KCBlueGal alerts us to:
tiettertodder – $1
looking for tiettertodder that is either free standing or hooks to swingset call ###.###.#### sorry about the spelling couldnt figure out how to spell that for nothing
Well then, how much WOULD we have to pay you to get you to figure out how to spell it?
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Spare a dollar for punctuation?
*teeter-totter
I honestly did not know what the hell they were talking about until you said it. Christ almighty, how fucking dumb do you have to be to not spell teeter-totter even remotely correct?
I am imagining a small blond boy in lederhosen (possibly named Hans) playing on the free standing tiettertodder where he says “undt” a lot.
And I will donate a dollar for punctuation, undt another .50 for spelling.
I have $1.50, do I hear $2? Who will give me two for this poor D student, $1.50 once, $1.50 twice — Friends, you’re missing a great opportunity here!
ill give $3 und 90 cents
Not Hans — Dieter. And he’s so young, he’s Dieter the tiettertoddler.
i thought they were trying to say teeter toddler. is that like a weeble? weebles wobble but they won’t fall down!
not just speeling impaired, obviously pronunciation impaired. teeter-totter. how did she manage to make it german! Yawohl, little hans. of course, there will be those who dont even bloody know what a teeter-totter is…..
I hate to admit this but I’m British and I’ve no idea what a teeter totter is !!
That would be: “Jawohl.” Be careful when you cast stones…
A tieter…teedor…teattir…a see-saw.
I’d like to see how they would spell “see-saw”…
ceeah-sahw
The key is to throw in as many letters as possible. That way at least some will be correct.
Exactly! Like the time a younger version of myself asked my mum how to spell “couch”. With a wink, she replied “s-o-f-a”.
“couldnt figure out how to spell that for nothing”
That is spelled T-H-A-T. Hope that helps!
Y’know, most people go the most direct, phonetic route when they can’t figure out how to spell something. I’m just wondering how many mental leaps this person had to go through to get that quasi-Germanic monstrosity. O.O
Actually, I find that people who are clueless about spelling tend to make their guesses as baroque and complicated as possible. Perhaps the rules of English seem so impossibly opaque to them that they assume every single word of it is riddled with trickery.
TRICKERY!
THIS. I know English is not logical but there’s no need to fry your brain (and ours) over it. Also, you have the internets! Could you not, oh I don’t know, LOOK IT UP?
Their failure to look it up is especially egregious given that, as already noted, they were online and had only to use the computer, the internet, and their brain TOGETHER in order to get the correct spelling.
I tried it. If you search for tietter todder or tietter-todder yahoo will ask you if you mean teeter totter. They didn’t even have to use an online dictionary.
This makes them dumb or lazy. I vote for dumb.
Not to mention the fact that if she expects anybody to be able to search for a teeter-totter–increasing her chance of getting rid of the thing–you’d think she’d want to put in the effort to get the spelling right.
It’s like the time I was at the library and a kid asked his friend how to spell some word — it was something simple, like “possibly,” or “definitely.” His friend didn’t know, so they just winged it.
I wanted to hit my head on the desk. They were in a library. At the internet cubicles. Behind them were shelves of encyclopedias and dictionaries, at their fingertips was direct access to the various search engines of the internet and (of course) online dictionaries. And they couldn’t figure out how to spell a simple word.
It’s no wonder “teeter-totter” defeated this guy.
As someone who has a … generous bustline, let’s call it … when I first read the title it wasn’t so much Germanic to me as … er … suggestive.
Ach!
Ach, du cleavage!
Shades of Otto Titsling…
The points they lost on spelling they gained on creativity. I think tiettertodder is absolutely brilliant and a delightful poke in the eye to all those orthographic prescriptivists out there, of which, of course, there are none here at YSAC. To quote an erstwhile associate of mine: My spelling isn’t bad, you fascist mouron, it’s innovattive.
P.S. I do not like the comment scoring feature. It is fun to score other people but it puts me off commenting because if I am not clever enough or funny enough everyone will see that no one voted for me. Too many bad memories of junior high…
At least she knew she was spelling badly and apologized.
That being said, it reminds me of one of my mothers sayings:
“You don’t have to apologize. Just don’t do that again”
I find it amusing the post was made by a person computer-savvy enough to actually post something to craigslist…but apparently NOT savvy enough to Google the spelling of a word.
I can’t imagine that google would understand “tiettertodder.” Wouldn’t that involve at least a 2nd person using the same mispelling?
How about Googling the good old stand-by…see-saw? Or “kid’s outdoor toys.” Browse a little. Put some effort into trying. Especially when the tools are so readily available.
The person is officially too stupid to be allowed to own a teeter-totter. Someone might lose an eye. They’ll have to comfort themselves by sitting on a stationary 2×4.
Or they could just say “see-saw!” Seriously- just google it and they will tell you how to spell teeter totter!
Oh no!
The wieblrwaubelrs they doan fall down!
They jus keep on ridin the tiettertodder! Theys drivin me krazy wit all the tietterin and the todderin and the wieblrin and the waubelrin! Will someone please take the tiettertoddler? Only $1! Wieblrwaubelrs are extra.
Sorry for the spelling but I couldnt figure out how to keep the wieblrwaubelrs from hurting my brain.
OK, I was thinking about it this morning, and I realize that anyone under their mid-30’s probably won’t get my post AT ALL (and wieblrwaubelrs is most definitely NOT understood or remotely guessed at by Google); so, a little history: http://www.weebles-wobble.com/
Not only did I get the reference, I’ve had the damn jingle in my head since I read your post. That’s one hell of an earworm, thankyouverymuch.
Sorry.
Well, if the badger can’t dislodge it, I don’t know what can.
But they don’t fall down…
I’m confused. Are they selling a teeter-totter, or are they looking for one for $1 or less to buy? There is no punctuation after “looking for tiettertodder that is either free standing or hooks to swingset “, implying they are trying to get something for nothing.
Posts like this make my soul hurt. Which is why I come to read the comments, and my soul heals itself…
Haha…because of this site, “tiettertodder” is now a legitimate search term and Google is not correcting the spelling!
can some1 just tell me what’s a tiettertodder or whatever it’s spelled correctly?
It’s a children’s toy, sometimes called a seesaw and sometimes called a teeter-totter.
thanks. just googled seesaw because i didn’t know that words meaning as well. both words, seesaw and teeter-totter, never made me think that they discribe what in german is called a “wippe”.
Wait, I thought it was der tiettertodder.
Just wanted to congratulate the site owner on the Mahler reference in the post title. That was actually better than the post itself, IMHO.