Timeline for “Quainted the auto supplier has hit share of potholes.” Did I hear right? What does it mean?
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| Mar 30, 2014 at 7:49 | comment | added | Fattie | Yoichi - 90% of newscasters are illiterate idiots. It's very likely that the person DID SAY "quanted" (or whatever) because they (the newsreader) didn't know/understand the term "Granted", but they have heard fellow newsreaders saying it and they were vaguely trying to sound important and technical. Note that "quants" (etc.) is a term in the finance field referring to a certain type of trading company, so again, the person may have misheard it with that reference. | |
| Mar 30, 2014 at 4:55 | comment | added | Yoichi Oishi | Apart from ‘it’ or ‘its,’ I wonder why all of us (16 English language enthusiasts including MBA of Illinois University) mistakenly heard “quainted” for “granted” and puzzled what it means when listening to the same cassette tape together, even though the sounds of kw é(int) and grǽ(nt) are very different. When I showed the copy of this page, every member of ESS sighed, and uttered ‘There’s the limit of auditory comprehension of English for non-native speakers.” I hope this conclusion wouldn’t hold. | |
| Mar 29, 2014 at 23:55 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | @YoichiOishi I believe Michael Hampton's comment was referring to Oldcat's answer. The possessive adjective its and not the contracted form (it's). | |
| Mar 29, 2014 at 9:22 | comment | added | Yoichi Oishi | Correction. It makes sense. | |
| Mar 29, 2014 at 7:04 | comment | added | Michael Hampton | I presume you mean "its"? | |
| Mar 29, 2014 at 0:46 | vote | accept | Yoichi Oishi | ||
| Mar 29, 2014 at 0:07 | comment | added | Yoichi Oishi | Now it’s makes sense. The sound of “granted” I heard on an old-fashioned cassette tape (some users were astonished to find that I’m still using a tape for listening) may have shifted, or rolled to ‘quainted-like’ pronunciation. | |
| Mar 29, 2014 at 0:05 | comment | added | Oldcat | I first did a search looking for a company named "Quainted" since I skipped over the first sentence... | |
| Mar 28, 2014 at 23:51 | comment | added | David M | Yeah! That makes more sense. I've spent the last 15 minutes looking for the actual newscast online. | |
| Mar 28, 2014 at 23:47 | history | answered | Oldcat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |