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

[ohbloodyhellll]

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?

It's just fun with language isn't it? Being creative.
Stop moaning.

I know that you're right, but can't we aspire for language to develop in a less puerile way? Creativity is great. Mass infantilisation less so.

I’ll see your humans and raise you “hoomans” as one particular influencer says. She’s otherwise lovely but this makes me so irritated.

I like Platty Jubes and Cozzie Livs. I think the introduction of social media means a much more conversational manner of writing. I laugh at how casually clever people can be with the written word.

Aren't you lovely.

The simple solution surely is to just stop following them then? Why are you even following a bunch of 20 something influencers?

I find I have little in common with them, just as I had little in common with people in their 30's and 40's when I was 20 and dying my hair pink and blue and wearing fishnets and listening to hair metal. Just follow people you like and find interesting and leave the young and foolish to be young and foolish. They'll be old and shaking their fists at the next generation's stupidity soon enough. As we've always been.

Completely agree.

I'd say those who rail against it need to broaden their take on language.

Yes, worry. It's the moment when you can't think of the intelligent phrase because the silly one has become ubiquitous that's frightening.

Do you think you're more sophisticated/ less susceptible in your other languages?

That sort of thing doesn't bother me. What I really hate is Misuse of language. For example the word "Fact" has a specific meaning and it isn't "a thought that I have just had".

I think language evolves all the time and that's fine. I also think slang and odd/familiar/twisted turns of phrase are fine, provided you're not trying to use them in a professional context. I use silly language like in the OP at times (mostly make my own up), as do my teens. I think it's a nice way to feel informal and closer to each other at home and also gives us something to laugh at and tease them about when they say things like "ballin', bussin'" etc.
I talk properly at work and my children have excellent vocabularies from being read to and reading for years. I took DD to a local production of a Shakespear play the other day and I think she followed it better than I did! Now, no one talks like that now (actually not sure they ever did!) and it's a completely different use of language to our norm, but nobody is complaining about that.

Having fun with words and language isn't a problem as long as you can adapt to context and function in different environments. I will admit to finding certain words/terms irrationally annoying but I don't come across them that often in real life. Avoiding msot social media has its upsides!

I like Platty Jubes and Cozzie Livs.
I read a Platty Jube to be a Platitude (it matches my expectations of misspelling from the Chester Draws generation).
What on earth is a Cozzie Liv?

Yes, before Google, no-one had ever created a verb from a noun...

Older people are always bitching about how younger people (often, younger women) use new, inventive language. But it's how language develops and why we don't talk like Chaucerian noblemen or Victorian peasants.

Cozzie Livs - cost of living crisis.

...she moaned.

Yes this. And “tiny humans” for babies.

Similar rhetoric by previous generations on new generations forgetting who had a hand in raising them and/or their parents.

Saying that, why does being adult have to mean becoming a parent and your one example doesn’t speak for the rest of the generation and is ridiculous when there are plenty of the new generation who don’t do the things you described and don’t care to.

Sounds more like you need to take a step away from social media/the internet if that’s what you believe.

What evva babe 😉

Don't forget Cozzy Livs!

I've recently stayed with a friend in the US where we had great fun playing with our vocabulary and language and how differently we use the same words.

I think we play with language much more here, it seemed much more formal and correct the way they use it in the US. Was very interesting.

Cost of living.

Favourite human is ok as long as the actual favourite is a cat.

Pensioning is good, I might start using that

Thank you clarifying (I think )
I'm not sure that that is an example of a fun and innovative way of using language. It sounds more like someone who can't cope with too many syllables in the one sentence.

Easily solved by not having Instagram or reading blogs. Even my teenagers don’t have Instagram. I think it contributes significantly to society’s problems.

'Hacks' it is not a life hack it is how you actually do something!! 🤯 winds me up far more than necessary but cleaning a tap with a vinegar is not a hack.

Well it's subjective to the reader isn't it @senua ?

I don't think we can complain when MN goes wild whenever anyone says their washing gets 'darked on'.

It's fucking stupid, it's not wacky or hilarious or new.