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ZWICK 4 PREZ

Do you know anyone who seems to mispronounce everything? I work with a guy who I cannot tell if he does it on purpose or not b/c it's so bad. There has to be a dozen names he mispronounces consistently, then will throw out a new random one every now and then. The reason I bring this up is because the first words he spoke when he came in my office this morning had three mispronunciations in one sentence... You pretty much have to be doing that on purpose right? Do people derive pleasure from it, or do they genuinely just always mispronounce words?

The sentence was ... "Mitsy ("Misty" is her name.. I know, terrible name) is having problems with the Fantic (Fanuc) robot arm again.. and the HMI uses Pro-efficiency (Proficy) Machine Edition, and I don't have that.. Can I borrow your software for a few minutes?

Mitsy sounds like a cats name.. he's known her for like 30 years and still calls her Mitsy instead of Misty.

Fanuc is a huge name in robots.. Fantic doesn't exist... He's been in this business long enough to know what GE Fanuc is.

And I have no idea how you get Pro-efficiency from Proficy, but whatever.

It's almost like he has to be doing it on purpose. There's no way someone can mispronounce so many words…Especially an educated man.<O

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Belly35

ZWICK 4 PREZ;996039 wrote:Do you know anyone who seems to mispronounce everything? I work with a guy who I cannot tell if he does it on purpose or not b/c it's so bad. There has to be a dozen names he mispronounces consistently, then will throw out a new random one every now and then. The reason I bring this up is because the first words he spoke when he came in my office this morning had three mispronunciations in one sentence... You pretty much have to be doing that on purpose right? Do people derive pleasure from it, or do they genuinely just always mispronounce words?

The sentence was ... "Mitsy ("Misty" is her name.. I know, terrible name) is having problems with the Fantic (Fanuc) robot arm again.. and the HMI uses Pro-efficiency (Proficy) Machine Edition, and I don't have that.. Can I borrow your software for a few minutes?

Mitsy sounds like a cats name.. he's known her for like 30 years and still calls her Mitsy instead of Misty.

Fanuc is a huge name in robots.. Fantic doesn't exist... He's been in this business long enough to know what GE Fanuc is.

And I have no idea how you get Pro-efficiency from Proficy, but whatever.

It's almost like he has to be doing it on purpose. There's no way someone can mispronounce so many words…Especially an educated man.<O</O

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ernest_t_bass

Zwick, you create the most pretentious threads.

ZWICK 4 PREZ

ernest_t_bass;996095 wrote:Zwick, you create the most pretentious threads.

I'm sorry, I guess.. I just don't understand the need or ability to mispronounce so many easy words. It literally has grown to grind on my nerves when I talk to him.

like_that

I know a poster on here who thought "cue" was spelled "que."

Fly4Fun

You know what really grinds my gears....

Commander of Awesome

like_that;996108 wrote:I know a poster on here who thought "cue" was spelled "que."

There were actually two posters, the first one was Capwned. Which made it even more of a fail with Zwick did it. lolfail on making same mistake as idiot capwn.

ZWICK 4 PREZ

like_that;996108 wrote:I know a poster on here who thought "cue" was spelled "que."

Actually queue.

like_that

ZWICK 4 PREZ;996116 wrote:Actually queue.

Yeah and your spelling was "que." Cue also applies. Nice try though.

ernest_t_bass

ZWICK 4 PREZ;996102 wrote:I'm sorry, I guess.. I just don't understand the need or ability to mispronounce so many easy words. It literally has grown to grind on my nerves when I talk to him.

If you would have said, "Someone called root beer, "rut beer," then OK. But You make this thread where you're complaining about words 99% of the OC doesn't even know anyway. Besides "Misty."

ZWICK 4 PREZ

ernest_t_bass;996120 wrote:If you would have said, "Someone called root beer, "rut beer," then OK. But You make this thread where you're complaining about words 99% of the OC doesn't even know anyway. Besides "Misty."

Yeah but Mitsy and Misty are pretty bad, you have to admit. And if you were in a profession where these words have been in existance your whole career, I'd expect you to know them as well.

ernest_t_bass

ZWICK 4 PREZ;996126 wrote:Yeah but Mitsy and Misty are pretty bad, you have to admit. And if you were in a profession where these words have been in existance your whole career, I'd expect you to know them as well.

I said that I understood the "Mitsy" one. No one really cares about the other ones. Regardless of your intentions, it just comes across as another pretentious thread.

ZWICK 4 PREZ

like_that;996119 wrote:Yeah and your spelling was "que." Cue also applies. Nice try though.

Yeah and you implied I was meaning "cue" instead of "queue" when I mistakenly wrote "que".. which was not the case. Hence why I wrote queue. Are you following this?.. Nice try though.

power i

Used to work with a girl who mispronounced the same words over and over. Valentime's Day. Asparagrass. Souee Sauce. Drove me flippin' crazy.

ZWICK 4 PREZ

power i;996130 wrote:Used to work with a girl who mispronounced the same words over and over. Valentime's Day. Asparagrass. Souee Sauce. Drove me flippin' crazy.

Exactly.. It's horrible.

wkfan

I don't know why you have to 'axe'......

ernest_t_bass

ZWICK 4 PREZ;996128 wrote:Yeah and you implied I was meaning "cue" instead of "queue" when I mistakenly wrote "que".. which was not the case. Hence why I wrote queue. Are you following this?.. Nice try though.

Actually, zwick (as much as I hate to take the side of like_that), you DID fail on that thread.

ZWICK 4 PREZ

ernest_t_bass;996149 wrote:Actually, zwick (as much as I hate to take the side of like_that), you DID fail on that thread.

And I admitted it in the very post you quoted when I admitted I meant queue instead of que.. you're killin me smalls.

fortfan

Worked with an engineer that did this. We even came up with a dictionary of his common words. Boss found out and we got in trouble for it though.

ZWICK 4 PREZ

fortfan;996162 wrote:Worked with an engineer that did this. We even came up with a dictionary of his common words. Boss found out and we got in trouble for it though.

Maybe it's him. He's an engineer as well.

ernest_t_bass

ZWICK 4 PREZ;996159 wrote:And I admitted it in the very post you quoted when I admitted I meant queue instead of que.. you're killin me smalls.

Look them both up and both (can) have the same meaning.

Wooball

ZWICK 4 PREZ;996039 wrote:
The sentence was ... "Mitsy ("Misty" is her name.. I know, terrible name) is having problems with the Fantic (Fanuc) robot arm again.. and the HMI uses Pro-efficiency (Proficy) Machine Edition, and I don't have that.. Can I borrow your software for a few minutes?

working in the sales side of a company that machines some parts, I heard our machinists refer to this machine as faNook, but when on the road visiting customers I have heard others call it a FANic (like panic). Not having direct knowledge of the machine, which is correct?

ZWICK 4 PREZ

Wooball;996167 wrote:working in the sales side of a company that machines some parts, I heard our machinists refer to this machine as faNook, but when on the road visiting customers I have heard others call it a FANic (like panic). Not having direct knowledge of the machine, which is correct?

FANic (like panic)

like_that

ZWICK 4 PREZ;996128 wrote:Yeah and you implied I was meaning "cue" instead of "queue" when I mistakenly wrote "que".. which was not the case. Hence why I wrote queue. Are you following this?.. Nice try though.

You are the one who failed while trying to act like a smug idiot, not me. Nice to see you running in circles to get your story straight though. "Que" zwicks next fail.

ZWICK 4 PREZ

ernest_t_bass;996166 wrote:Look them both up and both (can) have the same meaning.

Yes, we've been through this on the last thread. What I'm saying, and what you are not getting, is I did not intend to spell it "cue" as like_that suggested, but rather queue when I misspelled it. Hence I was still wrong in the spelling, but not in the intention.

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