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English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
Posted: 22 Oct 2015, 9:03pm
by Graham
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.
Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
Posted: 22 Oct 2015, 9:15pm
by beardy
"Going Forward"
"Passionate"
Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
Posted: 22 Oct 2015, 10:17pm
by Psamathe
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
Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
Posted: 22 Oct 2015, 10:47pm
by windysmithy
"Does my head in"
Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
Posted: 22 Oct 2015, 11:03pm
by honesty
Write me. Gahh.
Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
Posted: 23 Oct 2015, 7:12am
by Shootist
'The True Facts'. Drives me nut. All facts are, by definition, true.
Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
Posted: 23 Oct 2015, 8:05am
by Richard Fairhurst
"Cyclists are protesting Eurostar's decision"...
Protesting _against_. Using it as a transitive verb is a horrid Americanism.
Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
Posted: 23 Oct 2015, 8:39am
by Young@Heart
LIterally....
This quite literally 'Does my head in' , only it didn't, not literally!!!
Gahhhh!!
Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
Posted: 23 Oct 2015, 11:14am
by AlaninWales
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" ??
Posted: 23 Oct 2015, 2:45pm
by Ray
"Myself and a friend were sat on a bench"
AAaarrgghh!
Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
Posted: 23 Oct 2015, 2:53pm
by NUKe
Pedantry
Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
Posted: 23 Oct 2015, 3:11pm
by DaveGos
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
Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
Posted: 23 Oct 2015, 3:14pm
by Psamathe
"Uni" (it's really called a "University")
Ian
Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
Posted: 23 Oct 2015, 3:15pm
by NUKe
Grumpy old men
Re: English Language - what "Does your head in" ??
Posted: 23 Oct 2015, 3:16pm
by Ray
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?