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earthman buck
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earthman buck
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07/20/2006 5:48 pm
Originally Posted by: R. ShackleferdWhen people intentionally mispronounce certain words like garbage or target trying to sound French or something...as in "garbaahsh" or "tarsheh". It's not cute, it's not funny, but it is retarted.

I do that all the time without even realizing it. I say "garbaahsh" constantly. Another thing I do is put foreign words for "the" in front of the regular English pronunciation of things, such as "answer los phone" or "I am making les soup."

I blame TV.