What phrase or high jacked word bugs you ?

[Jules]

Do young folks shorten words because they really don’t know the full word. I sus that’s what‘s happening. Our dictionaries are changing.

 

[Mitch86]

"Some die too young while others live too long."

 

[Sunkist]

Me and Monica went to the store.
Give the parcel to Monica and I.
I’s and Monica’s parcel has arrived.

There's a local politician who always does that 'me and..' thing..

 

[Sunkist]

Do young folks shorten words because they really don’t know the full word. I sus that’s what‘s happening. Our dictionaries are changing.

One I think is kind of new, probably another fad like Valspeak, Vocalfry, etc., is leaving out some of the letters in words.. for example, there's some ad/commercial on t.v. where the young woman should have said 'student,' but instead says 'stu-ent.'
If it's just another fad, I hope it goes away soon!

 

[January]

I must be among the very few who not only isn't annoyed by "it is what it is,"

I must be among the very few who aren't annoyed by any of this - I find language interesting but can't share the same "I can't stand" feeling about any catch phrases.

 

[PeppermintPatty]

Another one for ‘My bad.’

 

[Sunkist]

How about 'In my day..' or 'In your day..' I'm always tempted to ask 'Which day was that?'

 

[Della]

One I think is kind of new, probably another fad like Valspeak, Vocalfry, etc., is leaving out some of the letters in words.. for example, there's some ad/commercial on t.v. where the young woman should have said 'student,' but instead says 'stu-ent.'
If it's just another fad, I hope it goes away soon!

Those central consonants seem to give lots of people trouble and it drives me crazy. When I lived in the south I got very tired of hearing people change the "t" to a "d, saying impordant for important. All the time. Nancy Grace is a criminal lawyer who can't pronounce sentence. She always says sennance.

Prepare yourselves for "insane." I seem to hear it constantly these days. I think it's going to replace amazing. Everything from his shirt to your sandwich is insane now.

 

[Brookswood]

Karen. It’s a perfectly good name for a female. Why is it used to describe jerks?

Adoption. Why do we use it for pets? That is insulting to human children who have been adopting.

 

[VaughanJB]

So many. But I'll begin with "research". It's been replaced with a quick Google search, and only reading the first page of hits.

 

[BeefStu]

It is what it is.

As much as I hate this I have to admit that there have been times when I couldn't think of anything else to say that remotely covered the situation any better!!!

 

[OneEyedDiva]

It irks me to hear people say the "changed out" this or that. There's redundancy built in that expression. To change something means you took it out or off or down, whatever and replaced it. And it's poor grammar (IMO). I remember the days when it was "I changed the light bulb", not I "changed out" the lightbulb. I think I've just heard it too much when watching the home buying shows.

I'm also not fond of hearing people refer to their child(ren) as "my kid" or "the kids". My son posted this perfect meme about that years ago.

 

[MoBeans]

slippery slope

 

[January]

I'm also not fond of hearing people refer to their child(ren) as "my kid" or "the kids"

Good luck in Australia - everyone uses this term for children