tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170423875365707527.post5020561241365071726..comments2024-01-31T17:47:35.226+00:00Comments on Around My Kitchen Table: Why Don't You Come Up and Fact Me?Around My Kitchen Tablehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01840917368903178857noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170423875365707527.post-85656593699976221982009-10-06T09:53:50.622+01:002009-10-06T09:53:50.622+01:00Verbing weirds language
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hottentottententente...Verbing weirds language<br /><br />and<br /><br />hottentottententententoonstelling (famous dutch word)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170423875365707527.post-5468094760668384082009-09-11T14:12:51.859+01:002009-09-11T14:12:51.859+01:00yes yes yes, or rather no no no - to fact me, that...yes yes yes, or rather no no no - to fact me, that is. what a sordid old slapper she is too. Saw it all the time through the cricket, I think.Millahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15967731998504496807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170423875365707527.post-49151047948333051232009-09-07T11:57:15.151+01:002009-09-07T11:57:15.151+01:00Elaine: "To cottage" - nope, doesn't...Elaine: "To cottage" - nope, doesn't bear thinking about!<br /><br />Wine and Words: I love your blog. If anyone goes through my blog looking for spelling and grammatical errors, they will find plenty!<br /><br />PDEWYMO: Excited for - that's another one, along with "he should of" instead of "he should have".<br /><br />Teuchter: Less and fewer is one of Around My Kitchen Tablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01840917368903178857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170423875365707527.post-27498248299171287202009-09-02T11:17:11.276+01:002009-09-02T11:17:11.276+01:00I am so pleased that you wrote about that stupid a...I am so pleased that you wrote about that stupid advert. I had no idea what the Noooarrrr was until I read your blog. My Other Half and I have read it to all of our friends who mention the stupidity of that advert.<br /><br />Your blog has made it less hateful now, we just laugh at the advertising worlds insular idiocy.Corner Comfortshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12841170818681562076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170423875365707527.post-68754283924732115762009-09-01T21:25:17.275+01:002009-09-01T21:25:17.275+01:00I want to know when my gay friend stoppeds being g...I want to know when my gay friend stoppeds being gay and became A gay.Bekihttp://www.beki.typepad.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170423875365707527.post-88980012873245420852009-08-31T19:03:30.367+01:002009-08-31T19:03:30.367+01:00hmmm, he might do all sorts of other nouns to you ...hmmm, he might do all sorts of other nouns to you if you're lucky!! a very good point and i do so love a rant.<br /><br />I have to endure daily the horror of the french peppering their speech with English. 'Le Feeling', <br />'Le look', 'cookies', 'Le living' (lounge)and one that makes me gnaw my fist in horror, 'talkie walkie' (pronounced talc-y Pig in the Kitchenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10631525119816074013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170423875365707527.post-23105387657330646222009-08-28T09:56:48.256+01:002009-08-28T09:56:48.256+01:00Greetings from a gossip in France. Have been enjoy...Greetings from a gossip in France. Have been enjoying your blog - hardly surprising, as it's funny, warm, wry + beautifully-written! 'Chapeau' as they say here. Thank you.<br />Agree with all the linguistic laments. Worked in/with big companies most of career, so automatic sneer @ just about anything emanating from Harvard Business School. Otherwise, it's 'party' used as aMinniehttp://minniebeaniste.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170423875365707527.post-20587031956074649902009-08-26T22:27:04.653+01:002009-08-26T22:27:04.653+01:00Grammar is my bug bear, you sum this up beautifull...Grammar is my bug bear, you sum this up beautifully. You used to read me when I did Too Young for a Midlfe an age ago, but I'm back now, and it would be lovely to have a friendly face pay a visit!<br /><br />TinaThe Woman who Canhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12369918534461488884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170423875365707527.post-27458923049158374412009-08-21T16:02:05.748+01:002009-08-21T16:02:05.748+01:00Oh I am so with you on this! I hate to hear our ...Oh I am so with you on this! I hate to hear our language adulterated - mmmmmm adulterate? No, no, no, don't even go there! ;)Akelamaluhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11234268568845148285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170423875365707527.post-38009715133224866712009-08-20T07:41:59.395+01:002009-08-20T07:41:59.395+01:00In Sweden people have started to say "yes box...In Sweden people have started to say "yes box" to mean "yes indeed". And worse, they say it in English. I want to kill them. Mid-Baltic style.paddyhttp://paddyk.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170423875365707527.post-14721934552140791812009-08-19T01:00:01.925+01:002009-08-19T01:00:01.925+01:00Ah. Yes. A pox on it.Ah. Yes. A pox on it.Mariahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05049511202014141182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170423875365707527.post-59713547787952675572009-08-18T08:40:13.173+01:002009-08-18T08:40:13.173+01:00ladythinker got me thinking about some other irrit...ladythinker got me thinking about some other irritating <i>turns of phrase.</i><br /><br />When listening to someone giving an account of a conversation where - he turned round and said, then she turned round and said, ad nauseum - I get a mental picture of people spinning like tops.<br /><br />As for that pooing child, Tracey ... if I don't get to the channel-changer in time, I end up Teuchternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170423875365707527.post-41665389547527316972009-08-17T20:08:00.459+01:002009-08-17T20:08:00.459+01:00well that got some of that off my ample chest!
I ...well that got some of that off my ample chest! <br />I can see I'll have to start watching the adverts - just to be sure to see this little gem ;-)Penny Pincherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00993473608935875834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170423875365707527.post-38047999360363370692009-08-17T20:05:52.302+01:002009-08-17T20:05:52.302+01:00Almost as bad as the folk who use words they have ...Almost as bad as the folk who use words they have no idea how they are spelt (spelled) and therefore mispronounce: my favourite irritant?<br />"He pacificley said . . "<br /><br />and don't get me on people who have no idea of the differences between:<br />either/neither - or/nor<br />loan/lend/borrow<br />learn/learnt(ed)/teach/taught<br />I seen /I saw<br /><br />"He says to Penny Pincherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00993473608935875834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170423875365707527.post-81497109331383407052009-08-17T13:06:17.266+01:002009-08-17T13:06:17.266+01:00hiya.. Just found your blog and boy did i laugh at...hiya.. Just found your blog and boy did i laugh at this post.. That same advert bugs me too! "Noir" grrr<br /><br />Also all the ads about selling gold.. one woman says "I took my Jewlerry and got £150" <br />Its Jew E llery woman not jew lerry<br /><br />and thats blooming child who wants a "poo and pause" i could slap him.. right, now i've had my whinge i'Traceyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16456462918099391171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170423875365707527.post-52629551272271653642009-08-17T13:04:44.247+01:002009-08-17T13:04:44.247+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.Traceyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16456462918099391171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170423875365707527.post-42345789526556611982009-08-17T12:46:28.485+01:002009-08-17T12:46:28.485+01:00I know language must evolve but there are some noi...I know language must evolve but there are some noisome neologisms out there; "staycation" and "chillax" are two which make me shudder.Teuchterhttp://www.teuchter.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170423875365707527.post-71035246525362728562009-08-17T09:24:17.703+01:002009-08-17T09:24:17.703+01:00I quite agree Table - it's INFURIATING! Anothe...I quite agree Table - it's INFURIATING! Another thing that used to get me, in my TV news days was Major. As in, there is a Major Disaster. Still used that one - and overused....Flowerpothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14102679179201725732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170423875365707527.post-20035976186980992362009-08-16T20:05:53.097+01:002009-08-16T20:05:53.097+01:00Being Dutch, but considering English as my real la...Being Dutch, but considering English as my real language, I'm very protective of it and can't stand people abusing it. I try to ignore insensible use of the language and don't react to it and pretend I did not hear that remark until it is repeated in proper English.I do make a haughty face when I ignore such a remark, so that helps the situation be more understandable perhaps, and I Irenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05043376053971475659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170423875365707527.post-3523823330230444422009-08-16T17:18:46.500+01:002009-08-16T17:18:46.500+01:00Oh yes, hate the ad with a passion, concrete shoes...Oh yes, hate the ad with a passion, concrete shoes are an ideal response. I hate the language, the use of sex, the faux Americanisms. Every time I see it my blood pressure rises. I think everyone has their own pet language misuse which sets them fuming. I hate the use of "refute" where you mean "deny". If you say something isn't so, you deny it. To refute it, to Elizabeth Musgravehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09473705107636868753noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170423875365707527.post-69472991976892727372009-08-16T14:44:39.685+01:002009-08-16T14:44:39.685+01:00Thank you, thank you, thank you.
I, too, office f...Thank you, thank you, thank you. <br />I, too, office five days a week, with a Director who uses language like a club. Yikes!Pondsidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02407539138546412482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170423875365707527.post-71123844003285824872009-08-16T13:10:08.073+01:002009-08-16T13:10:08.073+01:00I'm with you on that car advertisement! In fa...I'm with you on that car advertisement! In fact - I'll help mix the concrete.<br />Every time it comes on, I either switch channels or curse until the air turns dark blue.<br /><br />My peeve du jour, or should that be jouwahr, is the word "text" when it's used as a verb in the past tense.<br />He text me. No he bloody didn't; he texted you.<br /><br />And don't Teuchterhttp://teuchter.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170423875365707527.post-73268181599752718072009-08-16T12:08:14.605+01:002009-08-16T12:08:14.605+01:00Dog? Dogging?
Sorry, Elaine filled my brain with ...Dog? Dogging?<br /><br />Sorry, Elaine filled my brain with filth. <br /><br />I get pissed off when people say 'I'm excited for tomorrow' <br /><br />How can you be excited FOR tomorrow? You can't be excited on behalf of tomorrow. You can be excited ABOUT tomorrow. <br /><br />or "I'm excited to see..." NO NO NO, you are excited ABOUT SEEING.<br /><br />Argh.Please Don't Eat With Your Mouth Openhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09246896544080806179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170423875365707527.post-32680896339443055042009-08-15T16:37:02.350+01:002009-08-15T16:37:02.350+01:00Lol. You must hate my blog :) I take my liberties ...Lol. You must hate my blog :) I take my liberties to be sure.Wine and Wordshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06778785233226804217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2170423875365707527.post-50491117691242047532009-08-15T11:20:58.789+01:002009-08-15T11:20:58.789+01:00Cottage? Cottaging? Nah, I won't go there.Cottage? Cottaging? Nah, I won't go there.Elaine Denninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10640829930815645105noreply@blogger.com