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Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 3:05 pm
by Bailey
Today I read that some behaviours exculate problems.
tap-tap-tap... Hmmm, I see on The Google:
-415 others have already added exculate to their vocabularies;
-108 exculates;
-187 are exculating;
-396 have already exculated;
-only one has experienced exculation; and
-one hyped-up exculative.
wow, I'm impressed I never have THAT much extra time.
Just kidding, it's an interesting comment, are they all used instead of escalate? Are some intending exacerbate? OR Exoculate perhaps?
mark probably-just-not-'getting'-the-joke-sigh Bailey
Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 11:40 pm
by sluggo
It was a bit fuzzy when I heard it but today listening to National Weather Service radio in central PA, I think the voice said "...with a 40% chance of snow" -where 'snow' rhymes with 'plow'
I'm pretty sure these announcements are computer-generated- presumably someone (or some
thing) types them in and the machine speaks. Anyone know more?
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 11:02 am
by skinem
The national weather service has gone to computer generated voices which does lead to some interesting sounding forecasts. It does work as you imagine...a forecaster types it in and, viola...toneless voice.
A good friend of mine worked for the weather service (until killed in a crash of an experimental plane) and one evening he showed me the system and played with it making it say some rather inappropriate non-weather related things...
He actually did like the system because it freed them up from having to take the time to read and record the forecast.
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 1:10 pm
by Bailey
Skinny, I just love those fake voices, especially when the wrong syllabyls [or wrong word] are empasized in a sentance, but Plow/snow has the ring of pretentious speech and resented even if only viscerally by viewers.
OH, and no one ever gets my jokes.
mark sigh Bailey
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 2:08 pm
by skinem
Skinny, I just love those fake voices, especially when the wrong syllabyls [or wrong word] are empasized in a sentance, but Plow/snow has the ring of pretentious speech and resented even if only viscerally by viewers.
OH, and no one ever gets my jokes.
mark sigh Bailey
Shoot, I'm still trying to figure out what was meant by "exculate" much less catch jokes! Exculpate? Exacerbate?
I just operate on a different plane. Please note I didn't say "higher"...in this crowd, my plane is just plain lower.
Just gettin' by...
Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 11:11 pm
by Bailey
Shoot, I'm still trying to figure out what was meant by "exculate" much less catch jokes! Exculpate? Exacerbate?
I was thinking more like the Exoculate, eye poking out, call me Moe. You don't fool me that you don't know about exacerbate et al. [exhulate; breathing out of course]
mark laughing-at-skinny Bailey
Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 11:19 am
by skinem
Heard this just this morning...
Cordarization. It took me a bit and hearing it a couple of times to figure out they meant cauterize.
Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 9:40 pm
by gailr
Now if they'd only replaced those frayed cords and aging appliances...
Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 12:34 am
by Stargzer
Heard this just this morning...
Cordarization. It took me a bit and hearing it a couple of times to figure out they meant cauterize.
Well, you ARE in Middle Tennessee ...
Then again, I think I've heard my wife say "carterize." She's from Pgh.
Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 12:41 am
by Stargzer
Today I read that some behaviours exculate problems.
...
Just kidding, it's an interesting comment, are they all used instead of escalate? Are some intending exacerbate? OR Exoculate perhaps?
mark probably-just-not-'getting'-the-joke-sigh Bailey
Well, you escalated the problem to the proper forum, but sadly, there seems to be no cure for the masses out there on the Internet ... just remember the old Dorothy Parker quote about Horticulture. And if anyone doesn't I'll PM it to them.
Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 7:32 pm
by gailr
Recently I've noticed people confessing to callised attitudes.
I'm not sure what can be done to smooth the rough edges for these people...
-gailr
Illegitimi non carborundum?
Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 11:46 pm
by gailr
Tonight I read that another article had
touched a cord in the writer.
scw1217, I checked The Google and discovered that your eggcorn site was the first listing for this mix-up. They also mentioned an interesting inversion:
vocal chords.
gailr
Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 2:02 am
by Stargzer
... vocal chords.
gailr
The primary product of
Barbershop Quartets.
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 2:34 am
by Lenetty
Skinny, it's folks with pure lackadaisical attitudes that do that.
Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2012 2:27 pm
by Perry Lassiter
Lennety, once again I'm in your debt. First time I've seen this old thread. Got any more?