A Sea Of Red

It's moot point, not mute point. I don't know if I've seen it wrong on this board before. But I see it everywhere. I'm not a huge grammar police guy but mute point doesnt even make any sense. Unless you think it's spelled like that. But I doubt anybody does.

I don't even want to get into a discussion of these types of errors. I cringe enough already.

Anybody ever heard of "casting spurgeons"? I saw that one on the PC board, ironically enough, in a post describing the high quality of education at Presbyterian College.

I hadn't seen that one. That's a riot. Did they think they were referencing Charles Hatton's foundations of American Evangelism?

Sly Fox wrote:I don't even want to get into a discussion of these types of errors. I cringe enough already.

This one is bad though. People are actually saying outloud "mute point" as in that point has been muted by my TV remote.

We have some on this board that repeatedly use "loose" in place of "lose."

What a bunch of loosers...

Well, there's Charles H. Spurgeon, the renowned minister and then there's sturgeon, which is a fish that I suppose you could throw. Beyond that, I have no idea.

Fumblerooskies wrote:We have some on this board that repeatedly use "loose" in place of "lose."

What a bunch of loosers...

that's a common message board joke. But I doubt anybody here uses it in that way. I think you have to establish the fact that you're making fun of that before you can start doing it, without looking like an idiot.

What I am saying, is it is used as in...
...we loose again.

(right before the thread deteriorates into a fire the coach debate)

On the UT site, years ago an Okie was arguing that all Texans were lacking in intelligence. He ended his diatribe with the following:

Idoit!

Idoits have been all over that board ever since.

OK...kind of along the same lines...if you were to have something happen to your skin...like getting hit by a belt for example...do you call that a welt or a welp?

I have never even heard of a welp until I talked to a couple of people in Va...I have always called it a welt.

It's a welt.

ahhh, my wife's family calls it a welp, and they're from NC. I thought it was just a family mistake.

A "welt" is a ridge on the surface of the skin, received from a blow of a thin stick or whip.

"Welp" is a term for a young animal. More specifically, I believe, to a puppy or wolf cub. I don't remember which.

These are things I was familiar with...then why do Virginians (and apparently NC's as well) have to create their own meanings to words?

HenryGale wrote:These are things I was familiar with...then why do Virginians (and apparently NC's as well) have to create their own meanings to words?

Ign'ance. Regional corruption of the language. Making words up that sound like they fit. Pick one.

My wife's family is from central Tennessee and, whenever we go there, I carry a notebook in which to write stuff down. It is a strange, strange place and I usually come back with any number of new words or bizarre stories.