I don't feel any irritation at all with people saying things differently from the way I'd say them, or using dialect expressions, or having regional accents. We all want to understand and be understood - otherwise why talk to each other?Â
My objection is with those who put themselves forward as experts to inform the rest of us, on the news on TV and radio for instance, and end up being hard to understand, or just plain irritating. This is sometimes because they don't think through what they want to say before starting, or because they want to sound "up to the minute" by using some new expression or inflection, or by breathing half way through a sentence instead of at the end (a habit learned from politicians trying not to be interrupted).
Clarity is everything. If I can't remember what someone in authority has said, because I was distracted by the way he or she said it, it might as well have been left unsaid, in my opinion...Â
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
There is a difference between spoken and written language and sometimes the brain is going to fast and words come out jumbled but, when writing English, one has the time to reflect because, in my experience, fingers are slower than tongues and we have spellcheckers. Â
Spoken language is about communication and is done at all sorts of levels and can be formal and informal; playful or serious, precise for technical/scientific/medical accuracy; nitpicking (or it seems so) for legal affairs.  No problem with colloquial expressions but I do expect people writing in newspapers, magazines and books to have a grasp of grammar and I also expect TV presenters on the news and documentaries to have a grasp of correct grammar and language usage.
Since when, for example, did "concerning" mean worrying?
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My objection is with those who put themselves forward as experts to inform the rest of us, on the news on TV and radio for instance, and end up being hard to understand, or just plain irritating. This is sometimes because they don't think through what they want to say before starting, or because they want to sound "up to the minute" by using some new expression or inflection, or by breathing half way through a sentence instead of at the end (a habit learned from politicians trying not to be interrupted).
Clarity is everything. If I can't remember what someone in authority has said, because I was distracted by the way he or she said it, it might as well have been left unsaid, in my opinion...Â
Spoken language is about communication and is done at all sorts of levels and can be formal and informal; playful or serious, precise for technical/scientific/medical accuracy; nitpicking (or it seems so) for legal affairs.  No problem with colloquial expressions but I do expect people writing in newspapers, magazines and books to have a grasp of grammar and I also expect TV presenters on the news and documentaries to have a grasp of correct grammar and language usage.
Since when, for example, did "concerning" mean worrying?
Thanks a lot KT53. Haven't got cast iron so it would have to be a stainless steel one B3.
He were brought up proper like.