Have I told you all lately why

[conuly]

this sort of shit just isn't funny?

It wasn't funny when it started, and it sure as hell isn't funny now, years after the fact.

Find a new joke.
One that's relevant.

Hell, I'll even repeat my list.

Ways we know Bush is stupid:

His foreign policy is non-existant
He thinks people believe his lies (well....)
He thinks abstinence-only education works
Etc.

Things which DO NOT prove his stupidity:

He speaks with an accent (nuculer, al quader)
He has problems speaking (this could be a learning disability or a simple problem of poor verbal performance. We all do that)
He's clumsy (oh wow. He fell off a bike! He's an idiot! Along with everybody else who can't ride a bike! LOLOL!!!!11111)
We can find a funny picture that makes him look like a chimp (just stop insulting our friend, the chimp.)

See the difference?

Comments

[conuly]

What letter sounds aren't in the word, though?

I know, you're gonna say the "y", right?

So, do you say cue the same as coo?

[marveen.livejournal.com]

In our local dialect *gives you a direct look*, cue is pronounced more or less the same as coo, oddly enough. One infers from context.

(Sidebar on accents v. dialects: I was fairly amazed when I first heard a British accent making "flaw" and "floor" sound alike.)

Further on our local dialect: I speak as I write, or at least I use all the same words in the same order. I do have an accent, which means I don't always pronounce all the letters. *phonetic rendering* F'r instance, th' speech pattern Ah was raised with drops th' end vowels a good deal o' th' time, an' frequently slurs over endin' consonance as well.

[conuly]

In our local dialect *gives you a direct look*, cue is pronounced more or less the same as coo, oddly enough. One infers from context.

What, seriously?

COOL!

I should've asked what the apostrophe in whole nother means. *sighs*

[eofs.livejournal.com]

You would, I imagine, be delighted to know of the Dutch city 's hertogenbosch :0)

[marveen.livejournal.com]

It's standing in for the "a" which is normally at the beginning of "another."

I don't know the origin of the phrase, it just struck me as a way of adding emphasis.

[conuly]

Wait. So you'd actually say "whole another"? Don't people usually say "whole other"? Can "another" be used in that way?

*giggles maniacally*

[marveen.livejournal.com]

Around here "whole 'nother" is much more common. Dropping the "a" eliminates a whole syllable, and you have to slow down to enunciate "whole [elided glottal stop] other."

[conuly]

But, see, technically "whole another" is considered to be incorrect. The phrase is "whole other". You're not dropping off an a, you're adding an n.

[marveen.livejournal.com]

"That's not [incorrect]. It's considered to be a valid dialectal difference."

*snerk* I thought you defended adding letters at random to words on the basis that if it was widely done then it must be a dialect.

I put the apostrophe in since we both know good and well that there is no such word as "nother". In similar manner, I spell it "should've" rather than type the incorrect-but-phonetically-accurate "should of".

[conuly]

*snerk* I thought you defended adding letters at random to words on the basis that if it was widely done then it must be a dialect.

Random? Hardly.

Point is, you don't.

Since you're a prescriptivist, you should know better than to say things like "whole 'nother" or "whole another" when both of those are nonstandard.

See, *I* can say those things. Freely. Because they do exist in my dialect. But you can't, because they do NOT exist in the standard dialect, and certainly not in the prescriptivist dialect.

I put the apostrophe in since we both know good and well that there is no such word as "nother". In similar manner, I spell it "should've" rather than type the incorrect-but-phonetically-accurate "should of".

Yeah, I know. But there's also no standard phrase "whole another". The phrase is "whole other" and that's what you should've written, as you consider the standard to be correct.

*grins widely*

This was largely pointless, but.

[marveen.livejournal.com]

Pointless but fun. *grins* Sorry I couldn't resist pulling your leg like that.

I suppose, being prescriptivist and all, I should enunciate more clearly as well. (See further up the thread for phonetic accent rendering.)

[conuly]

Hey, all in good fun.

I suppose, being prescriptivist and all, I should enunciate more clearly as well.

I'd agree, but I have to go back to making my prescriptivist voodoo dolls um... pizza.