What they said isn't what you heard

[ptsg]

When using a contraction of 'it is not', I prefer 'it isn't' over 'it's not'.

Technically both ways are correct, right? Just trying to improve my "Engrish" here.

 

[/pine]

I always get a chuckle when I see someone say "welp" when starting to say something...this is actually just the word "well" mispronounced but it has been mispronounced for so long folks assume it's actually correctly said...(BTW...it's a deep subject)...!

 

[dodge man]

There is a Metallica song called Sad but True. When I hear it though I swear they are singing Sad Patrol. There are a lot of songs I have to look up the lyrics on.

For all intensive purposes vs for all intents and purposes is another one.

 

[TractorTYMe]

"Pull over, there is a bathroom on the right".............Credence Clearwater Revival

 

[dodge man]

Another one when I was in college as a civil engineering major we had to make a small set of plans. This was before CAD so the plans were all hand lettered. We put in erosion control and used rip rap, which is large round stone. The guy that drew that sheet put riff raff though instead. I had to go around that sheet and correct it. I just had this image of a bunch of poor homeless people sitting in a ditch trying to hold back the water and keep the dirt from washing away.

 

[MH8675309]

The Rolling Stones - Angie - when I first heard this I thought he was saying "I aint Jed". The Beverly Hillbillies were on in those days so it just fit

 

[/pine]

Another one when I was in college as a civil engineering major we had to make a small set of plans. This was before CAD so the plans were all hand lettered. We put in erosion control and used rip rap, which is large round stone. The guy that drew that sheet put riff raff though instead. I had to go around that sheet and correct it. I just had this image of a bunch of poor homeless people sitting in a ditch trying to hold back the water and keep the dirt from washing away.

We had to make all drawings in ink...including all borders and text boxes etc...talk about tedious...one mistake and it was get another sheet of vellum and start over regardless of how far along one was...!

As for the "riff raff"...I would have stamped it "as built" and been done with it...(jkng)...!

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

When I was a kid, my Polish grandmother had a butcher shop. We would go there every Saturday and Sunday. Saturday was for restock, Sunday was for the family dinner. Usually most of the adult business conversations would happen while preparing the meal.....

My grandmother and father spoke Polish and Russian fluently, my mother only understood, but spoke very few words.

When they were discussing something or 'talking about' someone, they would speak Polish so that the kids wouldn't understand.

During one relatively heated discussion, I heard my mother say "he was just a SOVENABE !" ...... I heard this word -- "SOVENABE" many times in later conversations they had. I basically grew up thinking it was some Polish word.

Sometime in my later teenage years, I finally remembered to ask my dad what it meant...... He laughed his azz off until he was crying......

He said -- "your mom didn't want you to hear her say 'Sxx of a Bxxxh' (SOB).... she was saying "son of a B"...

We would laugh about it for years.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

We had to make all drawings in ink...including all borders and text boxes etc...talk about tedious...one mistake and it was get another sheet of vellum and start over regardless of how far along one was...!

As for the "riff raff"...I would have stamped it "as built" and been done with it...(jkng)...!

I could never figure out why they called that rock 'rip-rap' or the erosion control tubes called 'waddles'.... that one I kind of understand, because they are flexible and can waddle. Wouldn't "wiggles" be more appropriate?

 

[Oaktree]

My grandmother and father spoke Polish and Russian fluently, my mother only understood, but spoke very few words.

When they were discussing something or 'talking about' someone, they would speak Polish so that the kids wouldn't understand.

During one relatively heated discussion, I heard my mother say "he was just a SOVENABE !" ...... I heard this word -- "SOVENABE" many times in later conversations they had. I basically grew up thinking it was some Polish word.

I'm also of Polish/Russian ancestry. Everyone would refer to and address my maternal great-grandmother as (phonetically) "Bop-cha". I thought that was her name, it wasn't many, many years later that I discovered that "bapcia" was Polish for "grandmother". What was weird was that people who weren't even related to her called her that too.