Popular expressions/words that need to be banned.

[neo_wales]

I didn’t use the ellipsis correctly once in my post (so none of them are technically ellipses). I don’t necessarily agree that people writing, by any means, is beneficial. I really don’t remember seeing as poor grammar as in the past 5 years or so. I’m early 30s so it’s not generations away from me. IMO a lot of people feel validated in their errors and low standards, and it has normalised in certain pockets of society. It’s en par with people not being able to count up in their heads and not able to tell the time on an analogue clock, both which are realities in under 20s in particular nowadays unfortunately. It’s not about people having genuine issues or making mistakes, it’s about these low standards becoming “the new normal”, along with all the infuriating statements < see what I did there

Well Herbert thats life the times they are a changin mate and nowt you can do about it so move on.

Best you don't read these articles, you'll have nightmares

Simples, whatevs and Jedi added to dictionary

Jafaican, sumfin and chillax also appear in the Oxford English Dictionary October 2019 list.

www.bbc.co.uk

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New words list June 2020 | Oxford English Dictionary

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[Lulabella_Mozzarella2]

‘Haul’!! ‘Haul?? - no hun, it’s what you bought when you went for Asda! The rest of us call it food shopping!! Urghhhh!!

 

[bubbadabut]

Apologies if it's been said but "self-care". I'd never heard this term before lockdown, and when I did first hear it I assumed it referred to taking care of oneself sexually.

 

[MarthaFarkus]

Get in the bin

Similarly ‘get in the sea’.

 

[Shestheman22]

I thought that too but a few people have insisted ‘no it’s should OF’ and they carry on saying it’s a regional accent, what a bizarre theory. I understand some accents say ‘me’ when they mean ‘my’ but they know the correct spelling is my. Even one girl I know says and writes ‘praptice’ for practise/practice and she honestly think it is pronounced with a p!

I have to admit I do say things incorrectly because of where I’m from e.g. them instead of those, me instead of my, but I know what the correct words are when I write them! The ‘should of’ thing makes me rageeeeee

 

[Shestheman22]

‘I’m gonna go psycho’

So annoying. Even worse when people can’t spell and put ‘physco’

 

[Sosig]

"If you know you know"

 

[Amyx1518]

Just heard someone say it and it reminded me of one of my big bug bears - 9pm at night, or 4am in the morning —why??? One or the other, but not both!!!

 

[MrsJones83]

“You get me” after very other sentence

 

[They See Me Trolling...]

At the back of.

E.g. I’ll see you at the back of 10

NOBODY KNOWS WHAT IT MEANS!!!

 

[SpiceWeasel]

Reaching out! You don’t hear it so much here but it’s catching on, very popular in the US!

As in ‘such a person has reached out and invited us over for dinner’

or on an email ‘thanks for reaching out...’

Urgh!!! It creeps me out and makes me want to say I’m not a charity case, I don’t want to be part of your reaching out program

 

[Hello Kitty]

Reaching out! You don’t hear it so much here but it’s catching on, very popular in the US!

As in ‘such a person has reached out and invited us over for dinner’

or on an email ‘thanks for reaching out...’

Urgh!!! It creeps me out and makes me want to say I’m not a charity case, I don’t want to be part of your reaching out program

My work use this alot and it's annoying

 

[bubbadabut]

Reaching out! You don’t hear it so much here but it’s catching on, very popular in the US!

As in ‘such a person has reached out and invited us over for dinner’

or on an email ‘thanks for reaching out...’

Urgh!!! It creeps me out and makes me want to say I’m not a charity case, I don’t want to be part of your reaching out program

I really hate this. I see it often in newspaper reports "we reached out to xxxx for a comment". About as annoying as "gotten" and "can I get...?"

 

[SpiceWeasel]

I really hate this. I see it often in newspaper reports "we reached out to xxxx for a comment". About as annoying as "gotten" and "can I get...?"

I can't stand 'can I get...' either in a bar/restaurant for example. It's 'can I have' or preferably 'please may I have'!

 

[Thechubbymoaner]

I love you infinity

What the actual duck

 

[Amyx1518]

Gotten instead of got. It’s not a bloody word!!!

 

[hiya_hun]

I googled star week

Which reminded me of the phrase "on the blob"

Let's bring back 'aunt flow has come to town'

 

[hrh89]

adulting

influencers seem to love this one.

also hate these new phrases like “body count” (To me this refers to serial killers right???? since when did it mean how many people you’ve slept with?

and “fit”? Just say outfit ffs.

 

[Love_hate_small_town]

OBsessed, it is what it is, toooo funny.

 

[WordSalad]

Ending sentences with no?
It's annoying, no?