People's vocabulary skills certainly are lacking

[chaparrito]

Illegerate has no meaning. I didn't know what a bumper chute is. Here in the desert, real men don't go around with them, ever. I think this thread needs an expert in Coprology.

 

[the ringo kid]

I'll sometimes use words of phrases from different languages. I've had friends from different cultures and they'd teach me some stuff and some of it'd stick. My Father taught me some Blackfoot when I was a youngster. I can count to ten in four different languages and to five in German (that's as high as Shultz counted on Hogans Heros).
Fortunately my wife understands me. Today I thanked her in Blackfoot and it occurred to me that just saying thank you was a mouthful of syllables.
I guess you could say that my vocabulary is the result of influences in my life.
Yes, I know what a bumperchute is, never used or even owned one but my wife has.

If the spelling ist korrekt? now you will be able to count to ten im Deutsch.

Sex,Sieben,Ocht,Neun and Zen.

I forgot to add a:

 

[Alpo]

If the spelling ist korrekt? now you will be able to count to ten im Deutsch.

Sex,Sieben,Ocht,Neun and Zen.

I forgot to add a:

Forgot to capitalize the first word of that second sentence, too.

 

[jackvs1]

whatcha meen peoples vocational skills our lacking.

 

[Donn]

Come gentlemen, let's not be a bunch of pratts here. Jump in your motor and go out for a jammie dodger.

 

[Jack Flash]

I used to work with a guy who thought [the] Rosetta Stone was a PERSON.

Today, ignorance is worn like a badge of honor.

That's the zeitgeist of 21st Century America.

 

[vytoland]

knock me up early....cause we are eating spotted dick tonight....

 

[vonn]

I spent most of my life working in a world class research lab with the most educated people Shell could find. Most of them could not find there way home. Using words that most people would have to look up only boosts the ego of the person who uses them to show their superiority. Simple words make for clear and concise communication which is what words are meant to do.

 

[DeathGrip]

I know all of the biggerest words. I just can't spell them.

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

For example Helicopter is a noun it's not a verb. How many times have you heard someone say "Let's helicopter him out of here"?

The correct way would be to say "Let's get him on board a helicopter and fly him out of here"

Only if you're trying to give English lessons instead of trying to get it said.

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

The storm's EFFECT will have little AFFECT on my travel plans.

Oops, as they say in explosive ordnance disposal.

 

[ATF]

Only if you're trying to give English lessons instead of trying to get it said.

Agreed in some instances it provides for legerity of the tongue. However there are some particularly horrible examples such as "Antiquing"

 

[Cyrano]

Illegerate has no meaning. I didn't know what a bumper chute is. Here in the desert, real men don't go around with them, ever. I think this thread needs an expert in Coprology.

I thought we already had plenty of experts in coprology here.

 

[ATF]

I thought we already had plenty of experts in coprology here.

Absolutely. I've come across a few coprolites in my time

 

[soFlaNative]

Absolutely. I've come across a few coprolites in my time

Surely no one here resembles that remark

 

[ATF]

Surely no one here resembles that remark

No absolutely not I love everyone here it's an oasis amongst the madness

 

[rwsmith]

My younger brother....

My younger brother was handed a cup told by an old urologist to, "Perish your water."

"Huh?"

"Perish your water."

"You want me to pee in the cup?"

"Yeah"

 

[jmace57]

Maybe you should have said "parapluie"?

 

[Shooting Padre]

I used to work with a guy who thought [the] Rosetta Stone was a PERSON.

Today, ignorance is worn like a badge of honor.

Yea, and Manual Labor was a Mexican,
and
Foremen and Clark were five guys.

 

[mtgianni]

Resolve today to never use obtuse verbiage when diminutive terms suffice.