Butchering the English language

[Leeds Wire]

I'm attending a Leeds City Council focus group next week and they've emailed to ask me to do some "pre-preparation" for it. I'm tempted to reply and ask them to send it again, but in English next time. Surely the 'pre' bit of preparation is enough of a clue?

I always squirm a little when asked to 'pre-order' something (surely I'm just ordering it?) but this is a new low.

"Going forward" is another pet hate. Oh and passed instead of past; loose instead of lose; try's instead of tries.

Anyone got any other examples of 21st century gibberish? And anyone who replies with "THIS" will be hunted down and made to watch 100 Eamonn McManus interviews.

[Futtocks]

Pre-order is okay by me, as it is a succinct term for a particular kind of transaction.

Now I'll make way for Graveyard Johnny to moan about everything since the Great Vowel Shift.

[fatboystu]

People who say axe instead of ask......i want to axe a question

[Leeds Wire]

33 minutes ago, Futtocks said:

Pre-order is okay by me, as it is a succinct term for a particular kind of transaction.

A particular type of transaction? As in, "ordering"? 

Into room 101 please, Mr Futtocks. Off you go, you bad man.

[heartofGold]

Advice and advise, practice and practise, effect and affect.  Definitely could of and would of but the one that really makes me turn violent is pin number

[JohnM]

Emma Watson claims to be "self-partnered". 

Clearly a do-it-yourself expert.

[Denton Rovers RLFC]

27 minutes ago, fatboystu said:

People who say axe instead of ask......i want to axe a question

it almost sounds closer to 'axed', and yes that riles me too!

people who use the word blatantly and infinitely incorrectly, the latter often in relation to a design that by definition means there are actual limitations designed into the product.

 

[The Hallucinating Goose]

I have a friend who always writes 'to' instead of 'too'. They have been informed but continue to do it. It really gets on my ####! 

[DavidM]

This could go on for ever . The rise of gibberish , made up words and phrases that catch on  , and general over clever nonsense is seemingly unstoppable . My bin man is now called a refuse operative . Why are politicians always wanting to” ring fence “ stuff and looking for “ bandwidth “ to discuss issues . Eh ? I’ll stay off the territory of  how people talk though , which if anyone has been up this way , will be for obvious reasons 

[The Hallucinating Goose]

Double negatives. Especially when someone uses one but does not understand their mistake when i point it out to them. Someone may say something like, "i haven't got nothing mate!" and I will say, "so you do have something?" and they will just offer me a gormless look in reply. 

[fatboystu]

People, especially sports coaches or players who, when asked a question start the answer with "yeah, no"

Reporter - "charlie big bananas had a good game today?"

Coach - "yeah, no he's been training hard.....etc etc"

 

[heartofGold]

21 minutes ago, fatboystu said:

People, especially sports coaches or players who, when asked a question start the answer with "yeah, no"

Reporter - "charlie big bananas had a good game today?"

Coach - "yeah, no he's been training hard.....etc etc"

 

My shoulders are tensed.  Why would you say yeah, no?  But I know they do.......arrrrgh!!!

[The Hallucinating Goose]

Just remembered one that has really been peeing me off recently. The use of the word 'like' as every other word in a sentence. 

[JohnM]

So, no wonder we are in a mess. Some of these offenders have the vote! 

[Farmduck]

My head literally exploded reading this thread.

[GUBRATS]

Who cares ? 

[DavidM]

“ ya know “ ... well no not until you tell me I don’t . 

[DavidM]

3 hours ago, Farmduck said:

My head literally exploded reading this thread.

Nick Clegg infamously talked about “ people who are literally in a different galaxy “ in a speech about the tax some wealthy people pay 

[JohnM]

3 hours ago, Farmduck said:

My head literally exploded reading this thread.

[JonM]

Ask pronounced as 'aks' was used by Chaucer and is in the first English translation of the bible.

[DavidM]

1 minute ago, JonM said:

Ask pronounced as 'aks' was used by Chaucer and is in the first English translation of the bible.

Yeh but his spelling was absolutely rubbish and hardly anyone could read then so you could write in any old way ,so you’d think we’d progressed 

[gingerjon]

Got a northern accent?

Everyone nodding along to these kind of threads thinks you pronounce everything incorrectly and talk funny.

[DavidM]

6 minutes ago, gingerjon said:

Got a northern accent?

Everyone nodding along to these kind of threads thinks you pronounce everything incorrectly and talk funny.

But everyone up here thinks people down south pronounce words incorrectly and for some bizarre reason keep wanting to put an ‘ r ‘ in words where there isn’t one . The grarrs and the barrth. I even met a guy who’d been to Damarrscus on holiday 

[JonM]

8 minutes ago, DavidM said:

Yeh but his spelling was absolutely rubbish and hardly anyone could read then so you could write in any old way ,so you’d think we’d progressed 

It's because aks was the original Anglo-Saxon form and it changed to ask sometime around the 17th century. Southern US and Caribbean English speakers have preserved the old form.

There's probably old blokes in Leigh sat round moaning about this modern trend for saying 'you' instead of using 'thee' and 'thou' properly.

[DavidM]

1 minute ago, JonM said:

It's because aks was the original Anglo-Saxon form and it changed to ask sometime around the 17th century. Southern US and Caribbean English speakers have preserved the old form.

There's probably old blokes in Leigh sat round moaning about this modern trend for saying 'you' instead of using 'thee' and 'thou' properly.

Thou jesteth