Comments on: Do You Hear Yourself Speak? http://mikemywords.com/2010/02/23/do-you-hear-yourself-speak/ From the Brain of Mike McDowell Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:51:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mike McDowell http://mikemywords.com/2010/02/23/do-you-hear-yourself-speak/#comment-331 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:17:05 +0000 http://mikemywords.com/?p=351#comment-331 Yes! Good one. It’s another one of those times that people swap out a word for a similar sounding word and it completely changes the meaning. I guess it goes to show that we use phrases because we’ve heard other people use them, and then we echo what we thought we heard. We’ve really got to do a better job of thinking about what it is were saying.

]]> By: Cath http://mikemywords.com/2010/02/23/do-you-hear-yourself-speak/#comment-330 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:19:53 +0000 http://mikemywords.com/?p=351#comment-330 How funny – I was just thinking about annoying malapropisms today and came across your blog. Good work! My pet hate is people saying “I’m not adverse to” instead of “I’m not averse to”. I know there are loads more but I can’t think of them now, which doubly annoys me!

Cath, London

]]> By: Peggy McDowell Oliver http://mikemywords.com/2010/02/23/do-you-hear-yourself-speak/#comment-328 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:29:59 +0000 http://mikemywords.com/?p=351#comment-328 Oops sorry I jumped the gun. You were looking for just malapropisms. (Did I spell that right?) Sorry I messed up your nice blog! :)

]]> By: Peggy McDowell Oliver http://mikemywords.com/2010/02/23/do-you-hear-yourself-speak/#comment-327 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:26:19 +0000 http://mikemywords.com/?p=351#comment-327 The following will make me pull my hair out:

Her and I are friends. Him and me are a lot alike.

He has prostrate problems. (Really? So you help him up off the ground?)

“He was saying he was fine, and dah-dah-dah-dah-dah…” (What??? and why are there always five “dahs”?? Is that the rule?

“I was like….and she was all like….and so they were all, like…” ?? Where are the real words? I know I’m showing my age here, but please!

My husband goes crazy when people say, “I could care less.” Kinda scary when people don’t even think about what they’re saying.

]]> By: Mark http://mikemywords.com/2010/02/23/do-you-hear-yourself-speak/#comment-326 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 23:11:29 +0000 http://mikemywords.com/?p=351#comment-326 This symbol here, *, is an asterisk, not an asterix, asteriks, or however else you could mispronounce it.

Good work sir.

]]> By: Mike McDowell http://mikemywords.com/2010/02/23/do-you-hear-yourself-speak/#comment-325 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:54:31 +0000 http://mikemywords.com/?p=351#comment-325 Good stuff. As you remember others, please feel free to vent here.

]]> By: Brad Allured http://mikemywords.com/2010/02/23/do-you-hear-yourself-speak/#comment-324 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:49:09 +0000 http://mikemywords.com/?p=351#comment-324 Fantastic! A few of those are on my list too, along with a some others…

“Let me axe you something” – No, but I will let you ASK me.
“Times them” – I forgot my stopwatch? I do have a calculator, so I could MULTIPLY those numbers for you.

Strangely, that’s all I can think of right now. I hear them constantly, but i must block them out to save my mind from the trauma.

]]> By: Mike McDowell http://mikemywords.com/2010/02/23/do-you-hear-yourself-speak/#comment-323 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:29:33 +0000 http://mikemywords.com/?p=351#comment-323 Good ones!

]]> By: Mike McDowell http://mikemywords.com/2010/02/23/do-you-hear-yourself-speak/#comment-322 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:29:21 +0000 http://mikemywords.com/?p=351#comment-322 I very nearly added “I could care less” to this list.

]]> By: Ryan Jerz http://mikemywords.com/2010/02/23/do-you-hear-yourself-speak/#comment-321 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:22:38 +0000 http://mikemywords.com/?p=351#comment-321 Ecspecially. Dude that one drives me nuts. Could care less. Another that kills me. I categorize these things in the same place I categorize spelling and grammar errors. I think it all comes back to lack of attention to detail. You should see this in the same vein: http://iampaddy.com/spell/

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