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

[Chinnychinnychinnychib]

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.

Chinny, we pedants need to stand up for proper language, or the spoken word will degenerate into a morass of twatspeak.

At work, they're insisting we all attend a course on the importance of working in a "psychologically informed environment", whateverthefuck that is. I predict an early full house in bullshit bingo that day.

Lakie

TheStoic

Hmm, I think unfinancial assumes the speaker understand how to use prefixes. He didn't understand which adjectives make sense in a sentence so prefixes might be a stretch

understands (typo)

Financial could mean skint. It could be some weird shortening of financial difficulties.

It's doesn't obviously mean you have money at all.

Unfinancial would be even worse.

Also, unfinancial isn't a word

Unfinancial is a word.

Not in the context of this discussion, but it is a word.

I was just looking for other adjectives ending in -ial and many of them are quite obscure, or could be used unambigously at the end of a sentence (unlike financial)

OP you could say he's being 'gonadial'

Is unfinancial in dictionaries?

I think un-financial sounds better. Dunno.

sorry, non -financial

If someone asked me this I wouldn't think they were asking if I was loaded or skint. I'd think they were asking if I was tracking budget and expenditure tightly.

It's not clear what it means at all.

Set him on fire, OP. If someone asked me that, I'd assume they were asking whether I was being unusually finance-minded this month, but that might be to do with justifying expenditure on a research fund at work, or figuring out household finances to an unusual extent, say, in relation to apply for a loan or mortgage or something. It might mean 'You seem to be talking a lot more than usual about money.' It might mean 'Have you started to train to be an accountant and not mentioned it?' It might mean, 'Shut up about your savings account, you maundering bore -- can we talk about something else?'

What is doesn't translate into in my mind is 'Are you financially secure this month?'