Words, phrases or trends that you hope disappear in 2018 -- NON-POLITICAL THREAD

[ksu_aviator]

Collusion - it's not even a legal thing.

 

[camlok]

Collusion - it's not even a legal thing.

What is it, a real serious car accident where the vehicles are smooshed together?

 

[Deuce]

"President Donald Trump."

 

[camlok]

If that were the case I doubt that they would have gave her $500,

The above, from a poster here at DP. A dandy example of leveling in the English language. Irregular verbs are dead and although not yet gone, they are on their way out.

 

[Cephus]

"President Donald Trump."

Ah, someone not bright enough to refrain from posting political references in an expressly non-political thread.

 

[iliveonramen]

But that is exactly what it does in the grammar of English, right?

Well some people say it too much, right? When they are really making a statement then for some reason they tack on "right" at the end of the statement. It can be annoying, right? People will tack it on superfluously when they aren't really asking a question, right?

 

[calamity]

**This thread is a non-political thread. No mention of politicians, political philosophies or parties, please.**

What are some words, phrases or trends that you're really tired of hearing/seeing and hope they die before 2018?

Here's my list:

The word "bae" makes me cringe.
"I'm shook" needs to go.
I'm still hoping the saggy jeans thing goes away.
And for my makeup-loving people --- the super fake looking eyebrows (also known as "Instagram brows) needed to never be started (pic below just in case you don't know what I'm talking about):

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People who use "literally" as a substitute for figuratively. We should murder those people, figuratively speaking, of course.

 

[camlok]

Well some people say it too much, right? When they are really making a statement then for some reason they tack on "right" at the end of the statement. It can be annoying, right? People will tack it on superfluously when they aren't really asking a question, right?

You/We/I/... might say 'he' or 'she' or 'I' too much. I'm sure that if I looked in the Corpus Studies 'right' would be way down the list of most commonly used English words.

'right' is in the list of the most common 3000 words but then it has a number of meanings. It doesn't appear in the 100 most common.

 

[camlok]

People who use "literally" as a substitute for figuratively. We should murder those people, figuratively speaking, of course.

You really ought to try checking a dictionary or reading posts that have already shown this to be one of the nonsense, fictional "rules" of English, calamity.

Just about every "rule" you could described isn't actually a rule of English. These have all been 300 year long lies.

 

[Dittohead not!]

English spelling. It's high time we invented a new system for spelling English words. We can call it "newspell."

Think about it: Does I come before E? Well, sometimes yes, sometimes no. How do you spell the schwa? Pretty much with any vowel or combination of vowels right? And what does ghoti spell?

Take gh from enough, o from women, and ti from nation, and ghoti spells fish.

English spelling it totally inconsistent and illogical. It's time to invent Newspell, or maybe noospel.

 

[KevinKohler]

I still here "like" way too much for my liking.

 

[ttwtt78640]

English spelling. It's high time we invented a new system for spelling English words. We can call it "newspell."

Think about it: Does I come before E? Well, sometimes yes, sometimes no. How do you spell the schwa? Pretty much with any vowel or combination of vowels right? And what does ghoti spell?

Take gh from enough, o from women, and ti from nation, and ghoti spells fish.

English spelling it totally inconsistent and illogical. It's time to invent Newspell, or maybe noospel.

While you are at it, perhaps you could come up with a way to write "There are three [????] in the English language" when referring to the words to, too and two. That sentence is easy to say but nearly impossible to write (or is that rite, wright or right).

 

[nota bene]

Beauty In the Destruction of Language
(from George Orwell's 1984)

Syme speaking to the protagonist, Winston:

"It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. Of course the great wastage is in the verbs and adjectives, but there are hundreds of nouns that can be got rid of as well. it isn't only the synonyms; there are also the antonyms. After all, what justification is there for a word which is simply the opposite of some other words? …Take 'good,' for instance. If you have a word like 'good,' what need is there for a word like 'bad'? 'Ungood will do just as well--better, because it's an exact opposite, which the other is not. Or again, if you want a stronger version of 'good,' what sense is there in having a whole string of vague uselesss words like 'excellent' and 'splendid' and all the rest of them? 'Plusgood' covers the meaning, or 'doubleplusgood' if you want something stronger still…In your heart you'd prefer to stick to Oldspeak, with all its vagueness and its useless shades of meaning. You don't grasp the beauty of the destruction of words….Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it."

 

[Dittohead not!]

While you are at it, perhaps you could come up with a way to write "There are three [????] in the English language" when referring to the words to, too and two. That sentence is easy to say but nearly impossible to write (or is that rite, wright or right).

Well, we'd have to come up with a consistent pattern. Perhaps all too two and to's would be spelled tu. Their, they're and there could simply be ther.

I'm beginning to think that Newspell could be doublepluss good.

 

[ttwtt78640]

Well, we'd have to come up with a consistent pattern. Perhaps all too two and to's would be spelled tu. Their, they're and there could simply be ther.

I'm beginning to think that Newspell could be doublepluss good.

Hmm... I "c wat u did ther" but is that anything like "++ gud"?

 

[Dittohead not!]

Hmm... I "c wat u did ther" but is that anything like "++ gud"?

Sure! Think of it, no more spelling B's with kids confounding the rest of us by spelling words that neither they nor we have ever heard or have any idea of the meanings.

Spell "iconograph." i c o n o g r a p h. Right! next word... but what does that word even mean? I have no idea.

 

[Josie]

I have a friend who types "n" when she means "and". Drives me nuts.

 

[camlok]

I have a friend who types "n" when she means "and". Drives me nuts.

Have you noticed that that's how prescriptivists always react, Josie, "Drives me nuts"; "it's improper"; ... instead of logically explaining why they think something is wrong in a certain area of language.

And what is wrong with 'n'? It's an abbreviation for 'and'; likely more often with an apostrophe - 'n.

This forum is full of these abbreviations. There is an entire industry that has taken them and made them into emoticons.

 

[camlok]

I still here "like" way too much for my liking.

That's probably because you don't understand its different grammatical meanings.

 

[Josie]

Have you noticed that that's how prescriptivists always react, Josie, "Drives me nuts"; "it's improper"; ... instead of logically explaining why they think something is wrong in a certain area of language.

And what is wrong with 'n'? It's an abbreviation for 'and'; likely more often with an apostrophe - 'n.

This forum is full of these abbreviations. There is an entire industry that has taken them and made them into emoticons.

Apostrophe n is an abbreviation for "and". Just the letter "n" isn't. And it's especially annoying when it's an entire paragraph with no punctuation and "n's" everywhere.

 

[Fledermaus]

That's probably because you don't understand its different grammatical meanings.

Why do you assume people who disagree with you "don't understand" something?

With the number of people who disagree with you I propose that it is your understanding that is suspect.

 

[camlok]

Apostrophe n is an abbreviation for "and". Just the letter "n" isn't. And it's especially annoying when it's an entire paragraph with no punctuation and "n's" everywhere.

I'm sure that there were folks ranting about the 'n at one time or another, probably some still do. Abbreviations get abbreviated. That's why we have 'em, so's we don't have to do so much typing.

 

[KevinKohler]

That's probably because you don't understand its different grammatical meanings.

No, but, like, when people talk, they tend to, like, fill pauses with, like...the word, right? All the while, raising, like, the inflection of their voice at the, like, end of their sentences. You know, right?

 

[camlok]

Why do you assume people who disagree with you "don't understand" something?

Because these are the same ignorant [non-pejorative meaning] prescriptions that linguists run into all the time. Kevin K isn't the first one to rant about 'like'. Nor will he be the last.

 

[Fledermaus]

Because these are the same ignorant [non-pejorative meaning] prescriptions that linguists run into all the time. Kevin K isn't the first one to rant about 'like'. Nor will he be the last.

Like give it rest man. You are like literally foaming at the effing mouth dude... .

:lamo