"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?

I like new words and expressions, it would be boring if we never changed anything!

I do find the cliche ‘very own’ really annoying though. All over Linked In company pages. Here’s our very own Fred Bloggs sharing his thoughts on the latest [shit boring industry jargon]. Well it’s hardly going to be the CEO of your competitor is it now.

I like to imagine that if the Elizabethans had had Mumsnet, someone would have started a thread about "Why can't William Shakespeare use PROPER words" and "his sense of humour is puerile...youth of today, grumble grumble".

Yep. Also liking AllProperTeaIsTheft's posts (great name, btw).

Language is something that's used, and use changes things. It's not a museum piece behind a glass screen. My 18yo says 'anyways' and 'not that big of a deal'. I say 'anyway' and 'not that big a deal'. Can't get exercised about it.

And people have been turning nouns into verbs (and vice versa) for centuries. Shakespeare did it a lot.

Yes, Sarah. I wasn't posting on this thread about horrible phrases because I was mystified about how to cook grains. I was posting because 'a softer eat' is a bloody stupid thing to say.

But we can't police it if we want it develop organically through usage. Some is silly and some is stunning. Some lasts and some is a brief fad.

Lovely or not, it's the truth.

Don't really mind any of the phrases in this thread apart from 'adulting'. I think it's more the concept though than the phrase. Usually the given example of difficult 'adulting' has me rolling my eyes at the feebleness of it.

Used to loathe 'my bad' but the years have worn me down on that one.

Platty joobs amused me.
And so does I'm having my next "Menty b" 😳🤣

Hear hear

What a load of ageist shite.

Summer isn't summering.

Sing cuccu.

I think it shows a stubborn lack of imagination to think that these type of wordplay demonstrates a lack of intelligence. I believe the opposite is true. The play on words demonstates a good grasp of language while those who sneer at them are lacking in scope.

Yes, absolutely this!

Yep. Also liking AllProperTeaIsTheft's posts (great name, btw).

Thank you . It's the punchline to my second favourite joke.

Don’t get me started on ‘petite babies’! There’s nothing wrong with saying ‘small’.

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.

Sigh. Yes, because we must all use normal, strictly factual phrases at all times . It is a feature of internet forums (and real life groups) that they develop their own abbreviations and in-phrases. Shared language usage within a group is one of the things that make people feel they belong to a community.

Just say big boobs

Why? Do you actually need to tell people how they should phrase things?

Don’t get me started on ‘petite babies’! There’s nothing wrong with saying ‘small’.

There's nothing wrong with saying 'petite' either.

Have you missed the point of this thread? It’s a subjective discussion about language you find annoying. Nobody’s trying to ban anything, it’s just a chat thread. And in my opinion saying ‘petite baby’ just sounds very odd. In the same way describing a man as petite would.

It can't be policed anyway, that's a ridiculous assertion. Social media and the various fora have completely changed how language evolves and the speed of that change. The horses have bolted, people talk how they want to talk, irrespective of how welcome or annoying that is.

Many terms make me shudder to myself. I dislike them, won't use them myself and that's the best I can do. If other people use/misuse them then that is their right.

OP is being a goady fucker though, wants another sour discussion about bought and brought and was, I believe, hoping that this thread would have wrought that. Sadly for them, it's been taken over by linguists and pedants and thank goodness for that!

Natch around here was slang for Cider.

My pet hate in terms of grammar is ‘we was’. The thing is I don’t even believe it’s an honest mistake a lot of the time (understandable), I see it used on socials by people I know who never say it in real life. I expect it’s part of the depressing ‘toning down my intelligence to have a broader social media appeal’ thing.

If find rigid thinkers far more irritating than the evolution of language.

So much wrong with this I don't know where to start 😆

Why can't the English teach their children how to speak?

Incomprehensible language won't survive. If people are using it to communicate, it's comprehensible.

English children can speak. They do it all the time

My Fair Lady. Brilliant musical.