to hate the fact that people now say they are 'tan' not 'tanned'

[KarlWrenbury]

its like text and texted all over again

runs around screaming

Tan is more of a beige colour - I was driving a car I'd describe as beige, but American friends Sid it was tan.

Good point Scone! I can't bear 'I was sat' but it seems to be becoming standard over here in the UK.

Really? I have never heard this.

I cannot cope with "I text xyz" instead of "I texted xyz."

I tend to use

I am sat/sitting here or I was stood standing there in a kind of post ironic homage to Hylda Baker (come on, SOME of you must remember her) but alas the day is not too far off when it is just absorbed into my everyday language

Karl - I shall look forward to your weekly diatribes; they are tremendous fun.

Last week we were demonised for our shoddy texting techniques that were inextricably intertwined with our advancing years and staid behaviour.

Now the young, along with their tendency to adopt trans-Atlanticisms, are in the firing line.

I think I may be with you on this one. If I heard anyone saying "can I get a diet soda?" In my local tea house I would probably punch their lights out, before dragging their still-warm remains out into the street for the carrion crows to set about.

Shocking behaviour.

I don't like the way people have started using the term human all the time, as in a dog and it's human. To me it has a sort of science fiction feel.

oh what fresh hell is this? I've managed to avoid hearing tan.

I am now locking myself into a vault and will live on astronaut food and mutter to myself for the rest of my life.

*said not Sid. Ipad.

I tend to think "I was sat" or "I am sat" are regional UK things.

Op I think you need to concentrate on sorting out your punctuation first.

This is an interesting discussion. I have lived most of my (rather lengthy) adult life in Florida trying to avoid a tan. I am not really sure what people say as most of my friends do the same. It's mostly the tourists who have tans, not the locals, in my experience, and I'm not sure what the prevalent descriptive usage is.

I like "gotten". It gives a nice rhythm to a sentence, I think, whereas "I have got" is three single syllables in a row.

Anyway. "I am sat" and "she is stood" really grates on me. You even hear BBC announcers say it. I despair.

I read BertieBotts post a couple of times. I can't say I really understood it but I feel cleverer

Op I think you need to concentrate on sorting out your punctuation first.

[sighs] Always one isn't there? And I bow to no-one in grammatical/punctuation pedantry but I also have a life.

Shouldn't it be:
'..concentrate first on sorting out your punctuation.'

Do the yoof use 'tan' instead of 'tanned' these days?

It sounds wrong ; I'm really tan

People say 'is all' now as well don't they? As in

"I didn't notice it is all"

When did that start happening? I bet it was around the same time that we stopped taking people to Casualty and eating Plain chocolate.

Hrumph

Well, I have a whole new 'hate' to deal with. The import from fucking Neighbours Australia that has left us all saying "Uni" instead of uniVERSITY!!!!!"
Hate, hate HATE it. But it's futile.

My personal favourite is "Can I get?" As in "Can I get a latte?" when at a coffee shop. If I worked there I'd say "No, you aren't allowed to help yourself." What was wrong with may I have, could I have, I would like?

Is all??!

I like gotten for its 17th century associations but am amazed at the speed other Americanisms are becoming the norm. We have lost school dances and hundreds and thousands in my lifetime.

As for past participle, bias/biased reminded me of how often I now hear cliche instead of cliched.

Text for texted is just awful.

I remember Hylda Baker :) I think sat and stood are Northern English too rather than US.

Who the hell actually says this? I am young and I use false tan. Yes the two are mutually exclusive, believe it or not...

I would never say, "I am tan." Ever.

I do say text instead of texted :/

Lolling lots at pp dd asking for 'bangs' - what a legend!

The only thing that one can quibble with grammatically in "can I get" is the use of "can" rather than "may." The definition of "get" is "to come to have or hold (something); receive". So "can I get" is as correct as "can I have," although the pedant in me would prefer "may." "Get" does not have some sort of built-in reflexive as so many posters on MN seem to think.

I have seen some tv programmes people saying 'tan' instead of 'tanned'

As in 'omg, he is SO tan!'
Or 'I need to be more tan!'

I quite like it

Also I've noticed on towie (I have terrible taste in tv) people say 'Why did you do that for?'
Does this make sense? It just doesn't seem right to me

Tv programmes where