"Summer isn't summering" anyone get irritated by the stupid way people speak these days?

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I don't know what it is but I follow quite a lot of Instagram bloggers /vloggers and have noticed this lately
"Summer isn't summering"
"July isn't julying"
Honestly it's driving me mad
Is it just me who's noticed this stupidity?

Er no but I wouldn't follow people that irritated me!

It's all those twenty somethings who are always bleating on about how hard 'adulting' is.

@MagpiePi it actually is ! I've never heard anyone I know say it -just these 20 something influencers

I think it started when people used the word Google as a verb. 'Search on Google' has now become 'Google it'. So now instead of 'acting like an adult' we have 'adulting'. Or 'how to make this meal vegan' is now 'how to veganise this meal'.

Also reminds me of the weird phrases posters use on the style and beauty board. ‘Large of nork’ and ‘large of tummy’ are recent once I’ve noticed being used a lot. Just say big boobs!

Yep the stupidest generation by far!! Read yesterday about a kid not wanting to go back to college, back to a dirty room to do chores and didn't want to do ",adulting" anymore!! Wanted to stay at home....... Possibly the most immuture generation ever, in the 70/80s at 21/22 you were an adult running your own home with a child. Now they don't want to do adulting and would prefer to stay at home and spend on nails, lip fillers fake tan, clothes and showing off on Instagram.....can't do that when you're running your own home!!

I hate "peopling" and "all peopled out". I get the concept and feel that way sometimes myself, but the twee language around it is annoying. There is a huge focus on feelings all the time, and over-analysing it all.

The day i get influenced by a 20 year old I'll worry

To be fair, it provides a clear and obvious way of identifying who you should avoid.

The one I hate is using “human” when referring to a person - eg. “my favourite human”.

I obviously exclude anyone who isn’t a human, particularly anyone of extraterrestrial origin.

Otherwise, please give it a rest.

Yep the stupidest generation by far!! Read yesterday about a kid not wanting to go back to college, back to a dirty room to do chores and didn't want to do ",adulting" anymore!! Wanted to stay at home....... Possibly the most immuture generation ever, in the 70/80s at 21/22 you were an adult running your own home with a child. Now they don't want to do adulting and would prefer to stay at home and spend on nails, lip fillers fake tan, clothes and showing off on Instagram.....can't do that when you're running your own home!!

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Summer isn't summering? I like that one! I will avoid annoying people who've heard it twenty times already by repeating it myself but ha! I actually like that one.

I'm 53 and I'm finding adulting quite hard. Can't wait for pensioning.

Totally agree. I recently was wondering why ‘anyway’ has become ‘anyways’. I see and hear it everywhere now, as if anyway is no longer the word

The same people say 'vacay', 'holibobs' and 'Platty Joobs'. IQs are dropping and/or orative skills are slipping. Probably both.

No, as a linguist I like language play. It's part of what makes us human and we've almost certainly done it since language first existed. Different examples can sound amusing, appealing or irritating to different ears, and different generations definitely have their own particular ways of doing it, which can annoy older generations, but it's harmless fun. I'm fascinated by the things my teenagers come out with!

The one I hate is using “human” when referring to a person - eg. “my favourite human”
Ha, yes, one of our trainers says this all the Time. Describes people was a wonderful husband.an, her favourite human, a gorgeous human etc.
I try not to roll my eyes.

Absolutely. I just don't listen to it anymore never heard so much winjing and moaning!

Platty Joobs
What does this mean?

Platinum Jubilee.

The same people say 'vacay', 'holibobs' and 'Platty Joobs'. IQs are dropping and/or orative skills are slipping. Probably both.

I love Platty Joobs (the phrase, not tye actual event) and I have an Oxbridge languages degree. I think my IQ and orative skills are ok <worries>.

I tell DP he's my favourite human boy because he's not my favourite boy, my favourite boy isn't human 😁

Yes, particularly hate ‘adulting’ used by actual adults.

*the (my typing clearly isn't ok)

Another linguist here. Language is organic. I like how it grows and I like playful neologisms. Most of the examples here make me smile. Some make me cringe, but that's OK. I would hate language to be grey and formalised, for adaptation and creative development to be stifled, for a 'correct' version to be set in stone. The English language is at its most vibrant since Elizabethan times, because of the arrival of the internet.

It worries me more when the grown ups join in.

I was baffled by months of MNers banging on about "the ick" (we have existing phrases for that, people). It turns out it's from Love Island, which I don't watch. Depressing that this is how we "expand" our vocabulary now.