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U (were) Doin It Rong
Ask MeFi thread on stuff people didn't realize they were doing/saying wrong: http://ask.metafilter.com/158740/You-were-doing-it-wrong
I also thought Alaska was an island until I was 18. Because on US maps
they put it in a box like Hawaii.
Public school geography is a thing of beauty.
Wow.
Husbands should be like Kleenex: Soft, strong, and disposable.
Re: U (were) Doin It Rong
I KNOW. I did the same thing. My mind was blown.
Husbands should be like Kleenex: Soft, strong, and disposable.
Perhaps this belongs in the other thread, but ...
I was an adult before I realized that Ensign was a military rank, and not just a popular first name in the future. I had only ever heard it on Star Trek.
Husbands should be like Kleenex: Soft, strong, and disposable.
I like this one:
When I was about nine, I heard the word "gangbang" somewhere. Naturally, I thought it described a big fight, so I happily used it this way until I was about 12, presumably mostly to other people who didn't know what it meant either. Then I was watching the Superbowl with my parents and about 20 players wound up in a huge pile. "It looks like the aftermath of a gangbang!" I said. My dad replied that a) it didn't and b) it wasn't really a word I should use. I later looked up gangbang in the massive dictionary at school (for that is what we did before the internet) and felt very silly and rather embarrassed. Even now, 27 years later, whenever I see the NFL in action, the first word I think of is "gangbang". Luckily I now live in the UK, so this isn't an everyday problem.
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
Oh lawwdd:
learning that wisdom is usually an outcome of life experience and rarely the privilege of the untried
posted by infini at 2:04 PM on July 6 [8 favorites]
Take your pretentious crap elsewhere. I'm trying to have fun here.
Wow. Don't these people read? I love the guy who blamed this on learning your vocabulary via reading. Uh, wrong dude. Exactly wrong.
I also love the guy who assed out on quixotic/Don Quixote.
It was until I was 8 or 9 - even after spending my childhood listening to the Beatles - that I realized that Ringo Starr was not Sinbad the comedian. When I saw Ringo on TV I thought he looked so much like a pirate that he must be this "Sinbad" I'd heard about.
Tears.
I thought Chanukah and Hanukkah were two different holidays, and that I'd just never heard the first one spoken since I'd never heard anyone say CHanukah. One day I was in line at the grocery store where I'd shopped for years. The person in line in front of me had a loaf of challah bread on the belt. The cashier said "Man! Isn't our HALLA bread just the best?!? And I immediately said to myself "OMG Chanukah is Hanukah!" I was 25.
Tears.
Husbands should be like Kleenex: Soft, strong, and disposable.
I made it all the way to middle school thinking the third monday in January was milk day.
I had to hover over the link to get this one, but OMG!!
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
My reading group of mostly phDs just had a discussion about this. Two thought it was pronounced kee-hoe-tick. The rest convinced them that, although given its origins, it should be pronounced that way but isn't.
Wait a minute, wait a minute:
Learned that you do not pronounce the L in "salmon" or "almond".
Who doesn't pronounce the L in almond?
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
I spent a few minutes sitting here repeating "almond" over and over and while it no longer seems like a real word to me, it definitely has a defined L in it.
Husbands should be like Kleenex: Soft, strong, and disposable.
My sister and I used to think "handjob" was another word for "manicure." Our parents are immigrants who don't speak much English, so they never corrected us. Oh, we were so innocent back then...
hahahahahahaha
Whoa. WHOA.
Chaise Longue - I'd always read it as "chaise lounge".
I still see it as "chaise lounge" in a lot of places that should know better.
Husbands should be like Kleenex: Soft, strong, and disposable.
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
Husbands should be like Kleenex: Soft, strong, and disposable.
"For a year or more, I spent an hour and a half driving into the city during my morning commute one way. Then, in an effort to avoid some bridge construction, I took a slightly different route, and literally cut the commute time in half."
My god, I would be so bitter and mad at myself.
Mucho likes purple nails and purple cupcakes
Mind = blown
The hair grows in thick where the horn used to be.
No, I agree with them. You can have an excellent vocabulary from reading, but if you never hear the words out loud, how do you know how to pronounce them? Especially English, in which pronunciations are so irregular.
When I was 7 or 8 I used the word "cacophony" when I was talking with my mom. I had read it in a book, used it correctly, but said it "Cacka-phony". She looked at me funny, realized what I was trying to say, and explained to me I really meant cuh-CAH-fun-ee.
The hair grows in thick where the horn used to be.
Had a previous girlfriend start spontaneously sobbing in the car as we were driving along. I had no idea what the problem was, so I asked.
Eventually, she eeks out, "That's so sad, I've never seen a hearse built just for babies before."
I looked in my rear-view mirror: a PT cruiser. They had recently been introduced, not very common yet.
This kind of stuff happened all the time with her.
Bwahahahahahaha!
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
I think they look more like clown hearses. I once expressed this to my college roommate and she paused and said brightly "I know! I tell my mom all the time that she'd look great driving one!"
Note: Her mom was not a clown.
Husbands should be like Kleenex: Soft, strong, and disposable.
Agreed. Even now, I have moments where I'll go to use a word I've used dozens of times in papers or email or something and realize I've never actually said it out loud and have no idea how to say it.
Husbands should be like Kleenex: Soft, strong, and disposable.
"That chick wins at Penises, for sure." -- Fenton
J and I went to dinner with a friend couple once and the boys were using hegemony (huh-jim-eny) and my friend and I both said "THAT'S how you pronounce that? I thought it was hedge-uh-moany."
I once got a paper where a student used physod. Facade.
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If I were a man (or fitty) I'd totally call my penis THE WIZARD - HappyTummy
I went to high school with a girl who had originally thought blowjobs involved blowing.
I've had to teach dozens of kids and several adults that the hand that forms the L is the Left. I've also had to explain that Alaska is not in fact next to Hawaii but only to children thankfully.
I think I need to encourage a few friends to post on there. I was talking about teaching direction to 6th graders and mentioned the majority of them pointed up when asked to point North. More than one person didn't see what was wrong with that.
I have been pronouncing quixotic, cacaphony, and hedgemony wrong in my head every time I read them. Luckily, I don't think I have ever said them out loud.
But, I did know the faze/phase thing, so I can't be that dumb, right?