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Ooh I like this. Using myself or yourself instead of me or you seems to be getting more prevalent and it really annoys me. I know someone who keeps asking for an accurate forecast, this also annoys me. Any bodged together words like Brexit really piss me off too. Finally I could care less. It’s couldn’t you imbecile.
That felt nice. Thank you OP
I agree that many of these words and phrases are silly, but an advantage is that they quickly reveal the speaker as an idiot, something it might take a while to discover otherwise.
And I don’t mind it when young people use daft phrases or words, let them try these things out. I don’t even mind it much when they do that Californian/Aussie rising inflection thing at the end of a sentence, as if it were a question even when it’s a statement. Adults drive me mad when they do that, though. Why? Why are you speaking like that?
My kids don't play each other on the Nintendo switch, they "verse" each other… We've tried to get them to see sense, but it's a tough ask. 😤
Them things.
It’s ‘those’. Those things.
I can no longer be arsed to ‘reach out’ to people about this, instead I now shout correct grammar at them.
As for reaching out, **** me. In many ways I’m glad I’m past my halfway point in life.
Oh. My. Days.
'Me, personally', makes me want to get stabby
"Invest in..." instead of "Buy..." referring to some consumer thing that will in no way, ever, increase in value.
"Inbox me..." FFS! Can I punch you in the face and we'll still be friends? Or do you want me to ignore your existence from this point forth?
"I'm good" in response to "How are you?". The correct response is "I'm very well, thank you for asking" or under extreme duress: "I'm fine". Ageing relatives may get away with "Bearing up" or, if terminally ill: "Middling...".
Yes, probably age.
‘Up skill’ - anyone who uses this term should be waterboarded
People saying look when they mean listen
Anyone using framing in a sentence who isn't talking about hanging a picture or putting in windows.
Any newspaper or internet news headline that includes brackets.
“I’m good” in response to “How are you?”. The correct response is “I’m very well, thank you for asking” or under extreme duress: “I’m fine”. Ageing relatives may get away with “Bearing up” or, if terminally ill: “Middling…”.
Not bad and you? Is my stock response. I’m never going to answer that question truthfully to ninety percent of the people that ask it as they don’t actually care. It has taken the place of hello or nice to see you. Therefore I’d rather answer vaguely.
“How are you?”.
“Fabulous. Every day is an adventure.”
That usually shuts most folk up.
something is either impossible or it’s possible.
I'm afraid chemistry and thermodynamics will tell you it's dependent on conditions.
"Twice as few" what's does that mean?
Anyone using framing in a sentence who isn’t talking about hanging a picture or putting in windows.
Maybe you should use those little grey cells?
Broadcast journalists' failure to understand difference between under-estimate and over-estimate is one that really pisses me off.
As broadcast journalists they, presumably, should have.... good command and understanding of english, have arts degree, have attended broadcast college, have editor or sub to correct or tighten their slack use of language.
Twice as few means half as many
what really irritates me, along with most of what has been posted above, is people ending a sentence that has been formed as a statement with a question mark.
In typical STW response I posted without fully reading the thread; don't intend to change my post but posts by slackalice & tillydog up there ^^^ are beyond dispute.
Is this pedant's corner or do some of us believe that grammatical inexactitude is unforgivable?
Mean what you say, say what you mean.
I have an american daughter-in-law; expert in unclear communication - her, not me.
'Two times' instead of twice.
I think I am going to take a look at this thread through a different lens
Expect twice as few doesn't mean half. If I have 100 apples and give one away I have 99, if I gave away another apple I have 98.
98 is twice as few as 99 from my original 100.
I've read the phrase "totally decimated" on news sites several times recently - refering to storm damage in the UK for instance.
Decimated is decimated. That's it.
From another thread, but pertinent here I think:
https://mobile.twitter.com/RealBobMortimer/status/1229448660523638785?s=09
Language evolves, it always has done.
Chill.
Life's too short to get angry about nonsense.
All the old timers at work respond to "How are you?" with "Living the dream!".
It was nearly humourous the first time 10 years ago.
At our last conference at work, every speaker used the ‘deep dive’.
Never heard the dreadful phrase used before, and then all the corporate bobs are trotting it out.
I literally pissed myself.
One of my colleagues at work finishes almost all his phone calls with "Thanks a million!"
Really? You were ordering a box of A4 paper and they said it'll be delivered shortly, it's really not worth a million thank yous. And also, it's a horrible phrase anyway.
I literally pissed myself
Hope you had your lounge pants with you.
"Take care" is the current one that really gets me. Thanks I'm trying my hardest, what do you think I'm going to do run off and be neglegent.
It's intended as a term of endearment, ya miserable fud.
People who say “I’m not gonna lie” before everything
In all honesty, I don’t know whether to trust people who don’t start their discussion like that!
I think some of you may have a problem. You clearly aren’t actually struggling to understand the intended meaning, you clearly aren’t some sort of Rees-Mogg Dickensian throw back who would rather we wrote solely in the format of ye olde English. Some of these are “Americanisms”, some are just evolution, is old age making you a xenophobic, change resistant person who enjoys being annoyed at the world?
something is either impossible or it’s possible. same as unique, it is, or it isn’t. Generally* the rule is: If you add “-er” at the end of a word and it makes sense, then you can use an intensifier, if you add the “-er”ending and it’s not a word, then you can’t.
* like most rules in English
We get that, and clearly you understand the meaning of impossible. Is it the world “almost” you don’t understand then? Because it is not an intensifier - it’s whatever the opposite is - synonymous with nearly, not quite, very close to, etc.
The yout use of like..., like, all the ****ing time...
“The overnight period” as used by weather forecasters. As in “Rain will become heavier during the overnight period” What’s wrong with just “overnight”?
"Fur babies" especially uttered by people who dress their dogs, cats, pangolins or whatever in "cute" human clothes.
Oh my Christ i'll have to be careful here. There's so much material.
I don't ask people how they are these days as I'm very likely to be pissed off with their response.
"Good" - well you're very sure of yourself.
"Ticketyboo" - cock off.
"Fair to Middleton" - kiss my dick.
"Yerrayou" - stock response at work when I ask if somebody is okay.
That beginning every sentence with "so" rotates my testes. It's contrived nonsense.
Last week at work; one of the project managers spoke of his need for a "helicopter view" of the project. I asked him if he'd costed in for a trip in a Bell Ranger. Titface.
I understand that language evolves. The vernacular expands and new idioms come into common usage. But all this "can I get" and "yeah, I've just fired up season two" can eff right off.
I hung up on someone last week because they used deep dive and another phrase I can’t recall now. Blamed it on the phone.
"I was sat..." - TV is full of this kind of nonsense.
"At about" - Come on you moron, pick one or the other?
I want to ‘grow the business’. **** off. A business may grow, but you don’t grow a business. Grow is an intransitive verb, and you sound like a dick.
Writers who use ‘who’ when ‘whom’ is called for.
Not understanding the difference between ‘take’ and ‘bring’.
As for
“Fur babies” especially uttered by people who dress their dogs, cats, pangolins or whatever in “cute” human clothes.
that’s just ******g creepy. Solitary confinement for anyone who says such a thing.
Have we done "Gotten" can't stand seeing the word in print or spoken. I've even seen it used on this forum. What's wrong with "got"! FFS...!
Childish words and phrases being used by adults.
Heard "cake day" instead of birthday last week.
“Inbox me…” FFS! Can I punch you in the face and we’ll still be friends?
I shall revert
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