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What the hell is up with "Blesh you" and "Thish year"
2008-02-19, 6:38 PM #1
It's easy to write correct:

Bless you.

This year.

But 99.9% of the people I talk to say it like this:

Blesh you.

Thish year.

It drive me NUTS. Whats the deal here? Do you english speakers in other countries have the same thing? Is it just a nuance of the local accent (California / Western US)?
2008-02-19, 6:39 PM #2
What jew say?
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2008-02-19, 6:40 PM #3
Originally posted by Dash_rendar:
California


Answer.
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2008-02-19, 6:40 PM #4
What jew say was wrong with California?
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2008-02-19, 6:41 PM #5
Originally posted by Warlockmish:
What jew say?


Hahahahaha. This is the first time you've ever made me belly laugh.

Also, this is the best thread ever.
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2008-02-19, 6:42 PM #6
Sean connery.
2008-02-19, 6:57 PM #7
I garfunkled your mother.
nope.
2008-02-19, 6:59 PM #8
Some people have a lisp.

Ask them to say synthesize and scyth for fun. >_>

o.0
2008-02-19, 7:24 PM #9
no.. it's actually a normal phonological process in english.
2008-02-19, 7:59 PM #10
Originally posted by Dash_rendar:
It drive me NUTS. Whats the deal here? Do you english speakers in other countries have the same thing? Is it just a nuance of the local accent (California / Western US)?

Which one? Surfer, valley girl, "homeboy", Spanish?
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2008-02-19, 8:29 PM #11
It's cyclic. Don't worry about it. My home town has finally stopped saying 'warsh'. Now they say 'liberry'.
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2008-02-19, 8:46 PM #12
chill out brosef
2008-02-19, 8:50 PM #13
warsh is the most annoying. How do you look at a word and arbitrarily change its letters. :confused:

wooter (water) is bad too
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2008-02-19, 9:04 PM #14
i knew a girl who could not pronounce "oil." it came out instead "earl"

another girl i knew pronounced "whale" as "well"

hah "No, not well as in get wooter out of to warsh with, but well as in big animal in the wooter you kill and get earl from to make cosmetics and lamp earl."
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2008-02-19, 9:10 PM #15
Haha, I know a girl that can't seem to say "bagel," and instead says "beggle."
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2008-02-19, 9:20 PM #16
Whenever someone asks me if i want a "Bag" ul I get confused. Bay gulls all the way!!!

I-deer is pretty annoying
Also as for the water thing. "Warter" is the worst.
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2008-02-19, 9:20 PM #17
most people I know say "beggle" but I can't laugh at them too much because I say "melk" for some reason.

And no, it's really common, though maybe you've just started noticing it? because it's always been common here. just as bad are "Whatchoo" "Wouldjew" and "didjew" which is a tough habit to break a whole choir of.
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2008-02-19, 9:58 PM #18
My ex used to make fun of me because I pronounce popcorn "pupcorn".
2008-02-19, 10:07 PM #19
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2008-02-19, 10:45 PM #20
Originally posted by Connection Problem:
chill out brosef


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2008-02-19, 11:20 PM #21
people slurring words? in my state??

the OP's complaint seems silly because unless you're gifted with an inordinately agile tongue, you have to slow down talking to pronounce the s's properly and then you sound like a douchbag. that said, "wooter" wtf
2008-02-19, 11:57 PM #22
Originally posted by 'Thrawn[numbarz:
;898543']people slurring words? in my state??

the OP's complaint seems silly because unless you're gifted with an inordinately agile tongue, you have to slow down talking to pronounce the s's properly and then you sound like a douchbag. that said, "wooter" wtf


No you don't. I speak too fast most of the time and I can pronounce this year with no defects 100% of the time.
2008-02-20, 12:07 AM #23
Yeah I am pretty sure you are English though
2008-02-20, 12:09 AM #24
I think "thish year" usually happens mid-sentence, such as with "thish year's election will be close." Rush it a little and you'll find it's not that hard to make the mistake.
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2008-02-20, 12:58 AM #25
Originally posted by 'Thrawn[numbarz:
;898557']Yeah I am pretty sure you are English though


Are you implying that because I'm English I'm better than you? ;)

Because you know it. :P
2008-02-20, 2:07 AM #26
Originally posted by Emon:
warsh is the most annoying. How do you look at a word and arbitrarily change its letters. :confused:


People in my home town tend to abuse this one, which wouldn't be so bad if I didn't live in a place called Washington. :(
2008-02-20, 2:12 AM #27
here in ohio we talk normal
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2008-02-20, 2:13 AM #28
Originally posted by Martyn:
No you don't. I speak too fast most of the time and I can pronounce this year with no defects 100% of the time.


To be fair the west country has like all of the mispronounciations in this thread in one small area.

:P
nope.
2008-02-20, 3:09 AM #29
I had a friend who pronounced girl as gurl, everytime. It wasn't as subtle as it looks when typed though.
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2008-02-20, 4:50 AM #30
People pronounce things differently. Who cares.

If this stuff works you up to the point of POSTING IT ON THE INTERNET, you're liable to be the guy in the bell tower with a rifle.
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2008-02-20, 4:51 AM #31
Originally posted by fishstickz:
People pronounce things differently. Who cares.


Amen.

Yet the thought of mb saying things like "New Joisey" or "soivice" is kind of funny.
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2008-02-20, 5:43 AM #32
But is is pronounced gurl...

:/

Warshington gurls are the best.
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2008-02-20, 8:58 AM #33
I long ago stopped caring about dialects and accents and such. They bring flavor. Of course, sometimes I get annoyed by people who use something straight-up WRONG and don't know it, like "prolly".
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2008-02-20, 9:26 AM #34
The two I hear most often are ruff for roof and rassle for wrestle.
2008-02-20, 9:29 AM #35
Originally posted by agent000x:
The two I hear most often are ruff for roof and rassle for wrestle.

Growing up across the border from Detroit, I've developed an intense hatred for the Michigan accent.
2008-02-20, 9:38 AM #36
Man some of you would have loved to be out here in Quebec's fine french province.

I love when I hear a frenchie go 'One, two, tree...'

*stabs*
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2008-02-20, 9:44 AM #37
I don't mind accents. Hell, my favorite so far for English is the New Zealand one.

EDIT: Or when anyone with a native alveolar trill (Finnish, Russian, French, etc.) says anything with a soft dental stop such as "three" XD
2008-02-20, 10:45 AM #38
Originally posted by Emon:
wooter (water) is bad too


wuda!

2008-02-20, 10:47 AM #39
Everyone I know talks with a lisp, but that's because it's wintertime and we all have colds.
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2008-02-20, 12:06 PM #40
Originally posted by BobTheMasher:
I long ago stopped caring about dialects and accents and such. They bring flavor. Of course, sometimes I get annoyed by people who use something straight-up WRONG and don't know it, like "prolly".


What's wrong with prolly
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