English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
Contemporary language usage : what a rich source of emotion.
So, apparently, everyone and everything is . . . "on a journey" . . . . . puke ! lazy, hackneyed metaphore !
Every other sentence begins with a completely superfluous "So" . . . like even on Radio 4 - The Archers. ( The writers must be really desperate to fill the time. )
"Like" - the new conjunction - in yoof-speak - for attaching set clauses together : e.g. "It's like really cool like I really want to do that."
Aaaargh . . . It does my head in and leaves me gutted at the end of the day.
So, apparently, everyone and everything is . . . "on a journey" . . . . . puke ! lazy, hackneyed metaphore !
Every other sentence begins with a completely superfluous "So" . . . like even on Radio 4 - The Archers. ( The writers must be really desperate to fill the time. )
"Like" - the new conjunction - in yoof-speak - for attaching set clauses together : e.g. "It's like really cool like I really want to do that."
Aaaargh . . . It does my head in and leaves me gutted at the end of the day.
Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
"Going Forward"
"Passionate"
"Passionate"
Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
ASAIR it is *** and I have to use Google to find out WTFIGO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc explains it in clear terms (IIUCly)
(Classy well done video as well)
Ian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc explains it in clear terms (IIUCly)
(Classy well done video as well)
Ian
Last edited by Graham on 23 Oct 2015, 1:29pm, edited 1 time in total.
Reason: *** - I'm gutted
Reason: *** - I'm gutted
-
- Posts: 178
- Joined: 10 Dec 2009, 8:03pm
- Location: Blackdown Hills, Devonside
Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
"Does my head in"
Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
'The True Facts'. Drives me nut. All facts are, by definition, true.
Pacifists cannot accept the statement "Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.", despite it being "grossly obvious."
[George Orwell]
[George Orwell]
-
- Posts: 2035
- Joined: 2 Mar 2008, 4:57pm
- Location: Charlbury, Oxfordshire
Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
"Cyclists are protesting Eurostar's decision"...
Protesting _against_. Using it as a transitive verb is a horrid Americanism.
Protesting _against_. Using it as a transitive verb is a horrid Americanism.
cycle.travel - maps, journey-planner, route guides and city guides
-
- Posts: 117
- Joined: 13 Oct 2015, 11:43am
- Location: Carlisle
Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
LIterally....
This quite literally 'Does my head in' , only it didn't, not literally!!!
Gahhhh!!
This quite literally 'Does my head in' , only it didn't, not literally!!!
Gahhhh!!
-
- Posts: 1626
- Joined: 26 Oct 2012, 1:47pm
Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
I thinke it tru saddd yat so changedd iB yis tong bi furrayn words of Frenshe e oder unatturails/ yat hei be nie ded
Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
"Myself and a friend were sat on a bench"
AAaarrgghh!
AAaarrgghh!
Ray
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt - Bertrand Russell
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt - Bertrand Russell
Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
Pedantry
NUKe
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
My pet hate is "cool" , it generally says I like something , but does not say why . It also says it in a way that attempts to sound objective when it is subjective.
Also its an Americanism and in a hot country cool is a positive term , here such an implication is meaningless
Also its an Americanism and in a hot country cool is a positive term , here such an implication is meaningless
Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
"Uni" (it's really called a "University")
Ian
Ian
Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
Grumpy old men
NUKe
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
NUKe wrote:Pedantry
That's a cheap, easy jibe. Of course, we should be wary of being excessively intolerant of minor errors or idiosyncrasies, but neither should we have to put up with linguistic anarchy.
Sloppy use of English - or any other language - can cause confusion, may subject the user to ridicule, and is often simply ugly. If someone, apparently unknowingly, utters mangled sentences, uses the wrong parts of speech, or simply confuses the meanings of words, what are we to infer about their understanding of the subject or their ability to think straight?
Ray
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt - Bertrand Russell
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt - Bertrand Russell