Are You Joking Me?

[rockchick78]

Are you joking me?

For some reason this phrase pisses me off!

Are you kidding me? - Makes sense
Are you joking? - Makes sense

Is it just me that this annoys?!

YANBU. Annoys me too.

And 'Can I get a...?'

And 'my bad'. Speak like an adult, FFS.

Plus people saying 'Can I lend your pen'/'She borrowed me her pen'.

Very unique . . . Either it is unique or it isn't so cannot be 'very unique'.

"Could of" makes me squirm whenever I read it. It just obviously doesn't make grammatical sense

Im Irish and we say it a lot.

But I hear people using do be as part of a sentence and it fucking hurts.

"He do be going to the shops every day"

I hate phrases such as 'needs ironed' or 'needs cleaned'. It's 'needs to be ironed', or 'needs cleaning'.

Although I no doubt use a lot of phrases that irritate others, so I just bite my tongue

I first heard "Are you joking me?" from someone for whom English was a second language - we didn't correct her because we understood what she meant.
I'm 'meeting with Fred Bloggs ... ' makes me cringe - either you're meeting ... or you have a meeting with ... and
"like what he said/did etc" is another - which is 'like the plays what I wrote' used by Ernie Wise. We laughed then because we knew it was wrong and funny. Now I hear it often and it shows how educational standards have fallen because they wouldn't understand the joke.

It seems to be common amongst Irish people to say 'bring' instead of 'take' as well: "I'm going to bring this shopping round to my mother's then I'll come to yours," or have I just made that up? I'm sure I remembered it when I lived in London and had more contact with Irish people than I do where I'm living now.

That's not an incorrect use of "bring", though, margot.

Isn't it? Oh! I thought 'bring' was used when something is coming to you, and 'take' when it's going away from you. Very simplistic, but you get my drift. You have something brought to you, and you take something to somebody.

"I'm good" in response to 'how are you?'.

It's just wrong. Wrong, wrong, wrong.

YY to done/did instead of 'went to' and get instead of have. Sadly I think both are fully entrenched into normal speech for a lot of people now. Grrr.

Although you could say "I'll bring it with me," I know. Aargh! I can't articulate it, but bring always jars when I hear it used in a similar way to my first post.

"I'm good" in response to 'how are you?'

TBH I say "Im grand" when asked that question but again Im Irish so that probably explains it

Hubby says stuff like "I'll learn the kids how to talk". And things take "for ages". No. It's "ages" or "forever". Stop mixing the two!!!!

Here in SW Scotland the word why is replaced by how. It's irritating. "How'd did you say that?" instead of "Why did you say that?" So I always reply, "By opening my mouth and speaking" or some other sarcastic remark that answers a "how" question.

Actually there's stuff on the internet re the Irish bring/take so I wasn't wrong. I realise I'm having a conversation with myself here!

TBH I say "Im grand" when asked that question but again Im Irish so that probably explains it

but "I'm grand" is perfectly acceptable - it's just another word to mean 'fine'. "Good" just doesn't work.

"You did good." Aggggghhh! No! "You did well." Or "That was good." And breathe!

People who order in a cafe with, "Can I get a...?"

HAVE, you fools, it's HAVE.

Hanging's too good for 'em.

Yes, yes yes. I thought it was just me who hates this

Ah - its interesting to know it is Irish and probably occurred originally because of bilingual Irish-English speakers applying the way Irish grammar works to English, but then became an established expression... I had always thought it was "just" simple incorrect grammar.

I absolutely hate "She was sat..." (she sat or she was sitting, never she was sat) and "That needs washed" (that needs to be washed or that needs washing) but I know they are regional expressions/ constructions and therefore not exactly the same as straightforwardly incorrect grammar...

I find it easier not to wince when I know it isn't just "wrong" but has a back story for some reason.

My kids have all gone through phases of over using the word "by" because of growing up speaking both English and German roughly equally and thinking they can use by when the would use bei ...I know why they do it but it still drives me mad :o

Oh god yeah Natalie! Could of/should of etc I think that might be worse than my original post ha ha ha!

"I'll fix you some breakfast"
No you won't because it's not bloody broken!!
though, to be fair, I have only heard this on Eastenders

My husband says 'why did you do that for?'

It gives me the huge rage, but because I'm so amazing I simply rise above it.

I certainly don't chew my own face off trying not to comment again

Felicia that would annoy me too!

What's wrong with "recommend me a..."? It sounds fine to me. I'm also Irish.

I have just remembered that a couple of years ago ordered my non sleeping DC a children's sleep/ meditation story CD and although DC quite enjoyed it I had to surreptitiously bin it when I listened to it because it included the line "They was sat in the garden" ... (even worse than "she was sat" obviously)