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Post by Slinger on Oct 1, 2017 14:45:13 GMT
Most forums have a "things you hate" type thread but I think that hate is far too strong a word to be bandied about so loosely. There are probably very few things or people that any of us really, truly hate. So I've started this for the silly little things that annoy people.
I shall start off with - People on social networking sites who seem to think that "hun" is a legitimate contraction of "honey" for some reason, and insist in addressing me by that senseless sobriquet.
1. - It's yet another blatant Americanism that has seeped into our language through the back-door, so to speak.
2. - The ne'er-do-wells who propagate this language laziness do not seem to understand when I explain that I'm not a bloody Boche, nor am I related to a bloke named Atilla.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2017 15:02:16 GMT
Yeah I agree with that, Paul, and Babe, why does someone who barely knows you think that's a reasonable greeting!
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Post by MartinT on Oct 1, 2017 15:06:23 GMT
People on social networks who use the terms 'sick' and 'dope' to mean something good.
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Post by MikeMusic on Oct 1, 2017 15:21:10 GMT
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Post by ant on Oct 1, 2017 16:47:03 GMT
When you buy a new pair of boots that fit lovely in the shop, are expensive and supposedly 'the best boots ever and so comfortable' according to the 'experts'. after an hour they hurt like hell and after weeks and weeks just will not break in anymore so you say sod this i'll have to get some different ones.
Then someone tells you, you need to break them in.
Of course you bloody do, do you think I don't know this?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2017 19:37:34 GMT
People that always put you down on Forums. Probably the main reason i give it all up & threw the towel in.
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Post by pinkie on Oct 2, 2017 8:47:20 GMT
People on social networks who use the terms 'sick' and 'dope' to mean something good. I wonder about this one. I am a bit of Stephen Fry on this issue. Language evolves. I am blessed (or afflicted) with 4 children in aggregate who have only recently left their teens, and have a fair few "feel like / sound like my own father" moments - especially over modern language. I try to remember that the English language wasn't permanently perfected for all time at Dartford grammar school in 1945, as I was brought up to believe. I struggle with "like" - but keep telling myself to "man up" Sick seems so wrong. Why would that signify something good? Surely that should be "wicked"  (which obviously signifies something "well good") And language needs context - social and historical. Jesus was allegedly "skilled at the plane and the lathe". I wonder where exactly he qualified as an airline pilot... What is happening to our language? (Or should that be "what happens to our language"? as it would have been before the 19th century introduced the continuous present tense to English?) What thinkest thou? |
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Post by MartinT on Oct 2, 2017 8:57:25 GMT
I am not even tainted by working in a school, I have always pushed to maintain standards of English, especially with grammar but also in the correct use of words. Call me old fashioned, by all means, but when someone on Facebook calls my car 'sick' I'm bound to correct them because it runs just fine!!
My personal dislike is the false construct 'should of'. I even catch staff at it!
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Post by Slinger on Oct 2, 2017 12:20:15 GMT
I've got no problem with language evolving, although I would suggest that the examples quoted above, and many more in daily (mis)use, do in fact signify the devolution of language rather than its evolution. What really grinds my gears is laziness of speech, and the constant use of "like" and "y'know" as verbal punctuation. We don't read a "comma" or a "full-stop" as words in literature when they are used as punctuation and you certainly wouldn't say...
...out loud.
Now meet poet Taylor Mali.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2017 12:56:04 GMT
insert code hereYou will love me i used to post in a whole new cross bred language on forums at one time, it was a cross between Broad Yorkshire & Nadsat. I also used to modify words ie: las'turd' instead of lasted..Gen'arse'sis istead of Genesis  |
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Post by MartinT on Oct 2, 2017 13:20:36 GMT
Now meet poet Taylor Mali. Cracking! |
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Post by MartinT on Oct 2, 2017 13:21:29 GMT
Gen'arse'sis istead of Genesis I remember it well! |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2017 13:27:29 GMT
Gen'arse'sis istead of Genesis I remember it well! Isn't Gen'arse'sis the original group with Gabriel and Genesis the later? hehe |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2017 13:32:10 GMT
People that always put you down on Forums. Probably the main reason i give it all up & threw the towel in. That is because there are lots of keyboard warriors out their Andr'e. It's the same across all forms of social media and drives me up the wall. Why can't someone have an opinion that differs from someone else, without them being trampled on? I found this on PFM when I dared to say that Naim equipment wasn't as good as lots of people make it out to be, the backlash I got was unbelievable! |
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Post by pinkie on Oct 2, 2017 13:32:49 GMT
I mentioned I struggle with "like" too
Not just as an "um" substitute but also to narrate - "I'm like, <so what are you saying>, and she like <isn't it obvious>"
Also "as though" or "as if" - "like I'm going to agree to that!"
But , as Winston Churchill put it on the great preposition issue "That is something up with which I shall not put" - Proper language often isn't!
I am prepared to firmly assert that point!
I think I have made my point, innit?
As for "should of" - I am firmly onside. That is laziness or ignorance (probably the latter), rather than an adaptation of language.
It goes without saying this pales into insignificance compared with the complete massacre of the language (and its spelling) by its distant cousin "American". I'll get onto that subject momentarily...
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Post by pinkie on Oct 2, 2017 13:37:53 GMT
So what was the "it" the first gentleman introducing him, was asking me to give up for him?. Depending on whether or not I have a spare one, I may consider giving it up. |
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Post by tim1750 on Oct 2, 2017 14:59:06 GMT
what really get's my goat is being on the phone and being put on hold to music that very distorted And to name and shame the worst company is Hotpoint parts department, Grrrrrr.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2017 15:18:31 GMT
I find all music used when you are put on hold generally distorted or dull as dishwater.
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Post by tim1750 on Oct 2, 2017 17:12:05 GMT
True enough Paul
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Post by julesd68 on Oct 2, 2017 19:03:56 GMT
Internet comanies who put -ly on the end of a name .. for example - grammarly / speakly / bitly drives me up the frickin' wall for some reason  |
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(which obviously signifies something "well good")
