Cringe expressions

[Silverseas1]

I know this has been covered loads of times but here it is again. Feel free to ignore. Does anyone else positively cringe when reading or hearing people say 'would of' 'could of', 'should of' instead of have? It makes my toes curl 🤦‍♀️🤣

Oh yes we're pregnant is the absolute worst. So wanky. I definitely judge people who say that.

Okie dokie

Any social media post including the words ‘evening light’ or ‘morning light

Pick your brains

…ways to skin a cat

SoYoung · Today 08:49

Someone wrote "platty joobs" on here...

What on Earth does that mean?

"Anyways..."

'The smalls' when referring to your young children. A FB friend does this all the time. Also 'the boy' /'the girl', also used on FB when talking about offspring, eg: 'the boy arrived back from Uni today...' They've got names ffs, just use them. And if you're not comfortable using their names on social media then stop bloody posting about them!

I'm pleased to see the Decimated debate and learn that I had it right. In Doctor Who, The Master started to decimate the population and you could see they'd got it right. But I do accept that the meaning has changed... sadly 😞

Platty Jubes was the Platinum Jubilee Celebrations last year. Then there was Statey Funes in September.

I’ve heard ‘cozzy livs, babe’ for the cost of living crisis.

I sometimes feel very old…

EvenmoreDisorganised · Today 12:06

Platty Jubes was the Platinum Jubilee

Aah, thanks; it makes sense now. I'm not interested in them, do don't foray into those sorts of threads.

Guilty pleasure.

It's never dog strangling or 4am yodelling or kicking pensioners is it?

It's always nice biscuits or rubbish telly.

Do you mean cringeworthy?

This is something my daughter would write. She’s dyslexic.

None of these things. This is how language evolves, which is normal. We're not all still talking and spelling like Shakespeare, and many things that are "correct" in the English language don't really make sense when you delve into them, but they're accepted. Language changing is not a bad thing.

There's a difference between a gradual change and jumping on a "new expression bandwagon though. Like "gifting". Someone thought it sounded posh so started using it all the time and it caught on, sadly. Likewise excited for when we were doing fine with "looking forward to".

And some of this is more to do with the way it's used than the word itself like "#making memories (always has to be used with the hashtag)

My friends son at age 6/7 was an excellent reader. He recognised complicated words and when asked he could recite the spelling. At age 8 he now writes phonetically & he is totally confused.His mum is furious & spends her time correcting his workbook at the same time as his teacher places ticks all over it.

Not always. It's particularly depressing to read it in essays written by people studying for a professional qualification where arranging respite care may be part of their future job.

@Silverseas1 , according to a web site I looked at, in phonetic spelling apple is ap-uhl and fence fents. That seems bonkers.

Point taken although until examination boards when correcting English exam papers agree, I think we have to stick to our traditional English language as its taught around the world. Rapper style language is brilliant in music, perhaps not to be encouraged as a general rule.

Little man is awful, sexy little man is beyond words.

It's a child, not a fucking man and to put sexy in there makes me feel sick

It's farcical 🤡

’Hubby’ needs to fuck off and die.

Another one: At age 8 ...

Aged 8, at the age of 8 etc. It looks like form filling -

Age : 8

Silverseas1 · Today 16:21

It's farcical

Farsickl, for god's sake!

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People who call their son "little prince" and have that embroidered onto baby grows with crowns etc.

I don't mind language evolving, and English is particularly good at this, but there is a distinction between slang, new use of words and new words but correct grammar 🧑‍🎓🔨 (gavel!)