DEAR EVERYONE

[Artha]

Dying = The act of putting dye into clothes.

Dieing = The act of becoming dead.

Thank you.

[Khariz]

Dying = The act of putting dye into clothes.

Dieing = The act of becoming dead.

Thank you.

If you are serious...

www.m-w.com

Main Entry: dying
present part of DIE

[Sean of the Thread]

Last I checked DYING is the correct word.

Artha -50 dkp.

[Fallen]

Spellchecker hates dieing.

[Umpyr]

Dear Artha,

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dying
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dieing

You're welcome.

[Shari]

You know when you post those threads that you just wish you could delete without a moderators help and before anyone else notices?

This is one of those threads.

[Lomoriond]

Because it really bugged me that no one pointed it out...

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/dyeing

Dyeing retains it's E, so as not to confuse it with dying.


Next up:
anecdote - a short story
antidote - counter-poison
antecdode - NOT A WORD
antidode - NOT A WORD
flibbertigibbet - ACTUALLY A WORD

[TheEschaton]

flibbertigibbet - ACTUALLY A WORD

It etter fucking be! I named mu pet lizard after that shit!

-TheE-

[The Ponzzz]

This thread is to dye for.

[Lomoriond]

It etter fucking be! I named mu pet lizard after that shit!

-TheE-

Not only is flibbertigibbet a word... flibbertigibbety is a legitimate adjective!

50 cool points for using it in a thesis... 250 if used in a public speech!

[Parkbandit]

No wonder he used to work for Walmart.. the kid can't even spell.

[DCSL]

This is hilarious and sad at the same time. I hope it's a joke.

[Bobmuhthol]

Hey, Parkbandit, why don't you keep inserting apostrophes into words randomly?


The problem with your theory is that you believe Walmart hires it's employees at the current minimum wage.

Or maybe you could ignore the general rule that the present participle of a word only has a double consonant if the root has one syllable?


You've never done any sort of business budgetting before.. have you?

Just to be fair: both of those quotes were from your last fifteen posts.

[Tisket]

I think Artha was just testing you guys.

[Skeeter]

I'm dieing on the inside reading this.

[Skeeter]

if you were making dice, perhaps then you could be dieing.

[Parkbandit]

Hey, Parkbandit, why don't you keep inserting apostrophes into words randomly?



Or maybe you could ignore the general rule that the present participle of a word only has a double consonant if the root has one syllable?



Just to be fair: both of those quotes were from your last fifteen posts.



I'm n'ot s'ure Bob. May'be we cou'ld take a de'eper look in'to my pro'blem.

Or, may'be we can try an'd fig'ure out wh'y you scor'ed so low on hot'or'not.com?

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e6/belike53/bob.jpg

Ne'vermind, I thi'nk we can quick'ly fig'ure it out, just by loo'king at your pic'ture.

PS - you onl'y nee'd one com'ma in the fir'st sent'ence you typ'ed. You dis'appoin't me grea'tly.

[Bobmuhthol]

<<PS - you onl'y nee'd one com'ma in the fir'st sent'ence you typ'ed. You dis'appoin't me grea'tly.>>

You're pretty fucking stupid if you think that.

[Xaerve]

Are those bowling trophies?

[Parkbandit]

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e6/belike53/Bobtard.jpg

[Stanley Burrell]

What's that one non-word that Vinh the "Stretch" Eda(a)rinstein really hates? I was gonna do my whole one-liner holier-than-thou dilly, but decaf Saturdays rape my bombaster and superciliousness. Respectively.

TheE's pet tuatara has a better name than my lizard, too :-\

[Lomoriond]

Dude...

Weapon collection + cow-piggy bank + bowling trophies = SEXY BEAST

I'd tap that

Or is it trophyes?

[Sean of the Thread]

There i'snt a clear view of his plywood floor in that picture so you can't really pass any judge'ment.

[Drew]

Artha is right. And trying to be me three years ago:

http://forum.gsplayers.com/showpost.php?p=169080&postcount=42

[Bobmuhthol]

Did you bother reading the definitions?

[Tolwynn]

Keep up with the superfluous apostrophes, and they'll probably make you honorary dhe'nar'ii' or something.

[Alfster]

i farted

[Apathy]

The title of this post should have been "Deer Every One" anyways.

[Hulkein]

Two thumbs up for this thread. In the cadence of Jim Rome: Hy-sterical.

[Artha]

I'm living a lie!

[Parkbandit]

I'm living a lie!


Someone's about to come out of the closet folks. Don't miss it.

[Sean of the Thread]

At least you're living and not living a DYE.


LOL I KEEEL MYSELF.

[Shalla]

Is this a holier than thou thread or a joke?

Isn't

DYEING is to dye something, Retaining it's E?

DYING is to die?

[The Ponzzz]

Not in Engrish.

[Shalla]

Crie

[Apathy]

I'm livving a lye!

Corrected.

[Back]

Artha made a faux pax.

[Ignot]

Is this a holier than thou thread or a joke?

Isn't

DYEING is to dye something, Retaining it's E?

DYING is to die?

I thought it was this too.

[Artha]

Artha made a faux pax
Pronounced Fox Packs.


edit: Seeing this thread this morning was like waking up and being told I threw up on a pretty girl last night.

[Celephais]

Dieing... advice please... 1 or 2?

[Latrinsorm]

It's "bo" staff. :)

[Parkbandit]

Pronounced Fox Packs.


edit: Seeing this thread this morning was like waking up and being told I threw up on a pretty girl last night.


LOL.

I remember this drunken 'date' I had in College.. we were going AT it a little wild like... 2 drunk kids in a room... and she either elbowed me or hit me in the nose.. and I got this major nose bleed. We didn't notice anything until about 20 minutes later.. it looked like a crime scene.

Needless to say.. I never called her again and she never called me.

[Sean of the Thread]

That's what you get for dating Chyna.

[TheEschaton]

I had a nose bleed story, but it was her. It was cause she was high on coke.

Of course, I was high too on something else, so no one noticed at all.

Woke up the next morning next to this girl, naked, covered in her blood, her face covered in blood - I thought I fucking killed her or something, so I booked it major fast.

She was fine though, saw her at a party a couple weeks later.

-TheE-

[Ignot]

I had a nose bleed story, but it was her. It was cause she was high on coke.

Of course, I was high too on something else, so no one noticed at all.

Woke up the next morning next to this girl, naked, covered in her blood, her face covered in blood - I thought I fucking killed her or something, so I booked it major fast.

She was fine though, saw her at a party a couple weeks later.

-TheE-

HAHAHA that is hilarious. I tried to imagine what it would be like to wake up to that and i have to admit i would probably bolt too!

[TheEschaton]

Yeah, in retrospect, not one my prouder moments. ;)

-TheE-

[Artha]

This thread is way cooler now.

[Stanley Burrell]

What was that word that pissed off Stretch?

[Artha]

Definately instead of definitely?

[Nieninque]

Pronounced Fox Packs.


But actually spelt faux pas rather than faux pax

[Khariz]

But actually spelt faux pas rather than faux pax

This thread just keeps getting better by the day!

[Stretch]

What's that one non-word that Vinh the "Stretch" Eda(a)rinstein really hates? I was gonna do my whole one-liner holier-than-thou dilly, but decaf Saturdays rape my bombaster and superciliousness. Respectively.

TheE's pet tuatara has a better name than my lizard, too :-\

Irregardless.

[Artha]

But actually spelt faux pas rather than faux pax
Irrelevant.

[Nieninque]

Irrelevant.

Actually that comment was aimed at Backlash who threw in the faux pax comment, but I wanted to keep the conversation in there, I just forgot that this message board only quotes the last person.

And given that the thread was about the correct spelling of something incorrectly spelled in the correction, I think that makes it valid ;)

[Bobmuhthol]

Holy shit, I just realized that we don't have automatic tiered quotes anymore. I always thought people were manually editing them out.

[TheEschaton]

Irregardless.

Is not a word.

-TheE-

[Bobmuhthol]

Yeah, it is.

[TheEschaton]

Yeah, it is.

ir·re·gard·less
–adverb Nonstandard. regardless.

[Origin: 1910–15; ir-2 (prob. after irrespective) + regardless]

—Usage note Irregardless is considered nonstandard because of the two negative elements ir- and -less. It was probably formed on the analogy of such words as irrespective, irrelevant, and irreparable. Those who use it, including on occasion educated speakers, may do so from a desire to add emphasis. Irregardless first appeared in the early 20th century and was perhaps popularized by its use in a comic radio program of the 1930s.


No...no it isn't.

-TheE-

[Bobmuhthol]

...

What the fuck, you just cited an entry that says it's a word and then said it's not.

You may want to look up nonstandard while you're in a dictionary.com rampage.

[TheEschaton]

Nonstandard means wrong.

"In many dictionaries, the use of the label nonstandard is the most restrictive, applied to forms and usages that educated speakers and writers consider unacceptable."

Basically, it's worse than slang. If it's not allowed on a Scrabble board: it's not a word.

-TheE-

[Nieninque]

Irregardless is not a word
It is used in place of regardless by people who are noobs at the English language.

It does not appear in the Oxford English dictionary therefore you can shove it up your arse.

[Celephais]

Main Entry: 1word http://www.meriam-webster.com/images/audio.gif (javascript:popWin('/cgi-bin/audio.pl?word0001.wav=word'))
Pronunciation: 'w&rd
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German wort word, Latin verbum, Greek eirein to say, speak, Hittite weriya- to call, name
1 a : something that is said

It might not be a proper english word. but IT IS A WORD.

semantics

[Bobmuhthol]

It's awesome when things that aren't words have 749,000 Google results.

[Nieninque]

It's awesome when things that aren't words have 749,000 Google results.

Because google shapes the world.

[Bobmuhthol]

Hard to say it doesn't exist when it clearly does.

[Nieninque]

Interestingly, the google responses I saw were pretty much saying irregardless is not a word.

Yay google.

[Bobmuhthol]

Funny, all the ones I saw said that irregardless is either nonstandard, substandard, or a synonym of the two, but none of them said it wasn't a word.

[Nieninque]

I guess when you want to believe something you will cling on to what you can

[Artha]

I've had this exact same argument with a girl over whether or not 'heighth' was a word.

I came up with an 11 point list of reasons why she was wrong, but all the reasons I remember have been covered.

[Bobmuhthol]

http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/irregardless?view=uk

There's your Oxford entry.

[Back]

Actually that comment was aimed at Backlash who threw in the faux pax comment, but I wanted to keep the conversation in there, I just forgot that this message board only quotes the last person.

And given that the thread was about the correct spelling of something incorrectly spelled in the correction, I think that makes it valid ;)

I did that on purpose because once upon a time I chastised someone for what I thought was the wrong spelling of faux pas then it was pointed out to me that it was the correct spelling.

[Hulkein]

...

What the fuck, you just cited an entry that says it's a word and then said it's not.

You may want to look up nonstandard while you're in a dictionary.com rampage.

It's a word in the same respect that the word ain't is. It wasn't a word but so many people used it that they put it in the dictionary.

[Bobmuhthol]

<<It wasn't a word but so many people used it that they put it in the dictionary.>>

Much like every other word before it became a word, I guess.

<<It's a word in the same respect that the word ain't is.>>

Unsurprisingly, ain't is a word.

[Nieninque]

<<It wasn't a word but so many people used it that they put it in the dictionary.>>

Much like every other word before it became a word, I guess.

<<It's a word in the same respect that the word ain't is.>>

Unsurprisingly, ain't is a word.

In much the same way as "y'all" is a word

[Lomoriond]

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/truthiness


Most definitely a word, and not in the dictionary.

Screw dictionaries

[Celephais]

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/truthiness


Most definitely a word, and not in the dictionary.

Screw dictionaries

I remember Colbert saying something like MW acknowledged it as a valid english word, but then they didn't include it in the dictionary... he then hosted a revised page 563 (or where it would appear was) on his site and said he is NOT encouraging people to go to their local library and paste his page over it, repeat, NOT ENCOURAGING YOU TO GO TO YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY. He then said he had to make extra room for it, and that tried is no longer in the dictionary... it should have tried harder.

And Nienique, can you pronouce "ain't" and "y'all" and "irregardless"? It's a word. It's just not proper, your definition of word is wrong.

[Hulkein]

Much like every other word before it became a word, I guess.

Not really. Irregardless means the same thing as regardless. It is a mis-usage of a pre-existing word. The only reason it was put in is because there are a lot of people who don't have a great grasp on the English language.


Unsurprisingly, ain't is a word.

That's what I said. It is a 'word' that was added to the dictionary because of the same reasons that irregardless was: It was used a lot by uneducated people, enough so as to necessitate a definition.

[Latrinsorm]

Ain't used to be short for "am not", back in the day (Tuesday). I heard it once from this pretentious guy who went to Yale, it must be true.