Another word gone forever?

[5129frederick]

My pet hate is the corruption of the English language but equally annoying is where words seem to change.  "Forever" is a classic example.  There are instances in English grammar where the use of the word should be broken as in the case of the prayer ending "for ever and ever, Amen"  However in most instances it is used as one word.  It stands out a mile when reading it in a newspaper article.  I assumed it was a typo but it's happening more and more even where the words of a hymn come up on the television screen.  Most annoying of all though was where it came up underlined in red as an error on a document I was typing out.  If you look up the word in a dictionary it tells you "Also for ever (Ame)"  But why the hell should we have to adopt to the American style of speech? 

[dark_castle1]

This has been happening for quite a while now fred and I am sorry to say there is absolutely nothing one can do about it.

Much like the demise of this forum as the figures seem to be dwindling day by day.

[right-then-petal]

Whatever Is Another One.

[5129frederick]

What next - a news paper? (roll eyes).  We had tremendous fun with some Americans because right to the last they couldn't differentiate between correspondent and co-respondent. "He was the correspondent for the co-respondent in the Hillbegh v Hillberg divorce case." 

[peteryola]

Fred - try watching the news on TV with the live subtitles on.  At the end of it you will either be a gibbering wreck, in hysterics or a towering rage - or alternating between all three states.

[taylor-books]

I hate it when people use 'your' for 'you are' and 'fed up of' instead of 'fed up with'.

Have you noticed that people seem to start sentences with 'so' nowadays when replying to a question?

[023mjc]

Oh I hate it when people start sentences with "so".  And why is it necessary to insert the word "like" at least five times into every sentence. (or is it in to)

[5129frederick]

I went mad when Reuters - the news agency of all people, whose messages go worldwide put up in their bullitin "Cost of cuppa to rise."  when referring to additional import taxes imposed in that area.  I was so mad I fired off an email stating that such a headline would not look out of place in the Sun but not on Reuters!  The actually took the trouble to respond saying they would refrain from using such colloquialisms again.

So there - put that in your pipe and smoke it!

[taylor-books]

I do agree, what is happening to the English language?

Now young people are saying things are sick when they mean good, it was bad enough when they used wicked wrongly.

[bitsnknots]

What annoys me is the misuse of the letter 't'. Some contestants on quiz programmes are 'studens'.  Another annoyance is the word 'wiv' instead of 'with.  Then there's 'monf' instead of 'month'.

Whatever happened to speaking properly these days.

[023mjc]

The posts I've read that start with " I brought somethink"!!! Then there's the posts that are as long as a book withhout a single puctuation mark, and no paragraphs. I find myself reading the same line over and over again.

I used to get letters from my grandmother like that. Four pages long, no beginning, no middle, no end, and not a single full stop or capital letter.

[023mjc]

Do you watch the chase?  One of the chasers frequently offers the contestants firty free fousand pounds.

[5129frederick]

Adding a letter is equally annoying.  If I'm going to the shops and offer to bring them back anything, they will invariably say "NothinK"

And while I'm at the shops getting a couple of pints of milk I'll see some form of a milkshake called, oh so clever, Frijj.  It might be wuite nice for all I know, but if they're trying to introduce a different language, it will remain in the cooler section.  Know what I mean, like?

[bitsnknots]

Another one I've heard quite a bit is 'nuffink'.  I didn't know that there was such a word.

I agree with the fact that I buyer will start a post with 'I brought something from a seller'.  I have to sit on my hands because I am so tempted to ask where they've brought it from.

[wizilizi]

Language is in constant flux

Were it not, we would all be grunting & gesticulating

[cee-dee]

But isn't that what a lot of young people do?

[tawe59]

My pet hate is "two time".It's TWICE.Sport commentaries drive me nuts.They use that phrase alot.My grand children often used it.Just the other day one of them said they were going on "VACATION". I blame Walt Disney.I had an aunty that often visited relatives in the US.Thirty years ago she said that the English-language would disappear, as Americans were bit by bit changing the way it's both written and pronounced.Now I'm seeing exactly what she meant.

[artful_dodgings]

'Amazing' is the most over used word in the English language. Everything good is amazing. Never fantastic, brilliant, fabulous, terrific, beautiful, wonderful, astonishing, overwhelming, stunning, awesome, staggering,  phenomenal, remarkable, excellent, magnificent, appealing, breathtaking, charming, exquisite, enchanting, impressive, delightful, pleasurable, etc, etc. Everything is amazing.

What an amazing thread !

[bankhaunter]

Unfortunately the size people's vocabularly is declining.

But never forget there are forty fousand feavers on a frushes froat.

[hightara]

I did really laugh............ I am from northern ireland....... (not the soft irish lilt) but the grating sound of every mish-mash of dialects. 

However.........as some of you may know.... my son Mark has autism (now 18) and from the age of 4 he had an american accent, they called it echolalia.

Though now he sounds half irish/ american as he adapts it. 

It is only when some one points outs that they have difficulty translating you, that you find out how slang you are. (ie: when I phone up england,scotland, wales and other countries) they cannot make out that I am saying.

Even with my posh voice (posh grating voice) 🙂