Re: OFF-TOPIC: Misspoken... Sort Of
| From: | Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, May 25, 2004, 4:43 |
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Emily Zilch wrote:
> On 2004 May 24, Nik Taylor wrote: "I've never heard it, but it sounds
> like something I might say as a joke (the same way I sometimes say
> /'pAt@to/ for potato or /'&b@"l&m@/ for "Alabama")"
>
> My top five favorite misspoken/idiolectal forms (phonemicised where
> appropriate using duct tape [what website has the conlang sound
> standards?])
>
> 5. Predizent - titular (*snicker*) leader of the USA
> 4. Nucular - I don't USE this one, I just fall down laughing every time
> G Bush does. If I had a nickel for each time...
> 3. Kansas ("CANS awe") - street names here are all state names
> 2. Arkansas ("are can SASS") - ditto
> 1. Canadia - amusing malapropism derived from Canadian
>
Happy to say, not guilty of any of those (esp. #4 which is not only barbaric
but iggerant as well coming from a graduate of Andover and Yale), with the
occasional exception of No. 1 (and Long Live Hungaria, too, while we're at
it).
But for years I consistenty mis-spelled lizzard and diminuitive/diminuition.
Danny Wier also wrote: "Depending on what part of Texas you're in, you might
also hear other dyslalias...." My favorite character in "King of the Hill"
is Boomhauer (and his relatives) who speak an utterly incomprehensible
dialect. Mrs. Hill's Spanish is pretty good, too.
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