[ SECRET POST #1691 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1691 ⌋


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 13 pages, 314 secrets from Secret Submission Post #242.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 2 3 - broken links ], [ 1 2 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 2 - too big ], [ 1 - repeats ]
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom.livejournal.com]

31. http://i51.tinypic.com/20k6vlf.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

Um. Punkin is a very common cutesy way of saying pumpkin. Just Google the word, and you'll see that. Illiteracy has nothing to do with it.

[(Anonymous)]

She also misspelled 'remember'.

Still love her though - she's one of the only consistently good actors on Glee.

[sandvich.livejournal.com]

This. My mom calls me punkin all the time. :3

[rosehiptea.livejournal.com]

My mom used to do that too!

Yeah, it's not generally connected to illiteracy.

[cold-river-blue.livejournal.com]

Ha, you said mom. It's spelled "mother", you must be illiterate ;)

[greatbriton.livejournal.com]

came down here to say this

[masked-creator.livejournal.com]

Yeah. It's probably just type-speak.

[vestigialwords.livejournal.com]

orrrrr... she's limited by 140 characters?

orrrrr... For her (and for me as well), there's "pumpkin" (the thing that you carve into jack-o-lanterns) and "punkin" (a term of endearment based on the word "pumpkin").

[shibaiko.livejournal.com]

Have you seriously never heard anyone say punkin before?

[szaleniec1000.livejournal.com]

Well, this is the first I'd heard it too.

[(Anonymous)]

Largely a regional term, mostly used...probably the south/mid-west US? It's probably fairly well known throughout the country, even by people who wouldn't use the term (though from their spelling of "realize", I'm assuming the secret poster is American themselves...). Don't know if it has any use in other English speaking countries.

The secret still kind of ticks me off, though. It's the internet, the secret poster obviously has access to it, how hard is it to look it up and see that it's slang/a colloquialism? I guess it's just easier to assume any differences in language from what you're used to means the other party is "illiterate".

[szaleniec1000.livejournal.com]

Ah, fair enough. (Though I do like the image of a punk pumpkin. :D )

I guess it's just easier to assume any differences in language from what you're used to means the other party is "illiterate".

Unfortunately. If I see something unfamiliar, I'll look it up rather than automatically assuming that it's some kind of mistake.

[(Anonymous)]

I call my boyfriend punkin all the time, and I am pretty sure that I am not illiterate.

Remember was misspelled, but the OP didn't point that out as an issue, so I don't even know if OP noticed that part.

[(Anonymous)]

lrn2colloquialisms

[archerstar.livejournal.com]

Just because you don't understand a certain colloquialism doesn't mean the person using it is illiterate. So...fail on your part.

[runonmoonlight.livejournal.com]

On top of what other people have said. My mother is absolutely terrible when it comes to typing personal messages to other people. She's definitely not illiterate, she's just not the most computer savvy or internet culture savvy.

I would bet that's part of it too =P

[kathleenpiper.livejournal.com]

If you had time to make this secret, you had time to google "punkin".

Fail, anon.

[jiveturkeyblues.livejournal.com]

Not OP, but in fairness Dot Marie Jones' tweets are crazy bad. Often unreadable.

Punkin vs. pumpkin

[(Anonymous)]

Uh, plenty of people DO say "punkin" -- as a silly term of endearment -- instead of "pumpkin." FWIW.

[(Anonymous)]

Outside of certain parts of the US, I have never heard anyone use the term 'punkin'. I thought it was just one of many words that have been bastardised.

[(Anonymous)]

I had a cat named Punkin.

Maybe I'm being hyper-sensitive, but I don't like the way 'illiterate' comes across as an insult here.

[coffeeandfrogs.livejournal.com]

My mom called me punkin as a kid and she still calls me that thirty years later. Don't call someone illiterate just because you see something you're unfamiliar with.

[(Anonymous)]

Like many other people have said far better than I could - Punkin is a slang term.

Also, in reference to the 'illiterate' bit being an insult - You do realize that some amazingly talented people were illiterate. For example, Charlie Chaplin spent a significant amount of his life unable to read until he taught himself. Buster Keaton never learned to read, and he, along with Chaplin, helped create the 'physical comedy' genre, and is still cited by actors today as being an influence on their comedy.

So illiterate =/= untalented/stupid, which - to me anyways - is what you seem to be implying there.

[(Anonymous)]

THIS and it's not nice to judge those who live in poverty/neglect or have learning disabilities