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my little bit of weird rage comes from the word CREME as in "hair colouring creme". i don't know why. when it's used in creme caramel it's ok, but when it's used with anything else it sends shivers of anger and revulsion through me.
i can't explain it. is it just me being an oddball or does everyone have these little quirks?
I know that language evolves, and that many of our words are derived from mispronunciations and concatenations of foreign words, but it still irritates me! I think its my anal retentive, perfectionist nature. I would eat, shoot and leave.
(Oops, sorry - wrong type of growl.)
Well then, my angry Grrrrrs surface when shop assistants young enough to be my son/daughter call me 'love' or 'mate' when they're serving me. Grrrrrr
as cabbage's or bun's.
Sorry, but this in itself really irritates me. The word 'like' in that context means nothing.
'Innit' at the end of a sentence, just to finish it off, bugs the sh** out of me. 'Nuffink' irritates me. Stray apostophes are everywhere, and where they should be, they're missing.
I know languages have to eveolve, and English is no different, but to mutate them and mangle them in the way many European languages have been these last few years is nothing short of tragic.
OK, I feel better now...
Last night as I was driving home, I saw a van marked with Beauty Therapist and Nail Technician. I find this sort of thing exceedingly irritating. There was a time when a therapist was someone who performed a sort of healing, whether a medic, or alternative medicine, psychology or any of the allied healthcare professions. But it seems now that its used for anything that makes a person feel good for e.g. retail therapy (which I know is a bit of a joke, but even so) and beauty therapy. There was a time when a technician was someone who performed a technical task, studying engineering in order to do so. Using these words for a job that requires much less training, intelligence and qualification in order to heighten the value of the job is devaluing the use of them in their correct context.
I am not deriding anyone who wants to have their face made up, or nails done, or the people who make a career out of providing these services. But it really gets my goat that someone can call themselves a therapist or technician without the same level of training as the real therapists and technicians.
Am I an obnoxious snob? Im sure that I am, but if Im coming across as being overly officious and pompous then Ill apologise in advance. Its just my grrrr time.
People, mainly men, who spit/gob in the street, people who drop litter,people who ram their shoppping trolleys in the back of my legs, people who will insist on having a conversation in the narrow shopping aisle so you can't get by,people who say teachers are lucky cos they have 13 weeks holiday a year,( let them try teaching for a while no make that one day then they will see why you need it), people who stand and read the magazines in Smiths so you can't get by why don't they just buy them? oh and the phone being constantly engaged like this morning when I am trying to buy tickets to see Take That.
Colin Firth in wet clothes deffo not a grrr more a phorwwwwwwwwww Is that how you spell it?
Claudia, yes I agree, a beauty course is quite involved and from what I can gather they do have to know about skin conditions and other health things. Im generalising but I do feel that the beauty industry has less value than the health industry.
i do agree that "like" has long since been adopted by liverpudlians as the punctuation to many sentences, i.e. "ya know warra mean, like?" (that comes from the "scouse dictionary" concocted by my secondary school science teacher who, although living and working in liverpool, could not deal with and would not stand for any scouse terminology or creepings of local dialect in any conversation conducted in his classroom. come to think of it now, he was a pompus eejit! oh dear, here comes the rage again...)
Gonna and Ain't featured heavily.
'ain't gonna study war no more' is one example.
also 'see you laters' , with an added s.
And I hate hearing the f word. This is so widely used by people now especially youngsters. When I go down to the town I hear it used a lot. Last week a woman was swearing at her little boy, age only about 3, and using this word. And we wonder why children turn out like they do now.
'Like' as every other word
The fact that students no longer go to University; they go to 'Uni'. (Uni what? Corn? Sex?)
People who leave their engines running so they can enjoy aircon when they're waiting for some one on a hot day / heater on when they're waiting for someone on a cold day
Drivers who don't indicate at roundabouts
Drivers who overtake and then turn immediately left into a side road
Assistants who ask 'what was your address? What name was that?' Surely they want my name / address as it is, not was
I work through the week like many people so the washing piles up in the laundry, the house gets that 'bombed' look about it and the groceries rapidly diminish. I use my weekends NOT to rest, relax and write but to wash, clean and shop. It is 6:45pm here on Sunday and just when I think I'm about to sit down for 5 minutes before I have to start thinking about dinner and the kids school lunches for tomorrow, the b***dy dog has piddled on my last basket of clean washing as I was taking it down from the line. GGRRRRRRRR!
It's moments like that ,that you really want to murder the darlings isn't it IG.
No, TT don't make me go GGRRRRR...... quite the opposite!