To ask you which other '-isms' you find really grating....

[Sebsaloysius]

Following on in the spirit of the "I could care less" post earlier, what other new age/adopted phrases make your ears burn? Unfortunately, I'm adding to the USA pile on (although they likely could care less) as I'm pretty sure they are responsible for my own pet hate.

When ordering food at a cafe, restaurant, bar or anywhere in fact, when and why did we lose "Can I have" or "I'd like to order" to "Can I get"??

Only the other week did I overhear an elderly, well-spoken lady in a deli queue drawl "Can I get a pear and Shropshire Blue sourdough loaf". I wanted to tell her that she had no right to that beautifully crafted, quintessentially British artesan bread by asking for it in such a manner, and push her out of the door to reinforce the point (I didn't, before the MN police come at me).

I also find "sorry not sorry" vile. Not only are you 'not sorry', you're now also a dismissive cockwomble, so I like you even less than I did 5 seconds ago.

What are yours?

Oh yes, the 'pop'. 'Pop it in the post'. 'Just pop it round to me later'.

I always find that anything that is requested of you having to 'pop' in any way, always turns out to be the exact opposite of how easy the person makes it sound. 'Pop it in the post'.....stand for about an hour in your precious lunch break in an endless post office queue and pay an extortionate amount of money to 'pop' it over the counter. 'Pop it round to me later'.....get caught in a huge traffic jam with screaming kids in car and can't park in a one-way street so have to jump out of car with hazards on while someone shouts and honks at you from car behind as you are blocking the road and then you can't find the house. That kind of thing.

Effect can be a verb as in effect a transformation. And affect can be a noun. Handy guide here

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/affect-vs-effect-usage-difference

"It's giving"

For example 'it's giving romantic beach wall vibes'

Hate it - awful gen Z language.

Not exactly isms, but

Kinda
Sorta
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'Sourced' 'I sourced this vase'. No, you went to B and M and bought it like everyone else.

I feel like this about 'purchased'. Seems very formal for the likes of MN. What's wrong with bought?

"Colour way" is another one I'm seeing everywhere suddenly.

"just sos you know I can't..." my friend will say , and another one is "do ye get me" at the end of each sentence😩

I'll send you an invite.

No. You'll send the invitation. Invite is a verb.

@Squadrona and @Feelinghurt2 I feel the same about 'popping'. I can no longer watch behind the scenes medical programmes, not because of close-up footage of gruesome medical conditions, but because of all the "just pop up on to the examination table" and "can you just pop your top off". No disrespect to the medics in question as I know it's just part of them being kind and gentle and trying to smooth over the discomfort of having to undress in front of a stranger, but I just can't bear the word, I don't even know why.

I’d forgotten that usage! Horror!

This is a losing battle I think - I don't hear anyone at my work saying I'll send a Teams invitation.

I think you're right. I intend to fight a secretive resistance to it though.

Twee faux swearing like 'cockwomble'

“We’re pregnant”

no!!! Only one person is pregnant- do men have to take credit for literally everything?!

Dropped (as in a new album “dropped”). I will have this till my dying day.
Saying you forgot X at home instead of you left X at home is also irritating.

*hate

When I hear that people are losing their shit over fairly harmless turns of phrase, I actively work them in to my daily vocabulary, just so I can passive aggressively sound like nails on a chalk board to anybody so miserable and tightly clenched. Imagine being so angry because of how somebody else speaks 😂

You're bold like me. I've gotten good at it.

For me that meant that when those adverts appeared on buses saying "Blood in your poo or looser poo?" my brain interpreted it as what I would spell "loser poo" for a moment, and I wasted valuable seconds wondering what loser poo was like.

I think I was told my coil was just going to be 'popped' in, cue excruciating pain.

Oh my God, I detest "food noise."

You mean you were hungry, or even a little peckish? That you had a craving for something unhealthy? It's not noise, for God's sake.

Ex-boyfriend used to say "self-cautious" instead of self-conscious. Drove me insane.

I also dislike people using "media" to mean a film or a book.

No, that’s just your limited understanding of disordered eating.

You don't understand the psychological meaning of the term.

I'm quite jealous of this post.