Words I hate to see in print

Fancy a Cuppa
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True, but I expect the feelings were much the same!

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Many people could not read in the mid 1800s so would not be affected.
It is seeing those ‘silly’ words in print which gets me, especially when on social media business pages. So unprofessional.

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I suppose things move with the times… what’s silly for some is fine for others, I guess that’s how language and spelling evolve (or not).

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Ooh I’ve just rememebered another I really hate

“Please reach out” :face_vomiting:

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Any word the Americans add -ized to the end of. ‘Hospitalized’ rather than ‘admitted to hospital’ is one of my most disliked. :angry:

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Oooh that reminds me … diarised!

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“You did amazing” - WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?!?!? The grammar police should come round and arrest you….

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RU, B4, cu ltr l8r or any of the others that my 90 year old mum uses when sending a text, sometimes it’s so bad we can’t understand her message, very strange.

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Your mum is very up to date, I have to admit! Please tell me that she doesn’t call you all “bruh” :rofl:

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Well I have an admission to make. Debby you are lovely and you make great bears but I can’t have people hoovering :sweat_smile: . I saw an advert on our local selling site the other day ‘Dyson Hoover for sale’. There I’ve said it, I will eat cake on my naughty cushion if I have to. x

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I hate ‘like’ being used during speech.

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Agree. When every sentence starts
Pause like pause xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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:laughing: :rofl: I know I should say vacuum not hoover, I will try harder Moira, I will go to the step for cake. I wouldn’t use a term such as ‘Dyson hoover’, but I am guilty of saying the house needs hoovering, I blame my parents, they used the term and it stuck, perhaps it’s a slang word here in East Yorkshire as everyone seems to use it.

@theslothscavern I don’t think my mum is up to date but likes to think she is, the problem is the majority of the time she gets it all wrong and makes her own up. I don’t know what ‘bruh’ means but no she doesn’t use it.

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I also hate it when people are interview on tv and asked a question they start with
SO…
…and people on tv who say thomethinK…aaaargh !

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I did try hard not to say it but I just started twitching a little and people were asking the question :rofl:. My husband says hoovering, but, as he does most of that particular chore, I have to grit my teeth a little.

I also don’t like people ‘finessing’ or ‘preordering’!

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My hubby does all the ‘hoovering’ as well Debbiein our house and also refers to it as such.

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It’s not a case of us showing our age Joy! It just shows youngsters are not taught to speak or write ‘english’ as we know it. However, once they start a good academic education at university they will be and are expected to write good English in their assignments. I saw so many struggling when I was the oldest student in full time education doing a NHS training program in threatre practice.

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Today’s letter from the secondary school, with the ingredients and the instructions for the “food and nutrition” lesson next week.

Method

  1. Wash your hands and collect your equipment
  2. Collect equipment and wash your hands

Mind-blowing isn’t it?

In the same letter, you have sentences finishing without full stop, new sentence starts in the same line with capital letter, and that’s your clue to pause and breathe…

Written by a teacher, who teaches the youngsters and marks their work to make sure they use full stop to finish, and capitals to start… oh no, wait a minute, AI does that now, not the teachers…

The world has just got too “comfy” :laughing:

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