# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160/41 "2021-12-01T05:12:45Z")
Don’t be such a pre-Madonna! ---
**Author:** ![phs3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8491ac/32.png) [@phs3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phs3)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160/42 "2021-12-01T05:23:21Z")
There’s a pretty good subreddit, r/BoneAppleTea, dedicated to this. One that I quite liked from real life is a friend’s daughter, who thought clothespins were CLOSEpins, because that’s all she’d ever seen them used for! ---
**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, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160/43 "2021-12-01T05:52:24Z")
In your defense, mangled english is a pretty apt description of Manglish! ---
**Author:** ![tavaritz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/71e660/32.png) [@tavaritz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tavaritz)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160/44 "2021-12-01T10:45:08Z")
> [@wjChia](#): > > and here i thought you were talking about the english spoken in my country I’ve been in Malaysia and had some delicious aiskreem with kopi. ---
**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, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160/45 "2021-12-01T10:50:25Z")
> [@phs3](#): > > r/BoneAppleTea Oh, thank you for this, my new favorite subreddit. First thing I saw there: [https://imgur.com/QQ8EMWi](https://imgur.com/QQ8EMWi) ---
**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, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160/46 "2021-12-01T10:54:59Z")
OK, one more: A woman on r/BoneAppleTea posted that she was living bi-curiously through her daughter. 😳 mmm ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160/47 "2021-12-01T12:37:04Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > OK, one more: A woman on r/BoneAppleTea posted that she was living bi-curiously through her daughter. That’s one of the subplots of the wonderful film “Being John Malkovich”! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jerseymule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jerseymule/32/3155_2.png) [@jerseymule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerseymule)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160/48 "2021-12-01T13:18:34Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > 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”. He’s been diagnosed “perinoid skitso frantic.” ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160/49 "2021-12-01T15:59:38Z")
> [@Spoons](#): > > A friend cannot seem to say, “Covid.” It comes out “Corvid.” I always want to ask him if he’s referring to a crow. I’ve mentioned before that I pronounce it that way in memory of our neighborhood crows who were wiped out by the last epidemic, West Nile Virus. Plus, I like being a troll like that. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160/50 "2021-12-01T16:19:59Z")
He pitches with his right arm on dry land, and with his left when he’s walking on water. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160/51 "2021-12-01T16:33:04Z")
I do, sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![veryfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2021, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160/52 "2021-12-01T17:01:36Z")
So many comments to make… My personal pet peeve is “on accident.” No. It’s “by accident” or “accidentally.” And this may sound like a corny joke but it actually happened on my dorm floor in my second year at uni. We had this one girl on our floor who was…not the sharpest knife in the drawer, to put it mildly. We also had a guy who was originally from France, but by way of New Jersey, so he was fluently bilingual with nary a trace of a French accent. And one morning he was explaining café au lait to her, big bowl you hold with two hands, that’s how they drink it in France. “Wait, it’s French?” “Yeah, of course. Café…au…lait.” “Ohhhhhh…I thought it was Spanish! You know, café olé!” and she even made the “ta-da” hand gesture. Everyone just stifled their snickers as much as possible and left the scene as quickly as they could. This thread title also reminded me of Wenglish. I study Welsh, and one of the tricky bits in the language is the word order, typically a bit different from English. A standard sentence is VSO as opposed to English’s SVO. But the emphasis in a sentence is often moved up to the beginning. So native Welsh speakers, when speaking English, often have a sentence structure that’s a bit Yoda-like. “Furious, he was.” “Very tasty, this meal is.” and so forth. Needless digression, I know. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2021, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160/53 "2021-12-02T04:24:13Z")
Very fascinating, your needless digression is. ---
**Author:** ![the\_art\_of\_rolling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/59ef9b/32.png) [@the\_art\_of\_rolling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_art_of_rolling)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2021, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160/54 "2021-12-02T11:56:47Z")
My favourite t.v. subtitle was when “the Archbishop of Canterbury” was rendered as “the arch bitch of Canterbury”. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Downtown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Mr\_Downtown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Downtown)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2021, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160/55 "2021-12-03T05:10:20Z")
Fifty years ago, in junior high, I remember reading some 1950s humorist’s essay about “skid-talking:” the crash collision of metaphors. It’s a malady that afflicts my brother-in-law, sometimes to my great amusement when I hear him telling an employee to “put his shoulder to the grindstone” or dismisses a complaint as being “water over the bridge.” A quick search of the Web turned up [this, which sounds familiar](http://novellemagarets.blogspot.com/2015/01/are-you-a-skid-talker-lets-talk-about.html) enough that it might be cribbed from the essay I remember. ---
**Author:** ![kitap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@kitap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitap)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2021, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160/56 "2021-12-04T06:30:44Z")
Embarrassingly, I just did this. I wrote and keep up to date the night audit check list at work. I was going through it the other night, and there was a sentence that made no sense. I read it several times, then fixed it while blushing. ---
**Author:** ![Bonum\_Legatum](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bonum_legatum/32/6183_2.png) [@Bonum\_Legatum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bonum_Legatum)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2021, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160/57 "2021-12-05T11:54:55Z")
> [@Mr\_Downtown](#): > > ifty years ago, in junior high, I remember reading some 1950s humorist’s essay about “skid-talking:” “Skid-talking” from _Do You Talk Double-Take_ by Corey Ford. Defined as “…more than a slip of the tongue. It’s a slip of the whole mind.” Two examples from the essay: “From time immoral.” “I may be wrong, but I’m not far from it” ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2021, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160/58 "2021-12-05T17:32:19Z")
A few years ago I saw a graffito that said, > Never stop giving up. I can’t decide whether the artist was an idiot or a genius. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2021, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160/59 "2021-12-05T23:50:42Z")
In the trash disposal shed at the factory where I worked, there was a sign, probably fished out of the painters’ shop trash, “Authoried personnel only.” Ever since I saw it, I wanted to have a sign made saying, “Unauthorized personnel only! If you belong here, get out!” In my garage, there’s a magnetic sign I swiped just before the factory closed. It says, “CLEAN SOIL”. It was meant for fill dirt uncontaminated by chemicals, but it just seems wrong. Soil is, you know, soiled. ---
**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 5, 2021, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160/60 "2021-12-05T23:52:57Z")
Building sites around here all have a sign “Hard hats must be worn on this site!”. Yet I often see brand new ones in use. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-manglish-from-the-wild/955160.md?page=4)