Yippee-IA, Motherf***ers! IRRATIONALLY ANGRY PT. 2: Irrationally Angrier

It makes me a little IA that the "correct" pronunciation of Spanish-named states is the non-Spanish pronunciation

I don't know if I could live in a nation of Peggy Hills talking about seeing the skies in Nuevo Meh Hee Ko.

Shocking myself every time I hang my coat up at work.

It makes me a little IA that the "correct" pronunciation of Spanish-named states is the non-Spanish pronunciation

The Spanish pronunciation of Nevada and Colorado isn't the same as either American pronunciation.

Anyway I think we can all agree that people who say O-re-gone are disgusting savages. Much worse than people who pronounce the "s" in Illinois.

I suppose this one is rational, but is it bad when your dad forgets your birthday, but does manage to call/text you twice to ask for money during said day?

(w/e, it's not going to ruin my day, he's grown more and more disappointing as he's gotten older, and I'm sure in two hours the apologies will start flooding in which he'll somehow turn into his own self-deprecation).

maybe one for rationally angry thread

Broke my fp button on mookie, currently awaiting repair guy

I got all my pronounciations from Perry Como's "Delaware"

Much worse than people who pronounce the "s" in Illinois.

who in the hell does this.

People from rural parts of NC, definitely.

Sufjan

Sufjan Stevens.

XP!!!!!

That's like pronouncing it Lake Mitchagain.

We states with silent s's on the end gotta stick together.

I know an elderly person who pronounces "Chicago" as "Chicargo." I find that charming, though.

I hear a few people do it, but these are the same people who pronounce 'aluminum' as "al-yoo-minn-ee-um"

one of the old NBA broadcasters (can't remember who) used to say it "Chi-coe-go"

also love how Mark Jackson says 'point guard' like it's "point GOD"

I can't pronounce aluminum either. Just spelled it right on the first try though, yay me.

the weirdest mispronunciation I ever heard was during PMLP training certification course. One of the lead facilitators kept saying the word "characteristics" as 'char-iss-tiks', leaving half of the word out.

Andrew Jackson apparently used to pronounce development devil opp mint.

ppl mispronounce georgia alot

Joe-JUH

we had a new girl in fifth grade and her first day she pronounced arkansas 'r kansas' and the entire class including the teacher burst out in laughter for like five minutes

I was watching something recently and a bunch of characters supposedly from Oregon were all saying Ore-a-gone and I kind of had an aneurysm. Same when I hear Spo-cane which is just egregiously wrong but not an entire state. Idahoans also say "boyce-ee" instead of "boy-zee" but that's a bit more subtle.

we had a new girl in fifth grade and her first day she pronounced arkansas 'r kansas' and the entire class including the teacher burst out in laughter for like five minutes

Rightfully so, too. I mean, how in the world could somebody make that mistake?

But Georgia? What?

I mean, look. there are ways to pronounce a name, but then there are regional inflections that come to play. Someone calling New Orleans Nawlins doesn't qualify here. Someone calling it New Ore Leeeeens does.

So joejuh, that's somone's accent hitting the word. are there people out there calling it jor-GEE-uh or something?

kids in school used to pronounce Korea "KORR-ee-uh".

doo-doo doo-doo-doo-doo doo-doo doo-doo-doo-doo doo doo

are there people out there calling it jor-GEE-uh or something?

― pplains, Thursday, November 14, 2013 12:48 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes. Alison Krauss. Had no idea what the fuck she was singing on "Oh, Atlanta." "On my way back to...judge a Jew?"

leo frank joke in there somewhere

In non-pronunciation IA developments, I noticed an adult man in the gym locker room the other day who went to the effort of bringing his clothing into one of the shower stalls to get dressed. He didn't turn the shower on, just hid out there while changing.

For some reason this made me angry, or maybe just sad - how can it be so hard to just suck it up and change your clothes where a bunch of other fat / hairy / otherwise imperfect and misshapen men are also occasionally briefly naked and nobody gives a shit?

Maybe he's trans.

Maybe he isn't circumcised.

Maybe he's trans.

― Ian from Etobicoke (Phil D.), Thursday, November 14, 2013 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Possible, I guess. I've seen this happen to varying degrees a couple of times with different people and would be shocked if they were all trans.

maybe they're trans fat.

I'm sort of surprised when young fit (pretty certainly cissexual) men shower in their workout shorts at the gym. I'm not big on group nudity, but for me, the awkward modesty would be more embarrassing.

I just want to say that for me, "Appalachian" has always been and will always be "apple-atch-uh" despite that being non-standard pronunciation. It's a little jarring when I "apple-aich-a."

Contrast: lady at my gym who was buck naked in the middle of the locker room blow drying her hair and showing off a vulva so thoroughly waxed I could clearly see her labia.

I mean work that labia, girl, I don't want to hate but I would have preferred she don a towel.

see you labia

lol at all the bemusement at these words being pronounced they way they're spelt

Elf on a Shelf. Fucking Elf on a Shelf makes me so irrationally angry. There are two people on my Facebook feed currently going back and forth sharing "staging" tricks for this year's Elf on a Shelf. This is fucking ridiculous and literally the worst forced marketing tradition ever.

You were gold on this thread: Bah Humbug

Elf on the Shelf is some creepy bullshit.

It gets worse.

http://media.cmgdigital.com/shared/img/videothumbs/2013/10/30/da/02/0ea15858-41a1-11e3-bfcc-0019b9b9e241.jpg

wow

Is that a hand that looks like an aeriel view of a helmet?

haha.

yeah the hand... you can definitely tell he's really Jewish.