The Innovative Usage Thread

[Astraios]

I do that.

Bad.

I think "waste time for both of us" would've been how I would've spontaneously formulated it. Similarly "got permission from both of them".

Hrm. It sounds too bookish for me.

[clawgrip]

I think "waste time for both of us" would've been how I would've spontaneously formulated it. Similarly "got permission from both of them".

This sounds the most natural to me.

[Drydic]

If I hear that kind of thing I'm pretty sure I normally parse it as a negative sentence where the speaker accidentally left out the negativization. (And I do hear this kind of thing from my students, who unlike you, aren't making an innovation but an error...)

It's been a bit of a longstanding thing on IRC for me to taunt Yng with positive anymore.

[KathTheDragon]

I think 'waste both of our time' and 'got both of their permission' would be how I would form it.

[Nortaneous]

waste both our time

[Yng]

Waste both our time is fine, got both our permission seems weird - both are fine with of + pronoun + 's: both of us's time, both of us's permission

[Nesescosac]

Today I overheard someone using "pourn" as the participial form of "pour".

[ol bofosh]

Today I overheard someone using "pourn" as the participial form of "pour".

I can almost imagine that in the Sussex dialect (pure conjecture). But how was it pronounced? for me it would be homophonous with pawn and porn.

[Nesescosac]

Today I overheard someone using "pourn" as the participial form of "pour".

I can almost imagine that in the Sussex dialect (pure conjecture). But how was it pronounced? for me it would be homophonous with pawn and porn.

[po:ɹn], distinguished from both [poɹn] and [pɔ:n].

[Viktor77]

I just said "Everything's all jiffy." And besides the fact it made me sound like I was born in 1930, I also can't find any definition of "jiffy" which means "all good" except one, in Urban Dictionary "Slang term for something or someone being smooth, like the peanut butter. Can also be used to say something is cool." So, it must be a regional innovation or else it's an innovation due to marketing.

[Astraios]

To me that doesn't sound like 1930, it sounds like a mistake. 'Jiffy' is a supershort length of time.

[Nesescosac]

I overheard someone pronouncing "unbeknownst" as /Vnb@nVnst/.

[ol bofosh]

"See this other." = "see this odour" = "smell this"

The use of /D/ for /d/ had me confused at first. The first time I heard other and odour as homophones.

I suppose in Spanish the person was thinking "Mira este olor."

[Ser]

Yeah. Mirar would mean "to check [sth] out" here. "Check out this smell", "what do you think of how this smells?".

[Arzena]

Analyzing the verb and the preposition as a single unit:

I hope he fuck offs and dies

[ol bofosh]

Analyzing the verb and the preposition as a single unit:

I hope he fuck offs and dies

I didn't see what was weird at first, I was still reading "fucks off".

[Thry]

Thats weird...

[KathTheDragon]

Look what I just found...

... its very hard not to feel some sympathize with his position.

[ol bofosh]

You know, I might raid this thread one day for idea about a Future English...

[Chagen]

I'm watching an LP by a man named Psychedelic Eyeball. He's a french Canadian from Quebec and has an...odd way of speaking.

First of all, he pronounces nearly all words beginning with /E/ or /e/ with a beginning /h/. As in, he'll pronounce "air" as "hair" and "end' as "hend". I can't see how he began doing this since French doesn't even have /h/.

Second, he ALWAYS uses "onto" and "into" instead of "on" or "in". He'll say things like "The music into this game..." or "Onto the second part of this stage, you must...". He very rarely uses "in" or "on". It's almost always "into" or "onto".

[KathTheDragon]

Those could be hypercorrections. The first one certainly seems like it.

[finlay]

Be more assertive! These are classic textbook hypercorrections.

[ol bofosh]

First of all, he pronounces nearly all words beginning with /E/ or /e/ with a beginning /h/. As in, he'll pronounce "air" as "hair" and "end' as "hend". I can't see how he began doing this since French doesn't even have /h/.

That's an 'ypercorrection common to some native speaking haitch-droppers as well.

[Sleinad Flar]

I'm watching an LP

That's an innovative usage. I usually play them on a record player.

[Hallow XIII]

Your funnyness is noted