But then again the Brits call a car hood a bonnet and a screwdriver a spanner...
I say ‘con COM i tant’ -
why, thanks, Rush !
Hey Rush, I know you were tweaking us today by pronouncing sniper with a short i.
My dad used to mess around with the renunciation of words too. Made my mom furious.
“Don’t DO that” she’d say. “People won’t know your kidding and think you’re stupid”.
No, if Rush wants pronunciation torture he just needs to listen to Jesse a.k.a. Bpearthwatch slaughter easy words like “mercury”.
Jesse pronounces it as “ murr curr ee”
In a half asleep stoner voice.
Apologies in advance for any horrific damage incurred from listening to Jesse slaughter language and reason...
I once had an Englishman ask me, “Why do you Yanks say ‘vítamin’ instead of ‘vitamin’?” I responded, “Why do you Brits say, “vítal’ instead of ‘vital’?” He turned red and shut up. ;-)
I’ve also heard the word said ‘con-co-MIT-ant-ly’ but never _TANT-ly.
Maybe it’s just his pre-Broadcast school Midwest dialect leaking through, but Rush tends to overuse & over-enunciate words like “abSSurd”, “abject” and other AB- words; don’t know why it bothers me, but it does ;). I suppose he’s just falling back on comfortable old terms…
Not as irritating, however, as the increased pronunciation of FOOD like ‘feud’, or the “Vocal Fry” speech pattern becoming more prominent even among men…
Show prep
Tom Mars was plugging FReeperstodaytoo!
Oh yea and while you're looking down at your thumbs and waving your fingers at a piece of glass for hours on end tell us how stupid the people are that are watching American Idol.
I`m just home from work.
Gosh, nice to be noticed by El Rushbo!
What a cool deal-—one of very few here at FreeRepublic with that distinction. (That probably puts me in the rarefied company of the most esteemed Jim Robinson, among other notables...yow! love it!)
I am shocked that he spent so much time commenting on what I said-—I had posted an earlier comment (it was pretty negative [sorry, Rush, just what I`m honestly thinking these days]. I wonder if he read that post first and then reacted to my second post...
Anyway, if this stuff just rolls off his back, me thinks he doth protest too much...and, his pronunciation explanation? Hmmmmmmm...
I think he`s STILL pronouncing it wrong-—the accent is on the 2nd syllable.
Talk to you tomorrow, Rush, my new friend! (Don`t let this come between us. *big smile*)
Yours in conservatism,
krunkygirl/nancy
***posting from the best conservative site online, FREEREPUBLIC
So would this fall under the jurisdiction of the FReeper grammar police? Or do we have FReeper pronunciation police too?
When he says, “Freepers at FreeRepublic.com” we should expect a rush of n00bs and lurkers.
Cool!
God bless ya, Rush. Take names!
“Word for the Day” candidate.
I heard Rush today on all this, as verbalised here. Thought it was a scream! Rush is a FReeper! Welcome to the most conservative club on the net, Rush! And remember, a FReeper undid Dirty Harry’s work in Nevada with the Chinese wanting Mr Bundy’s property! FReepers ROCK!
And Jim, thank you for making it all possible!
Rush does this occasionally, libary instead library, srool instead of school. Haven’t heard him mention FR in a long time.
con COM i tant ly
Rush has been lurking here for a long, long time.
I actually heard him use the FReeperism “barf alert” on his show once years ago.
...There was a group back in the 1990s -- and they still exist. There was a group in the 1990s that were malcontents, renegades, and off the mainstream plantation of conservatism as articulated by the party. Those were the people that were the early participants in the website Free Republic. They were known as Freepers. - Rush Limbaugh, July 3, 2013
I don’t think it’s accurate to imply that everyone here is all in a tizzy about that. FR is a big place.