But the best bit is the (fictitious?) organisation who have supposedly published the poster. “Acadamy Of Linguistic Awarness”. Oh dear.
But the best bit is the (fictitious?) organisation who have supposedly published the poster. “Acadamy Of Linguistic Awarness”. Oh dear.
Ha ha. There are other things that annoy me more than that though … my kids say ‘my bad’, that’s the worst one at the moment, but they also use ‘went’ instead of ‘said’, which annoys me intensely as well.
Thank you, thank you, Sam I Am.
Working for an American company means there’s always the pressure to adopt new ways of speaking. Some are just Americanisms, which are OK for Americans to speak but often jar in the mouth of a Brit. “Momentarily” meaning “in a moment” rather than “for a moment” – see Maggie Smith in the 1st Harry Potter film *ugh*.
But some are American business things which are just bleurgh. Everything is “aggressive” and “robust”, things “impact on” other things rather than affect them – even “impactful” bleurgh again. I shall stop ranting now as it’s not really a spectator sport.
Do they not say “was like” instead of “said”? All the kids do round here.
That thing about “momentarily” always makes me laugh. Especially when the aeroplane pilot says it – “we will be taking off momentarily”.
I think I have cured Big of ‘like’.
“What do you mean like? How similar was it?” 🙂
There was an article in the Times yesterday Time to give up on spelling, says academic.
Am I the only person left who a) knows why there is an ‘f’ in twelfth and b) pronounces it?