"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?

Conforming to trends and youth culture (however ridiculous) isn't about a lack of intelligence. It's what teenagers have always done. Don't worry - they'll grow out of it and eventually embrace whatever slang is in vogue in their adult social circle and in a couple of decades' time they'll be bemoaning their own children's ridiculous linguistic habits.

Well someone has their panties in a twist. Did you have children young and miss out on the experience of being a young adult? Well that’s for you to make peace with seeing as you’re very sensitive about it.

Nice try but you’ll find it wasn’t me going to great pains to call it boring to start with 🙃

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

Agreed. I do know that language develops but it doesn't make it any less annoying. So many things annoy me eg "reaching out" which has become the latest craze. I also don't like all the silly abbreviations for things like "rads" for radiators.

Some expressions are clever. I thought of one myself the other day but it clearly wasn't clever or memorable as I've now forgotten it again

However, I think the comment about not being influenced by a 20 year old a bit arrogant and ageist - we can learn from everyone, regardless of age. Being older doesn't always make you right (see Brexit for an overgeneralised example).

40k is a take home salary of 2600pcm IF not repaying a student loan or even basic pension, 2355 with both, so I'm not sure how you work out that she has 2k a month left. More likely about 600-700pcm which has to cover food, clothes and any social life.

"Parent" as a verb is used on here all the time. "Parent your child properly" etc. Surely that's "wrong" too

Yes that is another one that irritates me because it elevates being a parent to some sort of mythical status, whereas in the real world we do our best for our kids and bring them up as best we can. No theorised "parenting" involved!

Some phrases are just annoying to my ears (eg "space" when people mean "sector" in business) but some imply something further such as parenting and annoy me for other reasons.

The ick has been around for years, way before Love Island

I mean to point that out too. It was in Sex in the City for one.

Yep, and an early Friends if I recall

Cba to read the whole thread but it came from African America vernacular (AAVE) “the math ain’t mathing” and as usual the TikTok generation adopted and incorporated it into their language as they usually do.

Latest one: needing to tip something as in take it to the tip.

Latest one: needing to tip something as in take it to the tip.

Seems pretty logical to me. The tip is where you tip stuff. It was surely a verb before it was a noun!

Well I guess it's shorter than "household waste disposal centre"

I'd not heard it before today, though. It has always been go to the tip or take things to the tip. You tip people in a cafe.

According to Collins Online dictionary, one of the meanings of the verb 'tip' is to get rid of rubbish by leaving it somewhere. In this case, the tip!