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?

You mean you loves it ;)
I like the different terms of endearment, in work I speak to lots of northerners so regularly called duck (ducky by a few older ladies) and hen. I find them really sweet, although I'm very childish so smirk everytime i get call cock
Although I do still get annoyed by "its gotta be this brand pacifically". Also, DD annoys me no end with "fink" and "anyfing"!!! No dear child you THink, you do not "fink" anyTHing she's luck she is only 7 and I have time to stamp this out

All teenagers do it with the word "like"

Mine don't. :)

Does anyone remember the Trish Goddard show in the 1990s? She used to misuse the word "penultimate" all the time. She'd say, " the penultimate question is xxx". I'd be waiting for the last question, but it wouldn't come.

Surely all her staff, producers etc knew she was saying it wrongly. Why didn't anyone tell her?

My two girls say "lol" out loud if they find something amusing.

Something really cool is "en fleek"

Almost every sentence has "like" in it.

DD1 has started referring to Autumn as "fall". She also refuses to say "knickers", apparently they are "underwear".

Sigh.

One of my friends is apparently toasting marshmallows on her "braissiere". Not sure if she's using a brazier or she's set light to her underwear :) (I do know how to spell brassiere!)

Something that really winds me up is when people misappropriate the saying 'hold the front page' when talking about something noteworthy.

To me, it's obvious that the term 'hold the front page' comes from newsrooms where the paper is just about to go to press and a journo runs in saying 'hold the front page! X has just happened, we need to change our headline story!'

It doesn't mean 'hold the front page in your hands' because that doesn't really make that much sense, does it?

But I've noticed people saying 'hold the phone!' or 'hold the iPad!' followed by some kind of announcement, as though 'front page' can be swapped for whichever device you are using. Which it can't. Because it makes NO SENSE.

I've seen/heard it several times recently and it irks me so much.

For the first year of my relationship with my husband, he misused the word conscientious..
I let it slip the first few times, then had to correct him, he kept doing it!
Just to clarify, he thinks he has man boobs, and was very conscientious of them. I told him the meant conscious. Or more likely self conscious of them. It took a good year for him to use the word conscientious correctly.

someones Facebook post was just, I could walk to work quicker then this.

I've seen many posts about people being in collage.. :-@

I also feel I need to say, when people use text speak and replace their S for a Z- my MIL does it. I refuse to text her for this reason.

Also. Oftentimes. You mean OFTEN.

Steve Wright.

It's a tune, not a toon. Bands tour, they don't toor.

And your jockin... "No g" makes me want to hurt you.

Literally!

Shockers I've had to switch off because of this!

I can't stand reading the blurb from estate agents these days, when they describe somewhere as a 'sort' after location. Grrr.

Shockers Yes, what is all that about?! I am sure all those DJs who started in that era spoke in such a way for effect. Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse really had it so right with Smashy and Nicey and all that affected speech thing!

bessiebumptious2 That really is awful!

'Wit' instead of 'With' (and similar) seem to be creeping into the English language a lot more ... Something to do with rap music and 'da ghetto', I believe!

Excellent!

Morecoffeethanhuman Haha, sorry I missed your comment before ... I loves it, I do! And yes, 'hen' is another good one, I might see what I can find out about that later, hhhhmmm!

kinda It's not big and it's not clever and it doesn't mean your cool, though you probably have or are married to a 'new beard' type person.

Also, starting EVERY sentence with 'so' ggrrrrrrrr!

DDs report at preschool said she could 'make her needs known and respond to instructions in an appropriate MANOR'

thebestfurchinchilla More Americanisms that the media has put in the English language. Television has a lot to answer for! All very good and well in America, spoken by American people but cringeworthy when spoken by British people in Britain!

I thought I would share this on here because we had been talking about regional dialects and colloquialisms ...

PHANTOMnamechanger My goodness, you should write a report back saying "DD can also probably spell better than their teachers"!

Phantom, if you read your DD's report in the style of Danny Boyle, it sounds much better .

Not Danny Boyle... Danny Dyer!

I don't know what Danny Boyle sounds like...

Man killed to death made me think of this particular newspaper headline. Who'd have believed it?

whereyourtreasureis Oh my goodness me, that is wonderful!!!!!

'Try and' not 'try to' as in I'm going to try and organise x... NO you are going to try TO organise x... Growl

Would of not would have

Why can't people speak :(

A friend of mine once referred to somebody as a "Pre-Madonna" on facebook. I had no choice but to go NC: I don't need that kind of sick perversion in my life.

People misusing "you and I" (my DF is a bugger for this- it's "for you and me", you daft sod!) and "whom" also really get on my nerves.