Am I completely out of touch with the way people speak?

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What would you interpret the meaning of this sentence as?

'Are you quite financial this month?'

To me, that makes no sense. DH (who asked it) says it's perfectly obvious and it's how people talk these days. He meant, are you quite financially secure this month.

AIBU for this to piss me right off? He says I am a hopeless pedant and this is just the casual parlance du jour.

Nope your DH is wrong that sentence makes no sense.

You are right-that makes no sense. Is your husband just being contrary?!

YANBU - that makes no sense at all.

Nope, have never heard that and it makes zero sense

Never heard that phrase! And makes no sense to me.
My best guess would have been that it meant are you counting the pennies a bit this month, keeping a tight eye on finances?

• fancy expensive restaurant tonight?
• not this month, I'm being a bit financial after those unexpected car costs

Hmmmm... no, really twisting myself in knots trying to make that work!

YANBU - has DH been spending too much time with those annoying managerial-speak types at work? He'll be telling you you need to do some blue-sky thinking next.

Your husband is a plonker I'm afraid.

I would translate that to "Are you being to do with money this month?"

Which makes no sense.

Ugh, it's not obvious at all. Is he trying to show you up?

Husband is talking gibberish.

Nonsense. He needs to speak English.

The only reply is 'How old are you?12?'.

Not sure I'd be 'pissed right off' about it though.

That sounds like something he has picked up at work. Weird work speak often hapoens in my place then people think i am odd for asking if we can all just speak properly

Yanbu. Makes no sense at all. Is he taking the piss?

He's trying to get down with the kids! silly old sod.

I would have understood what he was trying to ask, DH comes out with crap like that.

I think he's a dickhead when he does it though

Start using them back

Is the Kitchen quite grocery this week?

Is the car quite petroleum today?

Is the laundry fresh this week?

It is very teenager dropping words. YANBU

I would take it to mean is your bank balance quite healthy this month. Yes it's not proper English but surely it's not impossible to work out the context of the question.

I do love mumsnet.

I don't know why it pisses me off so much. Oh yes, I remember. Because he's WRONG!

Doesn't make sense and a bit twatty. Ignore.

It sounds like he's used a translation app to translate from Japanese or something.

It makes no sense but I could hazard a guess at what he means by it, it's a ridiculous way to speak though, there's no need!!

I do a lot of editing of very different styles of writing - what your husband said is ridiculous because it is not clear what the sentence means.

Lots of 'new' styles of speaking recently introduced sound a bit ridiculous to me, but the key thing is that despite this they are clearly understandable - i.e. if I was writing for buzzfeed I could say I am 'woke' to different styles of writing - i.e. awake, aware of. Sounds a bit silly but clearly only has the one meaning.

The problem with your DH's sentence is that it could feasibly mean several things, many of which are the complete opposite of what he intended, i.e
a) (what he thinks) I am financially stable this month
b) (as per previous poster) I am being financially cautious this month
c) I am spending a lot this month
d) I have a lot of financial exchanges coming out this month (e.g. lots of dd's/credit card payments coming out)

There is no way that what he thinks he means is any more obvious than any of these other suggestions, and as the whole reason for language is to communicate effectively it is a ridiculous and ineffective statement. IMHO!

He's trying to gaslight me into believing it's a normal way to speak, the abusive bastard. Should I LTB? Or just set fire to him?

Your husband sounds like he's trying to hard to be in wit da speak! Financial is a thing, people are not financial!

To ask if you are quite financial makes it sound like he wants to stick you on ebay or something more sinister