Probm!
March 13th, 2016
Some people have words that they just can't spell. Successive is one such word. Embarrassing is another. Massachusetts is a third. English is a pretty weird language, really, considering that it has a tendency to beat up other tongues and steal their best words. It doesn't regularly change these words to fit its extant rule set, either, so sometimes the spelling of these words doesn't make much sense.
On the other hand, some people - such as myself - have a problem saying certain words. My worst, for reasons I simply do not understand, is the word problem. Yes, I have a problem saying problem. I don't know why this is, because I know how the word problem is supposed to be pronounced. It's pronounced problem. Prob. Lem. See? Not so hard, is it?
And yet, unless I actually think about it when speaking, I invariably say probm when attempting to use the word problem. "No probm!", said Denny to his boss, upon being asked to do something particularly insipid, and thus sounding about as smart as a bag of hair clippings. It irritates me to no end, particularly because I'm still working on the whole 'edit myself before I open my mouth' thing.
It's not like here, where I can just hit backspace backspace backspace and retype whatever I've rambled about that I didn't quite like. No, unfortunately I don't have one of those snazzy Temporal Backpedaler ™ devices to wind back the clock to avoid the feeling that people think I'm a complete imbecile, since I can't seem to say problem like a normal human being. Stupid Temporal Backpedaler ™.
Why haven't they invented you yet?! (see? Interrobang!)