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Murdering the English language

MattH — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 01:22:07 GMT

I came across an ad for a company that offers "credit decisioning services" to lenders. I asked my wife her opinion of using "decisioning" as a noun, and she replied, "they need grammaring services."

Re: Murdering the English language

fused — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 01:43:30 GMT

That's pretty funny!!!!

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vanillabean — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 02:15:41 GMT

Just the other day I read about a car rental company that charged the customer's credit card three times more than it originally said it would, because the customer returned the car one day late. The final total on the card was $240. What was the original estimate that was given to the customer?

Re: Murdering the English language

Anonymous — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 02:41:30 GMT

That's really no worse than the "texting" generation who post and seem to not know that a capital letter at the beginning of every sentence and complete words are actually allowed.

From a BK years ago to:
EX - 9/09 pulled by lender 802
EQ - 7/06-663, 3/10-800
TU - 8/10-772
You can do the same thing with hard work

Re: Murdering the English language

laz98 — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 08:04:54 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
That's really no worse than the "texting" generation who post and seem to not know that a capital letter at the beginning of every sentence and complete words are actually allowed.

well, i DO know that sentences start with capital letters.....but i have pretty much always written in lower case, once i was given the option. occasionally here on the forums i will actually use "correct" punctuation & whatnot, but for the most part, i am actually a grammar nazi

Re: Murdering the English language

Anonymous — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 10:00:46 GMT

@Anonymous-own-fico wrote:
+1

Just the other day I read about a car rental company that charged the customer's credit card three times more than it originally said it would, because the customer returned the car one day late. The final total on the card was $240. What was the original estimate that was given to the customer?

$60.00 (if "more" still means "more" these days ).

Moving forward, I decisioned that solution very uniquely, irregardless...

Re: Murdering the English language

Imhotrodcrazy — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 22:22:33 GMT

I think that the two who could "murder the English language" the worst were, Popeye, and Mugs, ( the guy in the Dead-End kids movies of the 40's ). You had to be good to keep up with Mugs.

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Anonymous — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:16:08 GMT

@Imhotrodcrazy wrote:
I think that the two who could "murder the English language" the worst were, Popeye, and Mugs, ( the guy in the Dead-End kids movies of the 40's ). You had to be good to keep up with Mugs.

Mugs types "murder" into the Google search box...results come back, "did you mean moida?"

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Imhotrodcrazy — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:35:00 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

Mugs types "murder" into the Google search box...results come back, "did you mean moida?"

That guy "moidas" me everytime I hear him talk.

Re: Murdering the English language

MattH — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:17:15 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

@Imhotrodcrazy wrote:
I think that the two who could "murder the English language" the worst were, Popeye, and Mugs, ( the guy in the Dead-End kids movies of the 40's ). You had to be good to keep up with Mugs.
Mugs types "murder" into the Google search box...results come back, "did you mean moida?"

When I typed "moida" into Google the top hits said

Moida - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Moida is a village panchayat in Nellimarla mandal of Vizianagaram district in Andhra Pradesh, India. Penumatsa Sambasiva Raju, the Zamindar of Modia is the ...

Nine cities where moida is unhoida Jun 14, 2008
... New York's safe, but not this safe: There are nine big cities in the United States where not a single murder occurred last year...

I do tend to take things literally :-)

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Anonymous — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:51:24 GMT

@MattH wrote:
Nine cities where moida is unhoida Jun 14, 2008
... New York's safe, but not this safe: There are nine big cities in the United States where not a single murder occurred last year...
I do tend to take things literally :-)

Ya think?

Re: Murdering the English language

MidnightVoice — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:02:01 GMT

Spring is sprung

Da flowers is riz

Da boids is on da wing

But dat's absoid

I always thought da wings was on da boid

Re: Murdering the English language

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:07:18 GMT

Re: Murdering the English language

MattH — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 02:26:44 GMT

@MidnightVoice wrote:
Spring is sprung
Da flowers is riz
Da boids is on da wing
But dat's absoid
I always thought da wings was on da boid

Is the boid flying down thoity-thoid street?