The things that really wind me up!

To get back on track I can't be doing with people who when asked a question always start the answer with the word " so". I also don't get the phrases creeping into modern usage " back in the day" when they mean "in the past" or " going forward " when they mean "in the future " 

Rant over I'll get back in my box

The English language has always evolved, we don't speak like the 16th century Shakespeare anymore, but we do understand most of the words. The language will continue to evolve as the major dictionaries update themselves with the new words of popular culture, Tis life.

How far 'back in the day' do you go papgeno? 

From thew tinterweb:

The phrase “back in the day” has been around since at least the 1940s, and the phrase “back in the days” has been around a lot longer, since the 18th century.

But in those earlier usages, “back in the day” and “back in the days” were part of larger phrases that mentioned specific periods in the past.

Here’s an example of this earlier use of “back in the day” fromThe Blood Remembers, a 1941 novel by Helen Hedricks, wife of the publisher Alfred A. Knopf:

“I was back in the day when his father was buried, and the bright sun was killing the purple asters in Sam’s bent hands.”

And here’s a much earlier example of “back in the days” from an 1816 biography of Eudoxia Lopukhina, the first consort of Peter the Great, by Carl Theodor von Unlanski:

“The human race had learned to write—to make impressions with objects which are the equivalents of writer’s tools — away back in the days when the cuneiform folk put their marks into stones, and the cave men of prehistoric France daubed colored hieroglyphics.”

We found an even earlier example (“back in the days of Hezekiah”) in an undated sermon among the collected writings of the Rev. Ebenezer Erskine, a Scottish minister who lived from 1680 to 1754.

and,

The usage isn’t as new as you might think. The OED’s earliest example is from the works of Thomas More, written sometime before he was executed in 1535:

“There must it nedes bee long ere anye good conclusion goe forwarde.”

http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2012/07/going-forward.html

 Love learning etymology - thanks for the post papgeno!

People who just jump to conclusions! Particularly those who do so in order to add some 'substance' to their opinion. 

Possibly the worst thing about forums, although I feel sorry for those  poor people ,, are those with no proper communication skills who believe that to contribute to a thread is to go into a rant, fling all their toys out of the pram and attack anybody who has a different opinion to their own

This behavior has no place on any forum.

.Shame really , intelligent people just treat those rants as coming from those with no communication skills. Those rants never wind up anybody.

K

Possibly the worst thing about forums, although I feel sorry for those  poor people are those with no proper communication skills and believe that to contribute to a thread is to go into a rant, fling all their toys out of the pram and attack anybody who has a different opinion to their own

This behavior has no place on any forum.

.Shame really , intelligent people just treat those rants as coming from those with no communication skills. Those rants never wind up anybody.

K

 

 

 

Well, there are no "poor people with no communication skills" on this forum wouldn't you agree Kennine?

Or people who think of themselves as more intelligent than others? 

I'm sure you're not commenting about anyone on here?

Perish the thought!

Cheers

Bugs

Possibly the worst thing about forums, although I feel sorry for those  poor people are those with no proper communication skills and believe that to contribute to a thread is to go into a rant, fling all their toys out of the pram and attack anybody who has a different opinion to their own

This behavior has no place on any forum.

.Shame really , intelligent people just treat those rants as coming from those with no communication skills. Those rants never wind up anybody.

K

 

 

 

Possibly the worst thing about forums, although I feel sorry for those  poor people ,, are those with no proper communication skills and believe that to contribute to a thread is to go into a rant, fling all their toys out of the pram and attack anybody who has a different opinion to their own

This behavior has no place on any forum.

.Shame really , intelligent people just treat those rants as coming from those with no communication skills. Those rants never wind up anybody.

K

I'd agree there K. Unfortunately too common in many forums, must be the that negative aspect of human nature in some of us. Must say though that some do eventually see the error of their ways and become valued contributors. 

 those with no proper communication skills who believe that to contribute to a thread is to go into a rant, fling all their toys out of the pram and attack anybody who has a different opinion to their own

Monkey see - monkey do.

I'm a fairly laid back person so very little bothers me unless one of my family is unwell.  

It's politics I enjoy arguing about but don't do it on this forum as it is disallowed. 

K