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Language is constantly - er

(11 Posts)
janerowena Sat 18-May-13 11:06:01

Correctly, grammatically! grin

janerowena Sat 18-May-13 11:05:09

I moved here six years ago, and a nearby small town is called 'Diss'. This caused much hilarity amongst younger members of the family.

I don't mind the language evolving. I just wish it would do it gracefully and correct, grammatically.

MiceElf Sat 18-May-13 11:05:08

The very worst insult on the street is 'Yer'.

I'm not going to type up the phrase that it is an abbreviation of.

And I know I'm ending a sentence with a preposition and starting it with 'and'. grin

Bags Sat 18-May-13 11:01:03

I think "the young" have a jargon all their own, and we ancients are not supposed to understand it.

Only discovered recently where 'dissing' came from – abbreviation of disrespecting – as in "Are you dissing my drawing?" and other daft stuff. (How can you disrespect a drawing? hmm)

janerowena Sat 18-May-13 10:21:14

I think there are two languages running concurrently, and I don't understand one of them. I have a 22 year old niece, she is well-spoken and privately educated, yet she writes phrases on facebook that I can only guess at - and know that I must be wrong.

This is this morning's offering.

'Oh dear John I hope you have a good "sauce" of a adventure!'

Any ideas?

deserving Sat 18-May-13 09:48:30

You all seem to have understood what was meant innit.

Bags Sat 18-May-13 09:36:16

But not as bad as burglarization.

feetlebaum Sat 18-May-13 08:03:55

Much worse - like being a South American revoluter...

Joan Sat 18-May-13 07:57:21

Evoluting instead of evolving reminds me of burglarizing instead of burgling. Actually, it's worse.

MiceElf Sat 18-May-13 07:15:12

She must have been commentalking.

Mamie Sat 18-May-13 07:02:07

Well a young lady on "Click" this morning said that in her field, "things are evoluting"....