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AIBU?

AIBU to detest this new-fangled propensity for made up words?

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Whatad · 05/04/2019 11:00

I have just recently come to terms with Brexit.
I understand that language evolves.
But it's bloody pissing me off!!!!

Just now I've gotten a notification on my phone that Donald Tusk is going to advise the EU to allow the 'flextension'.
I actually want to scream!!!!!!!

AIBU? Do I need to chill out? FFS

Please tell me that I'm not alone?

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Whatad · 05/04/2019 11:01

FFS just type out your words! Driving me bonkers.

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Partridgeamongstthepigeons · 05/04/2019 11:02

Yup.. was wondering yesterday what the difference between 'woke' and 'pc'( politically correct) is/was... tiswas (sorry Partridge reference there).

PlainSpeakingStraightTalking · 05/04/2019 11:03

Strictly does this all the time - fecking 'armography', 'danceology' and apparently 'physicality' has now made it to the dictionary

Whatad · 05/04/2019 11:04

Do they have some half-witted twit employed on a full-time basis to come up with contractions to fucking coherent sentences and invent new words for themselves?????????????????

Note to self: Calm down.

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Whatad · 05/04/2019 11:05

Ah! Thank God (T'god) I'm not alone.

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Grumpyoldpersonwithcats · 05/04/2019 11:05

chill out? FFS?

What do these modern usages mean? Outrageous!

Whatad · 05/04/2019 11:07

Ok I'll CHILL DA FUCK OUT FOR FUCK'S SAKE lol (that's laughing out loud - well - smiling anyway) Grumpy.

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Whatad · 05/04/2019 11:09

Never found out who Fuck was and why I'd be doing it for his sake either, but I do a lot for the sake of Fuck - the prick.

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Whatad · 05/04/2019 11:10

This is a notification from The Guardian. A newspaper! Not just my good self ranting. A bloody newspaper.

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notacooldad · 05/04/2019 11:10

Ha! Language is always changing and evolving.
I understand Shakespeare pissed his elders with new fangled words and sayings he used.

TrendyNorthLondonTeen · 05/04/2019 11:12

I have bad news for you about how literally all words were invented...

Grumpyoldpersonwithcats · 05/04/2019 11:12

Derailing slightly - but I really like the word 'newfangled'. And it isn't .

Whatad · 05/04/2019 11:13

It's an extension to Article 50. Not a fucking flextension. FFS.

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Monty27 · 05/04/2019 11:13

REMOANER!
unhelpful

Whatad · 05/04/2019 11:15

Well I must head into Uni and request a flextension to my thesis deadline at Oxford - and tell the cnuts that they need to fuck off allowing 'new' words into their fucking dictionary!

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Whatad · 05/04/2019 11:15

REMOANER! noun; pejorative

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DantesInferno · 05/04/2019 11:16

FFS just type out your words!

onalongsabbatical · 05/04/2019 11:17

This tendency towards langorphosis, I blame the Apocalexit, it’s a head-mangling-event (henceforth known as a hamglingent).

Whatad · 05/04/2019 11:18

It looks less offensive if I type FFS. Otherwise I'd be f'n and blinding all over the shop.
Ok, I'll chill.

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Whatad · 05/04/2019 11:20

I think my irritation is more the fact that newspapers are doing it. You can understand conversational informal chat using such shite, but a newspaper? I'll eat me hat when the Times start at it.

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Whatad · 05/04/2019 11:21

I actually quite like the Apocalexit - seems more appropriate than the most used word of the past 3 years.

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AirBiscuit · 05/04/2019 11:22

Sounds like you are blamestorming here.

And as far as Brexit is concerned, it seemed like an epiphinot at the time but really it is just a dullema

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Whatad · 05/04/2019 11:22

I actually want to find and kill the person who first coined the word 'Brexit'.

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PrincessAndThePee · 05/04/2019 11:23

Physicality has been a word for hundreds of years!

ContinuityError · 05/04/2019 11:24

I find myself using “catastrofuck” on a daily basis.

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