Incorrect use of Language

Cabbie21

I often hear people being interviewed who soon run out of words and end …….“and yeah”. I don’t mind so much if they are caught on the spot, but when it is someone invited into the studio to talk about an achievement, I am irritated.

This yeah business started in the sixties by people who were trying to look and say cool things. They were in the in know with famous people and led interesting high profilr lives.

It was used absubtle, put down. A way of trivialising everyday people and their lack lustre activities and lives.

Used extensively by luvvys, musicians and media types in the know

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See you later was, and is still used in Mancunia by people who know each other.

My pet hates are awful Americanisms Examples. Heads up, Pop. Forever Home..Lotioning. Step up to.the plate. Top of the show. Dinner instead if tea .
Multiple.

To name just a few.

Words and expressions seem to changebat at a terrific speed these days. A very intersting subject

Menopauselbitch

Everyone using ‘texted’ I hate it with a passion.

Why do you hate it? I hate it when someone says “I text him/her” when they’re supposedly using the past tense.

Attendee - whatever happened to attender. Speshulty instead of speciality. It's railway station not train station or you can even say just station. Horse riding - it's riding without a qualifier, it is bike riding, camel riding or any other sort of riding that need qualification.

It really annoys me when someone is going to be interviewed on the radio/tv and after the introduction they immediate ask the Interviewer, who they don’t know, ‘How are you’? I like it when the Interviewer ignores the question and launches into the first question.

Magenta8

Attendee - whatever happened to attender. Speshulty instead of speciality. It's railway station not train station or you can even say just station. Horse riding - it's riding without a qualifier, it is bike riding, camel riding or any other sort of riding that need qualification.

"Horse riding" isn't wrong it's just none-u. Americans generally use it but I don't suppose they ever worried about keeping up with the Mitfords. I must admit I'd be suprised if anyone here still does.

You would also be going quite a long way back to when attender meant the same as attendee does now. It moved on to mean someone who waits on others while attendee is now accepted as meaning someone who attends (meetings, etc.).

Fings ain’t wot they used to be 😁

MaizieD

PoliticsNerd

MaizieD

Well, I'm fed up with seeing 'forbidden from', 'review into' and 'different to'. But we pedants fight a losing battle

I also am irritated by people saying 'language changes'. Why does it have to change into something ungrammatical every time? 👿

But what is the point about being fed up or irritated by some thing you can't change and those concerned don't care what any of us think

About as much point as your post, GN

What's the point of telling someone they can't change anything when they already know it?

I reserve the right to be as irritated or annoyed as I please.

I don't think it's the same thing though Maizie. We do all have the right to be annoyed or irritated by whatever we chose.

Expecting people to change is a head and brick wall reaction.

PoliticsNerd

Magenta8

Attendee - whatever happened to attender. Speshulty instead of speciality. It's railway station not train station or you can even say just station. Horse riding - it's riding without a qualifier, it is bike riding, camel riding or any other sort of riding that need qualification.

"Horse riding" isn't wrong it's just none-u. Americans generally use it but I don't suppose they ever worried about keeping up with the Mitfords. I must admit I'd be suprised if anyone here still does.

You would also be going quite a long way back to when attender meant the same as attendee does now. It moved on to mean someone who waits on others while attendee is now accepted as meaning someone who attends (meetings, etc.).

Riding was the accepted term for "horse riding" long before Nancy Mitford's pernicious little book "Noblesse Oblige" came out in 1956 and set the chattering classes chattering about U and non-U. I believe Americans often say horseback riding which is even worse.

As I was brought up as a Quaker, attender was and still is a term used for someone who attends meetings of Society of Friends without or before becoming a member.

Thank you for the interesting bit about the Quakers.

I think we have to take care that we don't say things are "wrong" when it's just our preference.

You are quite right. Perhaps it is more a case of "I find it annoying" rather than it is incorrect.

Starting the answer to a question with 'look'. Very patronising and usually done by politicians.