words people make up?!?!

[snarlingcoyote]

Poor ole' Shakespeare. He'd have a rough time with this crowd!

 

[AKL_Megs]

I will always remember my grandmother saying, "warsh" for wash.

Chillax always bugs me. I guess I really need to chillax about it though...

 

[PrincessKsMom]

This works.

Anything co-opted to denigrate these kids (as sped is), as common sense and a little understanding dictates, shoudn't.


Hanuted..... Sounds Finnish.

I don't think anyone co-opted the phrase Special Education to denigrate children. It's simply an abbreviation. Everything is abbreviated these days -- GAC, OCD, Gen X, ESL... No one meant you, your child or anyone else any harm.

 

[Robindianne]

Fellow sped teacher! Howdy.

Disconnect as a noun. I know it's commonly used but I hate it! Just say there was a disconnection not a disconnect.

semi-made up word used by one of "my" kids: bonk - to mean any kind of hitting with anything no matter no soft or hard if it wasn't meant to seriously hurt (regardless of how much it DID hurt) We even used it and defined (and measure goals around it) it in the IEP

I'm a sped teacher, I sit in a LOT of professional meetings around conference tables talking about serious subjects.

Here's what I can't stand - when people make up words!! Or use the wrong word.

The latest one is "flustrated" that is not a word! It's fRustrated. Now I'm frustrated.

Care to share other words you've heard slaughtered? or made up?

yes, yes, I know, this from the person who couldn't spell her own screen name right...

 

[Robindianne]

Lordy lord. so sorry to offend thee with my job title! be thankful I went to college for 6 years to earn it and work with the little ones - we're very short handed in my field...can't imagine why


thanks to everyone who has taken this thread with a grain of salt! this is the "just for fun" board, no?


I have another one...jaguar pronounced as jagwire

I just replied to your original post with "Fellow sped here".

In response to the offended poster you are replying to: As a parent of my own speddo (as I call him sometimes) and a sped teacher, I find that my time is best spent learning more and working with special ed kids and my own rather than being overly sensitive to what a sped teacher who's great with my kid calls herself or my kid. There are enough battles out there to pick the ones that are real. "Sped" isn't one of them. JMO

Oh and another word: moot pronounced mute
and another: irregardless (haven't read the whole thread, sorry if this is a common gripe word)

 

[Robindianne]

"Oriental", as far as I can tell, only bugs those with hang-ups.

Same with sped as far as I can tell.

 

[mcco5543]

I love this thread. Thanks so much for making me laugh today. It's been rough around here.


When the original Poster wrote SPED. I was not offended. I have a disability and would have been except like everyone keeps pointing out. Context matters. Yes it should probably have been S.P.E.D. or Sp. Ed. but this is a message board, we're not formal around here right y'all? I think most of us got what the OP meant.

I think if you mispronounce a word it can be very funny or can't say it for no particular reason. Of course it's not funny when someone has ligit speech issues or learning differences.

I love made up words.

My mom spoke in "thing" language all the time growing up. She just couldnt' be bothered trying to think up the word she wanted. Yes, she's even walked in the room and said "have you seen the thing?" ...sad part was I knew exactly what she was looking for, no context needed. (Yes my mother's first language is English, she just couldn't be bothered half the time... No idea why!)

My DMIL says " Casa-deals" for Quesadillias) or however you spell the actual word prounounced "case-a-dee uhs?" or "casa-dee-uhs" depending on where you are from

I don't know where I got this but I somehow decided some where in my life that "squoze" is another past tense to "squeeze" ..yes squeeze exists too, but sometimes it doesnt' sound right and I say squoze...my wife makes fun of me for it every time, but it cracks her up.

What drives me crazy is when people know perfectly well how to pronounce soemthing and have every capability of doing so, they just don't and it's just poor poor speaking on their part... I'm guilty of it to,... I am so lazy when I say
Didn't it

I often end up running it together and say: din'nit?

It sounds so uneducated and I work on saying it properly.

Also, I'm sure this doesnt' drive as many people crazy but excessive leaving-off of "ing" on words makes me totally insane.

"he was comin' and goin' and leavin' and comin again"

using it to be casual is one thing..exessive just sounds uneducated to my ears.

I say doo-hickey alot

I also try not to say "Yeah" when someone asks me a yes or no question. I realize that's kind of getting away from the topic but it's another slang that makes me crazy.

 

[novajeanjellybean]

My mom calls guacamole, guatemala ummm that's a country.....

People always come into the restaurant and order kwaysew (queso) and fageetas (fajitas) Drives me crazy!!!

 

[kafitty]

my friends and i have totally ruined the english language for ourselves - we call it the Vish Lang. Basically we just shorten words to one syllable, but there are some words that we've given totally different and broad meanings to - vish (short for vicious), fend, fiend, post, bundle, etc. It started when we were all about 17...and even in our mid-20's, we're still using it and indoctrinating others.

i wasn't aware that some considered SPED offensive. i also can't say what i want to without being considered argumentative. But methinks you are not speaking for "all these kids" youthinks you are.

 

[torinsmom]

At our school, the classes with differently abled children are labeled Exceptional Children's classes. Actually, the whole department with speech, occupational therapy, etc is called the Exceptional Children's department or EC. I haven't heard "special "ed" used in quite while.

My son has a learning disability that doesn't keep him out of the normal classroom. I like to say he is a "unique learner", because if a teacher takes the time to see what works for him, he does really well. I guess that is true for all kids, though. Too bad our educational system cares more about test scores than actually reaching children.

I teach PreK/K and I differentiate with all my kids and it really does make a difference for ALL of them, from the ones who are labeled ELL(English Language Learners) and EC to the ones who are labeled AIG(Academically and Intellectually Gifted).

Marsha

 

[Kitty 34]

OP, my DH says flustrated all the time, too. I thought he was the only one!

 

[rie'smom]

We live in Cajun country. My mom and dad live 30 minutes further 'down the bayou' from us. The area is known for the flat accent that many people have. Mom is above all that. Instead of pronouncing her short vowel "a" as in bag, she pronounces it as a short "e" as in beg.

Also, she and dad went to England a few years ago and she became British on the trip. Home Depot which she always pronounced as Home Deepot with the long e is now Home Depot with a short e.

Hopefully they stop traveling or I might not understand her English!