Disgusting!

Any well used language is always changing. You can see thast by looking at the changes and notes for the OED. A major reason for the latter being in constant update status and nowhere near completion reflects how very much english is the being "abused" by all of us let alone being the lingua franca for so much of the world/business/understanding. Just look at any of Shakespeare's works to see how much has changed.

We have the largest vocabulary and it is increasing. Whether we like some of the changes or not we have to live with and accept them.

I communicate quite a lot with young people on social media and there's one word they use all the time - I've often seen it used three times in one short sentence. I'm sure you can all guess what it is!

I am annoyed when people begin a sentence with look, when they mean listen.
Politicians often do this when being interviewed.

I also dislike people using "you know" in the middle of a sentence when replying to a question, politicians again. If they knew they wouldn't be asking.

Mihi in odio est.......like!

How about "my heart melted" on seeing pics of cute babies or kittens, or even "my heart literally melted." No dear, it didn't.

Unless of course you actually have nits.

in which case, pick away

Life is too short for nit-picking marionk

I quite like 'cool' widgeon.

It became corny after the 60s but now it's been revived it sounds good again! My two GDs use it, but don't over-use it.

Hate the use of 'like' every 3rd word these days amongst other irritations. I am beginning to think I am a language snob because if I ever mention it on other sites I get shot down. My own grammar and spelling falls short of the mark at times, but I do feel strongly that if you are selling something you should know how to spell it! I have seen well bread chiwawa puppies, non-malting poodle crosses, broaches to pin on your coats, chests of draws and on it goes. I also hate huge long posts without punctuation and hate text talk how much longer does it take to type 'to' rather than 2?

School English lessons encourage children to extend their vocabulary, so they produce writing where no noun lacks an adjectival phrase, no verb an explanatory adverb. Professional courses teach simple, direct writing.

EEJit writes: "My current hate is the overuse of "hero". Sportsmen are not hero's." Now that DOES illustrate my current hate!

Though a sportsman who excels has at least done something extraordinary, something worth striving to emulate. That's ok to call "hero" in my book.

Must a "hero" have performed a specific heroic act? Are all our armed forces, firemen, police etc. automatically "heroes" or just people whose occupation makes them more likely than the rest of us to be in a position where a heroic act may be required? Most of us are fortunate enough to lead lives where "heroism" (or indeed "cowardice") is not an issue.

Enough :-)

... and no-one at all seems to be annoyed by cool

Lush, stunning, amazeballs....WHAT??? uber.

I don't care for the fashion of starting a reply to someone with the word So. So many people do it. And I used the word correctly in the previous sentence!

Glad to see it irritates you too BlueBelle ! ....l also agree that the 'like' is so irritating...l watched that programme as well and thought that perhaps the chap wouldn't want a second date purely because of her overuse of the word like !!!...lol

Has anyone also noticed how often people pop the word 'basically ' into every sentence ?? ...l was watching The Great Interior Design' programme last night ( a favourite of mine) ..one of the contestant/designer ..a chap ..said it every second word ! ...grrrr ...rant over ...that feels better?

All that annoys me is 'like' for every other word I was watching Undatables the other night and this girl literally said 'like' every sentence, 'shall we have a drink like I'm off to the toilet like are you thirsty like The other one is when everyone says s 'hun' and I agree with Judge Rinder with ' obviously' or ' basically' in every sentence is VERY irritating

When I was at College (Mature Student) & we were doing Group Assignments we were never without a Thesaurus - used to find we were using the same word time & time again - unacceptable to keep using the word of the day!!!! Alternatives had to be found or we would have lost marksLead to great fun finding appropriate alternatives

We were a mixed group of 18-40+, even had one girl who said "okay yah" that came as a shock as none of us believed any-one spoke like that

Totes amaze balls.......that amused me!!! ?

'Disgusting' isn't a word that bothers me unduly - unlike the ubiquitous 'literally' (aaaargh..!!!) which really, really (literally) does...

I'm gu-ed ( it seems necessary to use the glottal stop) at the slovenliness of speech which seems to accompany the narrow vocabulary.

I grew up around fishing boats. 'Gutted' is a serious condition, definitely 'devastating'!

I suppose our choice of words for intense opinions is a bit like archeology. It dates us pretty closely. Though I can't see me updating with 'sick', I am much amused that small DGS is using 'cool' currently.

I find 'deeply unpleasant' said with pursed lips usually hits the spot.

The thread title should have warned me. I sat down with my lunch and opened this thread - yuk!

My DGS (2 and a half) says "disgusting" if he doesn't want to eat something. Rather endearing, but I agree - it's not really what the word means, although it is a subjective thing.

The word has lots of hard, explosive consonants, which makes it so popular - it can be spat out with venom, and to great effect.

And everything seems to be incredible!

"stunning" evry photo on FB is STUNNING ,every new hair do ,new lipstick new car ,its all STUNNING .Either that or comments are peppered with foul langauge which according to one young lady on my FB page is used by highly intelligent people ! Not in my book ,,there are dictionaries with millions of words that can be used instead of the F or C word which I really cant stand.

Totes amaze(balls) just means totally amazing

Perhaps totes is short for totally?
My favourite hate is the misuse of obscene - is it out of fashion now, given way to disgusting?