New ways of speaking that drives you nuts!

[TheLittleFaerie]

So I notice younger people, *Gen Z and younger* have a new way of speaking, and many ppl say they don't notice it, but drives me crazy for some reason:

'womAn" when they mean "womEn". They will say things like, "We have so many distinguished men and womAn here!" WHY!??? Why are they doing this? "There were 2 womAn over there!" No one can answer, is there some MEANING behind it, or a language shift, few ppl seem to even notice it but it drives me crazy! I found a vid of a woman talking about it, and everyone was telling her they didn't notice it! What's going on!?

People saying "yeah" after every sentence, "So I went out yesterday, yeah, then went to the store, yeah, then went to get something to eat, yeah.." STOP THAT!

Also when American people, SPEAKING ENGLISH, throw a thick over exaggerated accent on a foreign word. like, "Last year my husband and I went to PAH-REE." or "We are planning a trip to MEH-HEE-CO!" I mean I LOVE languages, and studied a few but if you're speaking English, why throw on a thick accent on a SINGLE word of a sentence?

[stevea]

Some additional things:

People speaking of a Real Estate company: XYZ Real-itty. Newsflash: there's no I.

The word is jewelry, not jewlery.

Constantly referring to something they do: "So I'm like going over to their house etc...

[TheLittleFaerie]

Originally Posted by stevea

Some additional things:

People speaking of a Real Estate company: XYZ Real-itty. Newsflash: there's no I.

The word is jewelry, not jewlery.

Constantly referring to something they do: "So I'm like going over to their house etc...

lol I have to admit, I was constantly misspelling 'jewel". I'm writing a book and every time I wrote "jewl" it would get underlined as misspelled and I had no idea why lol

The phrase, "Lets be SO FOR REAL" is starting to bug me, because it's so overused.

The phrase, "We ate McDonald's" is annoying lol, I'm picturing a family devouring the whole building, roof, windows, playground and ALL lol I mean people say "We ate AT Burger King," or "We ate AT Wendy's" , BUT, "We ate McDonald's!" Makes no sense.


Also phrases like "Mickey D's for McDonald's, Wally World for Wal Mart, and St. Paddy's Day for St Patrick's Day annoy me a bit, I dunno why. lol

I had no idea what ppl meant by Wally World, when they said We're going to Wally World, I thought they were meaning the damn Griswold Vacation movie lol

[Dude111]

People saying words I havent heard before!!

Like at the park recently someone asked me if I wanted a BLOWEE .. I have no idea what they meant!

I said NO and left.......


Alot of this new generation talking is just so strange to me.....

[stevea]

Originally Posted by Dude111

People saying words I havent heard before!!

Like at the park recently someone asked me if I wanted a BLOWEE .. I have no idea what they meant!

I said NO and left.......


Alot of this new generation talking is just so strange to me.....

Well, there was a Flowbee, I think. Wasn't that some old Ronco hair clipper?

[Dude111]

I dunno

[biffbronson]

Originally Posted by stevea

Well, there was a Flowbee, I think. Wasn't that some old Ronco hair clipper?

Immortalized in one of the Wayne's World films:


"It's sucking my will to live!"

[Hawkee]

In the past colorful lingo was huge and during the 60's and 70's we were introduced to lingo such as "that's totally boss" with boss meaning cool and during the 60's rad and "radical dude" became popular new lingo of the time. But in the 90's is when the new lingo became the new way of speaking. Like you can blame Seinfeld for "yada yada yada" becoming popular lingo but some grammar is odd to me like if you say "we are having The Smith's for dinner tonight" it sounds like you are eating the family and the correct way of speaking is "we are gonna have The Smith's over for dinner tonight". And as people referring to retailers by nicknames it is common too. Like Mickey D's became the nickname for McDonald's due to the commercials but why Wally World became a nickname for Walmart i'll never understand myself. But as long as new phrases are being introduced we will see a new language being invented as the years go by

[biffbronson]

One thing I find a little odd is when reporters and others use the word "criteria" when talking about a single thing. Criteria is plural; criterion is the singular.

It's the same with media and medium, although media is so commonly used both ways that it's now hardly worth mentioning...

[stevea]

Television is a medium, not a media. I agree, the correct singular formation is rarely used.

Another bothersome misuse: an apostrophe indicates possession or contraction, not plural.
It's (another one frequently misused, in writing) "The Hendersons are going to the mall," not "The Henderson's are going to the mall."

Another one frequently misused in plural formations: me or I. "Come see Nigel and I at the party." - wrong and frequently misused. Would one say, "Come see I at the party"? Correct: "Come see Nigel and me at the party."

[TheLittleFaerie]

Originally Posted by biffbronson

One thing I find a little odd is when reporters and others use the word "criteria" when talking about a single thing. Criteria is plural; criterion is the singular.

It's the same with media and medium, although media is so commonly used both ways that it's now hardly worth mentioning...

Most people probably don't know that lol I didn't know that 'data' was plural until recently, it sounded so weird for a vlogger to keep saying, "The data SAY...." lol

[TheLittleFaerie]

Originally Posted by stevea

Television is a medium, not a media. I agree, the correct singular formation is rarely used.

Another bothersome misuse: an apostrophe indicates possession or contraction, not plural.
It's (another one frequently misused, in writing) "The Hendersons are going to the mall," not "The Henderson's are going to the mall."

Another one frequently misused in plural formations: me or I. "Come see Nigel and I at the party." - wrong and frequently misused. Would one say, "Come see I at the party"? Correct: "Come see Nigel and me at the party."

Another thing I hate is when ppl correct me when I say "Kroger's", "Penny's" etc.... for putting an 's' at the end of the word. Because it's NOT incorrect and so many ppl like to think it is. It's implicative possessive 's', not a plural

[stevea]

Originally Posted by TheLittleFaerie

Another thing I hate is when ppl correct me when I say "Kroger's", "Penny's" etc.... for putting an 's' at the end of the word. Because it's NOT incorrect and so many ppl like to think it is. It's implicative possessive 's', not a plural

I agree, there's nothing wrong with those formations.

And, I think it's rude to "correct" people's speech during conversation.

[icecream]

Originally Posted by TheLittleFaerie

The phrase, "We ate McDonald's" is annoying lol, I'm picturing a family devouring the whole building, roof, windows, playground and ALL lol I mean people say "We ate AT Burger King," or "We ate AT Wendy's" , BUT, "We ate McDonald's!" Makes no sense.

They didn't eat at McDonald's if they took it home to eat there.