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- Feb 5, 2004
and "fillum" instead of "film. "
Tell that to the Irish!!!!
Ant <who has a an Irish friend called Colm who he thought was called Collin for about 3 months until i saw his name written down!>
and "fillum" instead of "film. "
I have another one.........when people call their computer a "puter." My puter isn't working right now. My puter is old. I need to install an antivirus program on my puter............you know what that sounds like????
Dee
By the way Piel, how is your puter???
Dee
Huh? Not sure about how it relates to things fitting or not, and "synergy" may indeed be annoyingly overused/misused in Jargon Land, but it is a real word.
My dictionary gives a first use date as 1660 and defines it as "1: synergism; broadly: combined action or operation 2: a mutually advantageous conjunction or compatability of distinct business participants or elements (as resources or efforts)"
The definition for "synergism," dated 1910, is "interaction of discrete aencies (as industrial firms), agents (as drugs), or conditions such that the total effect is greater than the sum of the individual effects"
My husband says: Chicargo...
It takes all of my love & dedication to our marriage not to smack him around while yelling: "THERE IS NO DAMN R IN CHICAGO!!!"
Do you let us Brits off for pronouncing it Chicargo? It can't really be helped with an English accent!
Ant
For you Ant, anything... for a man who was raised in Detroit, absolutely not!
My husband says: Chicargo...
It takes all of my love & dedication to our marriage not to smack him around while yelling: "THERE IS NO DAMN R IN CHICAGO!!!"
KW, you just make me laugh so hard!!!
Dee
"defiantly"? So passionate...
ah...but this one's spelled "coop".
Did you mean "acceptable" instead of "expectable"? Also, I've never thought of this particular mis-speak as self-centered--that's a bit of a stretch for me. Most times poor grammar of this nature is simply a result of failure to learn the language properly as opposed to willful self-importance.
I guess one of the things that bugs me is people who don't use adverbs properly. "He took me serious" instead of saying the correct "seriously", or "Drive careful" instead of "carefully"...ugh...