Am I getting old and pedantic?

Going back to So: Academics seem to have started this when about to explain something. It was pointed out to me by one that Seamus Heaney began his translation of Anglo-Saxon Beowulf with "So" Here's what google says about it:

"Conventional renderings of hwæt, the first word of the poem, tend towards the archaic literary, with ‘lo’, ‘hark’, ‘behold’, ‘attend’ and – more colloquially – ‘listen’ being some of the solutions offered previously. But in Hiberno-English Scullion-speak, the particle ‘so’ came naturally to the rescue, because in that idiom ‘so’ operates as an expression that obliterates all previous discourse and narrative, and at the same time functions as an exclamation calling for immediate attention. So, ‘so’ it was:

'So. The Spear-Danes in days gone by
and the kings who ruled them had courage and greatness.'"

How about "my bad" meaning "I've made a mistake". I find that I figure out the meaning of something new when I've heard it a few times (or I ask my grandchildren!)

There is a reason we are not all speaking Anglo-Saxon. It is because language has developed and evolved with every generation since it became the language of this country. Read the dialogue in any Victorian novel and notice how stilted it sounds compared with modern conversation, but that was how conversational English sounded then.

very generation will change the language to make it theirs and every previous generation will complain about it.

Oh dear, loopyloo. We had an teacher at secondary school who used to make us chant 'All right is not all right unless it is spelled as two words'

I'm afraid I've only spelled it as two words today in deference to your distaste for 'alright'

Maybe it takes the place of 'er'?

Something that annoys me is calling a baby a newborn. When did it become a noun ?
And confusing disinterested and uninterested. Oh and Alright spelt as one word.

I'm getting very vexed about misused prepositions. 'Different to' has annoyed me for a long time; if you (or something) are differing you're moving away 'from' whatever it is; as opposed to 'similar to' where views or characteristics are coming together.

But newer ones like 'forbidden from'. You're banned from doing something but you're forbidden to do it.

And the unnecessary 'of' as in 'People who live outside of the city' No, no, they just live outside it. The only time you need 'of' if when you're using it with 'the'. The outside of the box. (this applies to 'inside' as well)

I know I'm getting old and I've always been pedantic. I don't really care!

You guys drives me up the wall, our Estate Agent used it all the time. We had 2 Agents to value the property, both in their 30s? who used it. Grrr, I'm a lady & my DH a man.

Dialect is totally different, some might regard it as lazy but I love to hear it

The expression, 'any time soon'. I hear this frequently but I think it's weird. An example,' he won't be appearing any time soon' is this English or made up slang?

How about I was 'like' going to go out or It was 'like' raining so I didn't go out .Why? the need for 'like'.

I am very glad that i am not the only one like this, i have to really stop myself from correcting peoples grammar,
Yous is also a Geordie expression,
I also hate people saying "of" istead of have, and i cannot understand how anyone can mistake "defiantly" for "definitely"
Another thing people have started saying is "guy" instead of "man"another Americanism?

Apart from the ubiquitous 'like' which has not gone away in our corner of Somerset. "I was like in the garden." I find 'th' pronounced as 'f' as in "I fink he's in the garden " is spreading. Often in deadly combination 'think' instead of "thing" as in "I heard somefink in the garden last night" I feel I am a bad person for noticing this.

I don't understand why people say something is 'for free'. Why not just 'free' ?

The Americanism that I find strangest is when they say 'I could care less' when in fact they mean (as we say) 'I couldn't care less'.

You're absolutely right Grandmama, because there is a double possessive in that sentence.

I hate the Americanism 'you guys'. it can apply to both sexes, I know - but I still hate it.

I will make a cup of tea for someone - not a cuppa tea.

And I was taught in school to say' different from' not' different to' or 'different than'.I understand all are now acceptable.

I've always been old and pedantic. From the age of eight or thereabouts.....

Yes, I'm a pedant (and proud of it!). I'm trying to think of an example of apostrophe + s which I've read in articles and I think it is incorrect:

"It belonged to the family of his mother's".

Not a good example but the best I can do. The apostrophe + s is not necessary.

... and no one has said " He was sat in a chair" or " We were stood in a corner"
I think they are dreadful but then I come from West Lancashire if that is significant ( unless you prefer 'if that be significant'

In connected speech we use weak forms in non-stressed syllables. - not 'for' but 'fe', not 'of' but 'ev', not 'to' but 'te' (the sound of the vowel changes to the 'schwa'). If you don't use the weak form it sounds as if you are stressing the preposition (or article in the case of 'the and 'a' or 'an'). I want A cup OF tea. I'm going FOR A walk. If you teach English to foreign learners, you teach them to use these weak forms, as it sounds unnatural not to. I don't see a problem with 'try and', although its use does seem to be restricted to the present tense.

Prolly is.

As well as all the other places it's used.

I thought that "yous" was a southern Ireland expression.

Goodness Bonnie how many English people, or any other nationality, do you meet who've fallen and described the event, so much that it drives you mad?

Maybe you work in a fracture clinic.

There are certain questions to which there is only ONE answer.
This is one.
Another is "Does my bum look big in this?"
If you still don't know what that ONE answer is, on your own head be it.

I hate the way a lot of English people say " I fell on the floor " when talking about falling outside. Sure
they fell on the ground? A floor is something you have inside. Drives me mad!

I think most people usually just say probly when speaking conversationally. I do, anyway...