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?!

2nds Extraordinary means "more than ordinary" rather than "more ordinary", if that makes sense?

I agree with you about the attitude on this thread. "Well, that's not how I say it so therefore it must be wrong!" Er, insular much?

"I'm going to take a shower'' drives me mad! Take it where???

I love some Welshisms to which my friend introduced me:
I'll be there right now five minutes (similar to upthread)
Nice boots them shoes
Whose coat's that jacket?

Does anyone else get itchy teeth at AIBU split infinitive?
AIBU to not xyz
NOOOOOOOOOOOO
AIBU not to xyz

One other thing that really is falling out of use is the correct sequence of tenses for 'may' and 'might'. It's obviously an area of confusion because 'might' is both the past tense of 'may' and the conditional (like 'can' and 'could'). And since 'may' has a conditional type meaning even its present tense it's doubly confusing.

For example, on a news report about someone's death in a car accident, the reporter will say: "If he had been wearing a seatbelt, he may still be alive". No, we know he is not alive, so the correct sequence of tenses is "he might still be alive". Using 'may' there is the equivalent of saying: "If he had been wearing a seatbelt, he can still be alive".

If we don't know if he's alive or dead at the time of speaking we can say: "His car was found empty, so he may still be alive."

You are my people, so someone here must agree with me on my 'may/might' issue.

Itching myself!

Grrrrr

Primary children now say butt for their bottom. Sounds so crass and another Americanism.

I agree diasappoint but haven't heard that used incorrectly.

"Can i get?" Makes me want to scream!

You are my people, so someone here must agree with me on my 'may/might' issue.

So much.

"I turned around and said..." drives me mad.

I have a friend who, if you were to believe her version of a conversation, seems to spin constantly while chatting.

"So I turned around and said 'No way', and then he turned around and said 'It's true!'"

I once remarked that they must have all got very dizzy after all that turning around and she gave me this look :-

Another pet hate is 'At the end of the day'. It always gives me the urge to ask which end of the day they're referring to: the end of the working day? Midnight? Dusk?

Why has "gotten" started to replace "got" in UK English now?

First entry to MN, but I have to add this one which makes me scream

Brang

I brang the item to the table

What are you thinking? !!

Irish family. We all say 'youse'. Its a dialect thing (as are lots of these), not poor English.

I dont mind on MN or social media/texts (life is too short) but in formal writing (e.g work emails) I do find the confusion and kerfuffle over there/their/they're and your/you're hard to stomach.

How's about the 'off /of ' combo.

'I fell off of the log.'

WTF?

Is this from the US or something?

It's just 'off'.

Oh, yes, agree with most of these! Particularly hate 'I was sat/stood', which is even used by TV reporters, journalists etc. The use of Americanisms is quite annoying too. Another one I often see online is '...xxx will drop your jaw' - aaarggghhh!

Doesn't 'extraordinary' mean NOT or 'outside of' ordinary? Like extraterrestrial means not from this earth.

'it's so fun!'

No, no, no. It's 'so much fun' or 'it's so funny'.

I don't mind most of these, if they are just language in use, as someone else said, languages evolve and people use colloquial phrases. However, could of/would of/should of do irritate me because it just shows complete lack of any grammar. Also very unique does bug me.

Ooh another one I see a lot - are for our.
E.g. do you want to come round to are house?
ARGH!

I am a pedant but wrongly placed apostrophes, especially in plurals really irritate me. eg I bought four apple's. I spent yesterday explaining to my children that it should be Fathers' Day not Father's Day because the day belongs to all the fathers (plural) not just one. Unlike father's birthday which just belongs to the one father. I'm pretty sure they think I made it up though.

Yes - or extracurricular being outside our beyond the curriculum.

My pet hate is "With the best will in the world." I've heard it so many times from one particular person that the phrase has lost all meaning and gone over to the dark side. Now, all I hear is, "I need to take the easy way out."

"Just got"', as in "x just got easier", "y just got better".

Hackneyed.

And wrong!

One thing I have noticed in recent batches of undergraduate essays is the use of "whom" as the subject of the clause!

"Richard II, whom was king of England in the 14th century" (not actual example, but you see what I mean).

I hate "so fun". It was even on a lovely Father's Day card that I was thisclose to buying, until I saw that awful phrase. I thought that "fun" was a noun, and couldn't be used as an adjective. Am I wrong? "So fun" ids a hideous Americanism.

Speaking of Americanisms, their use of "horrible" always jars with me. Over here (UK), we use it to mean truly revolting/frightening/repulsive. But in the US it seems to just mean bad/awful. So you hear sentences like, "My husband's driving is horrible," which sound strange to me.