Post#49 » by hands11 » Fri Dec 25, 2009 3:47 pm
I'm not giving up on the Critter just yet. While I like Boyk, I still want to see other options.
As for the spelling thing, if it bothers you that much...see a doctor. You need professional attention. If you want to get upset about something, find a worthy topic. Maybe people who curse to much..specially around kids. Or people that smoke with kids in the car. Personally, I hate people who drive to close to other vehiculars... specially in the snow or rain. In general, I don't like rude people.
But if you think pointing out peoples bad spelling in a angry tone does anything more than make you look simple minded and unbalanced then you sadly mistaken. A simple.. hey Hands...FYI it's spelled damn not dame would have been effective and a classier move.
I usually do something that is a least phonetically correct. But even that can cause problems since that would require one hearing the word pronounced correctly.
For example. Restaurant.
[French, restorative soup, restaurant, from present participle of restaurer, to restore, from Old French restorer; see restore.]
[from French, from restaurer to restore]
Interesting in deed. I just learned something new. Anyway. Most pronounce this .. restront or resteront, restaront. Well, unless your from the South or from the country then it ... restrant or resterant. But a French person would pronounce it as it's spelled. Res-ta-urant
I believe people who took Latin and other foreign languages probably have a leg up. Thank God for spell check. Even though it doesn't help with everything..than or then.. or damn/dam/dame, it does catch a lot.
As for Dame. Yeah, that one didn't make much sense. Not sure what had me typing it like that. Probably because I know dam wasn't correct. Spelling it damn wouldn't have been my first guess. Damn pronounced dam. Hmm. I have more of a silver tongue then a silver pen. But I'm still willing to learn the writing part.
As for the spoken word, I have noticed the evolution of the double word. You know... It's not big....it's big big. Well, this seems to have indirectly influenced people into saying doodoo. Listen.. you'll hear it. You probably do it yourself. People usually don't believe they say it until I point it out. It goes something like this. They will say, " I think I do do that. " I believe this was born of the double emphasis phenomenon. It wasn't deep, it was deep deep. Its become so prevalent that when I point it out and ask them to try saying the sentence without the doodoo they can't think of how to do it. So I ask, well how would you write that it? You would just say, I think I do that. Personally, I find people speaking incorrectly more of a problem.
Ok, back to damn.
Damn
Etymology: Middle English dampnen, from Anglo-French dampner, from Latin damnare, from damnum damage, loss, fine
Date: 13th century
Ok, now I can see where the "n" comes from.
For fun, I looked up dame. But I don't think most people understand what dame really means.
dame (dm)
n.
1. Used formerly as a courtesy title for a woman in authority or a mistress of a household.
2.
a. A married woman; a matron.
b. An elderly woman.
3. Slang A woman.
4. Chiefly British
a. A woman holding a nonhereditary title conferred by a sovereign in recognition of personal merit or service to the country.
b. The wife or widow of a knight.
c. Used as the title for such a woman.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin domina, feminine of dominus, lord, master; see dem- in Indo-European roots.]
Ok, I think I have my arms around this damn thing.
Merry Christmas. Happy Holidays to other. And a happy new year to all.
