Stop saying "Demond" !!!

[bunglesprout]

A chap i occasionally work with always mangles the language, for example -

"I need more detail, can you give me a Pacific example of that please? "

When his mother was on hospital he came out with - "she's pretty poorly at the moment to be honest, she can't get out of bed for the toilet. She's had to have a cafetière fitted"

[227bhp]

Learn2MergeInTurn said:

The word circa really pisses me off

"the repair was circa £200"

Why not just say "the repair was around £200"

fk.

You're in the wrong thread.

[Europa1]

bunglesprout said:

A chap i occasionally work with always mangles the language, for example -

"I need more detail, can you give me a Pacific example of that please? "

When his mother was on hospital he came out with - "she's pretty poorly at the moment to be honest, she can't get out of bed for the toilet. She's had to have a cafetière fitted"

On "Four in a Bed" the other other day one of the B&B owners was complaining that the "cafeteria" on the drinks tray in their room was too small.

[Johnnytheboy]

Einion Yrth said:

Johnnytheboy said:

Someone at work today going on about the mythical painkiller "Ibrufen".

You mean
(RS)-2-(4-(2-Methylpropyl)phenyl)propanoic acid
Was originally marketted as "Brufen", so mythical? Perhaps misremembered.

They meant Ibruprofen. Whereas that is pronounced with emphasis on the 'pro', they kept saying it with emphasis on the 'bru'.

[Jimmy Recard]

Johnnytheboy said:

They meant Ibruprofen. Whereas that is pronounced with emphasis on the 'pro', they kept saying it with emphasis on the 'bru'.

Not ibuprofen?

[anonymous-user]

227bhp said:

Learn2MergeInTurn said:

The word circa really pisses me off

"the repair was circa £200"

Why not just say "the repair was around £200"

fk.

You're in the wrong thread.

I am in the wrong thread, Apologies.

[ChilliWhizz]

Innivotive... Gaaah... I want to punch people when I hear that....

[gareth_r]

"Very fun", as in "It was very fun.".

Admittedly, "fun", in colloquial English, sometimes appears to be an adjective. However, "very fun" just sounds wrong, like "very brick".

It seems to crop up in almost every American television programme or film that I watch.

[V8Matthew]

"All swinging all dancing"

"Repeating it rabbit fashion"

PARROT PARROT PARROT PARROT PARROT!

[robsa]

'Jackal and hide' is very irritating, and also makes me wonder what the person has pictured in their head when saying it

And possibly a controversial one.... 'you have another thing coming' instead of 'you have another think coming'

[Eric Mc]

robsa said:

'Jackal

And possibly a controversial one.... 'you have another thing coming' instead of 'you have another think coming'

Never heard of the latter - did you just make it up?

[vx220]

Eric Mc said:

Never heard of the latter - did you just make it up?

Judas Priest

[crossy67]

He's good people seems to be creeping in.

[Europa1]

V8Matthew said:

"All swinging all dancing"

Maybe they have a, ahem, lively social life

[Eric Mc]

crossy67 said:

He's good people seems to be creeping in.

As is an inability to use quotation marks.

[Dagnir]

robsa said:

'Jackal and hide' is very irritating, and also makes me wonder what the person has pictured in their head when saying it

And possibly a controversial one.... 'you have another thing coming' instead of 'you have another think coming'

You're going to have to explain that one, I think.

[Europa1]

Dagnir said:

robsa said:

'Jackal and hide' is very irritating, and also makes me wonder what the person has pictured in their head when saying it

And possibly a controversial one.... 'you have another thing coming' instead of 'you have another think coming'

You're going to have to explain that one, I think.

Yes, please.

[DonkeyApple]

Europa1 said:

Dagnir said:

robsa said:

'Jackal and hide' is very irritating, and also makes me wonder what the person has pictured in their head when saying it

And possibly a controversial one.... 'you have another thing coming' instead of 'you have another think coming'

You're going to have to explain that one, I think.

Yes, please.

Not the Jekyll part I assume but the 'think' bit?

Everyone seems to say 'thing', but what thing? What is this thing that is coming and if it's another one then this implies you already have one so you know what it is so it isn't a 'thing'.

However, it's meant to be 'think' as in you'll be needing to rethink matters if this happens. The implication being that someone hasn't fully thought their plan through and needs to go back to the drawing board.

[Dagnir]

DonkeyApple said:

Not the Jekyll part I assume but the 'think' bit?

Everyone seems to say 'thing', but what thing? What is this thing that is coming and if it's another one then this implies you already have one so you know what it is so it isn't a 'thing'.

However, it's meant to be 'think' as in you'll be needing to rethink matters if this happens. The implication being that someone hasn't fully thought their plan through and needs to go back to the drawing board.

Haha, seriously?

[Eric Mc]

This is all new to me.

I need to be educated. Can we have some literary examples of people using the proper "think" word instead of "thing"?