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??

I wholeheartedly agree with you Cecilia!

I didn’t know this until I went on Pilgrimage with a group from Liverpool. I thought they’d lost the plot. 😂

A large plop!

These ones with the missing words are the ones that make my teeth itch.

Passed (away)
Pissed (off)
New years (eve, day, what?)

And could care less (but I don’t?)

For the record my DH is American but rarely used Americanisms as he’s lived here since he was 25 and has made an effort to use British English. He does sometimes lapse when he’s tired though and shouts ‘Cold Beverage!’ when he wants to annoy me.

I don't love it myself. My child says 'trash can' instead of bin which baffles me..
But OP said she wouldn't mind it if it was language evolution. But I think it is just language evolution.
It made me think of oldies saying 'its not music it's just noise' when it very much is music, it's just not music they like. Lots of Americanisms have crept in over time, largely accepted now, these are just new ones. The 'psychobabble' speak that OP is talking about is culturally relevant right now but much of the language might stick around.

It’s proofread.

I am usually a very tolerant individual who has ample loving kindness to dust on those I meet, but I properly bristle when people in the queue in front of me say 'can I get.....?' This is not standard British English!

If I worked in Starbucks and was on the receiving end of that all day, I doubt I'd last the shift.

@ImlyingandthatsthetruthI think it might be but frowned on. And would mess up the off duty as well as need a rather long Datix form. 😂😂

I can't stand how everything is now a "she."

Clothing, cars, appliances, cups, hairdos. You name it, "she's" something.

Everyone should speak like what I speak

Oh God, all the American-isms are bloody awful.

YANBU. “Gotten”, a “slither” of cake, being “unphased” by a situation, “step” foot rather than set foot, off my own “back” instead of bat. There were even people on here the other day arguing that it’s “can’t be asked” instead of “can’t be arsed”.

I find it sad that people don’t seem to care or want to improve their English and any attempt to correct errors gets you screamed at because “they could be dyslexic!!!!”

Oh, and what is this trend of using “males” and “females” instead of “men” and “women” FFS?!

We are watching more American Tv and seeing American and young influencers.

My DC use a lot of American vocabulary so I think we probably need to get use to it.

I came on to say this. Somebody started a thread recently about her friend "being pissed" and it turned out they meant pissed off. Just stop it! It's so irritating.

Do you all just spend your time listening to influencers i haven't heard anyone use any of these words either that or I'm so use to hearing certain words I haven't realised they are not english words 🤷‍♀️

But the cat loves his ill-gotten gains?

Passed wind

Omg someone my daughter watches does this and it really pisses me of.

Language does evolve but we are seeing such an acceleration now and all influenced by social media crap.

I hate everything being iconic. And things being 'curated'.... Like choosing to wear a selection of jewellery...FFS 🙄

It's all social media influencer crap....it's like estate agent speak on steroids.

A dog ‘using the bathroom’ 🤣.

And I thought it was pretty much the ultimate in prudish twee when a neighbour said her dog had ‘gone to the toilet on the carpet’.

I don’t think it’s come from across the pond, has it? - but I absolutely hate ‘boils my piss’ and all variants thereof.

I think it's probably because my teens are into British rap music which currently is a celebration of British diversity and is definitely a reflection of life growing up in certain parts of London (the Artists I've heard DC play) and not a copy of American rap and in turn Americanisms. It includes the very British 'pop' sounds that is definitely not American in sound.

Yes "Boils my piss", where has this horrible phrase popped up from? Never heard it IRL, first time I ever saw it was on MN, and I hate it. Rant over.

In to not "into".

Or the hymn that starts “Of the Father’s love begotten”. A Victorian translation. Gotten is old fashioned English and US English seems to be a mix of old English and German expressions

Sometimes I do get mixed up on whether I should use loft or attic, lift or elevator. There may be a few more. That’s down to the books I read.

I don’t recall having someone say anything you’ve mentioned in real life.