People still say Star "Trak"
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"Jagwire"?
Here's the pronunciation I loathe above all: "sheduling" instead of "skeduling." So wimpy sounding.
As long as we're branching out here... I hate people who say "snuck." It's not a proper English word. It has become so common and accepted as to have been canonized in reference books as a coloquialism (which I suppose means, much to my chagrin, that it's well on its way to becoming a legitimate word in our ever-evolving lnguage), but the proper way to say someone moved with stealth is to say they "sneaked."
No, as I said in my first post, most human beings (not just Americans) have a habit of compartmentalizing unusual words with the nearest word they already know.
Then again, no one remembers Q's line in All Good Things "It's time to put an end to your trek through the stars." I guess Moore and Braga decided that wasn't obvious enough when they reused it for First Contact
"Starfeet"? OK, so this is my very first post, which means I'm brand-new here, and one should not correct people upon first acquaintance, if ever (particularly since it pretty much guarentees that I myself will make a big ol' mistake any second now -- in fact, I had one right in this very post but caught it right after I made it), but I am pointing this out not as a correction but just because it's such a cute little typo.
"Beam me up, Scotty" makes me want to whack somebody over the head with my Q action figure. I've never heard "Star Track," I'm happy to say, though no doubt I will NOW.
"Beam me up, Scotty" makes me want to whack somebody over the head with my Q action figure. I've never heard "Star Track," I'm happy to say, though no doubt I will NOW.
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Then again, no one remembers Q's line in All Good Things "It's time to put an end to your trek through the stars." I guess Moore and Braga decided that wasn't obvious enough when they reused it for First Contact
I never had a problem with either reference, I thought they were clever and amusing.
People still say Star "Trak"
Will they ever learn?
How do they manage to spell it wrong orally?
Americans weren't always quite as illiterate as they are today.
I don't see why we should be bothered that morons don't get it right.
I don't believe this statement is true in the context of the title Star Trek. It's really not a function of being illiterate, Trek is simply not a word commonly used in America, then or now.
No, they will never learn. That's why I still bury people in my back yard daily. 
That's because it was printed that way in the early Ballantine publications, "Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual" by Franz Joseph and "Star Trek Star Fleet Medical Reference Manual" by Eileen Palestine.
Nardpuncher
Rear Admiral
The one-word thing is silly anyway. When i was a kid...fire fighter was still two words...and space ship. It's hard to tell when things will get stuck together.
I completely agree with you.
My pet peeves:
He should of called you. (It's "have", should've).
It was orientated towards the east. (Ok, but "oriented" takes less of my time, chump).
If I went to college I coulda had a better job. (If I had gone to college I could have gotten a better job).
"Nucular" (Nuclear)
I'm American. ("Uh, that's Canada and South America too, dumbass")
I'm US American ("Uh, it's North American, dumbass")
I'm North American ("Uh, that's Canada dumbass")
USAian - ugh.
I'm from the United States ("You think you're better than me???")
But my favorite, a fellow English teacher from Africa was introducing student awards in a marketing event, saying the student names followed by, "Let's all give him the clap!"
He should of called you. (It's "have", should've).
It was orientated towards the east. (Ok, but "oriented" takes less of my time, chump).
If I went to college I coulda had a better job. (If I had gone to college I could have gotten a better job).
"Nucular" (Nuclear)
I'm American. ("Uh, that's Canada and South America too, dumbass")
I'm US American ("Uh, it's North American, dumbass")
I'm North American ("Uh, that's Canada dumbass")
USAian - ugh.
I'm from the United States ("You think you're better than me???")
But my favorite, a fellow English teacher from Africa was introducing student awards in a marketing event, saying the student names followed by, "Let's all give him the clap!"
"Jagwire"?
Here's the pronunciation I loathe above all: "sheduling" instead of "skeduling." So wimpy sounding.
Yeah, and I have found it all over the place, it's not a regional thing.
