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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Americans removing letters from the English spelling!
Kk instead of ok...you've just replaced a letter of an already shortened word!
I think that's it but I'm sure there is more.
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That’s a text speak thing that kids started in the ‘00’s. Text speak in general is far more prevalent in the UK and English spelling is an issue for many English people as evidenced on a daily basis on Fab
American English isn’t incorrect, it’s a dialect of the English language not a series of errors based in ignorance. People are going to spell as they’re taught to spell in school. Correcting them just makes people look intolerant of people from other places.
And “Kk” is an annoying one |
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By *rimtonMan
over a year ago
Bromley |
"Americans removing letters from the English spelling!
Kk instead of ok...you've just replaced a letter of an already shortened word!
I think that's it but I'm sure there is more.
That’s a text speak thing that kids started in the ‘00’s. Text speak in general is far more prevalent in the UK and English spelling is an issue for many English people as evidenced on a daily basis on Fab
American English isn’t incorrect, it’s a dialect of the English language not a series of errors based in ignorance. People are going to spell as they’re taught to spell in school. Correcting them just makes people look intolerant of people from other places.
And “Kk” is an annoying one "
Sorry to get all pedantic , but actually it’s just ‘k’.
k? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The word stock which has been adopted from american and used instead of the english word standard, eg the engine in my car is stock. Causes an immediate but irrational increase in my blood pressure whenever I see it used!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Some words have become very overused (and in the wrong context). Most of the time, people think they are sounding clever using them when, actually, they sound like absolute wankers :-
Absolutely (when they should simply be answering "yes")
Awesome - Mount Everest is awesome - some shitty little hill on the outskirts of Birmingham isn't.
The latest fad is for pretentious arseholes (usually prosecco drinkers) who start the answer to every question with "so".
"So...... what we did as a company to address that issue was blah, blah, blah.
Should all be shot through the head 
P.S. Also for the firing squad are those who write "should of" when they mean "should have" - what an illiterate nation we have produced - so much for the ejucashion system and all those increases in exam passes we've had over the years.
The system has failed and this country is well and truly on the decline. |
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"My Bad!
Yes, your bad choice of trying to sound cool and just sounding like a bit of a twat   have often heard that & is wondering what the hell "
Trying to sound American and therefore cool....unfortunatley Donald Trump is also a yank, so....  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"My Bad!
Yes, your bad choice of trying to sound cool and just sounding like a bit of a twat have often heard that & is wondering what the hell
Trying to sound American and therefore cool....unfortunatley Donald Trump is also a yank, so.... "
so is Boris Johnson.. born in New York |
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"Americans removing letters from the English spelling!
Kk instead of ok...you've just replaced a letter of an already shortened word!
I think that's it but I'm sure there is more.
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I've never used k or kk. I spell favourite and colour the way I choose to spell them.
I am American-born and raised.
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"Americans removing letters from the English spelling!
Kk instead of ok...you've just replaced a letter of an already shortened word!
I think that's it but I'm sure there is more.
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Our son does this drives us mad |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Americans removing letters from the English spelling!
Kk instead of ok...you've just replaced a letter of an already shortened word!
I think that's it but I'm sure there is more.
I've never used k or kk. I spell favourite and colour the way I choose to spell them.
I am American-born and raised.
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American spellings different to English spellings have never bothered me
Calling Football, Soccer on the other hand is an absolute sin |
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"Americans removing letters from the English spelling!
Kk instead of ok...you've just replaced a letter of an already shortened word!
I think that's it but I'm sure there is more.
I've never used k or kk. I spell favourite and colour the way I choose to spell them.
I am American-born and raised.
American spellings different to English spellings have never bothered me
Calling Football, Soccer on the other hand is an absolute sin "
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By *irthandgirthMan
over a year ago
Camberley occasionally doncaster |
"Pal.
I've never once heard it used in an unsarcastic manner in a conversation.
I always heard it a few seconds before a fist lands in someone's face."
If someone calls you friend.. you know you are in the shit |
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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago
Hull |
"Discreet. Especially when they spell it wrong!!!
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It all depends on the context, ie, how each correct variation, is being used.
Discreet; relates to matters of Privacy and so on.
Discrete; relates to matters, events or items which are separate from each other.
Both individual words in their own right, but entirely different meanings. |
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By *rAitchMan
over a year ago
Diagonally Parked in a Parallel Universe |
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The latest fad is for pretentious arseholes (usually prosecco drinkers) who start the answer to every question with "so".
"So...... what we did as a company to address that issue was blah, blah, blah.
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These are the same people who start their answer to questions with "I mean..." |
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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago
Hull |
"Marmalade.....it's fucking orange jam"
Considering your Scottish location, do you know that the origin of Marmalade is Scottish?
History shows it was first discovered by a guy called Keiller, based in Dundee in 1700. |
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"Marmalade.....it's fucking orange jam
Considering your Scottish location, do you know that the origin of Marmalade is Scottish?
History shows it was first discovered by a guy called Keiller, based in Dundee in 1700. "
Marmalade was discovered? In its original form? Are you sure? Lol |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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" I think it's because I'm getting old but teenagers saying words like Peng,Dank, Buff, reem (Joey Essex) clapped "
Not just teens...There's two guys who were in my crew this last week who used at least two of those. And they're 25 and 27... 
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By (user no longer on site)
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" I think it's because I'm getting old but teenagers saying words like Peng,Dank, Buff, reem (Joey Essex) clapped
Not just teens...There's two guys who were in my crew this last week who used at least two of those. And they're 25 and 27...
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it's annoying |
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" I think it's because I'm getting old but teenagers saying words like Peng,Dank, Buff, reem (Joey Essex) clapped
Not just teens...There's two guys who were in my crew this last week who used at least two of those. And they're 25 and 27...
B it's annoying"
Well I’m really old as have no idea what any of them are or heard them spoken |
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By (user no longer on site)
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" I think it's because I'm getting old but teenagers saying words like Peng,Dank, Buff, reem (Joey Essex) clapped
Not just teens...There's two guys who were in my crew this last week who used at least two of those. And they're 25 and 27...
B it's annoying
Well I’m really old as have no idea what any of them are or heard them spoken "
my point made, I can't keep up |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Words can always sound different dependant on who is using them.
Yes, but there's no excuse for spelling them wrong intentionally"
Always an excuse if you feel the need to make one |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I hate the N word that people use to describe black people"
Same, I've lost count of the number of times I've slapped a friend for saying it when he's d*unk. |
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By *rjimMan
over a year ago
nr bristol |
Maybe everyone should put a full and comprehensive list of all words, phrases, spellings, accents,religious preferences, sexual practices, political biases, class preferences and body types on their profiles.
Just in case someone, somewhere at some point in times says something which 'triggers' the poor little snowflakes. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Maybe everyone should put a full and comprehensive list of all words, phrases, spellings, accents,religious preferences, sexual practices, political biases, class preferences and body types on their profiles.
Just in case someone, somewhere at some point in times says something which 'triggers' the poor little snowflakes."
Did someone piss on your cornflakes? |
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By *sandssCouple
over a year ago
Reading |
In messages, our pet hates are:
Lol
mmmmmmmm (again makes us cringe)
How you'd (seriously?)
And worst of all, getting there/their/they're or your/you're mixed up.
Remember it's the difference between knowing your shit and knowing you're shit.... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Any and all text speak, with the occasional allowance for lol or lmao...
Its mostly grammar or mis-use of words that gets to me though. Particularly 'of' instead of 'have', and 'over exaggerate'.
Also, people who seem to interchange 'then' and 'than'.
Rant over...  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Any and all text speak, with the occasional allowance for lol or lmao...
Its mostly grammar or mis-use of words that gets to me though. Particularly 'of' instead of 'have', and 'over exaggerate'.
Also, people who seem to interchange 'then' and 'than'.
Rant over... "
U ok hun?
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Any and all text speak, with the occasional allowance for lol or lmao...
Its mostly grammar or mis-use of words that gets to me though. Particularly 'of' instead of 'have', and 'over exaggerate'.
Also, people who seem to interchange 'then' and 'than'.
Rant over...
U ok hun?
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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" I think it's because I'm getting old but teenagers saying words like Peng,Dank, Buff, reem (Joey Essex) clapped "
I struggle to watch films or TV shows set in London because I can't understand most of the shit the characters say without having Urban Dictionary open. Top Boy is the most recent one.
Bare, mandem, crepes, chirps, ends, is-it. Peas and food apparently means money and drugs now. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Cringe and cringy. Especially when used in place of other words. Just use the fucking word you're meant to use. If something embarrassed you, say it embarrassed you rather than it was cringy. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Americans removing letters from the English spelling!
Kk instead of ok...you've just replaced a letter of an already shortened word!
I think that's it but I'm sure there is more.
I've never used k or kk. I spell favourite and colour the way I choose to spell them.
I am American-born and raised.
American spellings different to English spellings have never bothered me
Calling Football, Soccer on the other hand is an absolute sin "
Haha look up why it’s called soccer! It is an abbreviation- it used to be called soccer short for association football! it’s not a name born of ignorance, same as most variations. Most of them began here and changed here, but not there.
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reminds me of Peter Griffin lol
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