Well, this may or may not be a momentous start for our Blog, my fellow umm-egos, but I thought it apt since I recently witnessed its use in a Vlog on YouTube. In this video, a young man, who, I hope, is playing a character that he has created, used the word ‘supposebly’ at least once.
Now, I have never officially investigated the proliferation of this misuse of the word ‘supposedly,’ but I think we might further delve into this magnification of its wrongfulness. How, linguistically, does this translate in our society? Is it laziness; does a bi-labial ‘b’ sound seem so much simpler than the (and I forget the actual term for where a ‘d’ is formed in the mouth) unaspirated ‘d’ sound?
I think that there’s this ‘slacker’ quality for some people who find certain linguistic feats to be too difficult (too much of a mouthful, so to speak), prompting them to seek an easier way around their message. I find it to be pure laziness, in other words.
4 comments:
Yer Probly Right.
Here are some "favorites" of mine:
libary, Febuary, meterologist, Jeruzalem, electrizity, comfterble, vetchtable.
OK, sometimes I'm just plain pedantic, but some of these words aren't really too difficult to pronounce better. Furthermore, I think pronouncing the letters helps with spelling.
Ohh, Dave and I have locked into the whole comfortable affair. The way it is spelled (slaughtered) at work is simply criminal. There have been more than one staff member who write comfrontable. Dave and I have Googled this actual spelling to find hundreds of hits, indicating that this is a fairly common disaster.
The other words that you mention are rather new to me, with the exception of 'libary', which my 4.5 year old pronounces.
And Dave, you're just stirring the pot!! Too funny.
If I saw "comfortable" spelled so badly as you describe, I might want to "comfront" the villain.
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