What is it with this new phrase ?

[greatmoorred]

I am noticing an increasing use of the phrase
"can i get......"
Instead of
"Can i have...."
In shops, and pubs at the moment, where has this new and annoying phrase come from ?

[phantomtek]

[thx1138]

[jonnay]

People keep saying that to me at work, I always reply with "help yourself".

Things like that annoy me greatly.
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[Katie]

Haven't noticed that one to be honest. At the moment I've noticed a lot of people are saying "To be fair" in every sentence. It started at work and now I've noticed my friends outside of work and family are saying it. What's that about?
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[palmer]

i dont like it when people talk, and at the end of every sentance they say 'ya know'....no i dont know, i dont want to know, and if i did want to know id fookin ask!

[killa]

"Basically......"

"Know what i mean?"

"Innit"

"At the end of the day"

"Fair play"


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[damnas]

[shorty]

[purple_peril_67]

'My bad' is a Buffy-ism, I think.

[Skunkcap Freddie]

it can't be any more annoying that someone walkin into a shop and just stating the product they want.


my mate at work (before he got sacked) lol, some tit walked in and said "hello r300 inks" (computer store), my mate promptly replied "my names wayne not r300 inks", which made me cry with laughter.


nothing worse that helping out someone who's rude.


what happened to please and thankyou. 90% of the time i'll do it , unless the person helping me is an idiot and rude
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[BigChris]

I knew an american from St Louis, who came over to the UK and whilst here she asked some suited fella directions -

"Excuse me sir, do you know where St Pauls Catherdral is at?"

His response was something along the lines of -

"It is awfully bad english to end a structured sentence with a preposition"

She thought about it, and so re-asked the question.

"Do you know where St Pauls Cathedral is at, mother fucker?"

Made me laugh!

[Johnny GSX-R]

The one that annoys me is this:

"I was doing LIKE 50mph"

Were you doing 49 or 51?? what else is LIKE 50mph....

"I was in the pub and this LIKE woman walked in"

Was she a woman or was she LIKE a woman.

[mr jamez]

"I mean HELLO!!"

Hi
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[Johnny GSX-R]

Another one is Street Talk

A typical example

"Tellin ya man it was raaas, pure sick man innit"

in English

"May i just tell you, it was very nice"

[Johnny GSX-R]

https://chavscum.co.uk/whattheysay.php

[McGee]

[byke95]

All this means is that we're all old buggers.

Language naturally evolves, I'm pretty sure I used less than perfect english when I was a nipper. What worries me is that the new phrases and words used by the youth have spread to the mainstream (newsround etc.). Why is adding unnecessary words to the dictionary somehow become 'fun'?

I seriously dislike 'marketing talk', how they love to misspell a word just so it stands out giving some kind of 'brand identity'

New slang confuses me, but not half as much as someone from Sheffield, missing out words and joining others, I say.

[TOM M]

I always use the word "us" instead of "me", it confuses a lot of people and annoys some as well
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[JodieWodie]

Around here a lot of people say "ain it" instead of isn't it
or "No, I aint", instead of "No, I am not"

Annoying
My Daughter has started to say it now, and it doesn't sound very nice
Makes her sound chavvy

Also ...
"It was PROPER scary"
"It was PROPER weird"


Mind you, where I used to come from 'oop norf' the village next to us used to called small L'AL ,... and big G'T

err...
yeah
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