To hate this Americanism that has crept in to our language

[Mooos]

"Go figure"

Does it wind anyone else up too - or is it just me?

I never hear anyone use it.

bit retro isn't it?

you're just asking for 80 posts saying
"go figure"

[hwink]

No idea what it means tbh.

I can't stand 'movie' it's a fuckin FILM for gods sake.

It's not annoying because it's American, but because it's lazy and an inane thing to say.

Yiddish, I think, rather than American per se

It means "go ahead and try to figure out the insanity of what's just happened/just been said". I quite like it.

Language has always evolved based on the current crop of slang words, I dont get upset about it to be honest.

Ah, MiasmARGGG, they're not films anymore, though, are they? They still move, though! And talk.

Yiddish do you think BALD? I wouldn't have thought so..Maybe a bit New york, and a bit 90's though

Thanks for adding the subtlety about Yiddish! That's very interesting.

I do love Mumsnet.

P.S. Has anyone else not been to the talkies for months?

Still waiting, pickledbabe! This is remarkable restraint.

stason.org/TULARC/languages/english-usage/148-Go-figure-Phrase-origins-alt-usage-english.html

I hate it too

people "fill out" forms now instead of "fill in"

and takeaway is "to go"

fucking vile

yanbu
as I often tell my ds when he talks about a"line" instead of a que

I don't care about the lexicology so much as that bizarre US-inspired questioning inflexion everyone seems to use.

"The house down the road is, like, on fire? And I'm going to call the fire brigade?"

It's so pathetically apologetic.

also the school disco is now the "prom"

now THAT makes me want to drop bombs

Every time someone on TV talks about welfare reform I have to snap "BENEFITS!"

yy greeny

prom = vom

mother tongue by bill bryson is v good on evolving english

that is a really good point, I always get dtroppy saying we never had a prom, but we did have the school disco, I think it is a more elegant affair though these days, not boys on one side of the room and girls on the other an never the 2 shall meet.

Is it American? I first heard it in England!

V irritating. But not as shit-itchy as "my bad." That makes me consider violence.

I think it's quite funny that a 'prom' - traditionally a strip of seaside tarmac full of pensioners on deckchairs licking ice-creams or eating paste sandwiches out of the wind in garishly coloured shelpers - is now an excuse to spend £££s of your parents' money on stretch limos and posh frocks.

'My bad' definitely on the hit list just for being nonsense. Shortly behind the appalling response to 'How do you do?... 'I'm good'. (Really? What, good like Mother Theresa?)

Yeah...because there are NO fucking irritating BRITISH-isms...

Lovely.