# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![HowSoonIsThen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e56c9b/32.png) [@HowSoonIsThen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HowSoonIsThen)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2015, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-mangled-language/710369/81 "2015-01-26T10:35:19Z")
> [@owlfan](#): > > Pitchers (photographs) I say it this way. For whatever reason, pronouncing it correctly sounds somewhat childish to me. I don’t know why. Probably just because I’m so used to saying it the wrong way. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2015, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-mangled-language/710369/82 "2015-01-26T22:11:02Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Maybe it’s just me. But I have absolutely no idea how this relates to the OP. 😕 Principle Investigator should be Principal Investigator, although it is confusing as a PI often is researching scientific principles. The issue with the bruschetta seemed to be one of proportions and not actual usage. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2015, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-mangled-language/710369/83 "2015-01-26T22:59:07Z")
Around here, Lehman is a very common Amish surname, and we are not too far from the renowned [Lehman’s Hardware.](https://www.lehmans.com/) One of our faculty remembers reported that a student used the phrase “in Lehman’s terms” in a paper. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-mangled-language/710369/84 "2015-01-27T00:53:58Z")
You’ve got another thing coming. Think! On the garage sale sites on FB. They have items for sale that are barley used. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-mangled-language/710369/85 "2015-01-27T03:20:38Z")
> [@Honey](#): > > You’ve got another thing coming. > > Think! Yeah, this one might be a losing battle, like “step foot in” vs. “set foot in”. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-mangled-language/710369/86 "2015-01-27T03:44:15Z")
Around here its not unusual to see cars parked next to main roads with some form of sale notice on them. Mostly it will be a “For Sale” sign with a price and phone number, occasionally you’ll see one that says: “Car 4 Sale” which most people would get and is, I guess, OK when you are trying to catch the eye of someone driving past. I would love to know what the person that put “Car four sail” on their sign was thinking. ---
**Author:** ![usedtobe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ec9cab/32.png) [@usedtobe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/usedtobe)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2015, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-mangled-language/710369/87 "2015-01-27T05:50:07Z")
> [@movingfinger](#): > > And when the hell did “overnight” become a verb? (“We’ll overnight the package to you.”) c. 1985 ---
**Author:** ![trapezoidal\_jellyfish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6f9a4e/32.png) [@trapezoidal\_jellyfish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/trapezoidal_jellyfish)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2015, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-mangled-language/710369/88 "2015-01-28T07:10:41Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Leafletter. or leaflettier. > > IOW, somebody who stands in a crowd and passes out leaflets. Or sticks them under windshield wipers. Etc. Ooooooohhhhh… Don’t know why I didn’t get that. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Orville\_mogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/aeb1de/32.png) [@Orville\_mogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orville_mogul)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2015, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-mangled-language/710369/89 "2015-01-29T12:32:45Z")
A friend once told me he was waiting for something with ‘fetid breath.’ And a former boss always mangled the ‘e.g.’ conjunction in written english. She would say “In Germany several different brands of cars are manufactured, **for e.g.** , Mercedes Benz, Audi, and BMW.” I am pretty sure she thought ‘e.g.’ stood for ‘eggsample.’ And she had a PhD. ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2015, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-mangled-language/710369/90 "2015-01-29T13:47:06Z")
> [@Orville\_mogul](#): > > A friend once told me he was waiting for something with ‘fetid breath.’ Entirely possible, particularly if he hadn’t brushed his teeth for the past month. ---
**Author:** ![Grestarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grestarian/32/3227_2.png) [@Grestarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grestarian)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2015, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-mangled-language/710369/91 "2015-01-29T22:07:37Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > I’m getting a little tired of old guys talking about their ‘prostrate’ problems. Well, you know, they’re old guys. It’s fallen down prostrate – and he can’t get it up…:eek: When I was teaching English in Japan, I had a tough hour trying to teach tag-questions [For example, statement…“, isn’t it?”] but not because the Japanese don’t do that.\* The difficulty was getting them to answer correctly in the affirmative or negative. So as we wrapped up the hour, I finished with, “That was fun, wasn’t it!” And everyone nodded and said, “Yes! That wasn’t fun!” I’ll never know who was just teasing me or which of them were still clueless. –G! \*In fact, they often summarize the tag-question in a simple, “Neh?” that’s equivalent to our slang, “, huh?” in many cases. But I was teaching a more formal English… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-some-mangled-language/710369.md?page=4)