Gluestick Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 Nothing to do with France (or politics![;-)]) except perhaps when one is brushing up one's French language, construction and words become more important. (Who honestly remembered what prepositions were?)What modern idiom annoys you? [:@]Me: it's things like "But I mean.........." at the beginning of a sentence when nothing has already been stated which wasn't what you actually intended! Well come on, either you mean what you are going to say, or you don't!Also using nouns as verbs, such as "Texed" and "Texted". Urghhhh! And "Clubbing".I'm sure Dick Smith will have summat to say here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russethouse Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 'Very unique' brings out the grumpy old woman in me - it's either unique or it isn't.'I'll send you an invite' I guess Dick will say this could be correct, but what happened to the word 'invitation' ? [:(] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viv Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 basically....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tresco Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 What's wrong with 'clubbing'?[:)]I remember a similar thread quite a long time ago where I irked a few people by saying I don't like 'to be honest with you...'So I won't be making that mistake again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 I'm all in favour of language change. Your example of making a noun out of a verb was a great favourite of Shakespeare's, and makes good sense, and 'invitation' smacks of a false Latinate expression of the 18th century.My bête noir is people who use odd phrases from foreign languages to make themselves look well-educated. Oh, and, uh, people who like, umm, hesitate all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viv Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 [quote user="Dick Smith"]my bête noir is people who use odd phrases from foreign languages to make themselves look well-educated..[/quote]mange tout, mange tout; Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tresco Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 Yuck Dick. I prefer 'invitation'. 'Invite' sounds American (sorry chaps!).[:$]I can't help myself. Here are two more:'I'm not being funny, but....''Are you wi' me?' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceni Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 One time (except in one time carbon) and two times.Though the use of the former is v funny in American Pie.Johnnot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Riff-Raff Element Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 "Gobsmacked."This drives me quite mad. Language may evolve but I incline strongly tothe view that it should at least try to do so with a degree of elegance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Smith Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 Ah, but in amongst the elegance one must also allow for the well-timed kick in the lingusitic goolies... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bedders Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 "Gobsmacked."I'll "take a rain check" on that expression (at the end of the day) Bedders Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Riff-Raff Element Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 [quote user="Dick Smith"]Ah, but in amongst the elegance one must alsoallow for the well-timed kick in the lingusitic goolies...[/quote]True, true, but even so it is a deeply horrible expression. I wonder were it evolved from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Katie Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 [quote user="jond"]"Gobsmacked."This drives me quite mad. Language may evolve but I incline strongly to the view that it should at least try to do so with a degree of elegance.[/quote]Oh Jond I am cringing now, I said gobsmacked today. I am with viva people who start sentences with basically.I saw an advert in the paper this week 'the most invisible hearing aid in the world'. How can it me more invisible than invisible? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iceni Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 Google says>> The phrase rain check has at least three senses, of which the original and literal is now the least common. A rain check was once a ticket (that's the check part) for future use issued to spectators at an outdoor event that has been postponed or interrupted by rain. The sense you are asking about is a transferred sense, one that has the same basic meaning but applied to a different set of circumstances: 'a voucher entitling a customer to purchase at a later date and for the same price a sale item that is temporarily out of stock'. Divorced from the context of outdoor events, there is, as you point out, no logical explanation for the "rain" part, but the main meaning--a ticket allowing you to do later what you were prevented, through no fault of your own, from doing now--is the same. Finally, there is a figurative sense, 'an offered or requested postponement of an invitation until a more convenient, usually unspecified time'. The literal sense of rain check, which is an Americanism, is first found in the 1880s in reference to a baseball game. The practice of giving a rain check to a ticketholder was formalized in 1890 in the constitution of the National League. >>Most quotations are attributed to Shakespeare, the bible and/or Mark Twain so take your pick.Johnnot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Katie Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 People who ask you something, wait for you to tell them, then come back saying "urrrh too much informayshun". What makes me really want to kick them is if they do the little inverted commas thing with their fingers at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoddy Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 Basically, to be honest with you, I have to say that at this moment in time I get teed off with weather forecasters who tell me that the clouds are bubbling up.I didn't know that clouds could bubble.Hoddy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarlett Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 Wake up and smell the coffee, we should revisit this subject later - that would be pretty cool, especially when said by someone 30+. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Katie Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 THE "C" WORD........AAAGGGGHHHH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bedders Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 I saw an advert in the paper this week 'the most invisible hearing aid in the world'. How can it me more invisible than invisible?That's technology for you, they must be getting less visible by the minute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Katie Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 Am I bovvered? whatever. Talk to the hand not the face.......Oooh I like this thread. Yorkshire people who go to spain and stay in one pub because pint of boddingtons is chaeper than in frog a duck down rord. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monika Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 I hate the expression "a tad", but I don't really know why. MOH hates the word "bespoke", especially when used by Julian Glegg to describe the "Shipping Forecast" on Radio Solent in the Morning at 6.45. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suze01 Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 To all intents and purposes...My English teacher, who was from Georgia, used to say it all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Coeur de Lion Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 The teenage girl usage of te word "so" is so annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teamedup Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 'I know where you're coming from'............................................. beurk!Partner.................................... what utter tripe that little word is....... Already you............. We have been away so long that sometimes people would be talking to us when we were back in the UK and we would be glancing at one another as some things just sounded like poppyco ck. We have never lived in an atmosphere where it is used ie the UK, so don't use it ourselves. Gus's dialogue on Drop the Dead Donkey illustrates so well, all that nonsense speak we've missed out on. In french there is 'hein', quite quite horrible.Sometimes when I am in England I will ask friends if the french word I feel like I have to use is 'the' word in english and usually it is. I really try and avoid using french words but sometimes there is no alternative, I too think it sounds pretentious. I wish I could just pop it into conversation like Delboy does, now that is a hoot. And my husband hates 'drawring'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russethouse Posted April 10, 2006 Share Posted April 10, 2006 I daresay this is 'wrong' too but I hate it when people say 'it doesn't notice' as in your slip is showing or this vase is cracked. How can it notice anything ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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