Unpleasant modern expressions

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

"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 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.

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!

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?

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

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

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

'What's that all about?'

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".

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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 !!

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

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?"

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?

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

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

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?

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!

Oh, sorry bags! My bad...