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?!

Didn't know that Jessie, it seems to have become very popular recently on programmes like TOWIE.

One that has always grated hugely is 'so fun' as in 'that was so fun'.

But much, much, worse is 'funner'

Ha ha vjg I had no idea it was commonly used in Essex! How weird. Youtube a bit of Rab C Nesbit to hear it in its original glory .

Youse is commonly used in the NE as well.

And in Northern Ireland.

Invite instead of invitation. Urgh - so lazy!

My sister uses the word 'gotten' as in, "I've gotten up" or "I've gotten a new book". It makes me feel a bit sick every time she says it.

Youse is said by scousers too

"Yousens" is a NI thing

Like are "yous ones" coming for a drink?

Makes me a bit twitchy

"Yousens" is a NI thing

Like are "yous ones" coming for a drink?

Makes me a bit twitchy

"I never saw nobody" "he didn't say nothin" really irritate me. No to double negatives.

"Youse" I will defend though, on the basis that a lot of Europeans coming to NI love it- provides an equivalent to the 2nd person plural 'you' which English is sadly lacking.

Oh, and when people say "I just threw up a little in my mouth" upon hearing that you've never heard of some reality star or whoever.
I highly doubt you've just vomited. Dickheads.

Language changes. Always have, always will.

And people have always found it annoying and a sign that young people these days can't talk properly etc.

Oh I like "the rage" - it sounds really seriously angry :o

"Can I get" drives me bonkers - it sounds so RUDE. I say "Can I have xxx please?" and feel about 95, but I refuse to say "can I get" like everyone around me.

(STBX says "can I get" - not only to waiting staff but to ME when he wants something from the kitchen etc. GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR)

My sister signs off emails etc. with things like "Big love" and "Big gratitude"

Love this thread.
I hate the use of can when what we mean is may
May I have a coffee please?
Can I get a coffee?

"I can speak to this...."

When did that start? We have a perfectly good option: "I can speak ABOUT this", which actually makes sense. But people seem to be forever 'speaking to' things where I work now - is it just us?

"For me" gives me the rage

As in, "Could you move those books for me "

Or at work, "If you could just sign this for me "

I don't know why, but it drives me insane.

"Grab" is the worst.

Grab a coffee, grab lunch, grab a bargain. I fucking hate it.

Oh, this is a great thread! I am Irish and I am guilty of so many of these in informal speech, though as a languages graduate, I find the origins of a lot of them fascinating. except when the origin is stupidity

I can confirm that Irish people (north and south) say "youse" for you (plural) - and I have even seen it written as "use" - now that is really fucking bad!

Also rampant here, and something I am drumming into my DCs, is "I done it", "I seen it", "Here be's me" (which I take to mean something like "I said" e.g. "so here be's me to him, I seen youse doing it"). Christ, doesn't that make you fear for the future of the English language?

Obviously I am drumming the correct way into my kids! They never "seen" or "done" in my presence.

My daughter goes gym/goes pub/goes Kate's house.

Drives me bonkers. You go TO places. FFS.

She turns her 18yo nose up at her elderly grammar crazy mum

But people seem to be forever 'speaking to' things where I work now - is it just us?

It's not you, but it doesn't mean "speak about". It's more like "testify to".

And yes "can I get a coffee" "yes indeed, if you'd like to go round to the other side of the counter, otherwise it'll be the person serving who gets the coffee.

The definition of "get" is "to come to have or hold (something); receive". So "can I get" is as correct as "can I have." "Get" does not have some sort of built-in reflexive as so many posters on MN seem to think.

"Can I get" is fine IMO. Makes sense and isn't rude.

I tend to say "could I have" or "could I please have", depending on how good looking the waiter is charming I am being that day. My dad says "I'll have" which is a tiny bit brusque, I feel.

MrsH but people are using it to mean 'speak about', is what I mean.

Pissed for annoyed. Another Americanism.

Off ! It's pissed OFF.

Pissed means drunk. ''I'm so pissed at him/her/it/you/them'' doesn't make sense ok?!