I walked by a gang of delinquent teenage lads the other night whilst taking the dog out. One said "hey mate your dogs sick". I couldn't find anything wrong with him.
And that favourite of F1 drivers... "That's what I'm talking about!" - what is? What are you talking about, exactly?
Surely the whole point of language is communication? If the parties involved in the conversation understand each other,then it's a success. I'm afraid I'm guilty of using words like "cool",because they seem to easily encapsulate the "meaning",in a conversation Used to get told off for using it at school though:"lazy use of language",etc. So be cool,Funkmeister,it'll be sweet....
what really annoys me is when people write without any punctuation except for the occasional comma that, they just put in randomly for no apparent reason this is most common in adverts online especially ones on sites like gumtree where some of the adverts make no sense at all and another thing that i find annoying is when people dont use correct capitalisation and just keep joining odd bits of sentences together until they run out of things to...
