'Grown ass adult'

[Hoolihan]

Keep seeing this hideous turn of phrase on here. Why?

See also: y'all.

Because language is not just for you. People can express themselves how they want to.

That does not answer my question.

Well, I suppose American people use Americanisms.
English people might talk about blokes having a fag outside, or going down to the seaside for a chippy tea, or making sure a DC has a rubber in his pencil case when he goes to school...
Might be a tad confusing for other cultures. I'm not saying we shouldn't use these expressions, far from it, but a little understanding and tolerance of unfamiliar or weird sayings is sometimes needed.
You can always ask for an explanation.

More US slang that seems to be coming a normalised way of speaking.

Just seems to be part of the trend for taking all the beauty and nuance out of the English language.

Kreeping Americanism of the language courtesy of exposure to American TV and films (not movies!).

They either come from people who live in parts of the Southern US ( fine, part of the local dialect) or the sort of person who spends hours watching tiktok and trawling reddit.

They didn't realise that 'adult' covered it?

😁
I don't understand the lamenting of the English language. This comes up quite regularly and always snidey towards US English and an air of superiority that U.K. English is at the top of the food chain.

'Adult' may be an adequate description but it's normal to embellish language. I guess, as grown arse adults, posters can use whichever phrases they prefer.
Personally I find being snotty about how other people write, to be hideous, but you do you.

On ya.

I hate when British people say “ass”, and “asshole” is even worse. It’s so cringey.

'This comes up quite regularly and always snidey towards US English and an air of superiority that U.K. English is at the top of the food chain.'

The air of superiority extends to everything American, not just the language. It's pure snobbery

But why this particular phrase all of a sudden - I've seen it four times today. Seems unusual on a predominantly UK forum.

Well, less facetiously, because certain phrases have a period where they trend. Currently, these ones are trending.

A bit like when we were kids, and things were 'cool', 'rad', and 'growse'. (The last two seriously make me cringe now, lol!)

Nope

Lots of adults dont adult they teen and tween🫢

I prefer 'grown-ass adult' to 'grown-ahh adult'. You're far from a grown anything if you can't handle 'ass'.

I hate ‘grown as’ but you’re SO wrong about y’all.

I lived in Texas for a year and…I just find that in UK English there’s no real good equivalent. I use it y’all the time (sorry 🤣)

Yes. This. Such weird snobbery. I love American spellings of things for example - so much simpler and less extraneous vowels.

See also: y'all.

There are lots of Americans on MN, OP. And some of us are from the Deep South.