To think saying 'methinks' makes you sound like a twat

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It sounds really snidey and stupid.

'Methinks a night out at the pub tonight' etc. Boak. Keep seeing it on FB and it makes me cringe.

So, AIBU?

Fair enough. FB is where I notice it most, I object to the word in general as well, but you are right about the levels of twattitude being elevated on FB anyway.

I might start saying 'arsehat is a complete sentence'.

can we have an out right ban on the word entitlement too?

Or at least the user should provide a certificate proving they can use the damn word properly and are not using it for the purpose of twatishness.

Yanbu.

Along with "bub" "hubby" and "big time"

Honeydragon, methinks you have a sense of entitlement about proscribing ambiguous lexicography.

Feeling rather sesquipedalian today...

at least the 'methinks' people are coming up with their own new twattidity instead of C&P-ing someone elses.

I can't stand this phrase 'Get involved peeps' I keep seeing it more and more on my friends list when people are promoting pages to be 'liked'. I hate the word peeps as well.

YANBU in theory, but my lovely DB uses it all the time so I'm innured.

My favourite word.

ses·qui·pe·da·li·anAdjective/ˌseskwəpəˈdālyən/

1. (of a word) Polysyllabic; long: "sesquipedalian surnames".
2. Characterized by long words; long-winded.

I google so you don't have to :)

at SayCool.

'Methinks' couldn't annoy me a fraction of the amount that should of/would of/misuse of apostrophes/your-you're-there-their-they're and a multitude of other glaring grammatical, spelling and pronunciation errors.

I say it to DS. As in 'methinks your going to be in big trouble if you don't stop now'. Seems to work better than 'stop that now'.

For that reason I love it.

YANBU
I have a friend who writes FB updates in this weird, part cod olde worlde, part slang and vernacular (that she never uses in RL) and as she's trying to promote her business it's on there all the time! Methinks, twas and gee wizz are commonly seen. I like her a lot but her FB style is wank.

And another thing about FB (Yes, I know I should just deregister)

People's status updates that are really obscure and only one or two people on their friends list will 'get' them, with no explanation for anyone else who reads it, resulting in twenty comments from people all saying 'What does that mean?'

Fred Bloggs 'is waiting for the cock to crow at midnight. Lucky I have my spanner!'

Are you a frickin spy or something?

YANBU! I knew someone at university who was in a society called Treasure Trp - the kind of theing where they get dressed up in chainmail and "battle" with eachother.... Every bloody sentence that came out of his mouth contained a "methinks" - Eg "A pint of your finest ale, methinks!" (I wokred in a bar he frequented. I dont know if he thought he was back in medieval times or something, but he needed a good thump!

*Treasure Trap

I use methinks and chaps quite a lot. Far preferable to foul language and text speak. A friend on fb randomly leaves an e off a lot of her words and it really annoys me. Time for crumpets and marmite, methinks!

me finks dis iz worse hun

i like a good methinks

methinks yabu

And to be really pedantic for a minute: most of the people using 'methinks' on facebook and the like are frequently not using it correctly. It actually means 'it seems to me', not 'I think', and so many of the contexts that it is being used in don't really work.

so YANBU.

RunAwayHome, surely "it seems to me" and "I think" are fairly interchangeable?