anniebygaslight
Drama Llama
I'd love a cup of tea. #1966
Posts: 7,402
Location: Third Rock from the sun.
Jun 28, 2014 14:08:19 GMT
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Post by anniebygaslight on Apr 9, 2016 8:01:17 GMT
Husby? Say it ain't so! I don't even like hubby! Never have. Or even hubs. None of those do I like. How about 'hubster'. A colleague always refers to her husband as 'the hubster'. Arrrrgggghhhh!
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Post by hopechest on Apr 9, 2016 13:25:53 GMT
I am so opening a Thrift/Consighment shop and calling it Hammy Downs!!
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Apr 9, 2016 14:12:47 GMT
Then that person should not be writing articles that appear on Yahoo. Sorry if I wasn't clear...the "hammy down dress" title was on the news station video!!! Good grief! That's pathetic.
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Post by sbartist on Apr 9, 2016 14:46:24 GMT
Guilty of calling DH hubby, hubster, Craigster.
But all the others drive me crazy as well.
Don't axe me why.
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Post by birukitty on Apr 10, 2016 22:43:46 GMT
Adults speaking or writing that way drives me nuts. It's the reason I can't stand Rachel Ray-she does this all of the time. She calls sandwiches "sammies" and so on. It makes her sound ridiculous and stupid in my opinion and I can't stand listening to her talk. I will not buy anything with her name on it.
If you are in the public eye you should speak proper English (on TV and so on). Heck, I'm for speaking proper English even if you aren't. And especially when it comes to the written word.
Debbie in MD.
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imsirius
Prolific Pea
Call it as I see it.
Posts: 7,661
Location: Floating in the black veil.
Jul 12, 2014 19:59:28 GMT
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Post by imsirius on Apr 10, 2016 23:12:43 GMT
One of my friends uses a ton of text speak and it drives me crazy.
The one that bugs me most is fone. As in " Can you call my fone?" Arrggghhh!
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Post by KiwiJo on Apr 10, 2016 23:29:52 GMT
I thought I was seeing things. I was on Yahoo's homepage and there was a video link about three generations of women wearing the same wedding dress...a nice sweet story. The title at the bottom on the screen read "ageless hammy downs." OHMYGOODNESS...have we become so lazy that we can't say hand me downs? It's only one extra letter. In the interest of full disclosure "sammy" for sandwich, "preggers" for pregnant, "pressie" for present and many other words bother me too. I know a lovely woman from New Zealand and she says that living or visiting there would be pure torture for me. Carry on. I just needed to get that out. I have never heard "hammy downs" in New Zealand, and rarely hear "sammies" - they just aren't the sort of things we shorten. However, you are welcome to come to our place on Saturday arvo for smoko - we're having chokkie bikkies; and Sally can show you the prezzies she got for her birthday. Good thing it's a bit cooler now, there shouldn't be any mozzies hanging around. I might have to disappear for a while though, we're expecting a tradie to give us a quote for fixing the loo. It's not baby or toddler talk - it's just how we speak. To be fair, not too many adults probably say chokkie bikkies except in a joking way, but smoko, arvo, tradie, chippie etc are just part of everyday language for many.
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Post by birukitty on Apr 11, 2016 0:50:39 GMT
Here in the USA most adults don't talk this way, and to me it sounds like baby talk-like something a toddler would say who hasn't learned the correct word for something. It makes an adult sounds silly and unintelligent in my opinion, especially if they do it on a regular basis like Rachel Ray does.
Debbie in MD.
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Post by melanell on Apr 11, 2016 1:05:40 GMT
Have only read the OP, but I wonder if it's a cutsie type word that the family uses that means something to them. I have far too many examples to list of things like that in my family. Someone mispronounces a word as a baby and 45 years later, older family members still joke about. Or an adult gets tongue-tied one say and says something incorrectly and it's never ever dropped for the rest of their life. My niece was nearly a tween before she realized that my nickname wasn't my actual name---and that puppy's been firmly in place since my brother first tried to say my name. Not only does my family still use the name, but for my entire childhood, the neighbor kids, and some of the parents called me that too. It wasn't a real name, LOL! It wasn't like he was calling me Jenny instead of Jennifer. It was like he was calling me Jiffy and everyone else started calling me that, too. I had personalized gifts with "Jiffy" on them! So, my first thought was that "Hammy Downs" were a family name that stuck forever, even when the story went public.
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Post by KelleeM on Apr 11, 2016 8:48:34 GMT
I thought I was seeing things. I was on Yahoo's homepage and there was a video link about three generations of women wearing the same wedding dress...a nice sweet story. The title at the bottom on the screen read "ageless hammy downs." OHMYGOODNESS...have we become so lazy that we can't say hand me downs? It's only one extra letter. In the interest of full disclosure "sammy" for sandwich, "preggers" for pregnant, "pressie" for present and many other words bother me too. I know a lovely woman from New Zealand and she says that living or visiting there would be pure torture for me. Carry on. I just needed to get that out. I have never heard "hammy downs" in New Zealand, and rarely hear "sammies" - they just aren't the sort of things we shorten. However, you are welcome to come to our place on Saturday arvo for smoko - we're having chokkie bikkies; and Sally can show you the prezzies she got for her birthday. Good thing it's a bit cooler now, there shouldn't be any mozzies hanging around. I might have to disappear for a while though, we're expecting a tradie to give us a quote for fixing the loo. It's not baby or toddler talk - it's just how we speak. To be fair, not too many adults probably say chokkie bikkies except in a joking way, but smoko, arvo, tradie, chippie etc are just part of everyday language for many. Just to clarify, I never called this baby or toddler talk. I accept that people in different places speak differently and only meant to say that I found it irritating. Honestly, with the accent you all have you could read the telephone book and I'd sit there and listen for hours!
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