Unpleasant modern expressions

I like it PRINTMISS

I also liked the one I had which said "Shane won't be here tomorrow. He is going to see the optician with his eyes."

@feetle, chuckling at the thought of you writing "kewl"

@printmiss, I get the inward giggles when someone says "Bear with me". I either want to ask "Oh, no, where is it?" or "Are you having a baby? Sorry I can't help, I'm not a midwife".

Stop picking on the Americans!

Instead of saying, in conversation 'I said ....' it's 'I'm like .... ' Dreadful phrase

This moment in time - why not now?
The Americans used dove [pronounced as doh-v] as a past tense to dived
using well in a term such as 'it's well good'
When a waiter asks a customer everything satisfactory with your meal? He's talking to English people. They'be too embarrassed to complain . [I'm just the opposite and will complain, but then I lived in Canada and the US]
Actually I have such a long list I'll leave it at that

I really hate those rhetorical questions -' how good is that?' I often reply 'I don't know' that foxes them.

Just seen Greenfinch's post about well/very!

@Grannyknot - "kewl" at least shows that the writer is bored with the incessant use of 'cool' - I have been known touse it myself when in satirical mood...

I have seen someone here use "soz" - I think it means "sorry" - which is pretty heave-inducing.

@Granjura - Americans are terrified of adverbs, for some reason. And here I am fed up with the adverb 'well' being pressed into service as an adjectival "very". It makes me "well unhappy"!

Greenfinch, on of the favourite expressions of one of the parents of a pupil at the school where I once worked (did not teach), was "sorry, we over-laid".It always brought a smile to the faces of the staff!

Rosequartz sorry for taking your most unpleasant modern expression of course I could have said " enjoy the rest of your day" which staff at my favourite supermarket say all the time. Or " laters" which I understand is an expression to indicate someone will see me later!!

"Kewl" (as has just appeared in an email from a younger colleague).

As someone earlier said "I love him to bits" - really irritating because it's often what my daughter calls a "scorpion" comment (meaning wait for the sting in the tail) as in, "I love him to bits, but ...(insert appropriate grumble).

I also dislike it when sentences are punctuated by "yeah" as if to check that you understand. Grrrrrrrrrr.

I love the bones of him.
(What, just the bones??)

The majority of.... instead of most.

One that has fallen slightly out of use is the misuse of "well" meaning "very".
I remember receiving an absence note (a thing of the past ) which read "Sorry Johnny was away yesterday. He was well ill"

At this moment in time ..... Instead of now.

I really hate the American 'I am good'... I spend hours teaching my students the difference between 'good' and 'well' and then they hear
'how are you? 'I'm good thank you' doh.

chloe1984, I was going to say 'back in the day' which was used several times by presenters during the last episode of 'Coast Australia'. I thought it was very sloppy indeed - it saved them looking up exact dates and giving us proper information I suppose. [grr]

I don't find many of the above posts 'unpleasant' just slightly irritating, but I shouldn't be in pedants corner [as I am not one.] Sayings come into our language all the time, some stay and some sink without trace.What I do find very irritating is when politicians [it's usually a politician]seek to obscure an issue [or play for time] by saying bland meaningless things like 'let's be clear on this' or 'it has always been my policy' [when it hasn't]
'it's far too soon to speculate' etc etc.Also when they dumb down their own speech [Tony Blair started this] with 'y'know's' and 'gonna' and what is called 'Estuary' speak. When you have had the benfit of a good education you just don't speak like this, so it's blindingly obvious to most of us what is going on. David Cameron started to do this, and sometimes Nick Clegg as well as countless others.So I shall now coin a phrase to say how much it annoys me...... 'worth a slap!'

Commencing sentences with "so" ....

"in this country" as opposed to "here", "the UK", "Britain" - obviously acceptable but is used constantly and it's getting on my nerves!!

Yes, the nouns turned into verbs - "red carded", "he/she medalled" etc

Oh and as already said, turning me or I into "myself" or saying "me and the wife went to so and so" - wrong on two counts, "me" should be "I" (you can't say "me went to so and so" and then, of course, the "I" should come after "the wife" (which is another phrase I can't stand) oops, that makes three counts!

What makes you think I'm a pedant

"on the week-end"

"Stateside" for the USA.

"Platforming" meaning raising an issue

"Referring back to.." we'll, you wouldn't be referring forward, would you?

And, since this is pedants' corner - squaring the circle does have an academic history:

"Squaring the circle is a problem proposed by ancient geometers. It is the challenge of constructing a square with the same area as a given circle by using only a finite number of steps with compass and straightedge. More abstractly and more precisely, it may be taken to ask whether specified axioms of Euclidean geometry concerning the existence of lines and circles entail the existence of such a square."

I am still none the wiser, though, (Bags would know!) and suspect that the expression has been hijacked.

'To die for' especially when applied to things like the view from a hotel window - as if one would.

'Lessons will be learned' (when they very probably will not!)

"To be fair" instead of "to be honest" or "I think".

"I'm good" when asked "How are you".

I also hate the expression "I love him/her to bits".

"Closure".

"Thinking outside of the box" and "yeh" at the end of every sentence.

TV presenters seem to make up new words as they go along. I can't remember who it was but the other day we heard someone talking about the 'historicity' when I think they meant historical significance.

I and Me seems to have been completely replaced by Myself which usually appears at the beginning of a sentence. 'Myself and my wife were on holiday' sounds ridiculous.

As I have put on another similar thread -

I'm good thanks -when you ask someone if they would like a drink

I'm not being funny but...

He turned round to me and he said.....

Everything OK with your meal? (just as you have put a forkful of food in your mouth)

and many many more