I saw a commercial for something (who remembers what?) several years ago, and featured a very bored brunette trying to distract herself while her blonde friend related the following conversation:

"He was all like 'No Way', and I was like 'Way'; so he was like 'NO WAY!', and I was like 'WAAAY!', so he was like 'NO WAY!', and I was like..."


My personal peeve: 'Impact' is not a verb. The plane did not 'impact' the ground. Global warming does not 'impact' life on Earth. It may have an impact, but it 'affects' life on Earth.

Yeah, I am annoyed how some words are 'verbified' [made into a verb] while others are 'nounified' simply because the idiot speaker of them cannot tell the difference!

Talk about "dumbing down" to the lowest denominator.... :damn:

You can try to "out-dumb" the dummies by really overdoing it.

When he abuses the language like that, but repeat it back to him even more grossly absurd than the way he used it.

If he says, "The plane did not 'impact' the ground."

You can ask, "So, you say that the plane did not 'impactualize' the ground?"

Of course, he'll correct you and say it isn't a word. Whereby, you can tell him the same with his use of 'impact'. :arrgh!:

even the venerable old BBC news is starting to let the side down....
it's scaring the p*ss out of me..not that i'm any bodys version of shakespear but, i do not like to hear the word like used out of context...sports commentators who say "yeh..?" at the end of very sentence are rapidly becoming a pet hate allso...are they asking me if i agree with them...? are they trying to start an argument..? for whom is the implied question meant..? his fellow commentator..? a passing rabbit..?
a rabbit passing..?

or is he just attempting to rea-sure the viewer that he (the commentator) has an infallible font of knowledge and experience in the field..yet is so insecure about it that he has to ask for comfirmation of this at the end of his every statement..makes no sense to me...lol...:rotfl:
if we carry on like this ..we will be back making grunting noises and swinging from trees fighting each other for bannanas eventually

Well then, I say lock them up until they learn to speak the Queens English. ;)

Like.. thats how they talk in west hollywood! :huh:

I just remembered a good one: back in 1992 there was a major earthquake in San Francisco, which levelled several neighborhoods and a freeway overpass. The female reporter was a perfect example of what Rush Limbaugh likes to call "infobabes". When she was reporting on the status of rescue operations she let slip this glorious flub: "We are efforting to make contact with the rescue station..."

I don't know but it's funny when a reporter slips up. :lol:

Like, whats the problem? :p

Avon, that's like so kewl! Like, totally awesome.

Thanks for sharing that, fer sure.

Well, it has been used as a verb for a pretty long time, but many people do not like it.
http://www.bartleby.com/64/C003/0165.html
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/impact.html
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node...not%20a%20verb!

Interesting, especially the Bartleby reference that 'contact' is now readily accepted as a verb. I understand that language changes constantly, and my generation's misuse will be the next generation's accepted usage. It just drives the anal-retentive among us crazy.

I sometimes have the same feeling when I see people of my own generation (I'm 24 years old) who make serious grammatical errors.

du u men lke spellng?

fonix lerned me gud. :yep: