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 find it rather expressive. What I loathe is using the mealy mouthed “ass” instead of a good honest Anglo Saxon arse.

The last one is as a result of the words 'man' and 'woman' becoming part of terminology to express gender identity - not only as a result of an opinion either way, but due to needing to be specific that a speaker is referring to a female.

I'm quite glad that the tweeness of saying 'gender' when sex is what is meant has gone. Yes, it was clearly irritating when asking somebody a male for sex and they'd go 'Oh, yes please!' as though they were the funniest person at a Jesters' Convention and nobody had ever thought of that one before, but, thankfully, that one seems to be fading away now and we can get back to having the sociological concept of gender, gender roles and identity as well as the scientific definition of sex without anybody blushing furiously or stumbling over the word Sex.

Pants for trousers is local to liverpool and had been for years / generations it’s threw me when i first heard it.

Most of the other ones are corporate jargon that annoy me but I hear daily. It’s creeping into more daily language and gives me the ick

I agree OP.

’Reaching out’ makes me want to reach out to retrieve a taser to use against them.

And here in Norn Iron. My flame thrower is ready to go.

’Can I get’ has also been mentioned. It’s going to be busy🤣

Not in my region, where in Scotland do they say gotten?

I really hate your constant use of gifs, it's like nails tapping on a product to me.

Gosh there are a lot of folks got out the wrong side of the bed this morning. OP thanks to your incoherent rambling this PP has got the hump (gotten pissed?).

My child says 'trash can' instead of bin which baffles me..

Many years ago I worked with a lady from California who'd recently married a 'Brit'. She had endless fun asking me what we 'Brits' called things.

She was amazed that we had dustbins, waste paper baskets & the endless variety of 'bins' that we have-kitchen, bathroom, bedroom - all with separate functions because they were of different design but all trash cans in her view.

Her particular amusement was all the words we have for <what she would call closets> wardrobe, pantry, larder, cupboard, press (if in the North or of Irish heritage). I told her that in the UK closets tend to be lavatories eg: water closets. 😂

I hate the use of the word "super" as in "I used Bloggs toothpaste and now my teeth are super clean". What's happened to "very" or "really" ?

For me it's the stupid "cool" accent that youngsters use - for eg. if they wanted to say "ninety nine", they would actually say "nanty nan". Usually followed up with "Bro" or "innit" Pack it in! You were born in Birmingham not the Caribbean!

Also, the excessive use of the work LIKE

Agree with most of these (although gotten is old English so we should reclaim that one!)

I feel intensely annoyed by people "hating on" something. Until recently we would just say we hated something. Where the hell did "on" come from? It's totally unnecessary.

Also, as posted on another recent thread, the trend for not finishing words correctly with "ed" or "ly".
Mash potato.
Pack lunch.
He is bias.
Worse case scenario.
A chill morning.
She did amazing.

Or adding more letters to words which don't need them. I saw a reel recently where an American plastic surgeon was talking about a patient's forthcoming procedure "to increase her appealability". Honestly "appeal" is clear enough. Why make up a longer word that means the same? Aaaarrggghhh!

TBF Women tend to be the ones who influence language evolution the most. Most language trends start with young women and radiate out from there. Except for words originating from the army. An unpopular example would be vocal fry which started being used by young women but spread.

((My personal theory is that this adds evidence to the possibility women were the primary driver for the development of language in the first place. But who knows).

I unfortunately work in an open plan office so overhear a lot of phone conversations and it’s always “reaching out” and “touching base”. It’s irritating af but short of losing my shit at my colleagues or policing what they say, I can’t do anything about it so I just roll my eyes and make sure I never use those phrases myself.

Especially if it’s teamed with a heel (what just the one -are they suggesting people hop?). They usually tell you what products give you a nice lip as well.

Not in my part of Ireland. Here pants also means knickers and trousers are... trousers.

Me too. If I hear about one more weight loss journey I’m going to chuck that effing radio in the bin (trash can for Gen Z).

When at school in the 1970's we were banned from using the word 'nice'. Our teacher making us to use a more descriptive word. Afterall what does 'nice' mean? Usually used for something or someone rather 'vanilla'. Eg: 'we had a 'nice day' meaning it was OK, but nothing special.

Circling back on this, I can second this.

You’ll have to pry my gifs out of my cold, dead hands babes 🥰🥰

as my teens would say, its addicting.

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! Every time I tell them the word is addictive,but they insist the goons on TT or wherever all say addicting so it is therefore correct.

OH, Oh I've got another...

I literally..... as in 'I literally died when I heard this' or 'I literally pissed my pants laughing' - how often have you seen this on SM? Well obviously you didn't die because you're still alive & I very much doubt if you wet yourself. After 11 years of free education you don't know what 'literally' means!!!😂

I think it's symptomatic of something more worrying - the blurring of British & USA culture or, more accurately, the absorption of the former into the latter, particularly online. My UK young adult children don't really distinguish between the two for social media, advertising, streaming, websites... They're not aware that some of the expressions they use aren't British English. It didn't use to bother me - language evolves, some new phrases are indeed 'neat', but ....language shapes the way we think about the world and with what's happening in the US at the moment I now find it worrying.

I remember when at school an essay being returned with the word 'nice' ringed round in red. My English teacher had scrawled across the bottom, also in red 'Nice should only ever be used when describing food' I really disliked my English teacher.

Another one. Don't know where this has come from, but why now are there "question marks" about something. No, there are questions. You hear it on the news all the time: "There are a lot of question marks about this...."