to absolutely hate the how people are speaking English!

[exse24Londoner]

I really hate how we have "suddenly" starting gifting presents rather than giving them as we did only a couple of years ago. Vacations - when did we start having vacations instead of holidays?????? The other day I saw an advert for pants - turned out to be trousers. Apparently when I speak to someone it is now liaising & if I call or text, I am reaching out..... the other day someone was talking about the front end, or as I prefer to call it - the beginning!!🙄

Dont get me wrong, I love the evolution of language & that generations make it their own but this isn't that this is not teenagers or cultures developing own language its...... weird management/pop psychology speak

is it just me??

The term "influencer" makes me ill. I wish they'd all fuck off.

Again, it’s proofreading.

I don't mind the use of the words in the OP so much, provided they're spoken correctly. What I dislike more is 'lazy' talk such as 'gonna', 'wanna', 'innit'. The evolution of language seems to be outpacing me too (I'm 62). The other day I said something to my 26yo DD and her response was "slay". She also says 'bare' instead of 'really' or 'very' ie, it was bare nice. I think if I live to be 90 it will be like living in a foreign country with the language.

As an aside, I notice everything is 'on' now. As a young person we used to say "what are you doing at the weekend" or "would you like to go in the morning". Now it's 'on the weekend' and 'on the morning'. I see it all the time on MN.

My current bugbear is the absence of the word “to” - apparently it’s not just my DC. Are we going to go Sainsburys? Am I going the gym? Honestly, it sets my teeth on edge.

I find it bizarre how flagshaggers cry about British culture being erased by Islam yet they don’t seem to understand that by far the biggest changes to British culture comes from Americanisation.

None of that has anything to do with the modern trend of using the word co-worker instead of the word colleague. What a weird tangent to go off on.

As usual this thread will become a slanging match regional accents and variations.

language has always and will always evolve. You Tube and American T.V is the reason for the Americanisms.

YES.

Also, people who think “text” is the past participle.

”He text me on Tuesday” - as though the verb were “to tex” and the sound of the “t” replaces the “ed” - “he texed me on Tuesday”.

HE TEXTED ME ON TUESDAY.

Is it missuse, or is it regional. Like posters have pointed out, pants is usual in the NW (I grew up in Liverpool). Going back to Seth in Emmerdale, he would drop the 'in' and say step foot. The poster would have to give an example. There's lots of things that posters are incredulous about, that to us, older, Northern folk, especially from mixed backgrounds, or in Liverpool, who have Irish/Norwegian/Italian/Lithuanian sayings mixed into our own, are usual.

I've been hearing bloody parking lot a fair bit recently. Absolutely nothing wrong with a car park.

Also people who are perfectly capable of pronouncing 'th' thinking it's cool and laid back to say 'free', 'fousand', 'fose' etc. Even the BBC are at it. Lazy.

It gives the possibility of at least three entertaining games at work meetings though.

1. Find a like minded person, choose three phrases each and count their use by all other people than the players and see who won.

2. Trying to create a new one and getting others to pick it up. I was very proud of changing "C level execs" to "C name execs" in a meeting once when three people picked it up.

3. Banning a phrase with the agreement of a few likeminded people and if the players accidentally use it, they have a forfeit which is to use a pre-crafted silly phrase in the same meeting.

I hate writing long winded shit out when there’s an acronym that every 8yo knows 🤷‍♀️

The modern trend is to not be referred to using a term that now commonly denotes a person who is employed by a supermarket - unless you work for a supermarket.

Same way people aren't referred to as clerks when they work in a shop, in admin or when they are providing governance support. The use of the term clerk has changed and therefore the language used to describe people we work with has changed.

And Australia.

Didn’t know that about Australia. Interesting.

Irish nuns and priests teaching over there.

Haitch is probably older than aitch. The h was dropped due to the French influence on British English.

Which term do you mean in your first paragraph?

The equivalent of the estate agents' dinning room. And the posters online who are scrapping the barrel.

@Helen1625DD is a fashion journalist. Apparently the fashion singular is a recognised “thing”.

a red lip
a smart trouser

Fortunately she only uses it satirically when speaking.

Incorrect. "Gotten" is archaic. This has been done to death.

Ugh. Someone ( British) being interviewed on R4 talking about customers being put on a 'wait list'.

I thought that

My DD10 has a slight american accent from bloody youtube and loves to use american words. She insists on saying chips not crisps, perFUME instead of perfume, going to the bathroom instead of the toilet.

Drives me up the bloody wall!

Has anyone mentioned ‘pacifically’ …?