Topic: The Apparently Necessary Random Stuff Thread (Read 933785 times)

Wunderkind · « **Reply #3025 on:** March 24, 2008, 07:57:14 AM »

Quote from: dcrog on March 24, 2008, 06:59:45 AM

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/disorientated

To disorient. Past tense.

...yep

Quote from: Wunderkind on March 24, 2008, 05:19:36 AM

Ah. I see now. We won't go into my fierce hatred of Random House. I'll save that for the Flamer's Corner.

That being said,

thus is the evolution of language. However, I agree with you. Disorientated is the most awkard word I've ever pronounced, it's like saying evict-icated.

(Or uniquer... U'-ni-ker... uniquer... )

(Is that the only source on the internet of disorientated actually being a word?)

dcrog · « **Reply #3026 on:** March 24, 2008, 08:34:31 AM »

That's strange. Posts 3021-3023 weren't there this morning when I posted my last response, almost two hours later than the time they were posted. The only thing after Wunderkind's post was canoftuna's.

Makes me look like an idiot, but I guess some things never change.

Wunderkind · « **Reply #3027 on:** March 24, 2008, 08:39:11 AM »

Quote from: dcrog on March 24, 2008, 08:34:31 AM

That's strange. Posts 3021-3023 weren't there this morning when I posted my last response, almost two hours later than the time they were posted. The only thing after Wunderkind's post was canoftuna's.

Makes me look like an idiot, but I guess some things never change.

Maybe you're computer was stuck in a time warp. Mentioning Random House, Inc. seems to do that to people and objects, but, again, that's a rant I'll save for when I'm in a really bitchy mood and want to post in the Flamer's Corner.

No fear.

LuciferSam · « **Reply #3028 on:** March 24, 2008, 08:50:32 AM »

That's a great one, 'rog. I'm going to use it the next time I have a senior moment as well!

dcrog · « **Reply #3029 on:** March 24, 2008, 08:52:18 AM »

Perhaps the old timers disease is kicking in.

LuciferSam · « **Reply #3030 on:** March 24, 2008, 08:54:52 AM »

Memopocalypse

ydnamtnediserp · « **Reply #3031 on:** March 24, 2008, 07:31:08 PM »

Quote from: 12AX7 on March 24, 2008, 01:44:20 AM

Disoriented, or disorientated? I learned "disoriented", and have always used that, so "disorientated" sounded like a misspoken word. Imagine my suprise to learn they are both real words.
"Disorientated" sounds like "broke-tified" or something like that.

i have the same beef with "systemically." i understand it's a word, but it sounds so freakin' foreign to me- i've always known it to be "systematically." i cringe anytime i hear someone at work say, "systemically" to a cardmember. i absolutely hate it.

pbsaurus · « **Reply #3032 on:** March 24, 2008, 08:04:59 PM »

Systemically is more of a medical term that a process term.

ydnamtnediserp · « **Reply #3033 on:** March 24, 2008, 08:10:03 PM »

is it? well, good- all the more reason for me to hate hearing it at work.

12AX7 · « **Reply #3034 on:** March 24, 2008, 09:02:42 PM »

They are actually totally different meaning words. Systematically refers to having a 'system' or 'procedure' for doing something; usually "step-by-step".
Systemic (or sytemically) refers to characteristics of a system or method.
("The problems in this corporation are systemic." - ie; the problem is in "how they run things" - not one person, one policy, or one situation.)
Clear as mud now?

12AX7 · « **Reply #3035 on:** March 24, 2008, 09:05:27 PM »

Same meaning applied to medical use as well; only the 'systems' referred to are body/mind functions.

"The disease is systemic" as opposed to, say, just one nerve being damaged.

ydnamtnediserp · « **Reply #3036 on:** March 24, 2008, 09:06:25 PM »

clear, yes.

i still hate the word.

Vespertine · « **Reply #3037 on:** March 25, 2008, 12:01:37 AM »

I feel that way about oriented/orientated thing and also commented/commentated.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #3038 on:** March 25, 2008, 10:38:21 AM »

There was an incompetent programmer with whom I used to work who used to mispronounce the word "encapsulate".

She used to say "enscapulate". It drove me batshit nuts.

pickled kitten · « **Reply #3039 on:** March 25, 2008, 01:30:40 PM »

Quote from: Demosthenes on March 25, 2008, 10:38:21 AM

There was an incompetent programmer with whom I used to work who used to mispronounce the word "encapsulate".

She used to say "enscapulate". It drove me batshit nuts.

It drives me nuts when my BF pronounces STAMINA as STANIMA.

canoftuna · « **Reply #3040 on:** March 25, 2008, 03:33:13 PM »

Quote from: pickled kitten on March 25, 2008, 01:30:40 PM

It drives me nuts when my BF pronounces STAMINA as STANIMA.

I've.. been guilty of that one before.

Speaking of completely butchering pronunciations of words, when I was about 13 or so, I added the word "epitome" to my vocabulary. To my embarrassment, I had been pronouncing it as "e-pit-tome," and I had been using it for weeks until a teacher gently corrected me.

Wunderkind · « **Reply #3041 on:** March 25, 2008, 03:47:55 PM »

I pronounced "asterik" as "as-er-tisk" up until college.
Then again, I live in North Carolina. If you want to hear mispronounced words, come, live here, where evict-icated is something your land-lord can do to you if you don't pay your rent.

Tprime · « **Reply #3042 on:** March 25, 2008, 05:41:40 PM »

I hate it when people can't pronounce "Aluminum". Some people say "Alunimum".
I also don't like it when people pronounce "Either" "Ee-ther". It just bothers me, I don't know why. Probably because it sounds like a donkey.

Wunderkind · « **Reply #3043 on:** March 25, 2008, 06:42:39 PM »

So I found out from the vet today that my cat has a dermititis that she got from being allergic to fleas.

To fix the problem, I have to give her a scrub bath, wherein I get her all lathered up and let the soap soak on her skin from anywhere from ten to fifteen minutes.

No really, I'm going have a wet, soapy cat sitting in her kennel glaring at me with death in her eyes for ten to fifteen minutes, and the vet's assistant is saying it so flippantly, like the cat's not going to go piss on everything once I'm done with the bath.

There are moments when being a cat owner are so worth it...

This is not one of them. (Then again she will be happier once she's dry and done taking out her revenge.)

EDIT: Having completed the task, it's official, my cat now hates me, and wants to kill me and everyone of my family members.

Tprime · « **Reply #3044 on:** March 25, 2008, 10:03:47 PM »

That's different from normal?

My cat tried to kill my whole family daily.

ydnamtnediserp · « **Reply #3045 on:** March 25, 2008, 10:58:29 PM »

canoftuna · « **Reply #3046 on:** March 25, 2008, 11:09:12 PM »

Quote from: ydnamtnediserp on March 25, 2008, 10:58:29 PM

That's the funniest image I've seen in a while, haha!

Wunderkind · « **Reply #3047 on:** March 25, 2008, 11:23:21 PM »

Offensive?

For once the man is pictured in his true form. One should never be encouraged to hide their true self.

xolik · « **Reply #3048 on:** March 26, 2008, 10:37:59 AM »

People actually bitched out that? It's not like they purposely photoshopped in evil demon eyes like what happened with Condi Rice.

pbsaurus · « **Reply #3049 on:** March 26, 2008, 01:28:54 PM »

Bizarre optical illusion my ass.

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