Unpleasant modern expressions

D4D, I like your post, spot on !!!!!!

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You've nailed it d4d

Right on!

This may be 'pedants corner', but are we not just reinforcing all the stereotypes of fusspot older people by banging on (another 'modern expression' for someone to hate) about trivialities. It doesn't matter that much. If you don't like an expression you don't have to use it yourself and you can just shrug your shoulders and ignore it if others do. It really doesn't matter that much. Find something more worthy of your disapproval on which to expend your mental energies.

I can't stand the expression 'Get in'. It seems to be used when someone is really pleased with themselves or have answered a question correctly.
What exactly are they getting into ?

'Less' and 'fewer' are my bugbear, especially in a current advert by Coca Cola, as in 'less calories'!

"Cool" is 1940s, if not earlier!

I and E. Yes, Anya, both are fine, upstanding words in their own way but rather formal, that I wouldn't usually toss into the mixing bowl of everyday conversation. I find that their use in that context verges on the pretentious. Often used by theatrical and media types playing to the gallery. In terms of more modern usages the phrases 'cool' or 'that's cool' and 'no trouble' together with the rising inflexion often used inappropriately at the end of an expression also cause my few remaining hackles to rise. And I'd almost forgotten the all-encompassing 'guys' or 'you guys'.

A real tooth-grinder for me (or it was when I had teeth) is the erroneous use of 'begging the question' - that has a very specific meaning, that has nothing to do with asking questions! If you assume something is true, and then use that 'truth' as part of an argument - you are 'begging the question'.

Modern papaoscar? Both have been in use for centuries

Iconic and eclectic. Much used media twins I don't like very much.

Well indeed. Goodbye is a contraction of God be with you. Perhaps I should start a campaign to bring it back

I don't. I'm just joining in in my own way. Grammatical errors irritate me. Different diction from what I'm used to.... shrug. We're all different in our approach to pedantry. I'm being pedantic about the pedantry of criticisers of "I'm good", as well as trying to soothe your angst by being rational about it

bags, don't forget that this is pedants' corner which we crawl into (into which we crawl) when the linguistic perversions of 21st Century youth are too much for us to bear. Please do not seek to deprive us of our mutual solace.

Oh, sorry bags! My bad...

It's embarassing when you're a teenager to admit you've been at fault so you make admitting it easier for yourself. The important thing is that you do admit it, not the how (so long as it's polite and not grudging; my bad is easy-going and it does the job). Use your imaginations, grans. Put yourselves in the places of the people who use these expressions and imagine how it feels to be them. And stop being so hyper-critical, for gawd's sake!

She's asleep at the moment, ana, but I suspect some of these expressions became popular with textspeak—my bad has fewer letters than my fault. I also suspect that my fault sounds too "confessional" for the modern yoof and they probably don't know mea culpa (which has more letters anyway so is useless! ). My bad is just more 'friendly' and casual, like, innit?

- that's a metric t - oh never mind...

@Ana - I always add, earnestly, that it's a [i]metric[/i] tad I mean...

Could you ask Minibags about "my bad", bags? I haven't heard anyone in 'real life' say it, but I've read it and to me it just sounds awful.

My bad what? Attitude? Breath? If it means "my fault", why not use that?

Was talking to Minibags yesterday about "I'm good". She says it's a contraction of "I'm feeling good" just as I'm fine could be a contraction of I'm feeling fine. Neither of us understands why people dislike the expression so much. It's obvious what it means. Speech is about communicating, preferably clearly and succinctly for the social politenesses that just need to be dealt with before one gets onto other topics, or to be used as signals to ships that pass in the night, so to speak. Why make a fuss about something that does that perfectly well?

What do you bet it was unacceptable among linguistically conservative grannies to say "Fine, thanks" once upon a not very long time ago in answer to the same sort of queries that now get "I'm good" or, even better "I'm good. You?"

I have never, and will never, use the word 'tad'!

North American speak , is creeping into our language and has always been ,whether we like it or not, via , youngers,T.V. etc.
I think it a tad foolish to resist, cannot stop the flow, never have !!

Well they should know better, that's what I say.