Tedious linguistic clichés of the moment
I’m growing tired of hearing so many people who can’t speak normally any more. They pepper their speech with stock, media-derived phrases which are glued clumsily together into cliché-ridden sentences. The glue is usually the word ‘like’. The filling is comprised of a mix of standard English, spoken in a pseudo-Jamaican accent with the following seasonings:
‘For free’, ’Awesome’, ’Massive thankyou’, ’You / guys’, ’Fantastic’, ‘Legend’, ’Oh my days’, ‘My bad’, ‘It’s a big ask”.
I wish they’d all just bugger orf and get some elocution lessons innit?

October 12th, 2011 at 11:06 am
Agreed, other than I don’t think ‘fantastic’ counts.