that's commander pants to you, ol' grumpy to my friends

[rone]

Today's peeve is people who, probably as an extension of fancy plurals such as "indices" from "index", pronounce "processes" as "process-seas."

Comments

[loosestrife.livejournal.com]

The Twelve Dancing Princess-ease!

[pentomino.livejournal.com]

Schemata.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

MY FAVORITE WEAPON IS THE LOOK IN YOUR EYEEEEEESSSSSS

Wait, wrong song.

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

No no, it's totally the right song.

[en-ki.livejournal.com]

zeugmata

[tyggerjai.livejournal.com]

Oh christ. The next time one of our automation guys back-forms "Axee" as the singular of "axes" (each of our carriers has 3 axes of movement) There Will Be Blood.

jai.
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[sanspoof.livejournal.com]

Ha ha, my old students sometimes used to say 'verticee' instead of 'vertex' for that reason. NO KIDS, PLURALIZATION IS NOT ALWAYS LIKE THAT

[thegodliestlord.livejournal.com]

I think i just found a new way to bug you.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

WHY YOU LITTLE *choke* *strangle*

[thegodliestlord.livejournal.com]

Oh, and instead of just saying "process-seas" i should say "pro-cess-seas" to give that extra little kick. As Emeril would say: BAM!

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I wonder if there are Canucks who do that. I can tolerate "pro-cess" and even admire it over the lame American "prah-cess".

[thegodliestlord.livejournal.com]

I briefly considered taking it a step further and applying the pronunciation to verbs—"She pro-cess-seas the paychecks"—but that's too far, even for me.

[en-ki.livejournal.com]

What about cunTROVVERsy?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

... it fails the smell test.

[askesis.livejournal.com]

Make sure you use a long 'O' sound.

[dagbrown.livejournal.com]

When I was taking Linear Algebra For Little Kiddies back in university, I was driven nuts by lusers who backformed "matrices" to "matriceeeeee".

[kodi]

My linear algebra professor was Austrian. We spent an entire semester learning about mattresses.

The worst, though, was the professor who distinguished between binary functions and urinary functions.

[dawn-guy.livejournal.com]

datum

[wisn.livejournal.com]

Datum datum
Datum
Datum datum datum
Datum datum...
Datum datum.

no, no, no...

[drieuxster.livejournal.com]

That is SOOOO four seasons ago.

The cool kids now say 'process oceans' - since we are past cloud processing - and are swimming with the fish....

[sunburn.livejournal.com]

Signage.

[motis.livejournal.com]

HAW HAW HAW U HAVE A TINY PEEVE!