Pure ignorance...

[Dreamstalker]

Living in NM I heard all sorts of assaults on the Spanish language, I've seen "chipotle" mangled as "chilpot", "chiply" (WTF), and a few other oddities (I myself was guilty of pronouncing it "chipolte" until I looked it up).

The ex commonly mispronounces words of all linguistic stripes, and gets flaming mad when he's corrected (if you can't pronounce it how can you claim I'm wrong?).

[freaktard]

<stabbing wildly>
Pahn Bree? (phonetically)
</stabbing wildly>

Close enough! If I had any, I'd send you a loaf!

(It was a long time ago, and I don't remember how to make it any more. Too bad, because it was fun to make. Part of the process involved putting the dough on the counter and beating the crap out of it with rolling pins for a while. Made for a very smooth, dense, chewy bread that was wonderful toasted!)

[karma_gypsy]

Worked at the zoo, teenage girl not only didn't know what rhino was upon seeing one, but went to look for the exhibit sign to find out (at least she could read...sort of), but then read it out as "Uh....what's this say....REEN-o?"

Wow ... she must have been really REALLY sheltered (or has a really low IQ). I'd hate to see her pronounce the full word - Rhinoceros.

[Pagan]

Living in NM I heard all sorts of assaults on the Spanish language,

Not to mention the abuse some of the Native American names around here! To'hajiilee (toe-ha-ja-lee) comes to mind. Pojoaque (po-wha-kay) is another one.

My favorite of the Spanish mangling is Calle de Sueños. It's actually pronounced cay-ay de swenyos, but comes out calee de soons a lot!

Hell, people that were born and raised here have a hard time with my street name - Calle Cuervo (Crow Road). Mainly, they try to spell the 2nd word with a "q" until I tell them it's like "Jose Cuervo"....then they get it.

Freaktard -
Now that you've described how you make pain brié, that makes sense. Beaten bread. Knew I'd be able to use that French degree someday!

[Imogene]

Close enough! If I had any, I'd send you a loaf!

Huzzah for stabbing wildly! Huzzah!
<took German, has a younger brother who took French for way too long, though>

[RecoveringKinkoid]

That lion story reminds me of this one: We had a polar bear in an enclosure with a pack of Arctic Foxes. They were separated by a moat, and the bear could not get to the foxes, but they were part of the same exhibit.

People would always say "Oh, look! Baby polar bears."

Um, no. They did't look anything like bears. They looked like foxes. Only they were white. Plus, the big 3x4 sign in front of the exhibit said "Arctic Foxes."

[Dark-Star]

I was standing in line behind a couple of college kids at a Qdoba, and I think they managed to mispronounce every word on the menu.
"Kwe-sa-dill-ah"
"Tour-till-ah"
"Ro-jah"
"moal"
"Hah-ben-arrow"
The worst part was that the college in question is Ivy-League. I mean, come on.

Which one? Harvard, Yale, Princeton?

[Ironclad Alibi]

Close enough! If I had any, I'd send you a loaf!

(It was a long time ago, and I don't remember how to make it any more. Too bad, because it was fun to make. Part of the process involved putting the dough on the counter and beating the crap out of it with rolling pins for a while. Made for a very smooth, dense, chewy bread that was wonderful toasted!)

I had to Google the recipe for it. I will have to try making it. I make a wonderful Frence cheese bread (Gougère Bourguignonne) and may have to add pain brie to my repertoire.

[PepperElf]

I ablsolutely LOVE asiago. (ah-see-ah-go i think...anyway it's teh yum)

and... lol, "tigers are lions without manes?" hehe. ... hmm maybe it's a Liger?


and... oy one of my pet peeves... I can understand when someone doesn't get a foreign word just right cos it happens. what's sad is when they mispronounce common words in their own language.

One of my biggest pet peeves... "Wrastling" *shudder*

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Best way to piss off my Finnish brother in law is to screw up English if it's your native language.

His English is perfect. He has an accent, but other than that, his pronunciation and grammer are flawless. He figures if he can learn to do it right, the native speackers ought to be able too.

God help you if you are trying to interview him for a job and your English sucks.

[marasbaras]

Best way to piss off my Finnish brother in law is to screw up English if it's your native language.

His English is perfect. He has an accent, but other than that, his pronunciation and grammer are flawless. He figures if he can learn to do it right, the native speackers ought to be able too.

God help you if you are trying to interview him for a job and your English sucks.

There's really no excuse for a native English speaker to have bad English (yes, I know, there are extreme cases, I'm talking about the average person here). In a previous managerial job, I interviewed a nice kid. In brief e-mails with him, it was clear that he mixed up "there", "their", and "they're". I flunked him based on that alone.

[Pagan]

(It was a long time ago, and I don't remember how to make it any more. Too bad, because it was fun to make. Part of the process involved putting the dough on the counter and beating the crap out of it with rolling pins for a while. Made for a very smooth, dense, chewy bread that was wonderful toasted!)

I had to Google the recipe for it. I will have to try making it. I make a wonderful Frence cheese bread (Gougère Bourguignonne) and may have to add pain brie to my repertoire.

I Googled it, too! I'm going to make it this weekend.

Have you ever had or made brioche? I had some brioche French toast in Santa Fe and had to learn how to make it. I've got a really good recipe from "Breaking Bread with Father Dominic". I'm glad, too, the show's not on anymore and I can't find the recipes online!

[Ironclad Alibi]

I Googled it, too! I'm going to make it this weekend.

Have you ever had or made brioche? I had some brioche French toast in Santa Fe and had to learn how to make it. I've got a really good recipe from "Breaking Bread with Father Dominic". I'm glad, too, the show's not on anymore and I can't find the recipes online!

I have not tried making brioche, only the cheese bread. However, I also make great gingerbread using a 50-year old bottle of sugar cane molasses (it's the thick, black stuff). The molasses was made by a great-uncle.

[Pagan]

I have not tried making brioche, only the cheese bread. However, I also make great gingerbread using a 50-year old bottle of sugar cane molasses (it's the thick, black stuff). The molasses was made by a great-uncle.

I can imagine you don't make it too often then! BTW, the bread turned out great and it's a lot of fun beating the crap out of the dough....although I'm sure my neighbors were wondering what I was doing!