I'm sorry if this has been said before - but "for you" really annoys me ; had a long phone call today where that was every other phrase, and the in between phrase was "in regards to". Can't get past this rubbish, I end up counting how many times they voice this vacuous cr*p.
Some of we Wrexhamites, even along the coast up as far as Rhyl, have a strange and somewhat unique accent that's part-Scouse, part-Welsh, part-....I don't know what.
Anyway, occasionally to be heard uttered in fits of pique by some of the young men and occasionally by the young women of this parish, which makes me grind my teeth and sends my eyes swivelling to the corners, is "clack yo' 'la", a 'clack' being a slap or a punch and "yo' la'" a foreshortening of "you lad". I've even heard it appended with the word 'girl', as in "clack yo' la', girl"
I can hardly wait for 'Green Lantern' or 'Deadpool' (superhero characters played by Wrexham FC co-owner and Hollywood legend Ryan Reynolds) to scream it at his supervillain nemesis in his next blockbuster movie ! That really WOULD be a nod to the football club
When there's always biscuits in the tin, where's the fun in biscuits ?
I was reading about matter/ antimatter in the BBC news site and I came across this: I"Prof Jeffrey Hangst has spent thirty years building a facility to painstakingly construct thousands of atoms of antimatter from sub-atomic particles, trap them and then drop them."Antimatter is just the coolest, most mysterious stuff you can imagine," he told me"
.What has temperature got to do with it? says I.
And then I realised that it's just super cool newspeak. 😡
For me, split infinitives such as above, "gobsmacked" when they mean astonished or amazed or even shocked and the use of concerning when they mean worrying or "of concern".
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It should be 'with regard' anyway.
I"Prof Jeffrey Hangst has spent thirty years building a facility to painstakingly construct thousands of atoms of antimatter from sub-atomic particles, trap them and then drop them."Antimatter is just the coolest, most mysterious stuff you can imagine," he told me"
.What has temperature got to do with it? says I.
And then I realised that it's just super cool newspeak. 😡