Disgusting!

Maybe I should have put this thread on Pedants Corner

I agree that language eveolves and each generation develops vocabulary and I think that is a good thing.
I do not know why one 'overused' word annoys me more than another.
I think the increased use of 'extreme' adjectives feed into the tendency for some people to live real and on-line life as a soap opera. Everything is extreme and nothing is ordinary any more. That would imply a mundane existance which is literally, totes disaster and not like, you know, my amaze balls , fab and wickid , OMG!!!!! stunning, fab life!

So Not Cool!,
Oh you don't like it then? Why not say so?

Everything now is like Ohmygod!!!

If you use quotes within a quote you use double quotes outside, single inside. (I think the Americans use it the opposite to UK for some reason).

Not being patronizing, you did ask.

Speech marks: “I don't go out much” she said

Quotes: Was it Shakespeare who said 'No man is an island, entire of itself'

There is a difference ( always has been) from people who speak badly and those using a trendy word now and again, be it fab, cool, wicked, eggy, bad etc.

I really cba to worry about these things , will I be shot down ( not literally!) for using cba I wonder?

Yes, but Yorkshiregirl was complaining about those who use speech marks when they should use quotes.

What do you mean, Yorkshiregel?

But not doubles as apostrophes.

Oh, I've been doing it wrongly for years. I just use either indiscriminately.

I don't know the difference either - oh yes it's just dawned on me. A single mark is an apostrophe, the doubles are speech/quotation marks?

I thought speech marks were the same as quotation marks.

...and I was like....! Aaaaarg!

...know wha aa mean?

Yoo nevaaaa!

Also people who use speech marks when they should use quotes.

Don't start me on randomly sprinkled apostrophes....

Phenomenal. QVC use it all the time I want to shout " no it's a blouse, makeup, cheap jewellery." What ever it is, no matter how good it is, it isn't is phenomenal

Pollyperkins, ??

What about AWESOME - Nails down a chalkboard to me. Usually a response to a photo of someone on Facebook with enough slap on to sink a battleship and pouting like something off the fish counter at Morrison's. "Awesome babe" Aaarrgghh!

If u want a laugh at the use of language, read G e o r g e t t e Hey er! 'He expostulated' etc. Pure 1950 's.!

TriciaF.
Over use of the word Amazing.
This word appears to have been adopted by the young to describe almost everything that enters their lives.
I was watching a wannabee pop star on tv recently giving an account of his latest achievement and in one sentence I counted the use of amazing six times.?

Nanna58 Totes Amaze is a saying taken from the sit-com Miranda usually said by a very "overly posh" character.

But words do come and go out of fashion and change their meanings . In my day (the 50s) everything was smashing or super, later in the 60sit was fabulous, my children in the 70s and 80s said wicked, - now its awesome, an American import I dont care for! But notcworth worrying about. This too will pass!

I heard a girl on the bus say to her friend 'I literally died!' I was surprised ahe looked so well!!!

Coppernob - that mad me laugh out loud!

In her recent archaeology series, every few minutes Alice Roberts found something that was 'incredible'.

ExaltedWombat. My definition of a hero is someone who puts themselves on the line. Think service personnel on deployment, fireman rushing into a burning building to save someone. Bobby on the beat, no, bobby facing down an armed attacker yes.

You write "a sportsman who excels has at least done something extraordinary, something worth striving to emulate. That's ok to call "hero" in my book" That's dedicated, not heroic in my book.