To hate - I was today years old

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This phrase is everywhere and it's driving me insane.

You were not today years old when you found out 😡 you found out today

Does this annoy anyone else or am I just turning j to the grumpy old woman I was born to be? Are there any other words or phrases drive you insane??

@SwedishK "of an evening" is non-standard. I've heard "on a night" too.

If I heard you say "of an evening" I would make certain assumptions about your upbringing. Unless I knew you were Foreign, in which case I'd assume a lot of your English-learning had been immersive, possibly in low-paid jobs.

It's definitely not used to make the speaker appear posh.

I quite like it.

But them I'm someone who likes holibobs, and so many sleeps until....

OP, we should never, ever meet.

I thought it was a typo. (I am obviously a grumpy old bag, because I dislike many phrases I see here: 'talk me down' being my main bugbear. And all those people shaking and spitting out their tea - just stop it.)

@halcyondays

I get annoyed by almost all these kind of things tbh. I hate “ lived experience “

Yep. I despise this one too.

[quote merryhouse]@SwedishK "of an evening" is non-standard. I've heard "on a night" too.

If I heard you say "of an evening" I would make certain assumptions about your upbringing. Unless I knew you were Foreign, in which case I'd assume a lot of your English-learning had been immersive, possibly in low-paid jobs.

It's definitely not used to make the speaker appear posh.[/quote]
Haha, good to know! Whenever I see that expression, I always read it in my head with a pompous Hyacinth voice. I shall stop doing that now.

I thought it was a typo too, and I've actually never heard half the phrases mentioned in this thread. I am definitely old.

'lived experience' bit like 'pan fried'.

I read the thread you're referring to and was really confused about the title. I'd never heard the phrase before but it sounds wrong.

I'd say "oh God, I'm 54 years old and I've only just realised that...." or words to tgat effect.

Also, I know this thread was prompted by another thread but I don't think its a TAAT as its not about the content of that thread.

Today years old - It’s a big social media bandwagon don’t let it bother you.

Not so much a MN thing, more a podcast thing, but the phrase "deep-dive" is driving me insane.

I used to hate that in corporate speak too.

Anyone with a genuinely-above-average grasp of the language should be able to follow these things.

Which language though? It makes no sense. Anyone with a genuinely-above- grasp would actually be looking for typos, not trying to work out if it is supposed to actually mean something.

Needs gone is perfectly acceptable.
It is an established regional dialect and has been done to death on MN.

Regional or not, it doesn’t make sense. Even if formalised to ‘it needs to be gone’, that doesn’t make sense either. A bookcase, buggy, coffee table or whatever you’re flogging on Facebook doesn’t ‘need’ anything - it’s inanimate. What you mean is ‘I need it gone’ (or, more accurately, want it gone).

@Pan2

'lived experience' bit like 'pan fried'.

Pan fried is legitimate - you can deep fry something not necessarily using a pan, or air fry it. I imagine it's to distinguish from that.

@DanielRicciardosSmile

I also hate it OP.

It always seems to go alongside some complete made up crap too, like "I was today years old when I learned that news stands for 'notable events, weather and sport'. No it fucking doesn't you twonk.

Twonk? All right, Hale and Pace.

@StillCoughingandLaughing

*Needs gone is perfectly acceptable. It is an established regional dialect and has been done to death on MN.*

Regional or not, it doesn’t make sense. Even if formalised to ‘it needs to be gone’, that doesn’t make sense either. A bookcase, buggy, coffee table or whatever you’re flogging on Facebook doesn’t ‘need’ anything - it’s inanimate. What you mean is ‘I need it gone’ (or, more accurately, want it gone).

Does everything you say have to follow the rules of logic, Ms Spock?

@NoseOfJericho

Anyone with a genuinely-above-average grasp of the language should be able to follow these things.

Which language though? It makes no sense. Anyone with a genuinely-above- grasp would actually be looking for typos, not trying to work out if it is supposed to actually mean something.

What’s a “genuinely-above- grasp” supposed to mean?

Have never, ever, ever heard this phrase in my life (barring the thread here that said it and I thought it was a typo?)

Guess what?

Different people use language differently.

And all the words and phrases you now use were new once and probably despised and mocked by some previous century’s Mumsnet.

@NoseOfJericho

And, agree with the PP who mentioned 'reader'.

I don't need to be called reader or dear reader, I know I am reading the drivel you wrote, and will promptly stop being your reader because you come across as a wannabee author of second rate paperbacks with huge pretentions. In short, you sound like a complete pillock who has watched too many episodes of 'Murder She Wrote' or some other crap series.

Yes, that one does rile me considerably, it is just so bloody condescending.

Charlotte Bronte sends her apologies.

@FamilyOfAliens

I hate, hate, hate to the point where I want to reach through the screen and give the poster a shake, “reader, I married him.”

Another one - why the need for the word “hate” three times? It doesn’t assume a different meaning if you repeat it over and over.

Why the need for “repeat it over and over”?

Ooh yes "speaking my truth"
The truth is independently the truth. You are either saying a truth or you are expressing your opinion.

Deep dive just means put together some slides on a topic. Like we used to do before we did deep dives.

And actually that one is annoying because my understanding if the term is different.

[quote requitalissima]@EvenMoreFuriousVexation

"What's irritated me over about the last 5 years is the muddling of nouns, verbs and adjectives. Such as "You are a lol", "He is a small", "I'm sexying all over the place", "I magic wanded it", "You really heroed the beef" (I'm looking at you, Masterchef Australia)"

Thank heavens such blatherings are not spouted amongst 'my people'.
I would find it extremely difficult not to whack a spouter of the above with a wet fish, repeatedly.[/quote]
Spout is both a noun and a verb. Do you disapprove?

I hate “super” as in super clean, super smart ahhhhhhhh makes my teeth itch