Stupid little things that bug you

[Bill Walker]

People who say "Carpe Diem" like they've studied Latin



Fuckin Stultus twats..

 

[Vienna_70]

I’m not sure if it’s a little thing, but the creeping Americanisation of British English.

A few weeks ago, a contestant on a game show gave an answer to a question about Vincent van Gogh as "van gow".

Other examples:

outside of
Off of
Putting month before day on dates, I.e. July 12th, instead of 12th July.
And many more.

I fucking hate it!

I just wanted to get that off my chest.

 

[Bill Walker]

Putting month before day on dates, I.e. July 12th, instead of 12th July.
And many more.

I fucking hate it!

I just wanted to get that off my chest.

To be fair the yanks copied that from Britain, originally it was month, date, year in Britain until Britain changed it to the present way to fit in with the rest of the world a long time ago.

 

[idahoblues]

To be fair the yanks copied that from Britain, originally it was month, date, year in Britain until Britain changed it to the present way to fit in with the rest of the world a long time ago.

Let’s face it, the Brits are all fucked up with the language, spell more French than English, I think we’re going to take it over and get them up to speed

 

[Tuearts right boot]

Let’s face it, the Brits are all fucked up with the language, spell more French than English, I think we’re going to take it over and get them up to speed

The English language is made up of of alsorts of languages imported by immigration and imvasion. Billy Shakespeare finally sorted it out and the rest is 'istory. Facsinating stuff if you dig deep.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

Always irked me that the BBC "Weather Map" shows Liverpool & Birmingham but not Manchester.

Same as when they show the weather summary stats for the next few days in just Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh and London. Well that’s useful for the rest of the country!

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

I’m not sure if it’s a little thing, but the creeping Americanisation of British English.

A few weeks ago, a contestant on a game show gave an answer to a question about Vincent van Gogh as "van gow".

Other examples:

outside of
Off of
Putting month before day on dates, I.e. July 12th, instead of 12th July.
And many more.

I fucking hate it!

I just wanted to get that off my chest.

It all went to hell when people stopped writing “Upon thif twelfth day in the month of Jullaie in the year of our Lorde, two thoufand and twentie four”.

It really did.

 

[Vienna_70]

To be fair the yanks copied that from Britain, originally it was month, date, year in Britain until Britain changed it to the present way to fit in with the rest of the world a long time ago.

I never knew that.

 

[Bill Walker]

I never knew that.

The yanks got most of their shit from UK, measurements still in use today, refrigeration is still measures in tons, horse power, there's yards, inches, deg F, British Thermal units for heat, inches water gauge for resistance etc etc.

Britain has abandoned all these.

 

[East Level 2]

It all went to hell when people stopped writing “Upon thif twelfth day in the month of Jullaie in the year of our Lorde, two thoufand and twentie four”.

It really did.

There's a Lord Snooty tribute act who recently lost his parliamentary seat who probably still writes like that.