Masters of Time?

[Gwylan]

Keep reading and hearing quotes that talk about "this moment in time" and " moving forward in time"

Have we ever recorded anyone " moving backwards in time"?

Any other similar annoyances?

Well there is " getting off of"

 

[AntarcticPilot]

Keep reading and hearing quotes that talk about "this moment in time" and " moving forward in time"

Have we ever recorded anyone " moving backwards in time"?

Any other similar annoyances?

Well there is " getting off of"

Merlin is reported to have aged backwards in time, getting younger as the years passed...

 

[Spirit (of Glenans)]

Signing "off",
Parking "up"
"Yeah no",
"Sked -jool"
Cooking "off"
I'll think of more later.

 

[guernseyman]

Richard Feynman spoke of fundamental particles moving backwards in time.
More generally it would seem reasonable to use the phrase in a historical discussion when it is wanted to discuss some earlier events.

I find "I would of" an annoyance, in mistake for "I would've".

 

[Dan Tribe]

At this precise moment in time = now.
The use of "of" to replace "with". I'm fed up of it!

 

[RichardS]

These threads get ever more "practical" and "boaty" as we move forward in time.

Richard

 

[Gwylan]

Merlin is reported to have aged backwards in time, getting younger as the years passed...

Even being Welsh I find that a bit of a challenge. He said a few things about the end of Wales.
He said that Wales would be overwhelmed when a smoke breathing dragon arrived in Carmarthen. A steam train arrived there on 1st March 1860 - a real insult by the railway barons.

Then there is the tree at the center of Carmarthen.

 

[ithet]

My pet hates are the use of "have to" and "can't" for "want to" and "don't want to", as in "we have to increase your monthly charge" and "no we can't refund the excessive charge".

 

[Hydrozoan]

… Then there is the tree at the center of Carmarthen.

The one planted in ca. 1660 to celebrate Charles II, that was dead since ca. 1860 but held together (hideously, IMO) by iron bands, protected by railings and shored up by a concrete base lest it fall (or be knocked) down and the town suffer a flood or other disaster? It ‘fell’ victim to a road scheme in the 1970s I believe and Wiki shows us a rather prosaic replacement in a modern planter - but at least it’s green. Merlin's Oak - Wikipedia

 

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Passed a cafe today selling "Natural Wine", would you drink unatural wine?

 

[Old Harry]

Keep reading and hearing quotes that talk about "this moment in time" and " moving forward in time"

Have we ever recorded anyone " moving backwards in time"?

Any other similar annoyances?

Well there is " getting off of"

Is that also "Out There"

 

[tjbrace]

Somethink instead of something, similarly anythink and anything. And I have heard skelington

 

[Gin]

Keep reading and hearing quotes that talk about "this moment in time" and " moving forward in time"

Have we ever recorded anyone " moving backwards in time"?

Any other similar annoyances?

Well there is " getting off of"
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misuse of subject and object pronouns- condoned and unashamedly introduced even by the Beeb

eg. One well known tv car makeover series on which the presenter always says “Me and Ed done(sic) this or that”

It’s everywhere on tv and radio ?

 

[Gwylan]

Passed a cafe today selling "Natural Wine", would you drink unatural wine?

And pubs advertising "good food". Would anyone say "rubbish food now being served"?

 

[elton]

Keep reading and hearing quotes that talk about "this moment in time" and " moving forward in time"

Have we ever recorded anyone " moving backwards in time"?

The labour party appears to have moved backwards in time.

Any other similar annoyances?

Well there is " getting off of"

"Getting off of" is just plain idiotic. There's no way it can be parsed to make sense.

I worked with a bloke in London in the 1980s who I first heard using this turn of phrase, and I felt like I'd been stabbed every time he used it.

 

[Just_sayin']

"Bloke" annoys me.

 

[AntarcticPilot]

And pubs advertising "good food". Would anyone say "rubbish food now being served"?

Reminds me of a Giles cartoon. Grandma and Vera are going into an old fashioned hardware store. There's a shiny container labelled "Best Paraffin", and next to it a grotty old barrel labelled "Worst Paraffin"! Can't remember what the cartoon was about, but it's often the detail of Giles' cartoons that has stuck!

How old do you have to be to remember Giles? The annual was a feature of Christmas day during my childhood!

 

[Gwylan]

Being greeted by total strangers as "mate". Especially since I have no intention of trying to reproduce with them.

 

[Neeves]

I'm 'gonna' - do something or go somewhere.

Sloppy, especially when said by those who should know better.

But as I am constantly reminded (and too often here) - I am not gonna - sorry - going to change the world !

Jonathan

 

[Dan Tribe]

I've recently had a couple of extended trips to Netherlands and have been apalled at the poor quality of spoken English.

But only after I have returned to UK.
Most of the Dutch people I met seemed to have had a good education and a good command of vocabulary and grammar.
Nartamean innit.