The english language, what has happened to it "anyways"!

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If i hear one more person say "anyways" i am going to scream! Its got to the point as soon as i hear someone using this word, i immediately wait to see what the last letter is going to be, a y or an s. "Going is another one. I am gooeeen to the shop. Are you commeeen with me? Arggh

And last but not least, the use of like. This word is riddled in usually younger generation conversations. Like, i was like, you know like, well, it was like this. Double arrgh.

Anyone with any similar bugbears? Oh yeah, my favourite, "at this point in time". WHat DOES THAT MEAN???? At this point in time. Everybody uses this particularly politicians. Do they think that time stops for a point? I dont get it.

ooo....same collegue has just said " I can't do much more than that"...

oliveoil couldn't that just be 'I know nothing about it'...what's wrong with that? As I 'no nothing about it' doesn't make any sense in a conversation anyway? Am I being thick?

Sorry Sonnet not oliveoil!!

Round here they say "you can't do that, can you not?" etc.

My MIL says it and my DDs picked it up when they were little, took years to eradicate, it makes me SCREAM.

should be anything - I don't know anything
not "I don't know nothing"
will IMO anyway!

forgot to add (trying to do 3 things on computer at mo) - I don't know nothing translates as you do know something - IYSWIM

But 'I don't know nothing' is completely different to 'I know nothing' didn't you post 'I know nothing' I'm going mad I can't handle all this word stuff! I hate double negatives too I must have read it wrongly...

With "could of" I would have thought that that was just an abbreviation, written "could've" instead of could have....

This is like when you say a word too many times and it starts to sound totally foreign and bizarre...

I was a little hung over once, and came out of my sociology lesson realising I had spent an hour writing "manmade" and "marmalade" all over my piece of paper because they looked similar

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sorry you are correct - I did post I know nothing - I did mean " I don't know nothing" - apologies for the confusion - hope you understand what I ment in the end!
I am fully prepared to believe that it is perfectly acceptable to say " I don't know nothing abat it" as I hear it so often!

mama - I posted on the use of 'like' the other day - also 'so' he's soooooooooo not good looking - ?

I think the way it is always pronounced "I don't know nuffink" makes it grate on my nerves even more.

I totally do all of those (am v.guilty of overusing the world guilty).

What gets me is that so many people actually write like that! Like people my age, who are doing degrees and can barely string a sentence together. V.worrying.

Oh yeah I hate the 'I don't know nuffink'ers...manmade marmalade... I used to doodle things like that too... I still have a doodling book from school full of weird stuff like that! It looks like the musings of a bad poet on LSD

I overuse the words "random" and "rude"... it irritates me, so it must irritate everyone else too...

I mean, its just sooooooooo rude!!

up asdas
saying we was and you was instead of we were etc
my ds ends every sentence with 'and stuff'drives us all mad!

Randomly rude maramalade food. Yep that's the type of thing scribbled in my doodle book. Along with an interesting written conversation I found from a Geography lesson that goes 'Sarah are you a lesbian?' 'No are you?' '...no.' 'good' 'are you sure' 'shut up.' Can you tell I've gone a bit mad this afternoon

DP says some things just to wind me up though... he will always call it "Crouching dragon, hidden tiger" cos he knows it bugs me. Oooh, and he plays roleplay games online, and makes iron ingots...he says ignots to bug me.

And its always "alkekemy" if he is saying "alchemy"

I have easy buttons to push!!!

Oooh, Biology GCSE was full of conversations like that!!!

We had a book that we shared with "The Ladz" (our group of male friends at the Boys' school) - we would spend biology lessons doing random scribbles and conversations in the book, and then they would have it for a few days and reply/have their own conversations!!!

I seem to be the only one out of the group that didn't end up keeping one of the full books though, so I can't look back on it

One thing that drives dp mad is when I say 'I amn't' instead of 'Im not'. so I use it an awful lot

using the word like or yes at the end of a sentance is one i really hate and esp loathe 'If you know what I mean like'

lol love the lecture conversations. We used to draw a little spider called Boris and pass him round and everyone had to add a drawing so as to make a cartoon story. Ahhhh them were the days.

Agree on the "isn't it not? "That's not right, isn't it not?" Ouch, just wanna run away. My friends use this all the time, now their kids use it, but the kids know its wrong. The parents dont.

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mg how could i forget my most hated one,,,,

brought instead of bought