Incorrect corrections

[Answerprancer]

(Oxymoron of the day?)

Don't you just hate it when someone 'corrects' you with something you KNOW is incorrect ?
eg. I pointed towards the fridge in the pub last week and asked for a bottle of Zyweic pronouncing it "zhe-vee-ets" - which was taught to me by a young Polish friend of mine.
The bar person ummed and erred until I pointed right at it, then she grabbed one out and said "Ah, zvee-eck!"

[Answerprancer]

Indeed Squarebear - when all was said and done, it was 'mission accomplished' ;-)

Mike "the portly chap with the top hat and cigarette holder" was actually offering a joint.
I thought it was time I retired him (at least until AOG starts another run of fascisistic rants).

[squarebear]

It's rich going on about pedantry when you comment on a Polish beer label being pronounced incorrectly!

[crisgal]

my boss wrongly corrected me today. I said 'it's a steep learning curve' and she laughed and said - nay insisted - that it's 'learning curb!!'

[flobadob]

squarebear I cannot find the words to find what a perfect swipe you made there. Seriously dude, congratumalations.

[mike11111]

Can I be a pedantic prat as well? I think that incorrect correction IS an oxymoron because a correction puts something right and if it is incorrect it can't be correct (or something like that).

[Answerprancer]

It was more about the fact that she corrected me than anything else Squarebear - I didn't pick her up on it.

It's looking as if this mispronunciation thing is getting out of hand slightly, my mistake, maybe I should have used another example eg. when I was 'corrected' about someone "dying" her hair (lighter in colour) when it was in fact bleached.

re. my last post - for "Mike" read "Andy".

[Answerprancer]

LOL - why is this degenerating into an argument ?

[Answerprancer]

...look, I don't want no trouble ok ?

[mike11111]

Just take 600 mg Ibuprofen and monitor the situation for a few days.

[Answerprancer]

Why Mike - does that cure mis-guided posting ?

[mike11111]

Sqad's panacea - cures everything.

[horseshoes]

I know it's not quite the same thing, but I said in my best Arthur Daly style "The world's your lobster" to a rather pompous person, and they said "I think you'll find the saying is "the world's your oyster". No kidding!?!

[woofgang]

tell you the one I hate? "Its a real mindfield"

[flobadob]

I don't agree that it is an oxymoron.

[rowanwitch]

prefer the world is the mollusc of your choosing except oysters aren't molluscs....

BTW point some of the Zyweic my way it's nice beer and the local shops only do Tyskie and Lech