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Edit, it's not an Edit, it's just a YouTube film
Persifically. Nope, you just can't pronounce specifically
Diarise an appointment. By all means but I won't be there.
At this time. You mean now?
People using "Can I ...?" instead of "May I ...?"
I don't know! Are you capable of doing it?
Yep, "gotten" is an effing awful word. Also "off of" as in "I got this off of Jim". I added it to the swear filter of a forum I set up 😊 When you've God powers you need to use them wisely.
Currently gaining (un)popularity is misusing "then", "than" and "that". "I'm better that him".
The rising inflection at the end of a sentence, AKA Tourupps, I just counter with "Sorry, I missed the question. Would you mind repeating it please?"
‘Gotten’ is good English. It has the same relationship to ‘got’ as ‘forgotten’ as does to ‘forgot’. It’s in old phrases such as “ill gotten gains”.
For some reason it’s fallen out of use in Britain, so some people think it’s an Americanism. This is also true of ‘fall’ for ‘autumn’ and ‘sidewalk” for ‘pavement’
Lordy, so happy I’m not alone with the irritation I feel from the use of all of the things listed by the OP! Especially ‘super’ . just be English and use the F word!
A weird one that bugs me, when I watch boxing and they call it the “squared circle”...! I’m probably alone on this, but it’s a Squared RING , not a squared circle, which doesn’t make sense! I even know who made it popular to say it wrong, but it still annoys me a lot more than it should.
@easily I agree with 'forgotten' but Americans never use the word 'got' and instead use 'gotten' which good English or otherwise, just makes me shudder when I see it in print or spoken; usually with an American accent!
I’ve just given up. It doesn’t matter anymore on the internet. In my print work I write and let the editor correct it but I can’t be arsed any more with being an internet gram nazi.
Literally decimated my fun.
they call it the “squared circle”
Thats a Squircle - (or a Super Elipse - but you don't like 'Super')
or they could be talking about a Rounded Square rather than a Square Circle. The two are very different but look very similar - but which is which?
Neither, they’re incorrectly describing the squared ring. Or square ring, which is more correct.
I know they’d say something like historically the ring was a circle and it changed into a square over time, but to me, thats not a squared circle. It’s a square now and used to be a circle, many years ago.
It is a square ring.
(Neither of your diagrams could have ring posts)
On another one I forgot!
When a British person says "write me". Admittedly, emails and texts have basically killed this but I've heard it in a British film before.
It sounds terrible when an American says it but when Brit says it.👿
Starting every **** sentence with “So…. ”
This. So very much this +1 😬
‘Gotten’ is good English. It has the same relationship to ‘got’ as ‘forgotten’ as does to ‘forgot’. It’s in old phrases such as “ill gotten gains”.
For some reason it’s fallen out of use in Britain, so some people think it’s an Americanism. This is also true of ‘fall’ for ‘autumn’ and ‘sidewalk” for ‘pavement’
American English uses a lot of terms/words that are old English but which have subsequently dropped out of use here, in some parts of America Elizabethan English is still in use, and in IIRC the 18th century the American Senate was expressing concerns about the encroachment of Englishisms into American English!
For further exploration into this, read Bill Bryson’s book ‘Mother Tongue’.
Yeah, anything ‘edit’. ****ers.
OK boomers.