'going forward'

as in "after that fvck up, what we should do, going forward, is….."

Evoque – what kind of word is that to name the new baby Range Rover

new and improved

"No" being used as a question tag in English. The question should take the auxiliary form of the verb and then have the positive to negative or negative to positive, SHOULDN'T IT?
In other grammars, for example Spanish, it's ok, but not English!!!

v-a-g-i-n-a 😡

LIKE as like every other word like. and the mispronunciation of th

oh that feels sooooooooooooo much better

whatever!

another americanism, which I have found myself saying, and have to slap myself:

When in the sandwich shop, restaurant etc "Can I get a…"

No you effing cant, you can ask politely like "Please may/can I have" or "I would like"

Also Scott Mills the t*sser, has got people saying "off-of" as in "I am off-of Birmingham" to mean "I am from Birmingham". ( I am not from there, just 1st city that came into my head)

And whatS with all the coffee bollox?

I want an ordinary coffee. With a dash of milk. You have to try to work out what to order to get what you want.

I do not want a mocchacappoofrappochinino

I JUST WANT A COFFEE!

Do you also just want a beer or a whisky TJ? 😉

I do not want a mocchacappoofrappochinino

Victor Meldrew reincarned before he's even dead :o)

HEY! YOU! GET OFFA MY CLOUD! Is not a request for a long dead Mercian pretender…

Offa, much earlier:

If there ever was a candidate for the grumpy old men show it would have to be SFB

Pot calling kettle charred beyond the ability of reconstruction me thinks?

If there ever was a candidate for the grumpy old men show it would have to be SFB

except for the fact I find all this ribticklingly funny :o)

Broken Britain, a curse on the Tory Ba$t@rd who thought that one up.

a curse on the Tory Ba$t@rd who thought that one up.

spelling mistake, it's writen "Tony Blair-stard"

The phrase 'grates against the very fabric of your soul' isn't doing a lot for me either. Overblown, pompous guff. 'Words which really get your back up' would have done just as well…

'grates against the very fabric of my soul

people that write that just have a small flinty nodule of resentment instead

HEY! YOU! GET OFFA MY CLOUD! Is not a request for a long dead Mercian pretender…

Offa, etc

Exssactly.

Another one, in an email just now "touch base".
Was from a yank so I'll let her off this time, but if any of the English twerps use it…

Words which really get your back up

'Get your back up'? Whatever do you mean? Are you suggesting your back actually rises up in the air when you hear a word or phrase you don't like! Damn you and your creative use of language!

Absolutle nonsense rubbish argh noo etc etc etc etc
🙄

anything molgrips says

to *ize a word(and derivatives). A common crime of Americans

intellectualize: Definition: To make a concept too complex for an american to be able to understand.

Words which really get your back up
'Get your back up'? Whatever do you mean? Are you suggesting your back actually rises up in the air when you hear a word or phrase you don't like! Damn you and your creative use of language!

Absolutle nonsense rubbish argh noo etc etc etc etc

Okay, 'words which annoy you'. I quite like 'get your back up', it always conjures up images of a seriously furious moggy in scrag-happy mode. I guess it grated on the 'very fabric of your soul' then. 'Very'? What is the point of the 'very' in that phrase eh? Tell me that? What exactly do you lose by omiting it, except maybe a bit of pomposity. Who started this thread again? Ah… 'twitspeak'.

(Don't worry, molgrips. I understood)

People saying "I aksed" instead of "I asked him"

After overhearing an Oxford Ph.D. graduate "I fink" instead of "I think" … clearly, you do not.

'Fink' and 'wiv' are speech impediments not style choices (usually) and certainly not an indication of intelligence. I can't believe anyone would really think that.

A bloke at work cannot say his ths and it drives me f*ckin bonkers.

After overhearing an Oxford Ph.D. graduate "I fink" instead of "I think" … clearly, you do not

it's an affectation, not a disability!

Not necessarily. The guy who does it here is the least style concious person ever. It's definitely not an affectation with him.

I can't hear the difference between things like three and free. I probably pronounce them the same as well. Listen to the context?

The guy who does it here is the least style concious person ever

even lack of style is still a style choice 🙂

I disagree…

"to socialise something" – ie to tell people about it
"super excited" – as in very excited
"walk the talk" – just, I have no idea
"collateral" – as in marketing materials

Just too many to list here, but in dealing with marketers day in day out, you kind of block out the pain. Mainly by bltching and whining about everything under the sun and ogling everything in a skirt.

And that's a quick summary of my day to day job! 🙂

Like (when used as every other word by some daft girlie who thinks she is in episode of Buffy)

Guy (bloke, matey or geezer in this country)

Can I get (instead of could I have please)

Minger or Minging (not even sure how its pronounced, we always used the word Minge for something completely different)

I've always thought that the sorts of people who whine and moan about the minutiae of life as if it's the most important thing in the world, must lead pretty sad, petty, and pointless lives.

this thread has re-enforced that. 😕

Porsche Cayenne

and ogling everything in a skirt

this is somehow wrong ??? You prefer those in trousers ?

Yunki:
I swear I have never insured you!

Ti29er – I had you pegged for a bit of a mentalist after you furiously insured me

.
Next you come up to London, beware I don't take some premiums off of ya m8!

TJ – drink tea, it's less hassle!

Nonk: don't think we hadn't noticed that one trying to get in under the radar

your wrong

In terms of the written word, not the spoken word, the one that really gets my goat's back up is LOL.

Now, if you've actually Laughed Out Loud at something, something funny, fair enough. Good for you. Tell the world.

But on Facebook and MSN, you get any number of mouth-breathing numpties who use it as a kind of caesura between sputters of verbal diarrhoea.

If these people actually laughed out loud as randomly and as often as their online outpourings suggest, they would have the drool wiped off their chin before being quietly bundled into a van by the men in white coats.

"Alan Carr Chatty Man"