Does it bother you when people say "axe" instead of "ask"?

[SP33Demon]

I can fix a car to take a trip and, in some situations, that is synonymous to preparing a car to take a trip, (assuming it needs to work in order to take the trip). Somehow, people started treating "fixing" as a direct synonym for "preparing," thus, "fixin' to" means "preparing to" in their minds.

"I'm fixin' a picnic basket full of goodies" = "I am preparing a picnic basket full of goodies."

It doesn't bother me at all.


It isn't ebonics, you racist. It's a real word that is closer to unperverted root word than "ask." That said, I say "ask."

Sorry, it's ebonics. Educate yourself and maybe you'll get a job by not using "ax" in an interview. Listen to what this intelligent black man has to say and actually read his book Ax or Ask? Also take note on the segment of Bill Cosby.

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

 

[Saint Nick]

Anyone else keep thinking of Futurama?

 

[Nebbers]

One of my employees (who is colored) was telling me a story about how when they were growing up, they started coming home from school and speaking ebonics at home.

Their dad pulled them aside and said they need to stop acting gangster. Because if they talk like that nobody in the real world will take them seriously. If you can't speak properly, people will think you are an idiot, and them (colored people) are not idiots. Needless to say more. She speaks perfect english and even went to college for journalism.

She also said she won't date men of her color though.

Take it for what you will. Maybe she is racist against her own kind?

Sorry to quote from page 3, but wtf.

That is not the preferred nomenclature.

 

[Nebbers]

Sorry, it's ebonics. Educate yourself and maybe you'll get a job by not using "ax" in an interview. Listen to what this intelligent black man has to say and actually read his book Ax or Ask? Also take note on the segment of Bill Cosby.

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

Thumbs up for saying "educate yourself" and linking to FoxNews in the same post

 

[Exterous]

The unionization of public education has resulted in lax standards enforcement and little to no recourse from parents - the ones who actually care. Couple that with many parents who simply do not care and you end up with people saying "axe" instead of "ask".

Wait - so do the parents actually care or simply not care?

holding down the man!!! why do they do this to themselves? if they're in the classroom or a professional environment, speak english.... in the streets, speak ebonics or whatever the hell that bastardization of the english language is

I have several friends who will completely change how they talk based on who they are talking to

 

[SP33Demon]

Thumbs up for saying "educate yourself" and linking to FoxNews in the same post

Yes, FoxNews interviewed the author of Ax or Ask. Read the book and educate yourself.

 

[Nebbers]

Yes, FoxNews interviewed the author of Ax or Ask. Read the book and educate yourself.

NO U

Take it easy, just poking fun at the source. I watched the clip, don't have any complaints about that one. There's not much for them to propagandize there.

 

[CZroe]

My wife says "fixin' " a lot, I can't stand that. Never really hear anyone say "Axe" but it does annoy me on tv shows or interviews, etc.

I can fix a car to take a trip and, in some situations, that is synonymous to preparing a car to take a trip, (assuming it needs to work in order to take the trip). Somehow, people started treating "fixing" as a direct synonym for "preparing," thus, "fixin' to" means "preparing to" in their minds.

"I'm fixin' a picnic basket full of goodies" = "I am preparing a picnic basket full of goodies."

It doesn't bother me at all.

Yes, when I hear someone use it, I don't take anything else they say seriously.

Exactly. Ebonics irritates me too.

It isn't ebonics, you racist. It's a real word that is closer to unperverted root word than "ask." That said, I say "ask."

Sorry, it's ebonics. Educate yourself and maybe you'll get a job by not using "ax" in an interview. Listen to what this intelligent black man has to say and actually read his book Ax or Ask? Also take note on the segment of Bill Cosby.

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

What part of "That said, I say 'ask'" didn't you understand?

Also, he did not discuss the origin in any way, which is what I was referring to.

http://www.photoethnography.com/blog/archives/2008/03/ask-vs-aks-ax.html

 

[edro]

I use a lot of Axe Body Spray, but I live in a Black neighborhood, and over there it's "Ask" Body Spray. -Zack Galiafanakis

 

[pcgeek11]

Exactly. Ebonics irritates me too.

This Ebonics crap pisses me off. It isn't a language for Christs sake.

Ebonics = people too fucking lazy / stupid to speak properly. I hate that crap.

 

[pcgeek11]

Where I've lived in San Diego and the Atlanta area, it's a black thing. In certain north-eastern places like New York, it's a random thing. Not only is this mentioned by some people in this very thread, but that's also why Futurama, which is based 2000 years in the future in "New New York," has everyone saying "ax" and them thinking the 20th century man is using the wrong word when he says "ask."

It's less funny when you know that "ax" actually *IS* the more correct word when you study the origin of both.

I'm sure they studied the meaning and decided to use "ax" as it is the more correct word... right.

 

[CZroe]

I'm sure they studied the meaning and decided to use "ax" as it is the more correct word... right.

Your sarcasm is precisely what I'm saying. That's why I said "less" funny. They didn't know.

 

[preCRT]

I find it irritating as hell, worse than nails on a blackboard.

 

[SP33Demon]

What part of "That said, I say 'ask'" didn't you understand?

Also, he did not discuss the origin in any way, which is what I was referring to.

http://www.photoethnography.com/blog/archives/2008/03/ask-vs-aks-ax.html

Nobody cares about the origin of the word, how it's used today makes the people that use it look like uneducated morons. Go read the book Ax or Ask and enlighten yourself.

 

[shocksyde]

SCRIMPS!

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[CZroe]

Nobody cares about the origin of the word, how it's used today makes the people that use it look like uneducated morons. Go read the book Ax or Ask and enlighten yourself.

Sounds like you need to read it yourself. Despite the title, it's not a book about Ax vs. Ask.

And you should learn to speak for yourself: I'm sure MANY are interested in the origin of the word. Do you see the logical conflict in blissfully disregarding it and then calling others "uneducated morons?"

 

[BrokenVisage]

Only when they don't mean to say axe and it just comes out sounded completely like the word, then I rage.

 

[KeithTalent]

Not sure I've ever heard anyone actually say it seriously, but it's improper English, so yes, it would bother me, same as if someone used any other type of improper diction in an actual conversation.

KT

 

[jhbball]

wow. there's all kinds of awful people in this thread.