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?!

No, I'm here margot DS2 woke up.

I believe "to bring" can be defined as "to take [something/someone] [somewhere]" so it isn't incorrect, I'd say it's a usage issue.

"Fix" when you mean "make" is North American isn't it? Why are they saying that on East Enders? Not very authentic surely...

Just to irritate you further, if you know anyone from South Wales you'l probably be familiar with

'come by here' (come here)

or 'I'll be there now in a minute' (I'll be there imminently!)

Jasper technically it should just be "Could you recommend a X?" If you need to include the me part to be clear you want to be given the recommendation rather than somebody else, you need "to" as in "Could you recommend a plumber to me?" as opposed to "Next time your see Jack could you recommend a plumber to him?", but the "me" is usually superfluous.

"Gets me/you in the feels" is extremely annoying as is "get in the sea"

But if I asked for a recommendation, I would want one that was relevant to me. So if I said "Could you reccomend a clothes shop in Slough?" you would tell me about your favourite clothes shop, whereas if I said "could you reccomend me a clothes shop in Slough?" you would suggest somewhere likely to have clothes in my size and style and within my budget.

And you don't the "to" any more than you with "give" or "pass" or "lend". "Give me the ball" is as correct as "Lend the jewels to me".

Don't NEED the "to".

sleep we say "now in a minute", too.

I think I use "in a minute" when I actually mean "very shortly".

"Now in a minute" is more "I'll do it when I bloody well see fit so don't ask me again!"

But the one that makes me want to scream is off of.
It's an americanisation that's crept over here in the past few years, as in:
"Could you get off of the table?"

Fucking hate it but hate hearing non US folk using it more 😡😡😡

DH and DC seem to have started adding words which aren't required to the end of sentences. I have to correct them EVERY time!

Why did you do that for?
No need for the for on the end!

I like that me
Why the me?!

Makes me so angry

Joking me is common round here (Worcs) and has driven me mad ever since my DC started to use the term 30+ years ago... Nothing that I have ever said has stopped exchanges such as:
'It's snowing!' - 'You're joking me!?'
Luckily, they're both married now, so someone else has the pleasure of such phrases...

'Unorganised' makes me want to punch people.

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"

Reminds me of an old joke:

To do is to be - Rousseau.
To be is to do - Sartre.
Dobedobedo - Sinatra.

Bold fail - blimmin' punctuation getting in the way!

Of course nothing is as irritating as "I'm excited for" when the speaker means they are excited about something not on its behalf...

"I'm excited for Christmas" can't ever be right unless Christmas is the name of your beloved friend or family member who is about to do something lovely and exciting...

For me (as well as many of the ones already mentioned e.g. could of and lend/borrow) the real one that annoys me is the increasing use of yourself/myself in language these days.

e.g. further to your conversation with myself earlier today...

NO! It's ME. You spoke to ME!!

Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

And don't get me started on 'you and I' / 'you and me' - John Torode on Masterchef is a swine for getting it wrong.

My unfave is ' Can you not do xyz?' instead of 'Please don't do xyz'

Is it bad that I "Go t' shop" instead of go to the shop? I am a Northerner if that counts. Lol

Going t'shop is fine

I used to despise the word "cunt".

Used to make my physically shudder. Tantamount to the N word.

Then I joined MN, and made the word my own.

It's archaic. The only place I've seen it used is in Georgette Heyer's novels.

Cunt in Georgette Heyer novels?

Really? Georgette Heyer and cunt? I am an apostrophe geek, drives me mad and gives me an overwhelming urge to slap people. And why do people not know the difference between affect and effect? I am getting twitchy just thinking about it, I think I need a gin

I'm fairly au fait with Miss Heyer and I remember no cunts.

Bring/take (exactly the same meaning except the direction relative to the speaker) is incredibly important and something computers struggle with (easy Turing test fail).

What are you taking to Susan's party?
Prosecco and olives.

What have you brought with you? Prosecco and olives: lovely!

There are other verb pairs such as come and go that behave in this way. German uses "hin" and "her" prefixes to consolidate:

Woher kommst du? (Where do you come from?)
Wohin gehst du nach der Schule? (Where are you going after school?)

Lol just noticed a typo (phone auto-correct) in my post. Ooops, would have to happen on a grammar/language pedant fest thread !

Loving all the pet hates though. Share most of them too