Badger Loc: Fort Worth, Texas

Just spent a 1/2 day with a group of folks with cameras. Cameras that ranged from old Leicas to a Nikon 7000. People who you would think would know better. People that pronounce the word "picture" as PITCHER (someone who tosses something or a container for liquid) instead of (phonetically) PICT-CHUR. It is a very subtle thing but it sets my teeth on edge. Guess I am WAY too nit-picky but it is like someone pronounces your child's name wrong. I KNOW I'm gonna get flamed for this one.

snowbear

I know what you mean. A couple that really dive me crazy are NEW-CUE-LAR (nuclear) and SO-DER (soda).

MarkH Loc: Cape Coral, FL

Let me AX you this.
Did that make you crazy? J/K

Fifty-Fifty Loc: Arkansas

ya'll make me laugh tis extremely picky to be a picking on ones speech patterns yes they may be teeth grinding noises to you but if you understood what they were saying then the effectively communicated with you, and that my friends is what truly matters ..ex it can be yelled FIRE or FYR or FAYR but it all says the same thing look out or you might get burned...

hlmichel Loc: New Hope, Minnesota

Lol.

My personal favorite NUH-IN for nothing.

fthomas Loc: Philippines

Of course! You live in Texas. As a diplaced Texan I still enjoy the colloquial pronunciations of various words. My daughter lives in Memphis and it really gets interesting there.

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

Alas, the language of the young is changing rapidly. They abbreviate every thing, they are the Hi5 Flipflop generation. Giving the Hi 5 - no hand shake and wearing flip-flops - no shoes. Eventually some ol dude will go for an interview and be rejected for trying to shake hands!! rather than giving the hi5. Man he was weird, with those ol shoes on!! Get the Pitcher?

Badger Loc: Fort Worth, Texas

[quote=MarkH]Let me AX you this.
Did that make you crazy? J/K

ROFL! It sure used to! For quite a while I kept a double headed ax on my desk with the hickory handle cut down to about a foot. When one of my truck drivers would come into my office and say "MR C, can I ax you som...." I would quickly grab the ax, jump back further behind my desk and say something to the effect of "You try and ax me, and I'll ax you too, but if you want to ASK me something, we can talk! Those were the same PROFESSIONAL truck drivers that had NO CLUE how many feet in a mile or how many feet in a yard (information needed to mentally calculate safe following and stopping distance). I guess you can make allowances for some people, but the folks referring to a photograph as a "pitcher" today, ALL had secondary degrees. The only other hot button I have is self imposed stupidity. What was it my grandfather used to tell me..."Better to remain quiet and possibly be regarded a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt?

Fifty-Fifty Loc: Arkansas

AS a Used to be PROFESSIONAL truck driver I must come forward and defend my brethren.Yes there are those that can not tell you the amount of feet in a mile or yard, I'll agree,, But when you see one of those "dumb" truck drivers take a 53 footer and thread it thru the streets of chicago , and I mean the old part of town , you have to ask yourself Would knowing the number of feet in a mile have made any difference... nope you don't need to know the feet to calculate stopping distance its a skill you learn , as a million miler with no accidents I can say if I had stopped to do the math in my head I never would have got stopped in time when that four wheeler popped into my lane giving me barely enough time to create the safe distance needed to stop when he hit the brakes

snowbear

In all fairness, stopping and following distances can be calculated in vehicle lengths or time interval.

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

It is difficult for people to realize that brains are so different and that back ground are additionally such a strong influence on a persons station in life. I was accused of being a Carmelina by a lady friend who was a professor of language specializing in non-verbal communications. She said I assumed the identity/persona/mannerisms, similar to those of the person with whom I was communicating. I guess to blend is to befriend and I may well have axed them a question er tu.

That mimic skill was perhaps, as best as I can analyze, a defense learned early as a boy who spoke sothernese in a Northern Michigan school environment. My first grade teacher loved to have me read aloud so she could laugh at my ten/tin words that were mispronounced. Add to that the fact that I had 4 sisters and was mistaken as a youth for one of them when answering the phone and I was primed to have a strong deep voice with very correct diction and commanding style and added the ability to assume the sound of the area or audience, even if only one. A psychiatrist at the university where I worked told me that my greatest vulnerability in life would be my assumption that every one was as strong as I and could overcome their problems with force of will. That warning has proven its self true many times, especially assuming people to be as honest as I am.

While I learned a lot about people in supervision and consulting, the real education was in education. After I retired I took the teachers exams and became a Math/Science teacher with Special Education certification. Each of the three years I taught, in addition to regular teaching duties, I looked after the cases of about 20 students with learning difficulties and the behavioral difficulties that resulted. Dealing with them, one realizes that while from the same assembly line, not all FM radios are the same, a few parts may be defective and a few wires crossed. To change the course of their lives, tho perhaps a minor change, was a great ego/accomplishment boost to me .. a thing of pride.

The truck drivers who Axed you something like Jessie Jackson, was speaking a dialect and did not hear in his mind the difference between ask and ax. In a sense it is a foreign language. Indeed, you were lucky one with anger control did not really ax you in the skull. Dealing with these learning disabled children you develop tolerance and compassion - it is being human and it is doing a job you have taken on.

The truck driver for example has skills to remember routs sit for long hours and focus on the job at hand, an ability I do not, nor do I want, to have.

I have rambled on with many words to say what 50/50 said in a few. Appreciate the abilities of others for they may differ from ours however they are a needed cog in the machine.

So, since this is a photo forum, let us tolerate each others camera brand, type, and shooting skill. The next "Button" that is pushed should be on a camera,,, enjoy.

arthur Baum

i'm in your camp entirely. i also get annoyed at people who use "myself" out of context. it's a reflexive pronoun and is only to be used when the subject is "I."

and then there's the month of February. when did it become "Febyouary?"

BBNC

Yeah, I know what all of you mean. When I attended my daughter's H.S. graduation, I had the opportunity to speak with her 12th grade English teacher. She could not speak good old American English. Made me wonder how she could teach it! She was born and raised in the US, of parents also born and raised here. It just grated my teeth!

Julian Loc: Sarasota, FL

How about NAS CAR instead of NICE CAR? I understand that is where NASCAR originated... in the hills.

Jimtebo Loc: Alhambra, IL

In every area of the US there are differant ways of pronouncing words, here in the midwest, they can't seem to pronounce an O, for instance when referring to God, they pronounce it Gaad, they don't stop at a stop sign, they staap at a stop sign. There is a town in Ma just outside of Boston called Medford, the long time locals call it Mefford.

How many people and more than likely you, pronounce February and Wednesday correctly.

All of these are subtle so as much as they drive some of us crazy we have to get used to it.