Misuse of words( light hearted)

[Ollienoodles45isbananas]

My dd constantly uses the word "like" multiple times in sentences, it's slowly driving me insane. Iv asked her so many times to not use the word unless it's actually needed in the sentence. To make matters worse she never ever stops talking so we must here "like" a thousand times a day. So aibu to either charge her 10p for every time she says it, or gag her? Is this something that's happening with most kids of today?

Mine is rather niche, but it irks me when people confuse graduand and graduate.

Effect and affect . I need to take myself to the Pedant's corner .

Not a word, but a way of speaking is my current annoyance with DD. When she is telling me about something that happened in the past, she uses the present tense ie "this morning teacher comes in and tells everyone to go out to the yard" instead of "this morning, teacher came in and told everyone to go out to the yard". I correct her every time so hopefully it'll sink in eventually.

All the phrases etc that people get wrong, do you think they know they are incorrect and don't care, or do they think they are right? Do you ever wonder if you are saying things incorrectly but nobody has ever corrected you?

Oh Brennie - I see your present tense and raise you that one used by all Police and Emergency Services. It goes "this driver has come along and then this one has turned across and they've come together".

As for whether people know - lots of people don't care if they are right or wrong because it doesn't matter to them.

I have been corrected in the past and I'm quite glad.

We had a similar thread the other week about mispronouncing words.

A poster there said her DM calls Czech Republic the Check of the Republic.

loopylou A friend of mine recently painted her kid's 'play room' its a fucking dining room full of your brat's crap Mongolia. Sort of detracts from the image she tries to portray of herself as an affluent, middle class, naice yummy mummy hate that phrase when she goes around saying she's painted her house Mongolia and buys her clothes from Bond-un, meaning Boden

My dh says so many things incorrectly I can't really remember any, but it's endearing and I love him for it.

However, where we live (and his place of birth, not mine) it is considered normal to say 'where's it to?' instead of 'where is it?' I HATE it SO much!!

Talking of misuse of words, one I see frequently is "mental health" used when "mental illness" is meant. Only this morning I read a news report about a suicide due to depression, and one of the comments underneath said "Mental health claims another life".

Quantum leap. Oh- you mean a really small, submicroscopic change? No? Maybe say huge sudden change or something. Back to Pedant's corner .

Pub near me has sign saying 'locally sauced food'.I thought they were being funny using a pun. They weren't

Disinterested when they mean uninterested.

Misuse of I/me. 'The car belongs to my friend and I.' Grrr.

"Well I turned round and said X and he turned round and said Y" - I imagine a whirling sort of dialogue. People must get dizzy.

She is 13 rainbowcake, leaving her with the sitter tonight who has a habit of saying yeah I know all the time, they should have some interesting conversations for a few hours, all I need now is for the younger dc to learn the new lingo wink
PMSL!

My 12 year old son likes to start every sentence with "You know...." I just don't respond now and wait for him to get to the point!

When I was in the US I knew a teacher that had a "like" stress ball. He would give it a squeeze everytime He heard the word used incorrectly. He had great forearms! It is hated just as much there.

OH and I hate "Isn't it" or "innit". A friend of mine is a natural born Londoner like me and hates "innit" too. Her little boy came home from school one day and said they all had to stay in at playtime. When she asked why, he said, because all the innits were making too much noise.......innit

My son attempts to use the word literally all the while. Unfortunately it comes out as literacy . 'Tyler was running with the ball and just fell down- literacy'

"Sourced" meaning "bought at inflated price from a shop"

"And then I'm like, what?" Completely meaningless.

Anyone between the ages of 12 and 18 using 'totes amaze' is annoying; anyone over 40 doing the same (especially at work - "and this month we've produced a totes amazeballs financial forecast!!") is worrying..

Has anyone mentioned 'unasseptable' yet?

DH says "could of" and "would of" which make me wince a bit. Mind you, my "yis" as plural of 'you' probably winds him up as well (different regional origins)

Loving this thread. Agree with phantom - 'My Bad' is the worst - cringe(or should that be wince????)

Sharon on a related topic.

The misuse of 'literally' when they mean figuratively. He mishit that shot so badly that the ball 'literally' went into orbit.

'To be honest with you' so everything you've told me is a lie is it?

"DH says "could of" and "would of"

LTB!

Not quite the same I know, but I want one of these:

I once met a woman who said that's a gibbon instead of 'given'. She said it twice so I said 'do you mean given?' - the look of realisation and was priceless - she was fairly senior in her company and had been saying it all her life, in meetings, presentations...she was mortified.
DH and I still use it though

'Da Fuq?'

This one amuses, bemuses and horrifies me in equal measure! I've seen it a lot on facebook - think it means WTF but more gangsta!!!!

That's hilarious, TheGreaterGood

Dave Gorman talked about this on 'modern life is goodish' - he was criticised on twitter for not having a cat phrase and then went on to discover than a lot of people think that it's a doggy dog world is an actual phrase.

I know Grunt - I asked her why on earth she thought that was a thing and she said she'd picked it up so long ago that she assumed it had some ancient etymology that had been forgotten over time...and then agreed that 'given' makes much more sense!

However, where we live (and his place of birth, not mine) it is considered normal to say 'where's it to?' instead of 'where is it?' I HATE it SO much!! angry Oh gosh, I know where you live probably when I moved here I could not get my head round this phrase, 30 odd years later I hear myself say it too and 'up the line' to mean just up the A38 towards north! never 'down the line' to Cornwall.