McCormick invented the McCormick Raper, which did the work of a hundred men. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-mangled-language/710369/57 "2015-01-22T21:15:45Z")
I was reading some restaurant reviews today. It seems that people now get “compted” for meals. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-mangled-language/710369/58 "2015-01-22T22:42:13Z")
“Rick O’Shay” ricochet. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-mangled-language/710369/59 "2015-01-22T22:53:59Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > The one we both make fun of was this pig-ignorant bling encrusted woman on a Judge Judy episode that insisted her little ratdog (subject of the case) was a she-WA-wa. You mean the Chi-hoo-ah-hoo-ah? (Yes, I know how to say it. But "chi-hoo-ah-hoo-ah is fun to say and it makes my kids roll their eyes. 😛 ) I’ve got one patient who is quite smart and sort of educated, but not quite either as smart or educated as he thinks he is. I often have to work to keep a straight face as he talks about how he just needs a pancreatitis transplant, but his doctor won’t order the testes to get him one. (So close…and yet so far!) ---
**Author:** ![owlfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@owlfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlfan)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-mangled-language/710369/60 "2015-01-23T01:25:52Z")
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