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Use of the word 'gotten'. I'm seeing it everywhere.
I'll see your "gotten" and raise you "cheeky". What the heck does it actually mean ?
I'm hitting the Internet to look for pointers on fixing my coffee machine. I found what I needed in the end, but I'd to wade through pages of "that thing doesn't make real coffee" and variations thereof.
I feel similar with Linux forums. To be fair I'm a bit of a coffee snob but I don't get snooty and tell people they haven't read the manual for their grinder or they need to rebuild their coffee machine to support a particular type of bean.
Use of the word 'gotten'. I'm seeing it everywhere.
I'll see your "gotten" and raise you "cheeky". What the heck does it actually mean ?
It means that the person that says it thinks they're a bit like Chris the crafty cockney. Well, that's what it makes me think of anyway.
What's wrong with that?
It should be "Commander", not "Commando" (ie, a Commander is a sailing rank, and a Commando is special forces). I guess the Commando might be sniping fish whist camo'd up as a mermaid though?
Is it not just a statement letting you know that Commandos are good at ball sports? Ironic given the other use of the word.
The fish delivery van that I keep seeing on our street with big decals proclaiming 'Commando's Catch'.
Former Royal Marine names business with a connection to his past shocker.
Use of the word 'gotten'. I'm seeing it everywhere.
It's very addicting.
I feel similar with Linux forums. To be fair I'm a bit of a coffee snob but I don't get snooty
... which was my point really.
I don't mind if people get precious about something they're passionate about. We've probably all done it. But "can anyone help with my machine?" is not a synonym for "can someone tell me it's shit?"
Gotten I'm okay with. It's the ignorance of past participles that drives me mental. Saying 'I fit this' means I think it's your job, not something that you did one time.
Droopy Howdens door handles.
We have a lot of their door handles, which are 10-15yrs old, and the springs that are supposed to hold the handle up are forever failing. Howdens do not sell the springs themselves, the ones off ebay fail as regularly as the original Howden springs. Irritating Forth Bridge job.
Frustrating as the original door handles installed in the early 60's, when the house was built, are all still working fine.
It's the ignorance of past participles that drives me mental.
My wife does this all the time with the verb 'to text', used in the context of WhatsApp "She text me yesterday to say X, Y, Z" Grrrr
Also, while we're at ignorance of simple words, although not from the same source I hasten to add, 'Aks' is not a suitable replacement for 'Ask'.
Those little bits that break away from the side of your finger nails and the song "Perfect" by Fairground Attraction.
Those little bits that break away from the side of your finger nails and the song "Perfect" by Fairground Attraction.
And double posts.
song "Perfect" by Fairground Attraction.
Instant rage and slamming the off button of whatever device is proxying that dirge. Or just yeet* the device out of the nearest window. Open or not.
*the only term from my daughters generation I use on a regular basis. A most excellent word.
Putting veg peelings in the sink. Why? It’s not a waste disposal unit.
The compost caddy is hanging from the door handle near the sink.
Just put them straight in there. Or if you can’t be arsed, leave them on the sideboard then they don’t need to be moved twice.
Fishing soggy veg peelings out of the sink to put them in the adjacent caddy, before I can use it is rage inducing.
Also, while we're at ignorance of simple words, although not from the same source I hasten to add, 'Aks' is not a suitable replacement for 'Ask'.
Google it.
It means that the person that says it thinks they're a bit like Chris the crafty cockney. Well, that's what it makes me think of anyway.
Well indeed. I can imagine a person being cheeky. But what does it mean to say that you "went for a cheeky curry at 'spoons"? This was actually typed by a friend recently. Needless to say they are now dead to me.
On another subject - the Indeed ad ("what is a salary?" etc.) that is now on every 5 minutes on C4. It has replaced Domino-hoo-hoo as the most annoying experience on current TV.
Putting veg peelings in the sink. Why? It’s not a waste disposal unit.
The compost caddy is hanging from the door handle near the sink.
In our house that would imply that the peeler knows what the compost caddy is, and by extension acknowledges that someone has to empty it every now and then.
But we agree that people who say "pacifically" when they mean "specifically" can be dragged into the street and shot yeah?
I'd give em lead boots and take them out to the middle of a specific ocean.
People who don't know the meaning of dirge.
Dislike "Perfect" by all means, but it is anything but a dirge. In fact, I'd say it's incessant undirgelike qualities are probably why people find it irritating.
Google it.
Well, well, well. Today I have learned 😀 so thanks. Still sounds wrong to my white, not-brought-up-in-London ears though. And 98%+ of the population use 'ask' so I'm sticking with that (some stastistics may have been made up on the spur of the moment for effect)
That we live in a society where I have to watch Welsh people miming "diarrhoea" in a TV ad for Pepto Bismol. Are we really that ****ing thick?
Good to see language pedantry is alive and well 🙂
Been slightly worried about my asthma check as my BP had crept up in the last few. Had made some lifestyle changes but not sure they would improve things enough (and I'm not sure "taking wine as a blood thinner" counts).
Peak flow test. 10% higher than a man of my age WITHOUT asthma should record. Ox Pulse %, a healthy 99%. New fancy machine for weight showed all green for muscle mass, fat, etc. Right now the big one. "Oh we only do that every two years now". I'm inclined to celebrate the non result with some cheese, a sausage roll and a pint 🙂
Mildly disappointed I cannot blame my asthma fully when using as an excuse for poor hill climbing performance tho. Also was stabbed with flu jab I've managed to swerve so far this year by refusing to engage with the NHS app.
Overall tho, I'm more disproportionately relieved that cross.
Use of the word 'gotten'. I'm seeing it everywhere.
'gotten' has been used in English since we stole it from the Norse. It has the same relationship to 'got' as 'forgotten' has to 'forgot'. You can tell it's been used in English for a long time as it still appears in phrases such as 'ill-gotten gains'.
I hate to tell you this but there are many words that seem 'American' but that were long used in UK English, it's just that we have, ahem, forgotten them. Other examples are 'Fall' for 'Autumn', 'sidewalk' for 'pavement', 'trash' for 'rubbish' ... even 'pants' for 'trousers'.
For some reason these words fell out of regular usage in UK English (often as people decided a French alternative was more sophisticated), but they are all good English words.
You won't want to hear it, but US pronunciation is often more 'authentic' as well.
Hey nonny nonny.
Forsooth methinks ye maketh efforts to clutch at straws.
Just because we used a word a few centuries ago doesn't mean it's well understood or accepted today.
but US pronunciation is often more 'authentic' as well.
‘Stone the pagan’ 😃 Americanese is B A D dude, I mean bro. ✌️
I got an email from "DVLA" saying my vehicle tax had expired. The from address was noreply-6869963412 AT apu.cbc.org.pe which made me cross that they couldn't be bothered to make it look remotely authentic. If you are going to try to scam me at least put a little bit of effort in.
I got an email from "DVLA" saying my vehicle tax had expired
My Spam filter is taking those down like fish in a barrel. There were about 10 slightly different versions shotgun'd into the spam folder this morning.
"Just because we used a word a few centuries ago doesn't mean it's well understood or accepted today."
Which of the words I used as examples:
gotten
fall
sidewalk
trash
- do you think would not be understood today? I accept that 'pants' seems ridiculous to the British.
Gadzooks, I'm not advocating using these words, just mentioning that they have a long history in our language and they are not 'wrong'.
Incidentally, did you know that the first recorded use of 'clutch at straws' is by Thomas More in the 16th Century?
When people start a statement with "errrr, I mean ...."
But you haven't said anything yet so how can you mean anything!
The ying and Yang of progress.
We had to pay £300 today for a spare proximity car key.
MOT testers turning off my Auto lights.
Van screaming up behind me on the dual carriageway, flash flash. OK mate chill out I'm not moving over cos I'm turning right at the next roundabout and anyway i'm doing 60,flash flash, OK calm down we are almost there, flash flash.......beeep....ahhhhhhh you are a diamond hazards in a courtesy flash, thanks mate!!!!
Scottish gas harassing my father (dementia) for a bill on an electricity supply they removed.
The energy ombudsman for not allowing the dozens of phone calls I've made to be evidence in a dispute.
I accept that 'pants' seems ridiculous to the British.
Southern Englishers, perhaps. It's common parlance here. I have a meeting tomorrow, I'll be wearing a shirt and pants.
Screws. Or more Pacifically, people who drop 'kin screws all over the place without any F given about anyone else.
Really, the amount of punctures I've had now that were discarded screws is crazy. Cost me hundreds of pounds and nearly had me off my bike on a dual carriageway at 70.
People who drop screws when working or moving waste or whatever, get against the wall! 😡
I also found out today that a completely flat tyre cannot be inflated at a garage air pump so they can go on the list too.
I guess they need some sort of blow back of air initially to sense that they are connected. I'd already paid my money and so had to stand there while the compressor sound mocked me and I couldn't use it!
Luckily I have a nice little repair kit on the bike with some compressed canisters.
Auto lights, and the concomitant deskilling that comes with similar. I turn them off as well.
"The ying and Yang of progress."
Yin and Yang.
Today's mild ire is focussed on people who use the reply to all function to send a single word email. I'm sure "great" was appreciated by all on the recipient list.
People who drop screws when working or moving waste or whatever, get against the wall
On the upside, you are one free screw up on the deal 🙂
Van screaming up behind me on the dual carriageway, flash flash. OK mate chill out I'm not moving over cos I'm turning right at the next roundabout and anyway i'm doing 60,flash flash, OK calm down we are almost there, flash flash.......beeep....ahhhhhhh you are a diamond hazards in a courtesy flash, thanks mate!!!!
Huh?
Southern Englishers, perhaps. It's common parlance here. I have a meeting tomorrow, I'll be wearing a shirt and pants.
A Northern Englisher writes... why would you go to a meeting in your undies?
A Northern Englisher writes... why would you go to a meeting in your undies?
Zoom meeting innit. Otherwise he'd be wearing kegs.
Huh?
I think the van was flashing him because the MOT tester had turned off his auto lights, so had been driving with no lights.
I’ve mentioned it before but the tester leaving the engine running for 40 plus minutes. A bit unnecessary and nerve wracking on a 39 year old turbocharged car.
Never in the real world will it be left to idle that long.
That and making me over tighten wheel bearings because old car…