Really?

[minestrone]

Away and listen to some Status Quo granddad.

 

[socialworker]

Good Plan B socialworker - get him booked in for some private consultations. Boooomed !!

As I may have said before on this forum, I am not a shrink, I organise care for the old and demented ...... oh.

 

[ctdctd]

As I may have said before on this forum, I am not a shrink, I organise care for the old and demented ...... oh.

Some have wrongly accused you of being a sockie.

However, I wonder if Admin has hired you to look after several of the posters here.

Care in the community - you know it makes sense.

 

[MyUserName]

As an aside, some 'Americanisms' turn out to be archaic English usage that died out in the UK but not over there. They are actually more traditionally English than modern English English.

Do you know any particular ones?

 

[suityou01]

I'm as ok as I usually am

 

[suityou01]

1. sovereignty
2. vestige
3. quantitative

What do they teach you kids these days?

Now, you listen to me, .... sonny. I'm pressing the right keys, .... not necessarily in the right order.

 

[d000hg]

Where and when did this become a part of modern day English? If you see something you disapprove of, rather than form some constructive sentences to explain your disapproval, and weave in pathos/sarcasm/sardonism/satire to suit the circumstances and your own personal moaning style, you just get to point like a 3 year old would point at two dogs ******* and exclaim "really?".

It was cute in an American soap opera. Once!!!

It's the same as people who say "And I was so like ... OMG" rather than dare to reach for an adjective like "amazed" or "startled" or even one from the top drawer like "incredulous".

Is it not bad enough that our own soveriegnty is being handed over piece by piece to Europe, our currency drowning in the sea of currency death and our export markets going down the toilet that the one last vestage of our once great land, our language, the one most spoken the world over a few years back is also being diluted, perhaps more severely than our currency?

American telly, Geordie shore and Towie is the quantititave easing of our language.

Fight back people, use your vocabulary. You know you want to.

Thou hast a problem with modern English? Verily I declare language may evolve.

 

[suityou01]

Thou hast a problem with modern English? Verily I declare language may evolve.

devolve

 

[MarillionFan]

devolve

Absolve

(This is word links right?)

 

[suityou01]

Absolve

(This is word links right?)

Absolutionly