At the behest of 3G I thought I'd post this, it may offer some respite from the heavy political stuff. 3G, naughty boy, irked me somewhat when he used a phrase that really annoys me: 'End of!' Not only is it grammatically incorrect, it rarely signifies the end of anything. I mentioned others that raise my ire: 'Do the math' - no, just tell ,me, thanks - and, spoken, often at the bar 'Can I get a...' - no, you can't, the staff will get it for you. Only yesterday, someone actually said to another, within my earshot (and that's pretty close) 'LOL'. She should have been shot, right there. What phrases annoy you? 

Phrases and words made up by our American cousins!  We gave them a language they should be good enough to use it properly!  End of........

Great topic mercuryg.

Now I am thinking of all the irritating things I say.

Hey Ho!

Whatever!

The only geordie phrase that starts to wear a bit thin after a while  is  someone  who  says  An Ye Knaa like after every two or three words, 

But at the moment I am tired of hearing from our politicians ,

We are all in this together 

We’re standing up for hard-working taxpayers, and  families

We want to do what’s right for the nation

Our long term economic plan

Reducing the deficit 

And a constant repeating of Mr speaker, Mr speaker, .Mr speaker.

 

As for politicians........everytime you hear......."the British People" the next words are normally exaggerations of meaningless lies.........same goes for "the American People...." 

2 hours ago, Malcolm Robinson said:

As for politicians........everytime you hear......."the British People" the next words are normally exaggerations of meaningless lies.........same goes for "the American People...." 

I know their telling Lies when I see their lips move.

Definitely not getting involved in this one. I find them all fascinating.

The plague of "like";  it's everywhere!  I'm sure it started in Essex, like, on that stupid scripted reality telly show, and, like, it's spread like [not that like] the pox.  The young are to blame.  Bast*rds!

Oh, and the classic Toryscum ... "hard working families".  Again, bast*rds!

Edited March 26, 201610 yr by Symptoms

I get very annoyed when I hear the exaggerations “the town is reeling in shock, stunned or everyone is devastated etc” No we aren't, we may be annoyed or surprised etc but the use of the exaggerated words to imply everyone is almost incapacitated when in fact not everyone knows or cares of incident.

I never could understand the “rules” of our language but I recognise they are needed so we are all on the same page. I find it very annoying when the people who use our language for a living, like the newspapers use it so badly and to having to read headline over and over to try understand what they are saying.

It used to annoy me how the Americans change (use, abuse) our language (and spelling) but then it is always changing and as long as it is effectively communicating is it all that bad! But politicians seem to have their own language!

I do hope this is a fake .

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