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"training regiment"

posted 8 years ago by kay_rock
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The dumbing down of the English speaking world is complete.

In episode 3, Draal offers to spar with Jim as part of his training "regiment." I rewound to check. He articulates the final T quite clearly.

Regiment.

In order for that to have gotten through, the writer had to not know the proper word. The script editors had to not know the proper word. The actor who said the word had to not know the proper word. The director who heard it had to not know the proper word and the film editors had to not know the proper word. Regiment? Seriously? Not one of them thought to say "Hey, people? A regiment is a military group. A regimen is a system or procedure. This is a training REGIMEN." Not one of them.

I realize it's a children's show, but doesn't that make it worse? Perpetuating ignorance to the next generation? If we don't start demanding at least a modicum of education from entertainment creators, we could end up so ignorant we happily elect a semi-literate Oompa Loompa to the highest office in the land without even flinching.

The future of the world is at stake. Since we legally can't slap any sense into people, we should at least mock them and give them the stink eye.

Movies are IQ tests; the IMDB boards are how people broadcast their score.

[–] lonevision 8 years ago

Perhaps they wish to bring the archaic usage back into our daily lives one CGI cartoon at a time. :3

[–] Data-1001 8 years ago

That word also leapt out at me when I first heard it, and I had the exact same reaction. It's like when a certain popular live-action show about super geniuses had the lead character pronouncing the word nuclear as "nuke-you-ler". Amazing how things like that can slip through on a major production.

If I had to make a guess here as to how that mistake made it to air, perhaps there was a producer who was adamant that his mispronunciation was correct and insisted the actor say it that way, and everyone who noticed it later was told, "Yeah, I know. But the boss insisted. What are ya gonna do?"

[–] d3daniel19 8 years ago

I'll be honest, even as a fairly educated person the difference between these words was not immediately known to me and I would have had to look it up to know.

I feel that for words that are not in common colloquial usage, you will get drift like this as the majority of people are not aware of it's proper usage.

It's evidently happened many times in the past and will continue to happen.

[–] Leninade21 8 years ago

Because this is absolutely the worst thing to ever happen ever.