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??

'Reach out' gives me THE RAGE

What you’re talking about IS the evolution of language. Terminology, meaning and word usage do change and evolve.

Your post is quite poorly written and very rambling. You aren’t really in a position to criticise others.

oh dear @MrsPenelopeBridgerton & @Hallywally , please don't be embarrassed for me. It was a typo, a simple error. They happen & we move on.

I am talking about the way English is spoken (or written if you like) not about how I hate people making mistakes & that they should be shamed for them

I’m in Lancashire and have always called trousers/leggings/jeans pants. As did my mother and grandmother before me as do all the other families I grew up around

I agree OP.
I understand that language evolves, and of course the words my Gran used would make no sense today eg "gay" meaning happy rather than homosexual.

But it's the sudden and rapid influx of Americanisms that irritate me. It doesn't feel like gradual and natural evolution. It seems that adults who've said "pissed off", "got" and "holiday" all their lives, are suddenly saying "pissed", "gotten" and "vacation".

There's always been a perception that America is "cool", so I assume people think they sound cooler and better if they use American words.

If we have to change our language, can't we make our own changes, rather than trying to talk like Americans?

Hot pants were the thing fashionable young women wore in the early 70's although they were actually shorts.

I don't like talk of things "dropping", like the latest episode of X TV programme has dropped, or our new season jackets have dropped. Always makes me think of a sack of potatoes or a turd! 😂

NW where? England?!

Never ever heard that! Ever!

There’s a lot of talk about “engaging” in my job and it just reminds me of where a baby’s head is positioned at a certain point in labour

Plop!

(Toilet bowl sound).

Given our climate in the UK they were rarely hot either.

I don’t especially like it either, but it is evolution and language fashion - it’s a workplace culture thing, some picked up from online, more international
world etc. I reckon any generation would get annoyed by the language changes and fashions - some of it may stick and some will disappear. Can’t police it - just use what you prefer and don’t let it bother you!

I say pants in Merseyside
Tbf I say both

Colours pop now.

Like boils.

Some of us are so chronically online that we can't actually remember if it's airplane or aeroplane or pajamas or pyjamas , so you definitely have a point.

My incredibly British friend who has never left the country used the word poop the other week and I questioned our 50 year friendship. She says she actually prefers it to poo 😖.

Who cares honestly?

the “rules” for language evolve over time and modern humans communicate differently. It’s hardly a surprise. There likely will be further changes as AI usage embeds. Nothing lasts forever.

’Life hack’ - that does hack me off.

In a separate note, I wish people criticising the obvious typo would piss off and save it for the your-instead-of-you’re people. 🙄

Secretly in our heads there are so many of us still thinking
WANKER
Whenever anyone British does this.

So they can be 'evolving language' if they want but the price of doing so is knowing you don't know which one of us is looking at you with a nice smile going 'wanker' inside our heads.

If you do it, you now will look around and wonder which one of us is inwardly calling you a wanker.

'Invite' as a noun 😒

American is taking over. I associate it with Trump.

I’ve always enjoyed regional accents and phrases. I’ve always been fascinated how words are used all round the country and love the history of words.

I must admit I tire of The American phrases. No I don’t hate Americans , I just hate the conversational way that children these days refer so easily to “trash” or “candy”, as an example .In my experience in schools, it’s very common. But that’s just TV and influence for you, no one thing or person really at fault. Where I’ve worked “reaching out “ and “feeding back “ are totally the buzz words and I guess it’s just a filtered down influence again.

I read the other day that Netflix had dropped a new season of something I was looking forward to watching so I was really disappointed - until it dawned on me this is a new way of saying they're now showing it. How odd! I understand language evolving, but to mean the complete opposite? No thanks.

Hate the expression pissed!
I assume someone is drunk

I totally knoe what you mean. My teen dd has watched a fair bit of American tv follows a load of annoying YouTubers and she says things like candy, elevator interchangeably with sweets or lift.

I've noticed certain words creeping into British made TV, I suppose because lots of shows are made for both the UK and the US market now. I can't think of a specific example but do recall something the other week which annoyed me.

I mean I understand what is meant so it's not a big deal but I find it slightly unsettling, in the same way that I disliked the colour of the butter, eggs and use of creamer instead of milk when I went to America.

I’m in the Northwest of England and it’s always been pants rather than trousers, even 30 years ago when I was in school.