Yes, correct pronunciation DOES matter
Overheard on the way home this evening, 6th Ave and 54th:
“If he keeps up this pace, he’ll be comma toast by tomorrow.”
Sounds kinda tasty, actually. Comma toast. A healthy part of your grammatically correct breakfast.
Everyone doesn’t use right grammar, no-ways, right?
Mmmm… garlic grammar toast? With comma cheese, please! 😀
Posted by: Stephie-P
Haaa!
Posted by: Scout
oh. oh. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Posted by: carole
sounds like something from Overheard in New York.
Posted by: kate
No, I think it was supposed to be transcribed like this:
“If he keeps up this pace, he’ll be, toast by tomorrow.”
Wheeeee!
Posted by: Norma
No no, it’s:
“If he keep’s up this pace, heel be comma toast . . . ”
Posted by: David
Heee!
I like that better than “Where’s the meeting at?”
Will somebody please get me the Hell out of Ohio!!
Posted by: serena
Maybe it was an accent?
If not I’ll try to find it in my grocer’s freezer.
Posted by: Christie
haha, awesome. my favorite was hearing that someone was “waddling in his own misery”. mmm hmm.
Posted by: erika
Ugh. I don’t want to sound like an old fuddy duddy but I shudder to think of what will happen to the English language in a few more decades. Comma toast. Cut the mustard.
Posted by: jodi
I like jam comma toast for breakfast.
Posted by: lizbon
Everyone doesn’t use right grammar, no-ways, right?
Mmmm… garlic grammar toast? With comma cheese, please! 😀
Posted by: Stephie-P
Haaa!
Posted by: Scout
oh. oh. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
Posted by: carole
sounds like something from Overheard in New York.
Posted by: kate
No, I think it was supposed to be transcribed like this:
“If he keeps up this pace, he’ll be, toast by tomorrow.”
Wheeeee!
Posted by: Norma
No no, it’s:
“If he keep’s up this pace, heel be comma toast . . . ”
Posted by: David
Heee!
I like that better than “Where’s the meeting at?”
Will somebody please get me the Hell out of Ohio!!
Posted by: serena
Maybe it was an accent?
If not I’ll try to find it in my grocer’s freezer.
Posted by: Christie
haha, awesome. my favorite was hearing that someone was “waddling in his own misery”. mmm hmm.
Posted by: erika
Ugh. I don’t want to sound like an old fuddy duddy but I shudder to think of what will happen to the English language in a few more decades. Comma toast. Cut the mustard.
Posted by: jodi
I like jam comma toast for breakfast.
Posted by: lizbon
Probably tastier than period toast.
Posted by: claudia
Yeah, I like my comma toast with garlic too… that way I can have bad breath at the same time. 😉
Posted by: Andrea
Well, sometimes a semicolon sandwich is just too much for breakfast.
Posted by: alison
So do you have that with, or without, butter?
Posted by: Alison
I had to say it out loud to get it. Pretty funny. Thumper will grace you with many more of these. For example, youngest son once said to me (at the age of 6) “I’m really good at shredding water”. Me meant treading water.
BTW-my yarn arrived this week. Very drapey.
Posted by: LaurieM
HAHAHA! That one is funny . . .
My mother-in-law has the enraging habit of using the word “ideal” instead of “idea”. As in “Oh, that’s a good ideal!” or “I have an ideal”. Grrrr.
Posted by: chris
oh, heck, there are millions of these (called “mondegreens” when they’re for song lyrics, for example “Pardon me while I kiss this guy” as a mishearing of “Pardon me while I kiss the sky”). One of my friends who was kinda-sorta pre-med had a “Redneck Medical Terms” t-shirt that boasted such things as:
“Urine: opposite of ‘you’re out'”
“Bacteria: the rear door of a cafeteria”
“Very-close veins: veins that are very close and painful”
(Actually, on that last one? I know people who actually call varicose veins “very close veins”)
The one that happens around here and that irritates me is that no one seems to know what a “wheal” is (as a medical term). I’ve been told that I get “allergic whelps” which makes me want to respond, “Wait…I’m breaking out in PUPPIES?!?!”
Posted by: fillyjonk
Hilarious!
Posted by: Gina
I work with someone who frequently says “for all instensive purposes.” I think i should offer her a piece of comma toast.
Posted by: regina
Comma toast! If only it existed.
Posted by: Em
Too funny you should add that to http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/ it would make a great sumbission!
Posted by: Marie
My goodness, I’m slow. It took me about 2 mins to actually figure out what that person was saying. Need…more…caffeine.
Thanks for the laugh!
Posted by: Schrodinger
If someone is comma toast, does that mean they can’t have a bottle movement?
Posted by: juliette
Probably tastier than period toast.
Posted by: claudia
Yeah, I like my comma toast with garlic too… that way I can have bad breath at the same time. 😉
Posted by: Andrea
Well, sometimes a semicolon sandwich is just too much for breakfast.
Posted by: alison
So do you have that with, or without, butter?
Posted by: Alison
I had to say it out loud to get it. Pretty funny. Thumper will grace you with many more of these. For example, youngest son once said to me (at the age of 6) “I’m really good at shredding water”. Me meant treading water.
BTW-my yarn arrived this week. Very drapey.
Posted by: LaurieM
HAHAHA! That one is funny . . .
My mother-in-law has the enraging habit of using the word “ideal” instead of “idea”. As in “Oh, that’s a good ideal!” or “I have an ideal”. Grrrr.
Posted by: chris
oh, heck, there are millions of these (called “mondegreens” when they’re for song lyrics, for example “Pardon me while I kiss this guy” as a mishearing of “Pardon me while I kiss the sky”). One of my friends who was kinda-sorta pre-med had a “Redneck Medical Terms” t-shirt that boasted such things as:
“Urine: opposite of ‘you’re out'”
“Bacteria: the rear door of a cafeteria”
“Very-close veins: veins that are very close and painful”
(Actually, on that last one? I know people who actually call varicose veins “very close veins”)
The one that happens around here and that irritates me is that no one seems to know what a “wheal” is (as a medical term). I’ve been told that I get “allergic whelps” which makes me want to respond, “Wait…I’m breaking out in PUPPIES?!?!”
Posted by: fillyjonk
Hilarious!
Posted by: Gina
I work with someone who frequently says “for all instensive purposes.” I think i should offer her a piece of comma toast.
Posted by: regina
Comma toast! If only it existed.
Posted by: Em
Too funny you should add that to http://www.overheardinnewyork.com/ it would make a great sumbission!
Posted by: Marie
My goodness, I’m slow. It took me about 2 mins to actually figure out what that person was saying. Need…more…caffeine.
Thanks for the laugh!
Posted by: Schrodinger
If someone is comma toast, does that mean they can’t have a bottle movement?
Posted by: juliette
I worked with a guy who told me someone wore so much after-shave “he smelled like a French poorhouse.”
Posted by: Catherine
Took me a second to get that one comma too.
An English professor friend got this charming phrase from a paper on Shakespeare:
(Character) “was bathed in the urethral light of heaven.”
Who knew Shakespeare was so kinky?
Posted by: KathyMarie
The answer to the “Where’s the meeting at?” question is: “Back-air”.
I like this one, too: Physical-year instead of fiscal. Gosh!
Posted by: Stephie-P
A knitting one for you (from an email I received earlier this week): “No inter-mitten month to month membership/cancellations.”
Posted by: teresa
I once had a coworker inform me that her daughter was hospitalized over the weekend because she had “ammonia in her lungs.” I was utterly aghast – until I realized that she meant “pneumonia in her lungs.” (Hospitalization for pneumonia is still pretty bad, but not, I think, as bad as ammonia.)
I was too dumbfounded by the word swap to realize until later that “pneumonia in her lungs” is, of course, redundant. (As opposed to what – pneumonia in her head?)
Posted by: Erika
I overheard someone discussing the movie “Get Rich or Try Dieing”.
Posted by: Leslie, Richmond, Va. USA
That is my new favorite word/phrase. By 10 o’clock at night I frequently am comma toast.
Posted by: Laurie
I worked with a guy who told me someone wore so much after-shave “he smelled like a French poorhouse.”
Posted by: Catherine
Took me a second to get that one comma too.
An English professor friend got this charming phrase from a paper on Shakespeare:
(Character) “was bathed in the urethral light of heaven.”
Who knew Shakespeare was so kinky?
Posted by: KathyMarie
The answer to the “Where’s the meeting at?” question is: “Back-air”.
I like this one, too: Physical-year instead of fiscal. Gosh!
Posted by: Stephie-P
A knitting one for you (from an email I received earlier this week): “No inter-mitten month to month membership/cancellations.”
Posted by: teresa
I once had a coworker inform me that her daughter was hospitalized over the weekend because she had “ammonia in her lungs.” I was utterly aghast – until I realized that she meant “pneumonia in her lungs.” (Hospitalization for pneumonia is still pretty bad, but not, I think, as bad as ammonia.)
I was too dumbfounded by the word swap to realize until later that “pneumonia in her lungs” is, of course, redundant. (As opposed to what – pneumonia in her head?)
Posted by: Erika
I overheard someone discussing the movie “Get Rich or Try Dieing”.
Posted by: Leslie, Richmond, Va. USA
That is my new favorite word/phrase. By 10 o’clock at night I frequently am comma toast.
Posted by: Laurie