Misuse of words( light hearted)

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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?

Dido 'And "twice" is disappearing to be replaced by "two times"'

OMG I have noticed this on adverts - didn't realise it was an Americanism.

Grr

Text speak is the devils work, my Ds says lol, not l o l just lol instead of laughing. it seems to be something that he's picked up from school, he doesn't have a mobile phone

Text speak really is awful. I have heard "lol" said a lot too and it so cringeworthy. It looks bad enough when it is written down but when people start speaking in text language too, there is a serious problem! If I was in charge of this country, education would be my first port of call. I would take away the computers and go back to basics: Children in a classroom sat in front of a teacher. There would be none of this computer nonsense which promotes inability to write and inability to spell due to spellchecker, just old fashioned teaching as well as bad people skills due to lack of interaction with anything other than a computer. Books and paper are beautiful things! Am I the only one who feels this way about the way education has gone and that technology has killed the English language as we knew it?

Loving 'hustlings' and 'Columbus' clouds

Can't bear the use of 'haitch' which is creeping in more and more

Can't bear the use of 'haitch' which is creeping in more and more

My kids say haitch even though I taught them to say aitch! But when they started preschool that's what the teacher said and it stuck . I'm trying to see it as a regional/community variation, which makes it feel a bit better - I quite like variations.

Tartyflette Sat 24-Oct-15 00:47:05

I remember at my stuffy boarding school if you were foolish enough to even say 'Can I have xxx,' it would prompt the response, 'I'm sure you can' ... Meaning you were capable of having the item. But if you were requesting something, the correct question was always 'May I have xxx? < < < <

Did you go to the Chalet School?

I have a friend ( highly intelligent, well educated)who opens nearly every sentence with 'actually' . I daren't catch DH eye when she does it. But unfortunately it's catching. It's a bit like 'like', a verbal tic .
I cured DD2 of using 'like' by just ignoring her when she said it . She knew why .Interestingly, she occasionally says it when with friends but never now when speaking to me. But it isn't from TV as she rarely watches it. DD1 has never done it. DD1 also uses 'can I get' and sometimes starts sentences with 'so' . I can just about tolerate these .

"We need milk, isn't it? I don't eat carrots, isn't it? He was nice, isn't it? She won't come, isn't it?"

Is that in south Wales reni? It's part of the dialect here.

I much prefer haitch to aitch. Haitch includes the sound the letter makes. I don't care if snobby people don't like it.

Yes, I agree about the silly amount of Americanisms which have entered our language. American colloquialisms are all very good but not used by British people in Britain. It all stems from the media, the same as much of the bad use of English that seems to have taken over. The media and technology have a lot to answer for. Much of it, particularly the language derived from mobile phones, computers etc, isn't even English, it is pidgin English ... or maybe I'm just a snob (likely!)

has anyone heard this before? Is it a regional thing? I only ever hear it from one chavvy person I see regularly.....
"I loved that holiday I did"
"I want to go out I do"

Needanadulttotalkto this is used in Wales (and maybe in other places with a Celtic influence). It's because in Welsh you can change the order of the words in a sentence to change the emphasis so that you could say either 'I went to the field' or 'It's to the field I went'. This has passed into Wenglish with the adding of the 'I do' etc. at the end. I think these things add richness to language and are to be celebrated rather than derided.

I agree about colloquialisms Gwenhwyfar, some of them are wonderful and do indeed enrich the English language. I live in North Wales by the way!

It is more when the English language is just blatantly used badly when there is no excuse that annoys me. It is usually derived from the media and technology and I find it sad that the English language seems to have been dumbed down so much. Where will it end? I hate the thought of everybody writing in text speak as standard English. Some examining boards already accept it being used in exams. Old English died out due to the Norman conquest and Middle English died out due to amongst other things, standardised London-based dialect in government and administration, by the standardising effects of printing and by increased travel and literacy ... all good things. But will Modern English die out because of technological advancement and laziness? Maybe the replacement for Modern English will be called Txt-Eng or something.

OP, there is (literally!) no-one greater than Taylor Mali on the overuse of 'like':

Haha, I like it!

The current trend of using mortified to mean angry - what is that all about?

Gwenhwyfar not Wales, I hear it a lot in London, isn't it or innit. Both lovely, innit .

Someone I know definitely not me thought until very recently that disappointing things went down like "a damp squid" instead of "a damp squib".

'Damp squid' is a good one!

It's a bit different and doesn't particularly fit but I just like it ... the title of the new Roisin Murphy album, 'Hairless Toys', came from the producer hearing the lyric "careless talk" wrong.

I also like Morrissey's misuse of words. For example, on 'Bigmouth Strikes Again', the backing vocal, which is Morrissey's voice changed to a higher pitch, is credited to 'Ann Coates', a reference to Ancoats in Manchester.

Also, there are lyrical mistakes, such as in Tom Waits' 'Jockey Full of Bourbon' he sings "I'm in the corner, On the pouring rain".

cardibach Sorry themightycheese, but I hate 'cringe' as massively overused on MN when the poster really means wince.

Cringed also means:

experience an inward shiver of embarrassment or disgust.
"I cringed at the fellow's stupidity"

It's still technically correct.

Wince is more of a reaction to physical pain. It's synonymous with flinch.

Dido 'And "twice" is disappearing to be replaced by "two times"'

I don't think that's an Americanism. We still say twice over here.

On this current thread www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2493519-To-wonder-why-so-many-teachers-want-to-quit?watched=1&msgid=57234378#57234378

a couple of people are saying that some head teachers act as though the school is their personal fifedom.

'can I get' doesn't bother me

But where completely the wrong word is used, does bother me. Should of instead of should have's already been mentioned

And another one that makes me cross-eyed with rage is the use of 'slither' instead of 'sliver'

It's a SLIVER of cake you FUCKWITS! It's NOT a SLITHER!!!!!

Slithering is what snakes do!!!!

HTH

Oh yes a slither of cake!!! Ha ha ha

I was born in and frequently visit N Wales .No one I know says ' isn't it' (in Welsh or English) .