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A girl at work was reading from a training manual, and kept pronouncing 'archives' as 'ar-cheeves'. Like 'achieves'.
I am dismayed.
A girl at work was reading from a training manual, and kept pronouncing 'archives' as 'ar-cheeves'. Like 'achieves'.
I am dismayed.
posted by GBE at 8:15 pm
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Did she give any hint that the content of her spoken subject was rendered unintelligible? Because achieves is a verb and archives is a noun and verbing nouns is something only Calvin is wacky enough to pull off.
PS your new photo screams trendy inner city dweller. Hazzah!
It has been my experience that 98% of the humans on this planet need to be lined up and slapped for being so ignorant. This would, in effect, include your co-worker. Of course, if you were to walk over to her and give her the ol' "Ike Turner", you would get fired. That, my friend, is where the injustice lies.
Well as the Spelling Society so vividly points out in their Poem section the pronounciation of English is a joke!
She isnt a Kiwi is she?
I worked with a delightful girl called "Eeemma" [Emma] who stretched her vowels "eeespecially" her E's. And she was from New Zealand.
It is how I can tell the difference between our great Southern Hemisphere cousins. The endearing Australian trait is to stretch your A's.
Here in Scotland, we drop out T's:
Water become Wah-er
Butter becomes Buh-er
:P
But even Kiwis don't pronounce the 'ch' in archives as 'ch' in cheese... Scottish people and kiwis have fab accents though.
I would just like to say I got the Calvin and Hobbes reference.
Audrey, she didn't have a clue. During the minute or two she spent talking, she must've done it at least five times, because she was unfortunately picked to read the section on archiving. And I figured the photo must either scream 'trendy inner city dweller' or 'using the toilet in South-Eastern Europe'.
MHE, I've got to forgive the poor girl - she's nice enough, but she just drives me mental. Avoidance is the best policy.
Joi, you're right, the English language is thoroughly stuffed. And there's a Spelling Society? What does a Spelling Society do? (your link didn't work for me, but this one did)
Brett, I speak to an astonishing number of people with thick accents (they love insurance, apparently) and I'm pretty good at working out what they're saying, but there's no excuse for 'ar-cheeves'. And Scottish accents are most definitely fab.
Ah, now I get the Calvin reference. I was thinking 'huh? The French theology dude?'
(clapping my hands in glee) Mark, i'm glad you got the reference. When I was writing it I thought it might just come off making me look like a nob. (due to the whole philosopher thing)
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