Slang, Imported Sayings And The Misuse Of The English Language
This is something that has bothered me for a long time. I hate the use of imported American sayings. For example the saying 24 7. "Yeah I have been working on this 24 7", what? Oh you mean you've been working on this "all night" or "very hard" or have you really been working on this 24-hours a day 7 days a week? Didn't you eat or poo? or sleep? Fuck me you have been working hard, I'm surprised you are not hallucinating from lack of sleep and your guts must be full of poo you poor thing.
Even my mother said to me that she wanted to go home and "chill out", chill out? Have you had a hard day on the bong mum? Been up clubbing all night. Somehow it just seems wrong.
Bling???? It such a fucking stupid saying, Bling! Bling! It sounds like a chinese phone! That stupid advert about toothpaste with a black girl with a posh accent who says something like "maybe it's because my teeth are my bling". It sounds so out of place.
Another one that fucking aggravates me is "give it up". This has been creeping into TV shows with live audiences. "Can you give it up for Janet who has just one a washing machine?" Give what up? Give up smoking? Give up fatty foods? It's nonsense. Why not just say can you give her a round of applause.
The next thing I am going to mention maybe obvious to some and a totally unrealised phenomenon to others. This seems to have crept in from Australian TV like Neighbors and Home and Away. It's the way every sentence is a question? They will give you the answer to something but the tone of the sentence will sound like a question? Watch out for it?
Even I'm doing it.
By the way does anybody else think that Mark Lamar is a twat or is it just me?
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