Hmmmm.... how about .... won't make you go "eek" when you first meet face to face???
run away... run away...
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Hmmmm.... how about .... won't make you go "eek" when you first meet face to face???
run away... run away...
Okay, does anybody else sing "We've no fewer days to sing God's Praise" on that verse in amazing grace? (I don't sing it *loudly*... but I *am* in the choir... it's the folk process, I figure. Since the rest of the choir is Korean, they probably think it's an alternative pronuncation orsomething...)
Nope. Don't know that one, so can't even tell what's wrong, or guess what a Korean accent might be doing to it. But songs are a rich source of Engrish. I remember my Mom being puzzled about one popular rock song years ago. Why ever would they be singing "There's a bathroom on the right"? I'll leave you to guess the song, those of you old enough to remember it. ;)
1. My sister suggested that "non eecky" might be "non tecky" (sic, of course), since he had just said that he'd lost my number when switching to a new Blackberry.
2. He just called, and we are meeting for dinner after I pick up my race packet for the tri. He seems polite, funny, employed (financial analyst), is a triathlete, about my age, and ... we shall see. The beat goes on.
3. I sing "no less days". For some reason, less/fewer does not bother me. Maybe I'm so grouchy about other errors that this one doesn't fit in my grouch-bin. L.
I know the song! You may enjoy this site, then:Quote:
Originally Posted by bikeless in WI
http://www.kissthisguy.com/
Bad moon! Bad moon! And it's on the rise, people! :pQuote:
Originally Posted by bikeless in WI
THANK YOU.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dianyla
You have finally cleared up "Blinded By the Light" for me. I just knew that "reved up like a deuchent in the roter of the night" didn't make any sense. What the *H* is a "deuchent" anyway? Not to mention the roter of the night? Well, we never need to know now, do we?
That's better than what I always heard:
Wrapped up like a douche another runner in the night.....
:eek: :o
Quote:
Originally Posted by Lise
Both of these should go to Jay Leno for his Headlines segment.Quote:
Originally Posted by colby
Not as funny, but equally redundant..."PIN Number", "DSW Warehouse". OK now. It's either PI Number, and DS Warehouse, or it's just PIN and DSW. You cannot have it both ways...and yet...you do. :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by colby
PS, the date was great. By non eecky, he meant "not icky". Trying to reassure me that he was a nice guy. Communicates much better in person than email. I can't imagine that typing on a "blackberry" helps matters.
Wow Lise, glad the guy was truly non-eecky. I get the Blackberry thing. When I am on my Treo, capitals go out the window and my big thumbs often hit the wrong key
ok I just have to share this. I was looking at this forum for the second time with my boyfriend and I said..."who is Sticky he sure has a lot of responses" no wait it gets better... then I said "I am pretty sure I have seen him on other forums too he must have a lot of time on his hands" :D After my BF stopped rolling on the floor (about 10 minutes later) he explained it to me.
My favorite wrong lyric moment occured at a farm - a bunch of us were all doing mundane chores in the seed room and singing the Beatles song "Michelle" - and during the line in French, Smokey Joe belts out
"Someday, monkeys won't play piano songs, play piano songs..."
we all froze, Joe sang a another line or 2 then realized the room had gone silent...."What? What?"
When we finished howling and explained, he petulantly pointed out that it wasn't any more senseless than "I am the Walrus, koo koo kachoo"
Saw this on Craig's list and had enough of a chuckle that I thought I'd share:
Fabulous established pompous grass free to you.
We are trying to make room in our yard, to do that we are giving away our recently trimmed low (to make it easy for transport) fabulous pompous grass plant. It is at least 15 years old, is large and very healthy.
It will also tick off all of your other landscape with its attitude.......
Ah ha! That explains how such an ecological disaster of imported flora is taking over the world - sheer ego.
I was at one of my best friends birthday's last night. And the birthday girl managed to drink a whole bottle of wine by herself. At one point she was trying to say emancipation instead she said emaculation. It was the funniest thing said all night almost fell out of my chair. She was laughing so hard at herself as well she announced she was cutting herself off then had a glass of champaign. I need to call her and see how she is feeling today?
In california you are not alloud to plant pompous grass any more. It chokes out the native plants!Quote:
Originally Posted by Eden
A glass of champaign, eh? Was this followed by a shot of Urbana?
-- Sue from Champaign-Urbana, IL, who is prone to sing "The night they invented champaign" on the way into town
No , lol!! Very funny!Quote:
Originally Posted by Geonz
I can't tell where the misspellings are on purpose or to be funny!
okay, on porpoise.
eeeek!:eek: :eek: :eek:
Scary, huh?Quote:
Originally Posted by mimitabby
That's what they call art (or jazz) - when you can't tell whether it's a mistake or improvisation :=)
How Jackson Pollock.
I've seen some great ones whilst flat hunting. The absolute winner would have to be "flatemates wanted"... :D
Why are you looking for flats? Don't they slow down your rides?Quote:
Originally Posted by tlkiwi
Sadie "very American" Kate:p
Flatemates tend to be fairly pompous. On porpoise.
K..eskimóes have 9 words for snow...you have to read this as it's just too funny....No matter how old it is!!!
What are the nine Eskimo words for snow?
16-Feb-1979
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Dear Cecil:
In view of the blizzards we frequently have here in the Great White Midwest, how about a vocabulary lesson? I've heard the Eskimos have nine words for snow. What are they? --Karen, Chicago
Dear Karen:
I've got a lot more than nine words for snow, and I don't even need to resort to Eskimo. This is because I have a powerful descriptive vocabulary.
However, if we must confine ourselves to Eskimo talk, I can still come up with quite a few terms, as long as you will let me throw in some words for ice too: kaniktshaq, snow; qanik, falling snow; anijo, snow on the ground; hiko (tsiko in some dialects), ice; tsikut, large broken up masses of ice; hikuliaq, thin ice; quahak, new ice without snow; kanut, new ice with snow; pugtaq, drift ice; peqalujaq, old ice; manelaq, pack ice; ivuneq, high pack ice; maneraq, smooth ice; akuvijarjuak, thin ice on the sea; kuhugaq, icicle; nilak, fresh water ice; and tugartaq, firm winter ice.
If we wish to include peripheral items we may speak of iglo, snow house (igloo); haviujaq, snow knife; puatlrit, snow shovel; uvkuag, block of snow for closing the door of a snow hut. I imagine after-dinner chats in Eskimoland must get a bit monotonous after a while, considering the restricted range of subject matter. Fortunately, they have about 20 words for trout to liven things up with.
Most of the preceding words are from the dialect of the Umingmaktormiut, a tribe living in the eastern part of arctic America. Since the necessary diacritical marks are not available, the spellings are a little on the approximate side. However, Eskimos are not such hot spellers anyway.
The problem with trying to pin down exactly how many Eskimo words there for snow and/or ice--or for anything, for that matter-- is that Eskimo is what is called a "polysynthetic" language, which means you sort of make up words as you go along, by connecting various particles to your basic root word. For example, we may add the suffix -tluk, bad, to kaniktshaq, snow, and come up with kaniktshartluk, bad snow.
By means of this system we may manufacture words that would fracture the jaw of an elk. To illustrate I offer the word takusariartorumagaluarnerpa, a chewy mouthful signifying: "Do you think he really intends to go look after it?" It takes nerve to flog your way through a word of this magnitude. That's why Eskimos are so laconic--they are conserving their strength for their next foray into their godawful grammar.
In my spare time I have been attempting to construct an Eskimo sentence in my basement, such as will be suitable for the season. I have not get it perfected yet, but it is coming along pretty well, and with a little work it might pass for the genuine article. So far I have: kaniktshaq moritlkatsio atsuniartoq.
When completed, this sentence will proclaim: "Look at all this freaking snow." At present it means: "Observe the snow. It fornicates." This is not poetic, but it is serviceable, and I intend to employ it at the next opportunity. Anyone who feels it would alleviate his or her tension is invited to do likewise. Should it be felt that this is too burdensome a load of verbiage to be hauling around all the time, one may avail oneself of the timeless Eskimo interjection anaq, ****. This is appropriate to a wide variety of situations.
--CECIL ADAMS
Dear CC,
I understand you are "down under" nowadays, and that, being on the flip side of the equator, you are just past the winter solistice. However, seeing as how you are a "canuk" as well, I trust you understand that it is painful for us to discuss snow when we actually are past the danger of seeing it for, oh, say, at least a few weeks. :eek:
In the long, cold, winter months here in the Great White Midwest, I will re-up this post, and practice my Eskimo sentence contruction. Now that I have "freaking", I just need "cold", "windy", and "too damn". I'm sure Uncle Cecil can help.....:p L.
"Eats, Shoots and Leaves" is a wonderful book on the lack of proper punctuation in society today (Two Weeks Notice, for example) - y'all will love it!
Oh - and a game! http://eatsshootsandleaves.com/ESLquiz.html
SadieKate "Why are you looking for flats? Don't they slow down your rides?"
Flats hunt me.
Don't you need a permit to hunt flats? I prefer the more humane "catch and release" method to flat hunting :rolleyes: ;)
Trek-ethnocentric-420
my son has been spending too much time on ebay. He is a french horn player
and found one for sale in china: I know why the Chinese are allowed to put things on ebay; for comic relief!!
We are Chinese craftwork products dealer And it is very important for inv As you know, the Chinese has long history around the world. This item you can see was does very wonderful all by hand. estigating the old Chinese culture. If you win it you will get good lucky. It is very wonderful. It is in good condition, no crack and no chip. Look at the pictures you can see the shape is very well. If you are Chinese collector, please do not miss so better
chance to get it.
Enjoying your bidding!
Today at the clinic, there is a notice posted by the time clock and on every table in the lunch room:
Dear colleagues, I lost my Winnie the Phoo lunch box....
Oh man. I am walking around saying "Winnie the Foo. Winnie the Foo." to myself for entertainment! :rolleyes: :p
sadly when I went to Japan in March, they weren't much better---we had to make sure no one was looking when we snapped this photo.....
You must submit that to engrish.com!
^^
will do!!
There's a sign at work I have to take a picture of, something like please excuse the construction to better improve the area.
Better improve??
Nanci
Improve it better than they improved it last time, please forgive, they didn't improve it so good last time, but this time it will be better improved...Quote:
Originally Posted by Nanci
OK! Every body sing along! Winnie the Foo! Winnie the Foo! Cubby little chubby all stuffed with fluff, he's Winnie the Foo! Winnie the Foo! Cubby little chubby ol' bear!
My mind is not my friend sometimes. :p
So does that mean Winnie's part of the Foo Fighters?
Edit: My bedrest is not going to be good for any of us.
If only you knew the many things I resist writing...
or my personal favourite?
picture a strip mall with the foot doctors' office in the very back.
The sign on the very busy street reads:
"Foot Doctor in Rear". :eek:
I kid you not!