To want to punch people who use iimpact as a verb...

[GetDownNesbitt]

Yes, The Apprentice - I mean you lot...

Shakespeare used a lot of verbs as nouns. Good job he wasn't on Ye Olde Apprentice then.

The one I hear that gets my panties in a wad, is Winningest WTF they use it on the news here, the Winningest team. Dh laughs every time they use it cause he just knows it makes me crazy and I'll shout at the telly.

Winningest?

That's actually quite a mouthful. What does it actually mean? Is it different to 'the winning team'?

I was going to say "medalled" but I can now beat that as I heard "podiumed" a few days ago

OP, YABU as language evolves. Save your ire for pointlessly convoluted phrases e.g "floral tributes", beloved by journalists. If you lay flowers on someone's grave etc, the tribute bit is self-evident. That is all .

I don't think anyone disputes language as evolving, it's just that some of the mutations are so ugly.:)

I hate all the new words they come up with to describe times of economic hardship, downturn, credit crunch, rightisizing...

It sometimes feels they're working harder on finding a new descriptive word that won't scare the masses instead of actually addressing the problem.

Waitress1 to Waitress2: "have you breaded that table?"

Makes perfect sense in the context.

I have also breaded some chicken.

Winningest is just plain wrong though.

Isn't it a verb for dentists?

"Taking out" instead of destroyed

Well the woman in a queue next to me just said "I don't gonna want...". English appears to be her first language. I have no idea what that means.

I heart you

Toys ya Us

Its not an R. Its not even the roman alphabet. Its cyrillic!

Or any other random cyrillic lettering added to a word to make something look 'Russian'.

"Cool" mis-spelling, eg "Lite" or "Supa", make no sense and just irritate me. As much as friends who use the word, "gunna" in their FB status updates eg "I'm gunna spend some time with my besties in town". I've become used to gonna (or should it be I've gotten used to gonna) but no idea where this gunna has come from.

'gotten'. Grrrrrrrr!
Like is also banned in my house, as in: 'He said, it was like, cool and I was like, yeah, it's cool.'
No if fucking isn't!

Burglarize
Thru
Axe (instead of ask)
Anyone who genuinely actually isn't from the Caribbean speaking like someone from the Carribean. 'OK blood, bro...man... dissing...' then the estuary english kicks in when mum appears 'whats for tea, mum? Can Jamie come too?'

Language is not evolving.

It is degenerating.

The older 2 DDs use like, my response to "I was like in my room" is usually along the lines of "so were you sitting in the doorway? Is that like being in your room?)". I literally died - oh, I'm so sorry to hear that although a little concerned to be speaking to a ghost.

I am degenerationalising language.

Impacting is a verb? I don't get what's wrong with it, it's in the dictionary. Language does evolve.

I always vote Indo-European these days.