I freely admit (hey, that's me falling into the pit!) to being a pedant in such matters - "fighter jets" - usually has my hands reach out to throttle the utterer - they are JET bloody FIGHTERS - adjectives follow friggin' nouns for chrissakes! And most of the jets this kind of idiot is referring to isn't a Fighter but Multi Role.
"Military Grade" with capitals to infer even more Shock & Awe - I can't stop myself saying "Oh. you mean something conceived and designed by someone who'll never use it, redesigned half way through development for budget reasons, sent into production by the lowest bidder and it's been sitting in a warehouse for at least ten years."
"Nano" can you feel the magic working? There's a section of the InterWeb that this word trumps all others - no matter how ludicrous their Conspiracy - nano will make it fly.
"Horseracing" - a hanging offense as far as I'm concerned - it seems we have bred whole generations of social ingrates who know no better. The HORSE is so much part of proper social order that it needs no mention; therefore; if one is "going to the Races" it should be bloody obvious to all but the extremely none U because it's all the other types of race that have prefixes. A young presenter on Woman's Hour once interviewed a wonderful uppercrust harridan (completely out of her depth) rather like Maggie Smith on Downton Abbey - when she mentioned a "Trainer" the young lady ventured "that would be a race horse trainer?" "OF COURSE! MY DEAR - WHAT ELSE COULD IT MEAN?
God almighty, I nearly choked on my spaghetti bolognese. Adjectives coming after a noun - the person should be brought before a court martial. I tempted to say it has happened since time immemorial but it has surely got worse in the time of Charles the Third and the Queen Consort.
But in the Royal Navy it is (or was) L'tenant. My father would become almost apoplectic when it was mispronounced (he was ex-Navy). And another thing that ticks the box for all the wrong reasons: whatever happened to "in future" that has now become "going forward"?
"Going back" ( on this thread ), the dreaded "Going forward" was mentioned more than once as one of the most mind numbing catchphrase in current use. On a par with the "levelling up" mantra IMO. Just to add, I'm sure I heard Esther Rantzen using "woke" and "snowflake" during a recent radio interview
I can't quite get my head around 'my bad' instead of 'my fault'. And because of The Big Bang Theory (the tv programme not the cosmological event) the number of beople I hear using the word 'paradigm' wrongly. Eesh !
When there's always biscuits in the tin, where's the fun in biscuits ?
"So..." to start any answer or general talking seems to have been overtaken by two words now. Question, " what is your name? ". Answer," I mean....." Gawd, it annoys me.......
My all-time hate ( I may have mentioned it back in the day😖) is a sentence that starts: " Truthfully " - only used by liars who've lied themselves into a corner or want us to think they have.
Just been reading a book, set in England but written by an American. The hero has written to his girlfriend in Italy and asked if they had ‘gotten any rain yet?’ Stood out to me as if it had been in capitals!
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"fighter jets" - usually has my hands reach out to throttle the utterer - they are JET bloody FIGHTERS - adjectives follow friggin' nouns for chrissakes! And most of the jets this kind of idiot is referring to isn't a Fighter but Multi Role.
"Military Grade" with capitals to infer even more Shock & Awe - I can't stop myself saying "Oh. you mean something conceived and designed by someone who'll never use it, redesigned half way through development for budget reasons, sent into production by the lowest bidder and it's been sitting in a warehouse for at least ten years."
"Nano" can you feel the magic working? There's a section of the InterWeb that this word trumps all others - no matter how ludicrous their Conspiracy - nano will make it fly.
"Horseracing" - a hanging offense as far as I'm concerned - it seems we have bred whole generations of social ingrates who know no better. The HORSE is so much part of proper social order that it needs no mention; therefore; if one is "going to the Races" it should be bloody obvious to all but the extremely none U because it's all the other types of race that have prefixes. A young presenter on Woman's Hour once interviewed a wonderful uppercrust harridan (completely out of her depth) rather like Maggie Smith on Downton Abbey - when she mentioned a "Trainer" the young lady ventured "that would be a race horse trainer?" "OF COURSE! MY DEAR - WHAT ELSE COULD IT MEAN?
And another thing that ticks the box for all the wrong reasons: whatever happened to "in future" that has now become "going forward"?