to think someone should know doggy dog makes no sense?

[Juells]

Heard someone (on TV) using this yesterday. "It's a doggy dog world". Why do people think this means anything?

Later (think it was on Antiques Road Trip) someone said they were thinking of changing tact.

Yes, that was it! Thanks all!

DH and I always say “moo point” because of Friends! 😂

A mum at school played "parcel parcel" at a kid's party once. I liked that one.

It's because nobody reads any more.

They only hear words and phrases used, so they've absolutely no idea of the derivation or correct usage of the words. 'Moot' for example, comes from the Anglo Saxon for 'meeting', so it's a 'debated point'. I know this, because I read. A lot of people just think 'moot' means 'argument'.

We're turning into an illiterate society. And a lot of people will just shake their heads and say 'it doesn't matter, as long as you can make yourself understood'. I think it bloody well does matter!

But then I'm a language snob.

My favourite is escape goat. I want an escape goat.

It's a doggy dogg world.
Snoop Dogg.
I take it the person who said it either meant dog-eat-dog (and is from the 'Should OF Done That' school of bad grammar) OR
they're an enormous Snoop Dogg fan.

I sincerely hope it's the latter case.

Wallah! For voila always makes me laugh

Did you start this thread off your own back OP?

Get a life, OP.

@Reallybadidea

Did you start this thread off your own back OP?

Omg. I had NO idea about this one until you posted and I googled it just now.

I also have an English Literature degree. Oops.

I seen once on here ‘you just want everyone at your beacon call’ I rather liked that. My husband saw a holiday thread and it recommends an upgrade if you want the ‘belgian Whistles ‘ rather than bells and whistles.

I think in some cases autocorrect has dumbed-down a lot of people (or do I mean 'alot'? ) ie, words like 'definitely', if wrongly spelled 'definately' often autocorrects to 'defiantly', so people come to think that is the correct spelling.

I agree with Zaphod, too.

I want an escape goat.

I want a tree goat!

I used to work with someone who would say "unless you know of any indifference" instead of "anything different". I too assumed she'd never seen it written down and was just going by how it sounds when people run the words together.

As a nation we do seem to be losing our ability to use language correctly

No, we never had it. It’s just that social media has made it easier to see people’s misunderstandings now.

I cannot claim innocence - I used to say ''one foul swoop'' for years despite bloody well doing Macbeth at school.
I do like threads like this though OP. I have just added the words malapropistic and lacunae to my mind palace hovel

DH is terrible for this type of thing. We had a recent conversation surrounding 'For all intensive purposes'

Dave Gorman's episode about this is one of the funniest things I've seen.

He has a picture of him 'and his elk' it gets me everytime

I often say things like this incorrectly on purpose because I find it funny. People can usually tell that you aren't being serious. I wouldn't do it on tv though, I'd be too embarrassed.

I have a lovely friend who thinks that she had "dolphin nose potatoes" once at a restaurant.

I am going to say Belgian Whistles from now on.

I agree with Zaphod too. But for everyone who thinks that the bastardisation of language matters, there are at least an equal number that will tell you that as long as you gather meaning, it doesn’t matter. I think it does matter and some of the ‘changes’ make no sense.

I also agree that fewer people read, so don’t see the phrases in written form. Then again, there is some poor proofreading in novels these days too.

A Favourite Fact of mine is that the word “egregious” is the first example of the phenomenon of using a word like “bad” or “sick” or “wicked” to mean really really good.