Annoying Speech Habits

[Bob Impact]

Sorry in advance but i have to vent.

My boss is one of those people who butchers other languages to sound smart. For instance, i'm italian so if i'm on the phone with a relative who speaks no english, and my boss hears me speaking italian, for the rest of the day i'll be called Paisain(Prononced PIE-SAN by her). I get the "offer I can't refuse" every time she asks me to do something and of course i get the big "Grassy Ass" for thank you, and the "Ciao" when i leave, i find it both degrading and annoying that she equates me with nothing but italian stereotypes and mocks my second langauge.

Anyone else go through this? I would imagine it's worse for actual minority groups.


-Bob Impact
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[A.J.]

For instance, i'm italian so if i'm on the phone with a relative who speaks no english, and my boss hears me speaking italian, for the rest of the day i'll be called Paisain(Prononced PIE-SAN by her). I get the "offer I can't refuse" every time she asks me to do something and of course i get the big "Grassy Ass" for thank you, and the "Ciao" when i leave, i find it both degrading and annoying that she equates me with nothing but italian stereotypes and mocks my second langauge.


Next time she does that say "Fammi un pompino".

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[TheMojoPin]

I'm pale, I drink like a fish, my head is three sizes too big and my middle name is "Francis". Iget so many people coming up to me with fake Irish accents it makes me want to drive a boat over their grandmother.

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[Patches]

I'm rude, I have no class, I smell funny and treat people like dirt. If one more person calls me a jerk, I'm gonna blow!

On the serious side (wouldn't want to defile a thread) I agree, esp. w/ Mojo (being of Irish heritage myself). The best is when people start quoting lines from Trainspotting. "No, dick. That's Scottish, not Irish."

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[jestah]

Has anyone noticed that Bob's boss sounds a lot like the police captain in So I Married an Axe Murderer?

Seriously, next time just simply say, "He has no seal tail, he has no mule ears" and walk away.



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[TheMojoPin]

"No, dick. That's Scottish, not Irish."

Or you get someone screaming "Braveheart" lines, or trying to sound like Scotty from "Star Trek"...

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[furie]

let me ax you a question...

i hate that

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[Contra]

just tell her next time she does it your gunna call uncle tony to have a "talk" with her, somewhere along the passaic river.

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[McNabbShouldDie]

My best friend spits like a mofo when he talks. My other friend stares right hrough you when he talks.

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[SatCam]

One person I know has this heart problem and during sentences, she takes this sorta "uh" breath and it gets really frustrating

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[Bob Impact]

What about this one: I have a girl who works with me that is constantly saying things are ironic that just coincidences. As in "How ironic is it that i'm a programmer now and my father was one in the 70's?" Holy christ it aggravates me to no end.

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[LatinSpiceXoX]

Try being Puerto Rican, single, no kids, 27, living in downtown Manhattan, educated, eloquent, employed, and still deal with the 'spic, bambo earrings, welfare, 3 kids from 4 baby-daddies' stereotype.. *lol*
It's annoying and ignorant.

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Try being this guy...

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[Contra]

yeah but most of the stereotypes fit him...

*White people are so scared of black people*

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[Ants In My Pants]

I get offended when people assume that my life revolves around beer and potatoes, but then I realize that they're right.
I'm pale, I drink like a fish, my head is three sizes too big and my middle name is "Francis".
Holy shit! Dad??? I didn't know you post here under the name TheMojoPin!
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[NurseMira]

I hate when people ask me to say things in Serbian. They're like, "Ok...say something in Serbian!!". I never know what to say off the top of my head and I don't know what they expect. Sometimes, I think they expect to hear me start making knocking sounds like the aliens from "V"

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[LatinSpiceXoX]

Hi, I love you

Whazzup Papi?, HOLLA!!

*yes I was TRYING to be stereotypical.. geez MUST I explain everything?*

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[Abrasive Dean]

Or you get someone
screaming "Braveheart" lines, or
trying to sound like Scotty from
"Star Trek"...


I find it especially ironic then that
Scotty claims Scottish ancestry
and sounds about as Scottish as
the Pope!

What makes me cringe is
American actors trying to do an
English accent.

Dick Van Dyke still holds the
prize. "Its ah jowly 'oleiday wiv
Maary" Mary Poppins

Or perhaps Keanu Reeves in
Dracula a close second?


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[Alice S. Fuzzybutt]

When people use the word "irregardless." And I don't care if it IS in the dictionary, it's still not correct!

God I'm gonna catch shit for that later.

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[furie]

Or perhaps Keanu Reeves in
Dracula a close second?



did he even attempt one in Dracula? Somehow I just translated everything he said into "Ted"



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[TheMojoPin]

What makes me cringe is
American actors trying to do an
English accent.

The Brist aren't much better. Very few can wrangle our pronunciation of certain vowels...Helen Carter in "Fight Club" is awful. Anthony Hopkins as Nixon was appalling. Most seem to think that all Americans are from California, and it's pathetic. Aussies are much better at pulling off our styles of speech.

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[LatterYearsJimMorrison]

I laugh at stuttering people. And when people do Italian accents to me, I laugh and then punch them in the back of the head

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[wilee]

Sometimes, I think they expect to hear me start making knocking sounds like the aliens from "V"You don't have "pet" mice, do you?

I get annoyed at butchery of the English language, especially when it comes from someone you wouldn't expect it to do it. I can understand a little slang when you're with friends, but not when you're addressing people.

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French Accents (even though I know french :))

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[Tallguy 22]

I hate when people ask me to say things in Serbian. They're like, "Ok...say something in Serbian!!". I never know what to say off the top of my head and I don't know what they expect. Sometimes, I think they expect to hear me start making knocking sounds like the aliens from "V"


JA knotkle svoju stvarno uznemiruju‘i

anyway....I have a annoying speech habit. Stuttering i fucking hate it becouse once you start you cant stop.

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[cartman29]

I am german and cant stand how right away people either do the third reicht march or call me a nazi.

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[Bob Impact]

More on my boss, she now makes way overexaggerated movements with her hands when she talks and has a bad accent. I don't know if she thinks it's funny or if shes just insanely rude(and rude). I really wish I was joking.

I hate when people ask me to say things in Serbian. They're like, "Ok...say something in Serbian!!"


OOOH I get this all the time in italian and i've found that it's fun to curse em out in your language of choice and stab small pins into their eyeballs.

When people use the word "irregardless." And I don't care if it IS in the dictionary, it's still not correct!

Here's another one, the word Forte, is pronounced FORT, FOR-TAY is an italian musical notation.

Go ask George Carlin.

-Bob Impact
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This message was edited by Bob Impact on 10-18-02 @ 10:35 PM

[SoccerMom]

My sister's excessive use of the f-ing f word. I'm convinced she can't complete a sentence without it. When it's over used I think it dimishes it. It's like the "good china" of words, it's just not as special if you use it all the time.

[Gvac]

My neighbor is a great guy, and we have many chats over the fence. It makes me insane that he insists on ending every sentence he utters with "OK?", though.

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[TheMojoPin]

When people say "I could care less" when they obviously mean "I COULDN'T care less". Idiots.

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[cartman29]

I cant stand how some people whenever you say something funny they must repeat it.