Grammar that makes you cringe

[Pickled Onion]

Meter Macs website. Other than being slower than the legendary sloff on mogadon, it informs me:

You have now been arrived to: Islington Caledonian, Caledonian P1, 102 for Electricity

[T42]

I'm like, duh.

https://xkcd.com/1483/

[cygnet]

I had to do a training course for the new work time booking system.

Have you encountered <<software>>  before?
Answer
A) Yes, or
B) Nope

Nope? Are you flipping kidding me?

[T42]

History Today's offering via FB today states that

Richard Dimbleby’s account of what he witnessed at Bergen-Belsen in April 1945 has become infamous in Britain.

An account of something infamous is not an infamous account unless the account itself does something infamous.  Don't peeple get eddicated any more?

[Kim]

I had to do a training course for the new work time booking system.

Have you encountered <<software>>  before?
Answer
A) Yes, or
B) Nope

Nope? Are you flipping kidding me?

In a software context, I'd read that as "Encountered it?  I'm still traumatised..."

[toontra]

Further to my previous rant about the use of "so" at the start of an answer to any question, Angela van den Bogerd is taking it to new levels when giving evidence to the PO enquiry. Every ****ing question   

She deserves criminal prosecution for that alone, quite apart from being a lying shit responsible for trashing countless people's lives.

[fimm]

"So" has just become a filler word, just as "like" has, I think.

(I was laughing at a club member who was having a small rant about the English Of The Youth Of Today, while, like, using, like, "like", like, every, like, other, like, word. I felt guilty, though, because I suspect he has a bit of a stammer and that's how he covers/deals with it.)

[Kim]

'So' at the start of the sentence is certainly a filler, like 'Um...' or 'Right.'  It can be a useful preamble, but overuse makes the speaker look uncertain or thoughtful.

I think the valley girl 'like' is used more as a kind of, like, emphasis.


Obviously the wrongness of such grammatical constructions is proportional to how  a) young  and  b) USAnian  the speaker is perceived to be.

[Mr Larrington]

I regret to note that Professor Larrington was guilty of the “So” thing on her wireless programme a few years ago.  Probably what’s standing between her and further #MediaTartery