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There has been numerous threads covering this sort of thing. My pet hates are swap out, can i get, ketchup, awful word (its tomato sauce or red sauce FFS. We also seem to be using season instead of series (although that usually applies to some s
te American show anyway. While we are at it why has the date format changed all of a sudden?
te American show anyway. While we are at it why has the date format changed all of a sudden? wildcat45 said:
Perhaps the OP picked on the wrong word, but evolving language or not, certain terms although correct can be annoying.
Why did railway stations become train stations? It's not wrong, but to me it sounds childish, like something a little kid as yet without an extensive vocabulary would use.
Mummy "What did we do? We went on a.....?". Kid "Twain". Mummy "That's right, and where did we get the train
?". Kid "Twain station?". Mummy "That's right the train station"
To me it sounds as odd as a grown up saying "Horsy" or "Moo cow" or "Bunny rabbit" when talking normally.
I am glad English evolves, but I guess (see I used an Americanism which will annoy some) it's not always for the best.
I have American family, one of whom came to live in the UK. A common language, so far apart. She was staying at our house when I was about 15. I'd had a teenage strop with my mum. She defused the disagreement unintentionally by stating "You two have been fighting all morning". Me and my mum burst out laughing. Fighting? Like we had been slugging it out, punch for punch occasionally resorting to baseball bats from time to time."
To her fighting meant arguing.
When I was at University (Not Uni because I am not in an Aussie soap) the same American relative kept asking me how I was finding school?
But our language does evolve, for good and bad, from the rising inflection of antipodean origin from TV shows like neighbours, to Indian slang like Pukka from the days of empire to terms from Shakespeare Del Boy and Arfur Dailey.
I agree about train station no matter how illogical it may be, and will add 'testing out' (trying), 'watching on' (looking), and doubtless others when my aged and beer addled brain wakes. Oh yes: "I was sleeping" rather than 'asleep'... Why did railway stations become train stations? It's not wrong, but to me it sounds childish, like something a little kid as yet without an extensive vocabulary would use.
Mummy "What did we do? We went on a.....?". Kid "Twain". Mummy "That's right, and where did we get the train
?". Kid "Twain station?". Mummy "That's right the train station"
To me it sounds as odd as a grown up saying "Horsy" or "Moo cow" or "Bunny rabbit" when talking normally.
I am glad English evolves, but I guess (see I used an Americanism which will annoy some) it's not always for the best.
I have American family, one of whom came to live in the UK. A common language, so far apart. She was staying at our house when I was about 15. I'd had a teenage strop with my mum. She defused the disagreement unintentionally by stating "You two have been fighting all morning". Me and my mum burst out laughing. Fighting? Like we had been slugging it out, punch for punch occasionally resorting to baseball bats from time to time."
To her fighting meant arguing.
When I was at University (Not Uni because I am not in an Aussie soap) the same American relative kept asking me how I was finding school?
But our language does evolve, for good and bad, from the rising inflection of antipodean origin from TV shows like neighbours, to Indian slang like Pukka from the days of empire to terms from Shakespeare Del Boy and Arfur Dailey.
Edited by wildcat45 on Saturday 1st November 16:35
Edited by wildcat45 on Saturday 1st November 16:37
Now, where's my wireless?
Yawn, the tri-monthly PH language thread.
It's my view that our language is regressing not developing, why we have to speak like Meercans is quite beyond me and I hold them todally responsible for bdising our language and the unimaginative for copying it.
It seems as though everyone I come across inserts the word 'like' several times into every sentence; 'It's like', 'we're like', 'an am like'. Everything is described as 'nice'. Some oaf on here even typed 'and it's like' onto one of his posts the other day.
We have such a varied and colourful language, yet we largely ignore it. There are so many adjectives you could use to describe something so why settle for the sick making N word? Read any thread on here: Nice car, nice meal, that was nice, he was a nice man.
It means absolutely nothing. You might as well have saved your energy posting up that drivel for all that it told me.
It's great to learn and use new words, I always thought it would be a great idea to have 'Word of the day' or 'My word of the moment' thread, but fear it would go down like a lead balloon. I once heard someone on a building site (seriously) call someone a 'Bombastic tt', it makes me chuckle even now.
My grasp and use of our language isn't so great, but It's so enjoyable to hear or read a wordsmith at work, yet all we want to resemble is something from the past, dumb down and drop in line with the moronic masses.
And that islike so not nice so sad.
It's my view that our language is regressing not developing, why we have to speak like Meercans is quite beyond me and I hold them todally responsible for b
dising our language and the unimaginative for copying it.It seems as though everyone I come across inserts the word 'like' several times into every sentence; 'It's like', 'we're like', 'an am like'. Everything is described as 'nice'. Some oaf on here even typed 'and it's like' onto one of his posts the other day.
We have such a varied and colourful language, yet we largely ignore it. There are so many adjectives you could use to describe something so why settle for the sick making N word? Read any thread on here: Nice car, nice meal, that was nice, he was a nice man.
It means absolutely nothing. You might as well have saved your energy posting up that drivel for all that it told me.
It's great to learn and use new words, I always thought it would be a great idea to have 'Word of the day' or 'My word of the moment' thread, but fear it would go down like a lead balloon. I once heard someone on a building site (seriously) call someone a 'Bombastic t
t', it makes me chuckle even now.My grasp and use of our language isn't so great, but It's so enjoyable to hear or read a wordsmith at work, yet all we want to resemble is something from the past, dumb down and drop in line with the moronic masses.
And that is
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