RimmyJimmer Posted May 4, 2016 Share Posted May 4, 2016 3 hours ago, Shropshire Lad said: "My bad" is the one that I wouldn't mind never hearing/reading again. Seconded. 'Oh my days'...there's another Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RimmyJimmer Posted May 4, 2016 Share Posted May 4, 2016 4 minutes ago, RimmyJimmer said: Seconded. 'Oh my days'...there's another 'Off of' & 'Oh my days' aren't americanisms to be fair...just annoying all the same Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted May 4, 2016 Share Posted May 4, 2016 How about where we say 'I couldn't care less' Americans say 'I could care less'. That makes no sense in the context it is used! It's contradictory if anything. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted May 4, 2016 Share Posted May 4, 2016 people who, when they get on a bus, don't say where they are going but instead say the price of the ticket e.g. man walks up to driver and says 'two thirty please'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted May 4, 2016 Moderator Share Posted May 4, 2016 The one I dislike, and unfortunately it's the one Americanism which has probably invaded these shores the most successfully and ubiquitously is "where we're at". It's used absolutely everywhere and in every context. No business meeting is too formal or informal for that matter. 'Let's just see where we're at first' ? F**king really? What was wrong with "where we are". Let's see where we are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddywhack Posted May 4, 2016 Share Posted May 4, 2016 1 hour ago, CarewsEyebrowDesigner said: people who, when they get on a bus, don't say where they are going but instead say the price of the ticket e.g. man walks up to driver and says 'two thirty please'. To be fair, I think its it says to state the amount, not your destination. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted May 4, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted May 4, 2016 2 hours ago, RimmyJimmer said: Seconded. 'Oh my days'...there's another 'Oh my days' sounds like the sort of thing a middle-class American woman would say because she thinks it sounds British. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted May 4, 2016 Moderator Share Posted May 4, 2016 1 hour ago, BOF said: The one I dislike, and unfortunately it's the one Americanism which has probably invaded these shores the most successfully and ubiquitously is "where we're at". It's used absolutely everywhere and in every context. No business meeting is too formal or informal for that matter. 'Let's just see where we're at first' ? F**king really? What was wrong with "where we are". Let's see where we are. "Going forward". it's a good job I don't have a gun. "Routemap" eff off "Routemap" - you mean plan. I could kill them. All of them. Dead. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted May 4, 2016 Moderator Share Posted May 4, 2016 7 hours ago, lapal_fan said: ..Dare I say, the internet may well be the death of foreign languages in the next 50 years.. You think we'll all be speaking Mandarin in 50 years? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapal_fan Posted May 4, 2016 Share Posted May 4, 2016 Just now, blandy said: You think we'll all be speaking Mandarin in 50 years? No. I think 2 or 3 languages will become the norm, and then eventually 1 language will come out on top. Whatever that language is, will be decided by the number of people who choose to speak it, advertising/culture/freedom/technology companies of expression. The world - since the popular internet, has become much smaller, and with "the internet of things" and "workplace 2020" etc - it's due to become even smaller. Scandinavian languages will become like Welsh/Celtic - only a small number will speak them by the end of this century - I think. It will be interesting what becomes of accents. Will "Swedish Chef" still sound that way if English is their first language? It's interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted May 4, 2016 Moderator Share Posted May 4, 2016 2 minutes ago, lapal_fan said: Whatever that language is, will be decided by the number of people who choose to speak it, That's why I said Mandarin ( I was gonna say Chinese, but Yo that's not an actual language Bro, so I didn't). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted May 4, 2016 Moderator Share Posted May 4, 2016 2 hours ago, CarewsEyebrowDesigner said: man walks up to driver and says 'two thirty please'. ....so the driver punches him in the mouth Yo, great joke Bro. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddywhack Posted May 4, 2016 Share Posted May 4, 2016 (edited) . Edited May 4, 2016 by Paddywhack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted May 4, 2016 Moderator Share Posted May 4, 2016 6 hours ago, Shropshire Lad said: "My bad" is the one that I wouldn't mind never hearing/reading again. It has the advantage of brevity over "I'm frightfully sorry old chap, but I appear to have erred" (or even ifsocbiathe) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted May 4, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted May 4, 2016 3 hours ago, Wainy316 said: How about where we say 'I couldn't care less' Americans say 'I could care less'. That makes no sense in the context it is used! It's contradictory if anything. In case you've not seen this, David feels your pain.... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted May 4, 2016 Share Posted May 4, 2016 54 minutes ago, blandy said: That's why I said Mandarin ( I was gonna say Chinese, but Yo that's not an actual language Bro, so I didn't). It's very unlikely, because its system of tones is too complicated for most adults to learn. The Chinese may end up ruling the world, but they'll probably do so through Chinglish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted May 4, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted May 4, 2016 46 minutes ago, blandy said: It has the advantage of brevity over "I'm frightfully sorry old chap, but I appear to have erred" (or even ifsocbiathe) Indeed, for speed "my bad" is handier than that and faster than the sluggish "my mistake". No denying that. We're just one step closer to newspeak. And this makes me feel ungood 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted May 4, 2016 Moderator Share Posted May 4, 2016 2 minutes ago, Shropshire Lad said: newspeak On those lines I don't like this melding of words that they do. "Brexit" being the most recent. God does it annoy me (Yes, it does, almost as much as rhetorical questions). There was a fad as well for coining new words in adverts for cars and tech stuff - "Clicknology" etc. That miffed me. The word "coining" miffs me. Tabloid punny (swidt) headlines also annoy me - things like "Mou are You kidding Jose?". Just **** OFF. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted May 4, 2016 Moderator Share Posted May 4, 2016 I like the super-efficient single-syllable James May approach to acknowledging or discovering a mistake. 'Cock' 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted May 4, 2016 Share Posted May 4, 2016 3 minutes ago, blandy said: On those lines I don't like this melding of words that they do. "Brexit" being the most recent. God does it annoy me (Yes, it does, almost as much as rhetorical questions). There was a fad as well for coining new words in adverts for cars and tech stuff - "Clicknology" etc. That miffed me. The word "coining" miffs me. Tabloid punny (swidt) headlines also annoy me - things like "Mou are You kidding Jose?". Just **** OFF. Single most annoying piece of tabloid speak ever: 'nurse quacktitioner' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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