What Annoyed You Today? (53 Viewers)

[Escuadrilla Azul]

Established chef on TV tonight proudly described herself as a "restauraNteur".

Well, is a chef not a linguist!

 

[Sabrejet]

Well, is a chef not a linguist!

Yet you'd have thought in all that time (ten years plus) someone would have corrected her. Or she'd have noted that other people are saying a different word.

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

Yet you'd have thought in all that time (ten years plus) someone would have corrected her. Or she'd have noted that other people are saying a different word.

Ignorance is very daring

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

I work in the financial sector, and I had a colleague who used to tell clients that an interest-rate derivative served as insurance for the industrial warehouse.

 

[MiTasol]

Spain won the FIFA world cup which I think is great, BUT, instead of the winners rings only being to the team members they are also being sold by FIFA to people who can afford them and FIFA's "mates".

Spain will receive championship rings — but they'll also be for sale

World Cup winners Spain will receive championship rings, but so will almost 2,000 people who have enough money to buy them.

www.abc.net.au

 

[fubar57]

Worst.... World.... Cup....Ever

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

Worst.... World.... Cup....Ever

At least the best team won:

 

[special ed]

Found a "60 Minutes News Team" waiting in my office.

 

[fubar57]

YIKES!!!!!

 

[special ed]

Just a little joke ... very little

 

[fubar57]

Could have been worse. It could have been Chris Hansen

 

[CATCH 22]

Yet you'd have thought in all that time (ten years plus) someone would have corrected her. Or she'd have noted that other people are saying a different word.

Ahm, sorry to intrude, here's what Merriam-Webster says (and I don't disagree in this particular case): Restaurateur and restaurant are French words from Latin restaurare, meaning "to restore." Of the two words, restaurant is more common—a fact that may have influenced the development of the variant spelling restauranteur for restaurateur. Some people consider restauranteur to be an error, but it is still on the menu as an acceptable word choice.

 

[Sabrejet]

Ahm, sorry to intrude, here's what Merriam-Webster says (and I don't disagree in this particular case): Restaurateur and restaurant are French words from Latin restaurare, meaning "to restore." Of the two words, restaurant is more common—a fact that may have influenced the development of the variant spelling restauranteur for restaurateur. Some people consider restauranteur to be an error, but it is still on the menu as an acceptable word choice.

That's a cop-out. The derivation of restaurateur is from the verb restaurer (to restore or feed). Thus a restaurateur is someone who feeds or restores, not someone who owns a restaurant!

I realise that language is fluid but this is laziness; if someone wants to use "restaurant" then the correct phrase would be "restaurant owner".

 

[MiTasol]

Sorry but you are forgetting that there are hundreds of English languages starting with real English as spoken by educated Limey's through to the bastardized versions (there are many) usually called pidgin with the many versions of American English somewhere in the middle.

Restauranteur is correct in many of those versions of English even if it is not in the version of English that you use.

EDIT. The Non Sequitur cartoon often contains sentences written in American Maine English.

 

[Shortround6]

EDIT. The Non Sequitur cartoon often contains sentences written in American Maine English.

Southern Maine or Northern Maine?

 

[MiTasol]

Lobstah fisherman coastal Maine

 

[special ed]

Remember, Sir Winston is said to have commented, in reference to American English, "We are two peoples separated by a common language."

 

[Sabrejet]

Restauranteur is correct in many of those versions of English even if it is not in the version of English that you use.

Nope. You might excuse it as slang, but as with people who say Julio "Inglesias", it's lazy and incorrect.

 

[Frog]

In French,a restaurateur is someone who manages a restaurant.

A restorateur is someone who fixes things.

 

[Bucksnort101]

A restorateur is someone who fixes things.

A Veterinarian?