Your ability to use Babelfish is quite intimidating. You have us at your mercy.
Mm, just emailed cnn last week over misuse of the word ‘epidemic’ as in “The dengue virus – which causes fever, headache and rashes on the palms and feet – is believed to have entered Hawaii on people traveling from Tahiti or American Samoa, where the disease is epidemic.”
Told them that’s supposed to be “endemic”. What kind of idiot? Overuse of the spellcheck function WILL be the downfall of society as we know it.
http://www.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/11/02/hawaii.dengue.ap/index.html
They still haven’t fixed it. even though they sent a response email.
No sarcasm intended. Didn’t deduce that you were boggled by the fact that people mistakenly used On mass. Actually, I was a bit boggled by your ‘boggle’.
ah ah, ces canadiens sont vraiment rigolos avec leurs droles d’expressions!
Why do people say Woila??? There is a letter V in the English language? So why is it so hard to use it?!
We don’t saw Wictory, wice-wersa!!!
I never understood this one!
PLEEEEASE, keep swearing in French- Canadian!
Carine - I grew up hearing the word but not seeing it written, and the way it’s pronounced sounded to me (once I knew it started with a “V”) like “Vwala!”. Before that, I thought people were saying “Wwala!”
I was 15 before I ever saw it written down, and was surprised to see the correct spelling. I didn’t even think it was a real word, just a noise like “Ow”, or a nonsense word like “Abracadabra”. At first I was vaguely uncomfortable using it in a phrase in my French class because I felt like I was using a play word, if that makes sense 
Now, “en masse”, on the other hand, is a phrase I’ve encountered most of my life. Rarely do I hear people say it - it’s usually printed. That’s why I boggle at people who write it “on mass” - how did they come to learn the phrase without learning how to spell it? I assume they’ve caught it by chance, assumed it’s English and remembered it to work into a sentence at a later date to make themselves appear smart, without ever noticing that it doesn’t really make sense in English (on mass? in mass maybe…)
Oh, ok, I got it, it make sense Cazzle, thanks! Being French I never thought about the “W” sound… Seeing you writting it “Vwoila”, I get it now… oh, it is so cute!
Get your languages straight, you retarded prion. It’s from the Greek Skatos and Kephalos. Since you demonstrated a lack of research skills, I will let you find the meaning, so that I can be entertained later with your inadequate results.
Et puisque tu le demandes gentiment Carine:
J’ai mon crisse de voyage, on me demande de sacrer, pour apprendre comment. 
bonify v. To certify as genuine.
At least that’s what it seems to mean from common usage. :rolleyes:
My beef is not with the pronunciation, it’s with the spelling. The phrase is per se and my opinion of someone’s intelligence drops drasticly when I see them spell it “pur say” or “per say.” Other wretched offenses:
“She-she” (for chi-chi)
“Boo Coo” (For beaucoup, My dad does this CONSTANTLY)
“sheik/sheek” (for chic)
and more I’m surely forgetting.
and let’s not forget the invitations that say
“Please RSVP”
SVP = sil vous plais (sp?)! It means “please”!
This is only my pet peeve because it’s a fish-in-a-barrel type of thing.
S’il-vous-plaît, please…
This steak is served with with juice.
I once saw someone post on a message board that someone else’s post looked like a “hycoo.” It was supposed to be haiku, but they spelled it hycoo.
Yeah, while you’re enjoying that hycoo, be careful not to get washed away by a soonommy or get slashed up with a catawna by a commacozzy sammarye!
thanks Omni. I’d say that in French but I’d probably fuck that up also.
Ooh, ooh, I have another one of these, except it’s actually a misspelled English-language expression.
Namely, I hate it when people write “HERE HERE!!” when they’re heartily agreeing with what someone else has said.
You pusillanimous peabrains! It’s not “Here here,” it’s “HEAR, HEAR!!”. Gah!!
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Get your languages straight, you retarded prion. It’s from the Greek Skatos and Kephalos. Since you demonstrated a lack of research skills, I will let you find the meaning, so that I can be entertained later with your inadequate results.
I’m afraid detop’s got you on that one, Bossk. There’s is some significant difference between being a shithead and eating shit, though in many cases, one does not exclude the other, as has been amply demonstrated.
OOops!
I’m afraid detop’s got you on that one, Bossk. There’s is some significant difference between being a shithead and eating shit, though in many cases, one does not exclude the other, as has been amply demonstrated. Apologies for getting that last post muddled.
Actually, its “No hay problema.”
Actually it’s it’s…