“I was sat” 😤

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Why do people no longer say “i was sitting”?

Not really. The incorrect grammar just distracts from the pissed off ness.

Only for listeners with iess language proficiency who can't cope with regional variations in speech. I don't want to be homogenised by standard English, personally. Certainly not when I'm speaking informally.

There's a big difference between regional variation and incorrect.

Saying "I done" is very common where I live. It's still wrong🤷‍♀️

I sat or I was sitting may be correct but I still prefer I was sat. I wouldn't use it in writing but it sounds better than either of the grammatically correct options.

To you.

to others of us it emphasises the pissed oddness.

fight the good fight in things that matter more, like 'we was' 🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️that has NO 'upside'

Agree with pp, the widespread misuse of “and I” and “and me” makes me very cross. Especially when you hear Kate Garraway doing it on GMB. Surely journalists should know the difference. Worse than when she’s flabbergasted.

"And I" sounds pompous and stupid at times, although correct.

Successful verbal expression is about selecting the right register, not grammatical perfection.

It's the incorrect use of "and I" that bothers me rather than incorrect use of "and me".

So "he gave that to Mary and I" is incorrect and sounds like the speaker has, what we refer to in Ireland as, notions.

"Mary and me went to town" while incorrect, doesn't bother me in speech but I would expect it to be written as "Mary and I went to town" in any sort of formal writing.

Very few people seem to understand the very simple rule - remove the other person from the sentence to figure out which of the two pronouns is correct.

In your opinion! It sounds completely stupid in mine.

Myself and Mary

Acceptable in Hiberno English.

Not to me it doesn't. I have an almost physical reaction to it - like a jolt. To me it sounds just wrong, as if someone had said I was slept or I was ate, and it sounds uneducated.

I just don't believe it's regional. I hear it equally in speakers from every region. Was it does relate to is class/education - but it's the fact that now even the educated are starting to use it that I find, well, upsetting. And I don't understand why it bothers me so much. It really shouldn't!

Have you lived all over the UK or just in England? As I previously said, it wasn't something I'd ever really come across in Scotland whereas in the Midlands it seems to be the accepted form of the phrase by just about everyone. I've no doubt it's massively more common here.

Ah OK. I am just talking about England. But for the past 30 years I've lived in London, where people I come across are from all over the UK. And because it's something that I react to so strongly I notice it daily on Radio 4, from speakers with a wide range of accents.

Well, I'm sorry it bothers some
of you so much but I don't think it's going away. There are things that grate on me but this definitely isn't one of them.

Yes. People who say things like this usually speak with bad grammar in general.

Does it sound better? To me it indicates a lack of intelligence. If some said it during an interview it would definitely influence my opinion of them.

Yes, because that's exactly what you meant
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Glass houses & stones springs to mind.