Please stop saying "and" in your numbers

[Cyrano]

Wait a minute. You listen to Bawb week after week and this is the only thing that bothers you?? You have to tell me your secret.

Sharp as every Regina

 

[chip 'n dale rule]

Disney says it with the and in the title.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpW8wqE_Rac


If Disney uses and then a Disney podcast can to.

I think you meant "too"

 

[fakereadhed]

I'm the son of an english teacher, so I am in danger of being called "Grammar Nazi" every day.

My mom is a retired first grade teacher. My kids call me "The Grammar Fairy."

My point was just that even though this thread may be all in fun, if I was doing the podcast I wouldn't want to read it, KWIM?

 

[jadedbeauty14304]

Hello podsquad,

I love the podcast. You guys are great. One request...

I hate to sound like a nit, and nobody is perfect, but I'm a math teacher and it hurts me every time you guys say a number, for example "2008," but pronounce it "two-thousand and eight. Saying "and" while pronouncing a number is only to represent a decimal point, and the portion of the number spoken after the "and" represents the decimal (fractional) portion of the number.

You guys probably have youngsters listening and hopefully they have good math teachers and realize the way you guys pronounce it is wrong.

This post makes me a giggle a little bit inside. I can just imagine all of the young people listening to the podcast and thinking "Wow, thank heavens for our math teacher Mr. Smith, who taught us the correct way to speak numbers! It would be a shame to be corrupted by the podcast and the "and" in 2008!"

In reality they are probably sitting and dreaming about their upcoming vacation. I don't think there is any reason to be concerned for our children. I mean no offense to OP, but really now! LOL!

 

[Madi100]

I really feel for the Podcast Crew. This board is simultaneously the most fun and the most whiny. Totally split personality! I think it is one thing to pick on DISers grammar , but to nitpick the podcasters is quite something. People freak out about leaving their voice on an email, but these guys record every week for us. I think they all do a wonderful job- even though they are human. Maybe I'm weird, but the human part is one of the things that I think sets this podcast apart from the others...in a good way.

VERY WELL SAID!!!

 

[MenashaCorp]

My mom is a retired first grade teacher. My kids call me "The Grammar Fairy."

My point was just that even though this thread may be all in fun, if I was doing the podcast I wouldn't want to read it, KWIM?

Yup. In the words of renowned grammarian Randy Jackson, "I feel ya, Dawg."

 

[willis37862]

I am guilty of throwing "and" in there too. Doesn't bother me either way but then I am guilty of getting tongue tied and rambling on a daily basis. I would never want the job of talking for a living. My hats off to them for doing it every week

 

[clombardi]

Ok, here's mine: Someone has a thread called "How many days do you got left?" It drives me crazy!

I am a complete freak! I actually wrote to the moderator and asked to have that thread name changed because it feels like fingernails on a chalkboard each time I see it. We teachers really are pains in the you know what!

 

[IHeartTink04]

I have never even noticed it.

There is no way we could start asking them to say everything correctly.

I feel for you guys too!

 

[Dale-Not-Chip]

I think you meant "too"

Man you can't let your guard down for a minute. Stick and move, stick and move.

 

[wishspirit]

101 Dalmatians.........

Did you put the "and" in the title???

So true!!

I can't think of saying 101 without the and, and i grew up with BBC English. I guess its an 'each to their own' thing!

 

[deva]

OP here,

Wow, what a difference between the math teacher community and the Disney community. I guess not everyone is as sensitive as me about it. Oh well, I guess I'll have to live with it.

 

[Derby4me]

This whole thread sounds a little to serious to me! These are the disboards not work! Let's keep things in context.

 

[Stroller Boy]

I think the real issue, generally speaking, is the sensitivity to anything and everything in this country. I'll bet there's someone out there who's offended when "and" isn't used! If we all worried about how we said everything we'd all be raving lunatics, although, I'll bet there's a pill for that...and being in the pharma industry, perhaps I should agree with you... The real question here is how do we cross this discussion over into something "Disney"???? Perhaps PC and park behavior? LOL (I try not to take myself too seriously as a rule...actually, I'm just wondering how I got sucked up into this! ha!)

 

[MenashaCorp]

OP here,

Wow, what a difference between the math teacher community and the Disney community. I guess not everyone is as sensitive as me about it. Oh well, I guess I'll have to live with it.

Not flaming - just illuminating. Everyone has a "pet peeve." We love the Podcast and, well, I will say I love that the OP is listening and posting. IT'S DISNEY!! Ergo... it's all good.....

Speak your mind!! This Podcast rocks in large part because it's real and the 'Casters show their humanity. You should do the same!

Political Correctness for its' own sake Sucks. DISers are generally positive because we share a love of Disney.

 

[DisneyKevin]

It has been pointed out that I say " I gotta tell you..." too often.

It has also been pointed out that I use the word "actually" too much.

I dont believe that I use "and" when saying the date.

But...I gotta tell you, I actually think I'll start saying it untill two thousand and twleve.

 

[Madi100]

It has been pointed out that I say " I gotta tell you..." too often.

It has also been pointed out that I use the word "actually" too much.

I dont believe that I use "and" when saying the date.

But...I gotta tell you, I actually think I'll start saying it untill two thousand and twleve.

Kevin, I gotta tell you, I've never actually heard you say any of those, but look forward to listening to all of that in future podcasts

 

[disneycruise05]

I have never heard this rule in all my years of school (I am a junior in college). However, I did have a crazy vice-principal in high school. I went to school in Germany (this comes to play, trust me...). He wrote a letter to the editor of the Stars and Stripes saying how everybody was, I believe his exact word was, stupid since we said two-thousand and five as opposed to twenty-oh-five. Now, the Stars and Stripes is a military newspaper. Not only in Germany...not only in Europe, but everywhere the military is. So, our school was made fun of by EVERY SCHOOL IN THE DODDS SYSTEM. Oh well.

And, if we're correcting grammar..."podsquad" is a proper noun. It is referencing a group of people. So, it should be capitalized and read "Hello Podsquad," not "Hello podsquad."

 

[MenashaCorp]

It has been pointed out that I say " I gotta tell you..." too often.

It has also been pointed out that I use the word "actually" too much.

I dont believe that I use "and" when saying the date.

But...I gotta tell you, I actually think I'll start saying it untill two thousand and twleve.

Ernst Stavro Klosefeld rox, Ladies and Jellyspoons...

 

[miss missy]

My 2 cents is this is a place to have fun, dis the rules, forgetaboutthem and just be happy to be ... there are boards that want to point out this and that opinion, I dont want to see that on this board EVER please no no no.

I am glad you OP are letting it go, I think you may get used to it around here welcome to the no rule part of the baords!