Unpleasant modern expressions

I first heard 'I'm good' in New Zealand 14 years ago. I doubt if it started there, but they do pick up Americanisms like magnets!

NanKate I think it's another North American one. My Canadian brother uses it all the time. I just tell him he's too old to be naughty.

Absentgrandma I have just seen we are both annoyed with 'I'm good'.

I assume that anyone who uses it, does not realise that it is grammatically incorrect.

'How are you' ? It's the response that annoys me 'I'm good'. What every happened to 'I'm fine thanks' ?

I have dozens of hates,many of which are part of the process of language changing but don't want to take up too much space. The ones I have been noticing particularly recently are " I'm liking this" instead of "I like this" and "prior to" instead of "before".

'What's that all about?'

'Single' as in not in a relationship/going out with someone. To me it is the opposite of married. Perhaps I am a dinosaur?

When someone has made a mistake, they say, 'my bad."
Sounds awful in my opinion.

What is the matter with reporters these day? Some of their expressions really grate on me.... I was sat, he/she/ it was sat. Don't they bother to conjugate verbs anymore in UK schools?

And as someone further up the postings said, this habit of turning nouns into verbs. The first example I remember hearing was several years ago when Martin Brundle was commentating on the F1 meetings and referred to the drivers 'pitting' .'There's no such verb as 'to pit' 'I screeched at the telly.

A pedant? Moi

In answer to "Can I get a coffee?"
My response would be, "sure, help yourself and I will sit down. Will you make me one as well, please, while you are about it?"
What would be the reaction to that, I wonder?

I fully accept, and indeed know, that language is dynamic, constantly changing and absorbing different ways of saying things. I know that. However, it does not stop some expressions grating on me!

I hate when reporters say that people or even towns are coming to terms with something.How do they know , have they asked everybody ?. I am baffled by people saying when some has fallen in the street that they are on the floor.To me the floor is in a house or building not outside.

"Right from the get go" one of my sons acquainted me with this horrible Americanism, it's so bad it's almost good, sometimes I throw it into conversation and my husband begs and pleads with me not to use it again. But I do

Son who still lives at home usually greets us on his return from work with "hi guys", which makes me wonder, All these years I've been his mother and he still doesn't seem to realise I'm a woman! It's not as if I've got short hair, a very deep voice or even a beard!!!!

"Can I get a coffee" I'm not sure I could restrain myself if I worked in a coffee shop in responding with "I don't know?, maybe, maybe not!" Almost worth getting the sack for I'd say.

A New Zealander friend has introduced me to the wonderful expression as "rough as guts" which is has taken over from my step daughter's choice of "the sights you see when you haven't got a gun!" which I also still use from time to time, when confronted with certain modes of dress, I shall say no more!

The expression I really hate is "end of" It's rude, it's a modern day "because I said so" which I didn't like much when I was growing up.

I haven't seen that one, Cari. I will avoid that site!

Oh yes... 'I'm good'...... no. I didn't ask about your behaviour, I asked about your general well-being. That really irritates me.

I've a new teeth-grinder now.... 'I'm beyond excited' Uh? How does that work then?

Further to "enjoy" (am I in trouble if I don't?) or " have nice day"( unlikely as I am about to purchase Preparation H/ have to see my accountant/realise that my parking space expired 35 minutes ago and I am bound to have got a ticket) another absolute no no is the waiter or waitress who waits until I have taken a
my first mouthful of whatever to ask if my meal is OK(?) I am so tempted to spit it out and tell him/her to come back later or even better, not at all.

All politicians seem to start a sentence with 'Look'
When people use 'the' instead of 'thee' before a vowel = 'the' east, 'the' apple, 'the' orange. Grrrrrrr

Sorry last word should have been 'textspeak' - my computer thought it knew best!

I caught some of Countdown one day recently and a fairly young contestant made the 'word' 'Whatev' - short for whatever - out of the letters. I could not believe it when they said it is correct and in the latest Oxford dictionary! What is happening to the English language. In the future they will all be talking textbooks

This may have already been mentioned but 'shoulder to shoulder' really annoys me. All politicians now seem to be standing shoulder to shoulder with each other!

I don't know whether it has already been mentioned but I dislike "You're joking me". To joke has always been an intransitive verb .

Like rosesarered I can't get hot under the collar about this sort of thing as long as it helps improve communication and doesn't make people sound unintelligent. "Ya know what I mean" and "like" would come under the latter.

Some of the ones mentioned are Americanisms and, as ours has always been a growing language we will absorb them and use them in our own particular way.

I did find it difficult, however, when various work places discouraged the use of "problem" in exchange for "issues" or "challenges" and, naughty me, I still slip up and have the odd problem

(Please don't give me marks out of 10 for this post )

I would like to add 'looking to' to this list. Why is everyone 'looking to' buy a flat or change their hairstyle these days?

On the blurb for a recent tv programme it was stated "Lady So and So looks to hire a new butler". I hate it - where has it come from?

'Enjoy' has always been a transitive verb - in my experience. Why should it recently have developed an intransitive usage? It doesn't take much longer to say, 'Enjoy your meal'.