I'm in a sour, snarky mood today, for reasons that have nothing to do with this blog, but I feel like ranting so that's what I am going to do.
And what better to rant about than the floodtide of offensive language sweeping our society? Well yes, of course there are better things. Genocide. Fascism. The Gap. All terrible things, and I just don't feel equal to going there.
So I'm going with the language, and following on from my post of 7 May, here are some more of the vilest excrescences infesting our speech these days.
Go potty
One hears this all the time from American women. At least, I hope it is only Americans. I pray that it is, although I have rather a sinking feeling given how the bogans love to ape the Americans. I have no words for how much I loathe this vile baby-talk, which is now being applied even to dogs.
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| Shit. A perfectly good Anglo-Saxon word. Use it. |
Doggy
And speaking of dogs, when did we start calling everything relating to them 'doggy'? Not reasonably, as one might say 'his car has a doggy odour', but as a descriptor - 'doggy daycare', for example. And it is creeping outwards. One day in a cafe a woman referred to my dog as a 'doggy'. It was all I could do not to disgorge my latte, and the expression on poor Emily's face cannot be described.
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| Have some respect! |
Lay down
Please, please, people, stop doing this. I feel like shooting myself just looking at it. There is absolutely no reason ever to say this, unless you are Melanie Safka recording a hit single.
Crispy
This one has been around for a long, long time, but still manages to set my teeth on edge. 'Crisp' is already an adjective. Enough said.
Well that's all we have time for today, and honestly it's all my sanity can stand, and I hope my next post will be about something more inspiring than the mouthings of the semi-literate.
