RichardB
Slightly retro
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- West Wales
Anyone else remember Miles Kington's 'Let's Talk Franglais' column in the old Punch magazine?
My favourite was traffic jam = confiture de circulation.
Words that annoy me for no particular reason.
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Anyone else remember Miles Kington's 'Let's Talk Franglais' column in the old Punch magazine?
My favourite was traffic jam = confiture de circulation.
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- London
thanks - rings a bell - pretty sure the bike shop owner did know its meaning - I think he may have had a private education of some sort - hence his disabling snobbery.
Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
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- The hills of Accrington
Just watching a news report online about primary schools. The teacher referred to the children as 'guys' ffs!!
figbat
Slippery scientist
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- South Oxfordshire, UK
Agreed, but what a play by Compare The Market and Ronseal.
RichardB
Slightly retro
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- West Wales
Just watching a news report online about primary schools. The teacher referred to the children as 'guys' ffs!!
I'm old-fashioned enough to discriminate between pupils (up to 16-18) and students (16/18+). People in the profession refer to primary school kids as 'students' these days, and I really don't get it. 'Guys' is just achingly trendy, down-wiv-da-kidz-man pathetic.
RichardB
Slightly retro
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- West Wales
And also 'simple as'. Seen on FaceAche: "He should have lost his licence. Simple as."
It seems to have a similar meaning to 'end of' - no further argument is possible as I have given you the correct response.
matticus
Guru
she/he probably calls them kids/pupils/students/children/darlings etc on other occasions, and in written comms. The crime of using the variety of the English language!
DaveReading
Don't suffer fools gladly (must try harder!)
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- Reading, obvs
Or indeed to "No argument", which has been around for years.
Accy cyclist
Legendary Member
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- The hills of Accrington
More of a question than an annoyance. My local council has had a 'buy local' publicity stunt thing going on for the last few years. My question is shouldn't it be buy locally not local?🤔
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slowmotion
Quite dreadful
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- lost somewhere
A BBC journalist on Monday's evening news suggested that the Government "needs to go quick on this". Why mangle a perfectly good word for some misplaced attempt at yoofspeek?
matticus
Guru
Could we please have proper sentences on this thread? Where is your verb, man?!?
Oldbloke
Guru
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- Mayenne, France
"Good to go"
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mistyoptic
Vintage
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- A parallel reality
I believe you’ll finds that’s spelled AAAAaaaaarrrrggghhhhhhh!! 😉
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
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- Inside my skull
Better than “Unforeseen problems, it isn’t ready yet” when the problem described could easily be foreseen.
figbat
Slippery scientist
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- South Oxfordshire, UK
A couple came up today, related grammatically: the use of criteria and phenomena in the singular.
