# Weird manglish from the wild **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 29, 2021, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160 "2021-11-29T20:25:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [November 30, 2021, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160/21 "2021-11-30T00:24:50Z")
> [@Ranch\_Dip](#): > > I say Viola. On purpose. I say “waxing elephants” on purpose. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2021, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160/22 "2021-11-30T04:20:07Z")
My mother used to tell me in all seriousness that someone had old-timers. I still don’t know if she was just mispronouncing Alzheimers. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2021, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160/23 "2021-11-30T14:21:40Z")
So is “Let’s go Brandon” an eggcorn? ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2021, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160/24 "2021-11-30T14:36:15Z")
> [@aurora\_maire](#): > > My mother used to tell me in all seriousness that someone had old-timers. I still don’t know if she was just mispronouncing Alzheimers. Not to excuse ignorance, but the “alz” within “Alzheimer” does mean old. (The “heim” means “home”; so an etymologically aware individual might call it “Old Home’s disease” without being completely wrong.) ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2021, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160/25 "2021-11-30T14:42:05Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > > [@Ranch\_Dip](#): > > > > I say Viola. On purpose. > > I say “waxing elephants” on purpose. I say “For all intensive porpoises” on purpose. Or would that be “on porpoise”? ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2021, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160/26 "2021-11-30T14:57:43Z")
“Co-inky-dink” for coincidence is another one that comes to mind. ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2021, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160/27 "2021-11-30T17:17:46Z")
OHGAWD, I hate “coinky-dink!” I’m damn near completely deaf, and I rely on TV captioning. Typically, news shows use voice recognition software, and the captions I see often have nothing to do with what’s going on. Many times I end up laughing my butt off during serious news stories. I think reference to “sperm blankets” in a story about a major accident with fatalities was the last great bit of captioning nonsense. ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2021, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160/28 "2021-11-30T20:11:49Z")
> [@VOW](#): > > I’m damn near completely deaf, and I rely on TV captioning. Which segues nicely into what drove me to this thread. Last night we were watching some “old time TV” on ROKU. Specifically, one of the earliest episodes of 1950’s **Dragnet**. With subtitles because I’m nearly deaf. Cue the opening Horns “Dragnet Theme” Then the opening scene establishing view of Los Angeles. Then, Jack Webb’s voice says (according to the subtitles)… **“This is the setting. Los Angeles California.”** Aargh! and so forth. Made me feel as old as I am. For you younger folks, the _famous_ line is “This is the **city** …” ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2021, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160/29 "2021-11-30T21:52:20Z")
There is a thread in this forum titled `A story about Tracy and I’. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160/30 "2021-12-01T00:15:07Z")
I used to work with the Queen of Eggcorns, and they all seemed to be medical diagnoses. She had “arthur-itis”, her neighbor had “Lucas” (lupus), and her oft-spoken of nephew was “artistic”. mmm ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160/31 "2021-12-01T00:45:56Z")
@Mean_Mr.Mustard Oh, I know the type! And women always discuss their husbands’ _prostrate_ problems! ~VOW ---
**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:** [December 1, 2021, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160/32 "2021-12-01T00:49:11Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > > [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > > > It’s not an eggcorn, but **Sr. Weasel** mixes up common expressions all the time. My favorite is when he said “we have to put our butts to the metal and get it done.” > > > > I don’t know if there is a name for that. > > A malapropism, perhaps. Nah, that’s just a mixed metaphor. A malapropism is swapping one word for a near-homophone, usually with a comic result. “He went out in the swamp, and was eaten by an allegory,” for example. It’s basically the same thing as an eggcorn, although I think eggcorns are specifically malapropisms that largely maintain the original intent: “old-timers” for “Alzheimers,” as opposed to “allegory” for “alligator.” ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160/33 "2021-12-01T00:50:34Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > She had “arthur-itis” Was it Chester A. Arthur-itis? ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160/34 "2021-12-01T01:01:48Z")
I’m sometimes under the alcafluence of incaohol. In fact… ---
**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:** [December 1, 2021, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160/35 "2021-12-01T02:04:10Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > She had “arthur-itis”, her neighbor had “Lucas” (lupus), and her oft-spoken of nephew was “artistic”. A friend cannot seem to say, “Covid.” It comes out “Corvid.” I always want to ask him if he’s referring to a crow. ---
**Author:** ![Apodder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apodder/32/17727_2.png) [@Apodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apodder)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160/36 "2021-12-01T03:44:30Z")
Ugh, I saw that! I couldn’t even bring myself to read it. ---
**Author:** ![wjChia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d6d6ee/32.png) [@wjChia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wjChia)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160/37 "2021-12-01T03:49:52Z")
and here i thought you were talking about the english spoken in my country > **[Manglish](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manglish)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > Manglish is an informal form of Malaysian English with features of an English-based creole principally used in Malaysia. It is heavily influenced by the dominant languages of the country, Malay, Chinese languages, and Tamil. It is not an official language of Malaysia. > Manglish spoken in West Malaysia is very similar to and highly mutually intelligible with Singlish, a creole of similar roots. There is little distinction between the two creoles ex... ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160/38 "2021-12-01T04:11:03Z")
> [@Apodder](#): > > Ugh, I saw that! I couldn’t even bring myself to read it. Probably for the best. It gets even more squicky from there. ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160/39 "2021-12-01T04:21:23Z")
I was on tenderhooks with baited breath reading this thread, but had to mark it with an asteriks pro term. It might be shellfish of me as an ex-patriot, but there was a chester drawers to clean out. ---
**Author:** ![Aspidistra](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspidistra/32/3894_2.png) [@Aspidistra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspidistra)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160/40 "2021-12-01T05:09:01Z")
> [@wjChia](#): > > and here i thought you were talking about the english spoken in my country I’m putting this on my big list of Things I Shoulda Known about … not like there aren’t plenty of Malaysian people at the Uni generally… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160.md?page=3)