memo

[fox]

to: everyone
from: fox

please pronounce the word tour correctly. the vowel is the same as the vowel in lure, not the vowel in lore. (the same is true of sure, by the way -- it is not pronounced the same way as shore.) i know it's spelled just like four, which really does rhyme with lore -- sorry about that. but, please, from this language, what did you expect?

thank you.

Comments

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

i haven't posted a Memo since you've been here, have i. :-)

what i'm saying is, if it's not that way nation-wide, it should be. i'm tired of hearing "tore", and i want it to stop.

[smiles sweetly]

What's wrong with variety?

[wholenother.livejournal.com]

But I'd rather you than the Texans decide what should be... Could you please stop "y'all"?

Re: What's wrong with variety?

[darthfox.livejournal.com]

i could send a memo requesting (or demanding) the cessation of "y'all", but i'm not going to. not all use of it, anyway; it should not be used in formal situations, and it should never be used in the possessive (y'all's) or the singular (which defeats its purpose), but it does have its place. right alongside you'uns and youse and you lot. huzzah for the second-person plural.

Re: What's wrong with variety?

[wholenother.livejournal.com]

"Youse guys" is my favorite.

Oh, "y'all's" hurts!

"Y'all" to refer to two people -- that's "you both" or "both of you," buddies! -- upsets me. To refer to only one person? I shudder at the thought. But it happens.

4PPM used "fora" instead of "forums" in class the other day. Made me so happy I had to interrupt the class to cheer him on! Teehee!

Okay, that's enough from me.