You all use phrases or colloquialisms your parents would have thought was 'bad grammar' or 'gibberish'. Ever said Will do, see you soon, "alright?", cheers, or piss off? None are shining examples of the Queen's English but common phrases none the less.
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Don't normally get too involved in spelling and grammar but I know you know better....l
You all use phrases or colloquialisms your parents would have thought was 'bad grammar' or 'gibberish'. Ever said Will do, see you soon, "alright?", cheers, or piss off? None are shining examples of the Queen's English but common phrases none the less.
*were*
Don't normally get too involved in spelling and grammar but I know you know better....l
You all use phrases or colloquialisms your parents would have thought was 'bad grammar' or 'gibberish'. Ever said Will do, see you soon, "alright?", cheers, or piss off? None are shining examples of the Queen's English but common phrases none the less.
Go away, 'My bad' is utter pish. Go on admit it, you use it.....
So what if I do? Most people under the age of 40 do as well.
Is your irritation at what the younger generation say the same irritation younger people get whenever older folks says things like 'download from the google' or 'my email box is full'?
Maybe, if you're from Sevenoaks or Chichester
Heard it loads in places like Manchester, Sheffield, Liverpool, London. Maybe you don't hear it often in rural France for some reason.
Not with the French, but a lot of the middle class Londoners Australian, Kiwi, Home County types I deal with, are the sorts who would use It, as they're also partial to "can I get..... " and so I'm always ready to punch em in the throat in case they do
You all use phrases or colloquialisms your parents would have thought was 'bad grammar' or 'gibberish'. Ever said Will do, see you soon, "alright?", cheers, or piss off? None are shining examples of the Queen's English but common phrases none the less.
Go away, 'My bad' is utter pish. Go on admit it, you use it.....
So what if I do? Most people under the age of 40 do as well.
Is your irritation at what the younger generation say the same irritation younger people get whenever older folks says things like 'download from the google' or 'my email box is full'?
Maybe, if you're from Sevenoaks or Chichester
Heard it loads in places like Manchester, Sheffield, Liverpool, London. Maybe you don't hear it often in rural France for some reason.
Not with the French, but a lot of the middle class Londoners Australian, Kiwi, Home County types I deal with, are the sorts who would use It, as they're also partial to "can I get..... " and so I'm always ready to punch em in the throat in case they do
Good to see everyone getting along... Fiish you are in the middle of it again... Someone must be having his afternoon nap, otherwise he would be having a field day with grammar.
You all use phrases or colloquialisms your parents would have thought was 'bad grammar' or 'gibberish'. Ever said Will do, see you soon, "alright?", cheers, or piss off? None are shining examples of the Queen's English but common phrases none the less.
Go away, 'My bad' is utter pish. Go on admit it, you use it.....
So what if I do? Most people under the age of 40 do as well.
Is your irritation at what the younger generation say the same irritation younger people get whenever older folks says things like 'download from the google' or 'my email box is full'?
No, my irritation is that people who use it sound like utter morons, thats all, believe me, you do. Because it makes no sense and you also sound like a 3 year old learning to speak. And also it highlight that you are sheep and have given no intelligent thought that it might be a wank thing to say.
Well done, "I know Ill show the nasty man a picture". You really are 3.
'Everyone who doesn't speak the way I think is correct is unintelligent and a sheep! You're a 3 year old!'
People who don't follow the 07xxx xxx xxx phone number format for mobiles (and 020x xxx xxxx for landline)
Good one Yoni - being in telesales numbers and area codes are a big thing for me
Copying and pasting a number from a website into our crm really winds me up if not written as above
Mobile numbers here consist of 9 digits, beginning with the number 9. The simple way would be 9XX XXX XXX but for some reason a lot of people write it 9X XXXXXXX.
When a friend invites a group of you out for dinner to celebrate his retirement having said he will pay for dinner, then on arrival announcing he is paying for the drinks (just the drinks). The 10 of us then asking for separate bills as a result and the restaurant owner huffing about it, even though without us he would have had 3 people in all night. And then half way through the starter cracking a tooth.
When a friend invites a group of you out for dinner to celebrate his retirement having said he will pay for dinner, then on arrival announcing he is paying for the drinks (just the drinks). The 10 of us then asking for separate bills as a result and the restaurant owner huffing about it, even though without us he would have had 3 people in all night. And then half way through the starter cracking a tooth.
I have had better nights out...
I’d have been ordering champagne and cocktails all night if he was paying for the drInks
When a friend invites a group of you out for dinner to celebrate his retirement having said he will pay for dinner, then on arrival announcing he is paying for the drinks (just the drinks). The 10 of us then asking for separate bills as a result and the restaurant owner huffing about it, even though without us he would have had 3 people in all night. And then half way through the starter cracking a tooth.
I have had better nights out...
I’d have been ordering champagne and cocktails all night if he was paying for the drInks
When a friend invites a group of you out for dinner to celebrate his retirement having said he will pay for dinner, then on arrival announcing he is paying for the drinks (just the drinks). The 10 of us then asking for separate bills as a result and the restaurant owner huffing about it, even though without us he would have had 3 people in all night. And then half way through the starter cracking a tooth.
I have had better nights out...
I’d have been ordering champagne and cocktails all night if he was paying for the drInks
It was tempting... we did have a more expensive bottle of wine than usual, and another mate was on G & T rather than his usual beer or cider....
When a friend invites a group of you out for dinner to celebrate his retirement having said he will pay for dinner, then on arrival announcing he is paying for the drinks (just the drinks). The 10 of us then asking for separate bills as a result and the restaurant owner huffing about it, even though without us he would have had 3 people in all night. And then half way through the starter cracking a tooth.
I have had better nights out...
I’d have been ordering champagne and cocktails all night if he was paying for the drInks
I might have just gone home.
We had enough money on us to pay, if we hadn't then we might well have done so Iainment. I really did feel like it once my tooth went.
Going in to work on a Sunday. Trundling to the station, missed the train, decide to get a bus to another station and a different route. The bus driver is clearly under instruction and going along at 5 miles an hour. Get to a bus stop, a woman gets on, spends 5 mins moaning because it’s not the usual bus (it’s a double decker rather than a single), says it’s just as well she looked at the number otherwise she wouldn’t have known what bus it was (what does she normally do?!?!?). Arrive at train station and find the next 2 trains are cancelled....
Order an Uber and spend the next minute muttering to myself.... “Everybody is a c@nt”
Teachers ought to encouraged to speak in terms accessible to those they are teaching instead of enforcing what the previous generation might consider to be better English (in their own opinion).
The problem with this is when it reaches the real world. A teacher might deem "my bad", "innit" or any other nonsense phrase that they think endears them to the "kids" as appropriate, but when that pupil sits in front of a future employer in the professional world and utters such gibberish, then they aren't going far. If teachers (and Cambridge University) have any aspirations for their pupils, then they should stick to what is appropriate, rather than what is seen as cool (and the same goes for tattoos all over your body and the inability to tuck a shirt in / polish a pair of shoes...)
Out with the dog this morning and saw a woman pulling out of a junction with a cereal bowl (with a spoon in it) in one hand and the other hand on the steering wheel. I had to take a second look, as I just couldn't believe it.
Teachers ought to encouraged to speak in terms accessible to those they are teaching instead of enforcing what the previous generation might consider to be better English (in their own opinion).
The problem with this is when it reaches the real world. A teacher might deem "my bad", "innit" or any other nonsense phrase that they think endears them to the "kids" as appropriate, but when that pupil sits in front of a future employer in the professional world and utters such gibberish, then they aren't going far. If teachers (and Cambridge University) have any aspirations for their pupils, then they should stick to what is appropriate, rather than what is seen as cool (and the same goes for tattoos all over your body and the inability to tuck a shirt in / polish a pair of shoes...)
Bit of a hyperbole there. You consider it a nonsense phrase. Most people don't, hence why it has entered the common lexicon. I imagine you've never attended any kind of teacher training or pedagogy lesson, because probably the quickest way to turn off your students is to reprimand them for the way they talk when it has nothing to do with the lesson at hand. If they are being given training for an interview then yes, by all means teach them that employers will expect formal conversation and to avoid colloquialisms. Otherwise just carry on with the lesson. Teachers have far more to be getting on with than trying to get their students to speak in the what the previous generation considers to be formal language. Also a bit out of order for someone who is a guest in the classroom to come on here behind their back and criticise the teacher when they themselves don't seem to have as good a grasp on the English language as they think. Seems like the only person who would have had a problem with what happened in that classroom was the one person who didn't even need to be there.
Out with the dog this morning and saw a woman pulling out of a junction with a cereal bowl (with a spoon in it) in one hand and the other hand on the steering wheel. I had to take a second look, as I just couldn't believe it.
Out with the dog this morning and saw a woman pulling out of a junction with a cereal bowl (with a spoon in it) in one hand and the other hand on the steering wheel. I had to take a second look, as I just couldn't believe it.
Out with the dog this morning and saw a woman pulling out of a junction with a cereal bowl (with a spoon in it) in one hand and the other hand on the steering wheel. I had to take a second look, as I just couldn't believe it.
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Don't normally get too involved in spelling and grammar but I know you know better....l
My bad.LondonersAustralian, Kiwi, Home County types I deal with, are the sorts who would use It, as they're also partial to "can I get..... " and so I'm always ready to punch em in the throat in case they doerm - that's 2 words surely?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3515520/Are-grammar-Nazi-Language-pedants-likely-introverted-disagreeable.html
Copying and pasting a number from a website into our crm really winds me up if not written as above
Unique.
"We're not going out, we're going out out"
The London Grammar Police.
(Saunters out the door with coat in hand)
I have had better nights out...
Order an Uber and spend the next minute muttering to myself.... “Everybody is a c@nt”