Ghastly expressions you want to see the back of in 2011

[eternumviti]

heads up peeps, it's 2023, language is evolving - it is was it is - chillax about it

Peeps.

Chillax.

Obvs...

 

[Yank]

AI robot voices are getting a lot better, some of them can almost fool you until they stumble on the odd word. The sorts of casual neologisms catalogued in this thread are amongst the things that will confuse the robot narrator.

 

[Seeker_UK]

Tru dat.

 

[Joe Hutch]

Based.

 

[Copperjacket]

The instruction “enjoy” when a “waitperson” delivers food.

 

[narabdela]

The instruction “enjoy” when a “waitperson” delivers food.

Don't mind that too much. What winds me up is the seemingly now ubiqitous "everything ok with your food?" question which always seems to interrupt either a serious conversation or the ingestion of a mouthful of food.

 

[Seeker_UK]

What winds me up is the seemingly now ubiqitous "everything ok with your food?" question which always seems to interrupt either a serious conversation or the ingestion of a mouthful of food.

It's part of their training, although timing is at their discretion.

 

[eternumviti]

Waiters who instruct you to 'Enjoy'.

The instruction “enjoy” when a “waitperson” delivers food.

Just sayin'.

Oh, 'just sayin''!

 

[Jakob]

As I am in my 83rd year on THIS planet….‘demographic ticking time bomb.’

 

[palindrome]

AI robot voices are getting a lot better, some of them can almost fool you until they stumble on the odd word. The sorts of casual neologisms catalogued in this thread are amongst the things that will confuse the robot narrator.

All the more reason to use 'em. Confound and confuse our robot overlords!

John

 

[Copperjacket]

Just sayin'.

Oh, 'just sayin''!

Sorry I missed your post but on the other hand I am delighted that I am not entirely unreasonable!

 

[Jimin]

Probably been said before, but the number one ghastly expression I want to see gone is 'the current Conservative government...'

 

[gintonic]

It's part of their training, although timing is at their discretion.

I know 2 restaurants where they actually time the first intervention "how is everything with your food"....

 

[timH]

When you ask a service type person something and they say “no problem” - why should there be any doubt about it ever being a ***king problem

 

[gintonic]

service type person

what's that then? your butler

 

[Sue Pertwee-Tyr]

I do feel that some of these hated neologisms are just contractions, and have become accepted by common usage. So:

‘enjoy’ = ‘I/we hope you enjoy your food’; and
‘no problem’ = ‘I’m sure that won’t be a problem, sir’.

I don’t, er, have a problem with that.

 

[Yank]

I do feel that some of these hated neologisms are just contractions, and have become accepted by common usage. So:

‘enjoy’ = ‘I/we hope you enjoy your food’; and
‘no problem’ = ‘I’m sure that won’t be a problem, sir’.

I don’t, er, have a problem with that.

I think "no problem" has an unspoken implication that the request is a bit of an imposition.

 

[Sue Pertwee-Tyr]

I think "no problem" has an unspoken implication that the request is a bit of an imposition.

That’s interesting, I can’t think that I’ve noticed that. And as I’ve deployed the expression once or twice myself, that was never the intent.

 

[Dogberry]

Folks
I tend to think of this as American but it has long English usage .Is it kin?wtf is it?
Didn't Bush or someone call terrorists folks.
Fk.that.

 

[timH]

what's that then? your butler

I’ve never been butled in my life