Words I Have Never Used

[bainbrig]

Just pondering what ‘modern’ words I never use, and never would.

1) Hi.
Hello, I’ll say, or good morning, good day, pleased to meet you, etc, but never “Hi”.

2) Poo (or Poop)
I might have used the word when I was in Primary School, but not since. I’ll use the ‘old’ terms, and if talking to a medic might say faeces or defecate, but never, ever Poo.

3) Wow.
No, I did use it once when the alternative might have needed asterisks, but it’s not part of my everyday speech.

4) Oh My God (or OMG, or Oh My Days, or any other soft non-religious euphemism).
Among friends, I might use some Anglo-Saxon term instead.

5) Awesome.
No further comment necessary.

I imagine you can add many to my list.

BB

[pastafreak]

I had an aunt named Fanny...

[Mamyalynne]

No bees for me, that's Manchester - we have the elephant. :-)

[bainbrig]

I suppose, pastafreak, that the worst excesses of sloppy language do emanate from the US, but it’s not the differences I mind, it’s the infantalism of the likes of ‘poo’ that annoy me.

I like the breadth of languages, but the instances I’ve listed seem to make it narrower.

[kvalidir]

'something-gate' as in Watergate ticks me off as well, so if you've been arguing about shoes 'shoe-gate'. No stop it.

[kvalidir]

In fairness I love some Americanisms, and the south is ripe with expressive language y'all :)

[retrocop]

(a) Kicking up a Bob's a dying
(b)There will be whigs on the Green

Always liked the cut of the Gib of those two.

[jno]

bainbrig, when Harry Truman told Washington society matrons that he was spreading manure on his garden, they asked Mrs Truman if he couldn't say something a bit more respectable, like "fertiliser". She replied, "It's taken me 20 years just to get him to call it manure."

[Eleena]

'Bird' ... If ever there was a word that makes you cringe this is it. That one word gives the age away of the person delivering it.

[bainbrig]

jno. Perfect.

[bainbrig]

retro. Go on then, tell us what they mean ((a) Kicking up a Bob's a dying
(b)There will be whigs on the Green

Always liked the cut of the Gib of those two.)

Flummoxed.

[DTCwordfan]

//I suppose, pastafreak, that the worst excesses of sloppy language do emanate from the US, but it’s not the differences I mind, it’s the infantalism of the likes of ‘poo’ that annoy me. //

not that we don't have any - let's look at the synonyms - most of them Brit....

crap
BM
defecation
discharge
dung
excrement
excretion
fecal matter
feces
feculence
deuce
manure
number two
***
stool
waste

never mind cow pies
cowplop
crap
dung
feces
fertilizer
guano
manure
meadow muffin
night soil
ordure
poop

Bottom of the toilet, me thinks, bainbrig - and I think you have missed the seat and the bowl.....

[Peter Pedant]

ugh I dont want to post under this
something - somethings might drop thro

[retrocop]

Kicking up a Bob's a dying.
Old sailors description ( Napoleonic Wars) of crew going on a jolly boat for shore leave and raising cain at their home port when fully quenching their thirst with grog.
Whigs on the Green.
Irish politicians having been told to leave the house to settle their differences on the Green outside.
They removed their expensive whigs before knockin the bejaysus out of each other but saving their investment.

Like the cut of her Jib.
Naval expression to describe a well trimmed ,tidy rigged vessel. No flapping sails,tight halyards and sheets etc.

[bainbrig]

Retro. Thanks. Agree, we should use more 18th/19th century language - far more expressive.

DTC. Unsure what your point is, even with your list. That ‘poop’ is a home-grown horror? Still a horror, though, isn’t it.