| "Can I get" 12:50 - Jul 31 with 8239 views | loftboy |
Heard 3 different women use that today. Ffs should be shot |  |
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| "Can I get" on 12:55 - Jul 31 with 4296 views | enfieldargh |
my sons say this when ordering in restaurants....I'm becoming a boring father as I keep telling them to go into the kitchen and help themselves. |  |
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| (No subject) on 13:03 - Jul 31 with 4258 views | whiffer |
Agreed. Probably the same people that say "going forward" when they mean "in future" [Post edited 31 Jul 2014 13:07]
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| "Can I get" on 13:06 - Jul 31 with 4233 views | Tonto |
there are worse examples of mis-use of our language.
"yeah no" being one - well which do you mean?
"so I turned around and said" - no you didnt, you almost certainly stayed still and just carried on in the same position
"bring" vs "take" - you don't bring a bottle, you take it...
but top of my list... "your not getting nuffink" - double negative, so you are getting something |  |
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| "Can I get" on 13:13 - Jul 31 with 4170 views | QPunkR |
| "Can I get" on 13:06 - Jul 31 by Tonto |
there are worse examples of mis-use of our language.
"yeah no" being one - well which do you mean?
"so I turned around and said" - no you didnt, you almost certainly stayed still and just carried on in the same position
"bring" vs "take" - you don't bring a bottle, you take it...
but top of my list... "your not getting nuffink" - double negative, so you are getting something |
My missus struggles to comprehend the concept of double-negatives and why I KEEP ON BLOODY CORRECTING HER
Then again she's from East London and thinks spelling constitutes a 'skill'  |  |
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| "Can I get" on 13:15 - Jul 31 with 4152 views | exiled_dictator |
Borrow me your pen
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aks as opposed to ask
are two that really itch my |  |
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| "Can I get" on 13:16 - Jul 31 with 4152 views | eghamranger |
Same people that start every sentence with Basically |  | | |
| (No subject) on 13:18 - Jul 31 with 4137 views | izlingtonhoop |
You're probably pi ssing in the wind loft boy.
English is fairly democratic, and that particular construct kinda makes sense, and once something is accepted generally you're tilting against windmills.
'Very fun', is one that gets me, but all young people seem to use it now.
But no one can ever of any excuse for ofing 'of' instead of have ('ve)! It makes no sense, see (not you LB, but too many others on here).
Edit
By the way, I read Hunter S Thompson's Hell's Angels last year, and he uses of for 've a couple of times in that. And that was 1966-ish, do it's been around a long time. [Post edited 31 Jul 2014 13:29]
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| "Can I get" on 13:23 - Jul 31 with 4120 views | QPunkR |
And another thing. If you were under-educated/lazy in class/stupid or whatever, even if you can't spell for shit, there's no excuse for constantly miss-spelling our own players' names. Especially people who contrive to spell them a different way every bloody time!
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| (No subject) on 13:24 - Jul 31 with 4117 views | izlingtonhoop |
| "Can I get" on 13:06 - Jul 31 by Tonto |
there are worse examples of mis-use of our language.
"yeah no" being one - well which do you mean?
"so I turned around and said" - no you didnt, you almost certainly stayed still and just carried on in the same position
"bring" vs "take" - you don't bring a bottle, you take it...
but top of my list... "your not getting nuffink" - double negative, so you are getting something |
Top examples Tonto
Yeah no - Australian meaningless nonsense, like the rising inflection.
Turned around - so irritating, hardly anyone ever did as you point out, although I do remember talking to a colleague once and using that phrase, and as I pointed out to him during that conversation, I don't use it but I actually did turn around and say it. Although I remember the conversation, I have no memory of what it was I turned around and said. [Post edited 31 Jul 2014 13:24]
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| "Can I get" on 13:26 - Jul 31 with 4095 views | PinnerPaul |
One from a letter in paper today
Why do people always say "Its goes without saying...." and then say it anyway! |  | | |
| (No subject) on 13:27 - Jul 31 with 4094 views | izlingtonhoop |
| (No subject) on 13:03 - Jul 31 by whiffer |
Agreed. Probably the same people that say "going forward" when they mean "in future" [Post edited 31 Jul 2014 13:07]
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Bloody Seb Coe, he's always going on about 'going forward', and 'the journey' when nobody is actually going anywhere; and others too metaphorically numerous and twa tty to remember! | | | |
| (No subject) on 13:31 - Jul 31 with 4064 views | Tonto |
| (No subject) on 13:24 - Jul 31 by izlingtonhoop |
Top examples Tonto
Yeah no - Australian meaningless nonsense, like the rising inflection.
Turned around - so irritating, hardly anyone ever did as you point out, although I do remember talking to a colleague once and using that phrase, and as I pointed out to him during that conversation, I don't use it but I actually did turn around and say it. Although I remember the conversation, I have no memory of what it was I turned around and said. [Post edited 31 Jul 2014 13:24]
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theres a guy in my office who uses it all the time - for each person in the conversation...
so at various points the people are either looking at each other, away from each other or back to back, and yet still talking... | |
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| "Can I get" on 13:36 - Jul 31 with 4035 views | DaBurgh |
Come on guys, English is constantly evolving and changing, no big deal, for gawds sake 'think outside the box!'  |  | | |
| "Can I get" on 13:40 - Jul 31 with 4019 views | izlingtonhoop |
| "Can I get" on 13:36 - Jul 31 by DaBurgh |
Come on guys, English is constantly evolving and changing, no big deal, for gawds sake 'think outside the box!' |
We'll have to 'drill down' to see exactly what is going on though; before we 'roll it out'. | | | |
| "Can I get" on 13:47 - Jul 31 with 3981 views | MrSheen |
| "Can I get" on 13:40 - Jul 31 by izlingtonhoop |
We'll have to 'drill down' to see exactly what is going on though; before we 'roll it out'. |
Can we park this? Will revert soonest. |  | | |
| "Can I get" on 13:49 - Jul 31 with 3971 views | simmo |
| "Can I get" on 13:36 - Jul 31 by DaBurgh |
Come on guys, English is constantly evolving and changing, no big deal, for gawds sake 'think outside the box!' |
That's the kind of blue sky thinking I like to see. |  |
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| "Can I get" on 13:52 - Jul 31 with 3950 views | Harlesdon |
More old people whinging about things changing
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| "Can I get" on 13:54 - Jul 31 with 3941 views | enfieldargh |
I hear so many people mention their insurance access........
I'm usually the only one who sings to say, Forest fans 'You're just a small town near Derby' when all around are singing 'Your just small town in Derby ' or have I missed the point? | |
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| "Can I get" on 13:55 - Jul 31 with 3943 views | izlingtonhoop |
| "Can I get" on 13:52 - Jul 31 by Harlesdon |
More old people whinging about things changing
zzzzzzzzzzz |
Yep!
And what do you do for kicks? | | | |
| "Can I get" on 13:57 - Jul 31 with 3920 views | Harlesdon |
| "Can I get" on 13:55 - Jul 31 by izlingtonhoop |
Yep!
And what do you do for kicks? |
"kicks"?
THIS IS ENGLAND MATE | | | |
| "Can I get" on 13:58 - Jul 31 with 3912 views | Tonto |
| "Can I get" on 13:54 - Jul 31 by enfieldargh |
I hear so many people mention their insurance access........
I'm usually the only one who sings to say, Forest fans 'You're just a small town near Derby' when all around are singing 'Your just small town in Derby ' or have I missed the point? |
lets not start on football chants - our own "If you can't talk proper shut your mouth" is easily the worst of the lot... as its not sung with any irony at all.... | |
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| "Can I get" on 14:05 - Jul 31 with 3878 views | A40Bosh |
My Bad!!
Where the fcuk did that one come from all of a sudden.
One has to be careful with drilling the received pronunciation on to one's offspring though. I used to correct my middle daughter when she would not pronounce her "t" sound at the end of words, as in 2"thaT" I would say "the word is "that,t,t,t," but when she was about 4 started to put an echo on the T on some of her words ending in T and she was not doing it on purpose either to wind me up either. We thought we had screwed her up for good but it only lasted a few weeks 
Now she merely sounds like Lady Mary Crawley in Downtown Abbey - which probably does not go down too well at her secondary school, but it will stand to her when she gets to Oxford  |  |
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| "Can I get" on 14:24 - Jul 31 with 3803 views | rsonist |
| "Can I get" on 13:23 - Jul 31 by QPunkR |
And another thing. If you were under-educated/lazy in class/stupid or whatever, even if you can't spell for shit, there's no excuse for constantly miss-spelling our own players' names. Especially people who contrive to spell them a different way every bloody time!
Yes, I can be very petty |
Yeah grammatical solecisms I can understand (tolerate occasionally) but this is a different kettle of fish... having a slightly foreign surname myself I'm fairly weary of it and I've never quite been able to tell if it's down to English monocultural ignorance or just plain lazy disrespect.
The weirdest thing is when people will refuse to even attempt pronouncing a foreign name by phonetic syllable the way a child would with any new word, and instead will either just mangle it or give up. |  | | |
| "Can I get" on 14:28 - Jul 31 with 3779 views | rsonist |
I do still enjoy referring to Swansea's right back as "Angle Wrangle" though to be fair. | | | |
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