Changes to our language...are you listening?

Two annoying examples of new-speak that I've been hearing often on the radio.

"I know it's a big ask, but could you tell us about..."

Ask? You can't say request, or question?

This one is even worse than "Can I axe you a question?" At least with this one I can just say "No."

The next one makes the speaker sound just as dumb.

"It's a big spend, but it's worth it."

How about expense, or expenditure?

Is there some new limit on letters? Words can only be so long?

Do these people say they got an "Ouchie!" when they have a tooth ache? Or did they "Get a boo boo."

My ear for language goes way back. Aunt Anne used to say she was "resting on her morals."
I dated girls who "warshed" the dishes, and thought smoke went up a "chimbley." It could never have worked out.

Nuclear, pronounced "New cue lar" was so maddening to me that I wrote a letter to Dick Cheney and asked him if he could get the President a tutor or something.

It's like George Orwell is pushing buttons and causing our language to become double un-good.

Have you heard or seen examples of new-speak that caused you to cringe? This is not text speak, that's a whole different beast. This is unaccented spoken word, in altered form that just doesn't sound right.

Makes my head hurt.

 

Join the corporate world. I hear shit like this

 

Give me a minute to get my popcorn, can’t wait to see what Seawolf has to say!

 

I said in a Teams meeting not long ago that if anyone else decided to "leverage" something I was going to bash the damn computer with a hammer. Got a full minute of silence, I thought they kicked me from the call. Then the moderator asked if anyone else had anything lol.

 

Glad I don't speak in such a manner.
Heads would explode!

 

You haven't had a meeting with HR where they talked to you about their PIP program yet have they?

 

A "PIP"? That's a little piece of cork, leather or rubber that goes in the bottom of a pump to allow air to be pumped into a fuel tank and prevent fuel from filling the pump.

 

A PIP .. it's a Performance Improvement Plan. It's basically a way for a corporation to give you a list of things that you need to improve on that are unachievable so that they can let you go for performance based failure. They hope you will quit first. That way they don't have to pay you severance. If I ever get put on one of those .. yeah buddy, I'm riding it out to till the end. Getting fired isn't the worst thing that has ever happened to me in my life.

 

Hahaha! I say, "Yep, I deal with this crap everyday.".

Another irritating one..... "You want to come with?". With what? Or who?

 

My Marine buddies from Minnesota used that one often.

 

The new pronunciations are boggling:
Mountain= Mou"I"n
Gleutin= Gleu"I"n

I suppose these kids do not understand how to pronounce a "T"

 

I hear that a lot on Youtube videos.

 

It's the influence of thug culture. I don't appreciate the nasty tone when talking about Boomers. Baby momma or daddy is a term I hear on videos.

 

The way many youngsters say "Boomer", I consider it an ageist slur, exactly like the "N-word" is to black folks. Same insult and slur used for the same purpose.

 

we have a couple of black bitches in Congress playing ghetto to accommodate the voters back home - unfortunately the multitude of stupid-as-hell white bitches aren't faking it .....

 

Language is changing - owing to censorship.

Women ae no longer 'raped', they r*ped or are victims of "SA". People are not murdered, they are made 'unalive'. The list goes on.

There was a book recently released on this trend.

 

I loved the #MeToo hashtag movement. Folks of a certain age will be like .. what ya wanna join in the fun? .. it sounds like fun .. can I watch?

 

President George Warsh'nton, Warsh'nton State, Warsh'nton DC.

Pips. That's an old-fashioned word for orange seeds. As in the Sherlock Holmes story "The Five Orange Pips" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, published in 1891.

 

"Will be like...". Another one that sets my teeth on edge. I guess I am too oldfashioned.