The world is screwed. It's Over. It's done!!! The Future is No More!

[Five_Inch_Heels]

The proof?


Phrases like this have creeped into our languages.

"I’m lowkey rambling bout nothin ... "​

WTF is 'lowkey' and how did it pollute everyday statements?


Post your signs of the de-evolution of humanity into unintelligible chaos.

 

[AwkwardMD]

WTF is 'lowkey' and how did it pollute everyday statements?.

Usually translates like "I'm reluctant to admit it but" even though it gets used too often to really count as reluctance (a concept we're all extremely familiar with).

 

[StillStunned]

"End of."
"[Adjective] as" - "sweet as", for example, or "sexy as".

Both of these without completing the phrase or comparison. I know everybody is in a hurry these days, but come on!

 

[AwkwardMD]

"End of."
"[Adjective] as" - "sweet as", for example, or "sexy as".

Both of these without completing the phrase or comparison. I know everybody is in a hurry these days, but come on!

A British youtuber I watch constantly uses incorrect verb forms like "I'm sat at a light" rather than sitting, and I cringe every single time. I don’t think its just him.

 

[Nynah]

Phrases like this have creeped

The word you're looking for is 'crept'.

into the our languages.

Hm.

 

[StillStunned]

A British youtuber I watch constantly uses incorrect verb forms like "I'm sat at a light" rather than sitting, and I cringe every single time. I don’t think its just him.

No, it's a British thing. I dislike it too.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

I was about to make an example in Spanish, but then I realized it's an idiosyncracy that only affects my country, so I'll refrain.

English is already hard enough for me to criticise other people's speech, let alone when I'm learning four other languages.

Pic related.

 

[Erozetta]

A British youtuber I watch constantly uses incorrect verb forms like "I'm sat at a light" rather than sitting, and I cringe every single time. I don’t think its just him.

I had a friend from the UK who did this and I started doing it. I caught myself once and laid into him and told him I'd hate for the first time we meet in person to result in me murdering him for fucking up my already lacking grammar skills.

He stopped using it after that.

 

[AwkwardMD]

I had a friend from the UK who did this and I started doing it. I caught myself once and laid into him and told him I'd hate for the first time we meet in person to result in me murdering him for fucking up my already lacking grammar skills.

He stopped using it after that.

You are doing the Lord's work. Bless you.

 

[AwkwardMD]

I was about to make an example in Spanish, but then I realized it's an idiosyncracy that only affects my country, so I'll refrain.

English is already hard enough for me to criticise other people's speech, let alone when I'm learning four other languages.

Pic related.

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I would love to hear Venezuelan idiosyncracies, FWIW

 

[Writer61]

Cripes.

Language evolves, don't cha know, old bean?. Deal with it.

 

[AwkwardMD]

Language evolves. Deal with it.

Counterpoint: dealing with it can involve commiserating and this is fine.

 

[StillStunned]

Sure, language can evolve. Doesn't mean I don't want to prune some of the evolutionary branches though.

 

[alohadave]

The word you're looking for is 'crept'.

I'm all for replacing irregular verb forms with regular forms.

 

[Writer61]

Sure, language can evolve. Doesn't mean I don't want to prune some of the evolutionary branches though.

Resistance is futile.

 

[Writer61]

I'm all for replacing irregular verb forms with regular forms.

But who will ensure that? L'Academie Anglais?

 

[TheWritingGroup]

"I’m lowkey rambling bout nothin ... "

Usually translates like "I'm reluctant to admit it but" even though it gets used too often to really count as reluctance (a concept we're all extremely familiar with).

Are you thinking of "down low"? "Low key" just means "not very intensely" in my dialect.

Yeah, you're definitely the first person to complain about current mores.

Hesiod:

I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.

--Annie

 

[AwkwardMD]

Are you thinking of "down low"? "Low key" just means "not very intensely" in my dialect.

No, I definitely mean that some people use it to describe the ulterior motive for doing a thing.

He's mowing his lawn but, lowkey? It's to work on his tan. So vain.

 

[TheRedChamber]

A British youtuber I watch constantly uses incorrect verb forms like "I'm sat at a light" rather than sitting, and I cringe every single time. I don’t think its just him.

It's fine.

"The teacher sat me down and we had a long talk about my grades."

"I am sat at a light" - passive voice form of above. The speaker isn't willingly sitting but instead is forced into inaction by those darn lights.

 

[alohadave]

But who will ensure that? L'Academie Anglais?

Crowdsourced like all language drift. Just start using it.

 

[Jackie.Hikaru]

The proof?


Phrases like this have creeped into the our languages.

"I’m lowkey rambling bout nothin ... "​

WTF is 'lowkey' and how did it pollute everyday statements?


Post your signs of the de-evolution of humanity into unintelligible chaos.

Lowkey is highkey old news

 

[AwkwardMD]

It's fine.

"The teacher sat me down and we had a long talk about my grades."

"I am sat at a light" - passive voice form of above. The speaker isn't willingly sitting but instead is forced into inaction by those darn lights.

That'd be "I am being sat at a light"

"I'm sat at a light" is using the past tense form in the present

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

I can't even ...











... what?

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Imma tryna ....

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

The word you're looking for is 'crept'.


Hm.

I left those for you.