'Ohana NOT O'Hana's!

[fottafamily05]

This one could keep going and going!

 

[malcontent]

I wonder what President O'Bama would have to say about this?

 

[FireDancer]

I wonder what President O'Bama would have to say about this?

Following the 'Ohana logic it would be 'Obama...being Hawaiian and all.

 

[M-I-C-K-E-Y]

Why dose this botther yue? 'O'haha's is right their at the Polynessian Resourt, and, yue no, it is, from what i tink, a grate restraunt to.

(wow - it's difficult to write "wrong" - does go against the grain, so to speak!)

 

[VMKaddict]

LoL Good idea in making this thread

 

[Quacktatty]

I just spent two days in a training session with a woman with the last name Ohanesian....I kid you not. She couldn't figure out why all I talked about was Disney!!

 

[WillCAD]

I also love it when people talk about adding "boarders" to their PhotoPass pics.

I didn't realize that PhotoPass pics had rooms to rent...

 

[Lynn5700]

HAHA I call it Ohanas all the time lol. Every now and then I say it right.

 

[Silver Queen]

Actually, this is a pretty good discussion. I don't think that it would hurt any of us to give a little more attention and care to using correct grammar and spelling. It doesn't speak well for our society when people don't care about using our language correctly. I don't mean that we call the grammar police out, but making an effort to do things well is a good life skill for all of us.
Lately I've also been noticing that some people are throwing apostrophes around like grass seed, even on signs in stores that are referring to plurals. ( My pet peeve)

 

[faindrops27]

Ha Ha--you spelled Polynesian wrong!! Too funny! Have a great day

And that is a pet peeve of mine. When people spell Polynesian wrong. How dare they!!!

 

[kaytieeldr]

And while we're at it, it's Boma, not Boma's, and Jiko, not Jiko's, and Kona Cafe, not Kona's, and Raglan Road, not Ragland Road, and it's Walt Disney World (or just Disney World), not Disneyworld or Disneyland or Disney Land.

And no, I don't drink coffee at all, so that's not my problem.

And Narcoosee's, but Citricos

Well, if you really want an Irish pub, after you're done DINNING

I must agree. I don't understand the source of all this noise, or why people are making it, or, for that matter, what it has to do with restaurants or food

So your saying that they should of spelled 'dinning' with only won N? Its not there fault, blame there high school english teachers!

Respectfully, sir, I disagree. Spelling was taught - and, hopefully, learned - many years before high school. It would seem likely that everybody would have learned the correct spelling of "dining" and the rule for it and for whatever reason now choose to spell it wrong.

So - I'm genuinely curious WHY people on the DIS misspell 'Ohana and dining? Anybody?

 

[kaytieeldr]

You forgot to mention that it's Cinderella's Royal Table, not Cindy's

But Cinderella Castle (no possessive).

LOL, go to Ragland Road and get YOUS some beers

I think possible you meant to spell that "youse"? As in youse guys?

I am so glad you said it and not me. It's hard to take some people seriously about advice when they haven't taken the time to learn how to spell the restaurants they are "experts" on.

The OP spelled the restaurant name exactly as it should be:

It's "'Ohana" (without an apostrophe "s"), meaning "family," not "O'Hana" or "O'Hana's," which presumably to some people would be an Irish pub in Disney's Polyneasian Resort.

Did you mean to dis him/her on the spelling of the resort name? That's not the same as a restaurant located inside it.

 

[Donnask8pro]

And being from Joisey really kills me... lol


My BIGGEST pet peeve is that no one ever uses the thread tools link to subscribe to a thread.. OMG drives crazy that I have to read 2-3 pages of "just subbing"

Ok, I'm done for the day....

 

[winterman]

Actually, this is a pretty good discussion. I don't think that it would hurt any of us to give a little more attention and care to using correct grammar and spelling. It doesn't speak well for our society when people don't care about using our language correctly. I don't mean that we call the grammar police out, but making an effort to do things well is a good life skill for all of us.

I have to say that I agree. I can deal with the occasional spelling error or obvious typo. (Please forgive me if there are any here.) But sometimes I'll come across a post that it is just too painful to read - no capitals, no punctuation, spelling that makes no attempt to be correct, etc. When I see those I just give up. The topic might interest me but I just can't read it.

 

[aesalsa]

You all have to read the book Eats, Shoots, and Leaves. You'd love it . It's about the prevalent improper grammar usage in our society today.

 

[WillCAD]

Actually, this is a pretty good discussion. I don't think that it would hurt any of us to give a little more attention and care to using correct grammar and spelling. It doesn't speak well for our society when people don't care about using our language correctly. I don't mean that we call the grammar police out, but making an effort to do things well is a good life skill for all of us.
Lately I've also been noticing that some people are throwing apostrophes around like grass seed, even on signs in stores that are referring to plurals. ( My pet peeve)

In this Age of Information, it's sad that so few people can effectively communicate all that information to others in a language in which they supposedly get 12 years of formal instruction (1st-12th grade). Of course, for 8 years we had a President who couldn't find a coherent sentence with both hands and a flashlight (whether you loved him or hated him, you have to admit that GWB had extremely poor verbal communications skills for someone in so powerful and important an office), so I suppose that it's not terribly surprising that our entire society seems to put such a low value on effective and precise communication.

So - I'm genuinely curious WHY people on the DIS misspell 'Ohana and dining? Anybody?

'Ohana, being a proper name derived from a Hawaiian word, is not something with which most people are very familiar, and thus go by the phonetics. And since it sounds like an Irish pub, people spell it that way.

Turning any proper name into a possessive, however, something that a lot of people do which irritates me to no end!

As to the whole "dining/dinning" thing, I haven't got a clue why people spell the word with two Ns.

My BIGGEST pet peeve is that no one ever uses the thread tools link to subscribe to a thread.. OMG drives crazy that I have to read 2-3 pages of "just subbing"

I can be somewhat forgiving of that if the person's post count is low, indicating that they are new to the DIS and may not be familiar with all of the available tools. ON the other hand, is someone with 6,000 posts does the "Subscribing" thing, it makes me laugh; 6,000 posts and you haven't learned how to subscribe without posting? Ha!

I have to say that I agree. I can deal with the occasional spelling error or obvious typo. (Please forgive me if there are any here.) But sometimes I'll come across a post that it is just too painful to read - no capitals, no punctuation, spelling that makes no attempt to be correct, etc. When I see those I just give up. The topic might interest me but I just can't read it.

Spelling errors generally don't bother me, except in obvious words or proper names, mostly because I make so many myself. However, I recently switched to Mozilla Firefox as my web browser, and it has a built-in spell checker that underlines spelling errors in red like Microsoft Word does! So spelling errors in my posts should decrease substantially now.

And everyone makes a few errors in punctuation, capitalization, and grammar, but when I see a post that's 1,000 words long, with no paragraph breaks, no caps, and very little punctuation, I just can't follow it well enough to actually reply.

 

[webstah]

As to the whole "dining/dinning" thing, I haven't got a clue why people spell the word with two Ns.

Maybe it's because you can diNe at the diNer, but you can also have diNNer at the diNer

 

[kmvand1]

Wow! This always cracks me up when I see people posting about the most minor stupid stuff. Who care?? I think regardless of how you say or spell it, most people know what you are talking about. If I singled out every poster that spelled something incorrectly on these boards, I would never have time for anything else.

 

[WillCAD]

Who care??

I care. And since this thread is 4 pages long, I'd say that means that a lot of other people care, too.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but it always cracks me up when somebody complains about how many threads there are with people complaining about something. You're complaining about a different peeve, but you're doing EXACTLY what everybody else in this thread is doing - complaining about stuff on the boards that gets on your nerves.

Welcome to the Dark Side!

 

[kmvand1]

Welcome to the Dark Side![/QUOTE]


Uh, no thanks! Again, like I said, it just cracks me up that some people have nothing better to do than complain about stupid crap!