"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?

Me too!!! This irks me way more than it should.

"He's peopled out now" is a nice contraction for "I am happy for my autistic son to retreat into you tube with his headphones on, as he has reached his social capacity for now, and if we inflict more social ettiquette on him, we will have a meltdown brewing".

I quite like "adulting" too, or rather I'm not naturally accomplished at maintaining adult levels of responsibility, and I don't actually like adulting much.

Some adaptions of language do add useful meanings or shorthands. It makes sense that "texting" or "googling" have adapted into verbs rather than "composing a text message" or "conducting an internet search" in the same way that "hoovering" became a verb after the brand of vacuum.

I'm not keen on mangling existing language where meaning isn't enhanced e.g. "eating healthy" rather than "eating healthily"; making an adjective work as an adverb isn't making the phrase more effective. Or where you become blind to errors such as "grocer's apostrophes" or "chester draws" because they are heavily used. Genuine errors happen (no doubt I've made umpteen) but there comes a point when they're so ubiquitous that they become difficult to identify and become more formalised where they should have (should of? 😉) been proof-read out.

I don't tend to follow people who regularly use twee terms like "holibobs" I find that kind of slang is like using babytalk from one grown-up to another.

For me, the worst one is 'un-alive'

As in, I nearly unalived myself by sticking a knife in the toaster to get it out.

I saw a video on TikTok (I know!!) that had a woman preparing for her sons funeral because he 'unalived himself last week'

How sad. And it’s because of generations like you that this generation can’t afford to buy houses. Who would want to be running a home and having a child at 21/22 anyway. How utterly boring. At that age I finished my law degree and worked in Los Angeles for six months.

What is cozzie livs?

Yes because usually words like death, dead, suicide etc will get a video removed by TikTok for breaching terms of service, so people use unalive as a way at to get around that.

Cost of living crisis

I just like observing what happens with language. It's interesting. My son pronounces route ''rowt'' because of his exposure to American influences, and didn't know what a lever was, due to Pixel's ''Cars'' 1, 2 and 3! We are all exposed to each other much more than we used to be so I think we're at the top of a hill for big change. Why fight it. Just observe. I loved the fashion for portmanteaus for a while. Brunch is never going away, or Smog. Labradoodle, skort, banoffee, bollywood, people have always played with words.

Apparently babies nowadays need “ boobing regular “.
FFS.

I've unfollowed anyone who uses the phrase 'my bad'
It's just shit grammar!
What is wrong with 'my fault?'

Same with Platty Joobs - was hideous. Now I have a new one to add to the list - cozzie livs!

Some evolutionary vocabulary I get, and makes sense. It should and always will happen, but some phrases I just don't want to hear or see

@AndJust I appreciate the work around, but I've heard it in spoken conversation too.

Yes because it’s evolved from that and is more commonly used.

Maybe people like the woman who was preparing for her sons funeral found it hard to say her son committed suicide and killed himself. I guess if someone has experienced losing their child I don’t care what language they prefer to use.

People complain about 'grammar police', but it's that enforcement that helps to keep the English language from descending into to incomprehensible rubbish. I remember when people got into texting. With the exception of dealing with character limits, it unfortunately became normal to to say things like 'wotUup2' or 'u wot m8'. It's been in a downward spiral since.

I'm not normally annoyed by language use when actual people are speaking.

However, I bought a bag of Sainsbury's own brand salad grain mix, and the cooking instructions say "if you require a softer eat, simmer for slightly longer".

A softer eat No thanks.

Has anyone noticed the amount of people who use brought instead of bought?
This winds me up too

People complain about 'grammar police', but it's that enforcement that helps to keep the English language from descending into to incomprehensible rubbish.

No it isn't! If the so-called grammar police (i.e. self-important pedants on the internet) think they are holding back the tide, they are seriously deluding themselves. Language change is inevitable, constant and sticks two fingers up at naysayers.

I remember when people got into texting. With the exception of dealing with character limits, it unfortunately became normal to to say things like 'wotUup2' or 'u wot m8'. It's been in a downward spiral since.

Different registers for different contexts. The so-called downward spiral started a long time before that. In the historical linguistics part of my degree course I read a glossary document written by a monk bemoaning the terrible decline in the correctness of the Latin used by the younger generation!

Never heard any of it, but I don’t follow anyone who tells me stuff I’ve known for years, & calls themselves influencers.

@xPeaceXx pensioning!! Now there’s a life phase (and phrase) I can get behind!

When people say “My bad,” I just want to tell them to fuck off!

Most of everything else which has been mentioned either doesn’t register or amuses me. However, “My bad.” gets me every time. It is grammatically incorrect and said to create some sort of effect. My reply is always, “Your bad what?” and that seems to flummox them!

Instagram bloggers /vloggers

Insta-wankers you mean.

Grains soften the longer they're cooked. So 'softer eat' does make sense, it's just not correct English. It should be something like 'if you prefer your grains softer, leave to simmer a little longer'.

Harsh!! People are meanies about the yoof these days.

At ‘21/22’ in the 80s, I was at uni, very much not running my own household-more downing snakebites and partying 😆😆

'Adulting'

My mum's generation said 'natch' which is short for 'naturally'. Total insta speech, ca 1965.

more downing snakebites and partying

Ah, snakebite and black, those were the days!!