Wrong words

[User482]

It's an Irish'ism, isn't it?

It's quite endearing when used colloquially in an Irish accent. No, I find it intensly irritating when a sales person asks "would that be acceptable to yourself" or "if you have any further questions, please contact myself". It's "you" and "me", FFS!

 

[Haitch]

[quote name='swee'pea99']One of the interesting things coming out of businessspeak ('going forward' and the like) in the verbalisation of nouns. [/QUOTE]


Ain't no noun that can't be verbed!

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Ain't no noun that can't be verbed!

 

[User482]

Yeah. "Wait while Friday and you'll gerrit back then"

That's a dialect thing in parts of Lancashire too. I reckon it'd be fun if Dolly Parton re-recorded "9 while 5".

 

[Arch]

It's quite endearing when used colloquially in an Irish accent. No, I find it intensly irritating when a sales person asks "would that be acceptable to yourself" or "if you have any further questions, please contact myself". It's "you" and "me", FFS!

Exactly, the Irish way is different to the sales-speak way - don't the Irish say things like "is it yourself there?", or "didn't I just see himself coming out of the bookies", while salespeople seems to use it in an attempt to sound wordy and clever...

My Mum also hates it when people say 'we' to her, when they mean 'you', like when she was having physio on her wrist and the nurse insisted on saying "how are we today?", or "can we pick that up?" as if she was a baby...

 

[bobg]

Listen to the politicians and pudits on Radio 4 talking about the economy floundering.... it's a goddam fish!!

 

[swee'pea99]

Yeah - and we've all haddock.

(I'll get me coat)

 

[bobg]

[quote name='swee'pea99']Yeah - and we've all haddock.

(I'll get me coat)[/quote]

my

 

[Bokonon]

ie in place of eg.

ie=id est, eg=exempli gratia. Once you understand this it's not difficult to get it wrong.

 

[ComedyPilot]

I'm sure I've ranted about this before, but it grates when I hear people say, 'we was just going out", or just as bad, "that's what I were thinking about"

Surely it's 'we were' and 'I was?'

 

[Rhythm Thief]

I'm sure I've ranted about this before, but it grates when I hear people say, 'we was just going out", or just as bad, "that's what I were thinking about"

Surely it's 'we were' and 'I was?'

Crossing the line into dialect again ... as a Yorkshireman who lived in the West Midlands for fifteen years, I'm guilty of both of these particular sins occasionally.

 

[Fab Foodie]

'air on the side of safety' irritates me more than it should!

Shoudn't that be "Err on the side of safety"?

 

[ComedyPilot]

Crossing the line into dialect again ... as a Yorkshireman who lived in the West Midlands for fifteen years, I'm guilty of both of these particular sins occasionally.

I'm a Yorkshireman living an Yorkshire. Dialect to me is like saying, 'I'm off to t'pub'

This (IMO) is misusing 'was' and 'were'

 

[Fab Foodie]

I've never, ever written a text in textspeak. Mine are always properly punctuated too. Jesus, I'm either getting old or turning into Lynne Truss (although now I think about it, I was always like this, even when I was small).

Anal is the word I think you're looking for.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

I'm a Yorkshireman living an Yorkshire. Dialect to me is like saying, 'I'm off to t'pub'

This (IMO) is misusing 'was' and 'were'

You're not a proper Yorkshireman if you've never said "I were at t' pub last night" or something similar.